https://www.last.fm/user/Professor_Steve/listening-report/year/2025/week/8
Music data coming along for the year. It still has me at a 36 song a day average to eclipse last year, which I think is deceptively easy to do. It's easy to lose track of such a small number, but I've been playing music quite a bit here. My preferred way of listening these days is with some AudioTechnica headphones I bought cheap that are wired into my mixer. It sounds pretty good and has the added benefit of freezing out noise around the house when working.
I've become soft. I remember being able to work through so much traffic noise and otherwise when I was living in Queens. Being out east has come with an appreciation of the quiet to be sure, but more insidious is the reliance on the quiet. I feel like I need to find a cafe and bring the laptop from time to time in order to keep silence's value. But the only cafe around here that I think I could go work at for a sustained period is a Starbucks. Not really the best place to be hanging out.
Oklou is an amazing artist I wish I had found sooner. This album though - it has no flaws whatsoever. Every track is really perfectly placed and just wonderful. I wish I had better linguistic equipment to talk about how much I like this album, but that's about all I have. I can listen to it all day. It's just right for reading or writing, and just active enough to pull you in and away from your focus only to allow you to refocus in better and sustainable ways. I love it. It should eclipse my most listened to for February in March, but we'll see what else comes out.