23/02/2025
I finally got around to listening to the ESC songs that have been released so far and what the fuck is going on?? This year's gonna be amazing, there are so many interesting & memorable songs and they're all slightly insane in the best ESC way. Excited to see what's released next!!
16/02/2025
It’s actually been really nice over the last week (and also kind of the last month or so?) kind of switching up how I listen to music, I guess just like listening to lots of new music or music I’m semi familiar with and like trying to meet it where it’s at & enjoy it for what it is without placing expectations on it if that makes sense? I sort of just started writing and halfway through that sentence realised I did not know how to phrase what I wanted to say lol. But like, I guess a lot of the time I can sort of only want to listen to an album if I’m convinced it’s gonna be my next big thing and I’m gonna love it, which I think is a) not the only way to enjoy music and b) really stupid because I am so bad at correctly predicting what I will or will not like.
Like sometimes you listen to an album for the first time and you’re like yeah slams this is my music now. I felt that way for some of Wasteland, Baby! when I was listening to like, Movement, Talk, I don’t even remember listening to them for the first time I just remember there being the time before I has listened to them and then me loving them, yknow? But equally and I think a good example is The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me, like sometimes you listen to an album and you’re like okay this might be good but it’s not for me. But then if you let yourself get familiarised with it you can actually come around to it, y’know?
I guess I don’t know generally how I feel about listening to music while doing stuff from like a digital detox standpoint, and I am still generally thinking I would rather be a bit more distant from technology & constant stimulation, but I also love music and listening to music and I don’t think I should be like I’m not gonna let myself surround myself with this thing I love because of my own like self discipline rules yknow, that does not fit into my philosophy, I think enjoying yourself should come first. But like listening to music while doing stuff like in the background is I think a really good way to become familiar with music so that it’s not like so jarring if it’s different from what you usually listen to, I guess.
And I like listening to a lot of different music and knowing I’m exposing myself to a lot of different stuff, I guess. I do think variation and having lots of choices and options just generally is good, but I specifically like it with music. I guess that’s coming from sort of feeling like my music taste is just one kind of music, I don’t know. Anyway, I was listening to Talking Heads’ ‘Speaking in Tongues’ while I was coding the main pages of Nevermind!, and that’s an album that I’ve tried to just sit down and listen to before but I just gave up because I found it too weird, but this time I really liked it when I listened to it while coding, I guess because I was sort of processing it in the background. And Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, too, I remember finding a lot when I first tried to listen to it but right now it’s one of my favourite albums. I’m sure I’ll grow out of it at one point but for now I’m really enjoying it as a way to listen to more and different music. I’ve got to decide what music I’m gonna put on while I clean now.