He does not know his name?

Milosh has taken to listening to rock songs. (I wonder if there are very many 5 yr olds who listen to rock music). He likes it loud and he like it hard. His current favorites are - "Papercut" and "In the end" by Linkin' Park; and because I could not take listening to the same song 5 times over back to back, I introduced Metallica to him - and now he likes "Sad but true", "Nothing else matters". Until I introduce something new, he will be stuck on this - the moment we get in the car, there is rare compromising (except when I have to talk to someone on the phone, or if he is too absorbed in his snacks to look for the next piece of entertainment).

Its interesting - when I was in college and got introduced to songs like these, I would listen to them over and over again - there are many cassettes (Yes - I did own some!) that had to be bought again because I had listened to them so many times, they stopped functioning! Fun for me, not so much for my neighbors :p In my hostel, I used to share a wall with a batchmate who was never very friendly with me - I finally now sympathize with her state as I worked through my cassettes ;)

Anyway, you would think he is a teenager by his choice of music. But such doubts are quickly dispelled when he asks follow up questions about the meaning of songs. E.g. a song said "...i don't even know myself" and Milosh asked me - if he does not know his name (:)). Then there is a part where a song goes "..i tried so hard and got so far ... in the end" .. and Milosh explained to me - that he is trying hard to do counting and he is not able to do it. He gets the pain and frustration that the artist portrays, its only mapped to his world :)