There's a lot of good music in Bolivia, but none of it makes it into my office.

every day i listen to love ballads, south america's answer to the love child of nickelback and 80s soft rock, artless piano (fake piano) melodies with a complexity and depth reminiscent of songs i was taught in early elementary school, plodding along at about 60 bpm like a faithful, arthritic dog, replete with those magical sounding wind-chime effects that you hear in every RnB song written after 1990, and before "turn the page" in childrens books on tape, and which will automatically make me hate, instantly and from the depths of my innards, anything that contains them.

the one positive side is if i don't listen to closely i can avoid understanding the lyrics, but this is less and less true every day.

i do want to re-emphasize, though, that traditional music in bolivia is really nice. i wish we'd listen to that.