>Basically, to be an expert on Trance, you have to make that
>the _only_ genre you listen to. Seriously.

yeah, pretty much, especially if it's normal club trance and not psy-trance. i really don't know anyone who listens to trance as a genre (i haven't seen that roommate since that year, as he transferred and we weren't friends). i've come to respect it more than like it, mostly because it's bled into other genres i do like (hip-hop, r&b, pop, ambient, house, IDM, acid techno, etc.).