A Letter to my Younger Self

What’s up Dude!

So we made it to varsity! We made it to Rhodes and we are exactly where we want to be. We still want the same things, you know make a couple movies after varsity and get involved in the film industry, but I think that we are a little different now. I have changed, not in a major way but I have changed. Especially my taste in movies, art and of course music!

We don’t even listen to the same music anymore. I’m still into the stuff that we used to listen to but I’ve been experimenting with different genres and there is some awesome stuff out there that we never even considered listening to! The 80’s tunes will live on forever, they are classics, but some of this new music that I’ve been listening to is amazing. We always took our musical influence from our parents because they have some wicked taste in music but come on, we are our own person. We should decide what music we like by listening to a whole bunch of different genres and not just following the crowd.

Here’s a perfect example; did we ever listen to any other Reggae apart from Bob Marley? No we didn’t. Ok, Bob is the “King of Reggae” but there are some other awesome musicians out there. There are bands that you have never heard of like “7th Son”, “Slightly Stoopid” and so on. If I told you now to listen to a band called “Slightly Stoopid” you would laugh at me, but they are one of my favourite bands at the moment. We have never liked house, it is the one genre that we never connected with but I’m really enjoying deep, chilled house at the moment.
So dude, things change, your opinions and tastes change but we are still the same person. I envy you because you have the opportunity of living my epic musical journey all over again.

Peace and love brother,

Masta Jay