Intro to my Asinine Love Song Analysis Project

I've mentioned one of my favourite music books here before: This Is Your Brain on Music, by Daniel J. Levitin. It's a good read for anyone with an armchair interest in neurology – or music, for that matter. The brain is a funny place to live, I've always felt, and this book helps delineate what's going on in there (and how it's even stranger than you might think).

(This gets kind of long. Here's a good bail-out point. No one will know!)

There are scholars (e.g. Stephen Pinker) who believe...