---About You---
Name or Nickname: Keith
Age: 19
Gender: male
Height: 6 foot
Hair: red
Eyes: blue
Single or married: single
Location: suburbs of chicago
Instant Messengers & Screen Names: aim: keitherboo
When you are online: pretty much all the time
Do you have a website?: Oh boy do I -- http://www.keitherboo.com
Other favorite website(s): woot.com

---Favorite---
Music: jazz, funk
Movie: iron man was pretty sweet
TV show: so was alf
Actor/actress: not really
Magazine: I don't really read magazines...
Food: Pizza.
Hobby: Disc golf, writing music

---Gaming Preferences---
Your favorite system: ps2
Your least favorite system: xbox
Favorite game genre: RPG
You favorite game: um... all of the suikodens
Your least favorite game: Halo... the most overrated game on the planet. As if FPS is a new concept.
You favorite game developer:
Game you are currently playing: wild arms alter code f, rock band
How many games do you own?: too many
Do you rent games? my brother uses gamefly, I snag games he's renting through that sometimes to play
How many games do you buy a month?: usually none. I just get games for Christmas and birthday and then borrow/wait if it's in between.
What is the one game you don't own but wish you could get?: hmm... rock band for ps3. which would require owning a ps3.

How did you hear about this forum? google

Welcome to dreamers, have fun while you are here but beware of the admins, cuz' if you make any wrong moves they will DESTROY you.
Red hair? You some kind of devil worshiper or is it because of the anime influence? I agree that Halo is overrated but that is just you, me and quite a few other people.

well hey there, welcome to the dreamers.

a suikoden fan eh? well then you are definately going to fit in here, lets just hope you stick around

Do you write lyrics for music, or compose the music itself? Either way, that’s cool stuff.

Welcome to the forums. =).

Welcome, watch out for Death.

As elitist as it might sound, I don't consider writing lyrics writing music in the slightest. I wouldn't really call it poetry either, because I don't know if you ever try reading song lyrics without imagining the song, but they generally are not all that creative (in comparison to poetry that is). So in short - I write music, not lyrics, and none of the music I write actually has any lyrics. I'm actually working on a degree in music ed, as well as jazz studies, so I guess writing/playing music isn't *really* a hobby for me, it's more like second nature.

And as for my red hair being anime influence, obviously not because if it was it was clearly be blue or green. If there is a red haired character, it is always a villian. Always.

My brother and I used to do the same thing (he's going in to music education and performance on piano and bassoon), so I know what you mean. I've just talked to a lot of people who say they write music, when all they really do is write lyrics. Most of these people haven't been exposed to actual musical training or anything aside from being in a garage band (so they don't really know the "classics").

As for reading song lyrics, I have gone back and read the words to songs without the music. Song lyrics lack the general emotional depth that poetry does because you have the vocalist emoting the words as part of the music itself (though I wouldn't ride it off as less creative, unless you're talking about the general rock songs that come out nowadays...). Most of my poetry end up as song lyrics (which actually lack songs at the moment, if that tells you anything at all about my poetry. xD.), just because I'm not that great with making something emotional in poetic form. I can come up with the words, but the depth really isn't there.

Anyway (and I'm lame enough to just quote myself), "I've just talked to a lot of people who say they write music, when all they really do is write lyrics," which, as you said, are two entirely different things.

Hence the reason I asked in the first place. Good luck with the music degree by the way. =).

Thanks. You are right about the song lyrics having emotion through the way they are song and what the song is doing at the same time and whatnot. Song lyrics can be very interesting. Some of the bands that I listen to that have lyrics (which is actually a very small percentage) I only like because the lyrics are either intriguing, funny, or downright absurd (see: They Might Be Giants on the absurd part). So they do serve their own purpose in that right, although I still think the emotion part in the way it's sung is still a little bit of a cop out for good writing. =P

I rarely spend much time thinking about lyrics and their strengths and weaknesses though, I spend a lot more time figuring out things like whether I like the sound of a D7 or GMaj7 better played over an Amin7 chord.

A Suikoden fan!?!!? You don't see those too often. Welcome to the forums, I'll see you around.