What do you generally do when listening to music?

Good on yer, Ross! I've always said music was my drug.

usually while im working. if im at home i usually listen to my vinyls. or youtube. while i play videogames i usually play some other music. i've done this since the first time i played Super Mario Bros. 2. it was at a friend's house and he was showing it to me but he had the TV down and was playing a tape of the Beach Boys instead. that may have been the first time i heard the Beach Boys.

i used to listen to tapes in the car. i had a huge box full of tapes, most of them taped off records or MP3s, just tons of tapes. they littered the floor of my car. but both of my cars were totalled (on the same street, Memorial Dr.) and i decided to not drive a car anymore. i've been carless since then, walking and taking public transportation, so i listen to a lot of music on my iPhone. i absolutely hate how earbuds tend to last only a few months.

recently i noticed my parents, who usually had music playing in their houses and cars, just not having anything on. in the car i kind of need to hear music. my favorite thing in the world is surfing the radio, especially up in the Appalachian mountains, all the crazy psychedelic country shit they play on there. sometimes you will hear really spooky experimental yodeling or violin or whatever on some random AM station.

whenever i take Uber or something, they are always listening to music, and its cool to hear what different people play while driving around. whenever i go to a store they are always playing music. feel like more often than not the grocery store is playing some good tunes, like if it is 80s pop hits Robert Palmer, Hall & Oates, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Tyler, etc. then i love it. if i go to Eats or Five Guys they are always playing some classic 60s soul pop.

finally, the most classic thing ever, is hearing people blasting songs on their car as they randomly drive by. sometimes it is hilarious and they are listening to some goofy shit. sometimes they are playing a song you love. it's absolutely random. it's so much fun.

finally, the most classic thing ever, is hearing people blasting songs on their car as they randomly drive by. sometimes it is hilarious and they are listening to some goofy shit. sometimes they are playing a song you love. it's absolutely random. it's so much fun.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau),

Last year I was blasting CCR's "Ramble Tamble" in my car on a sunny day with the windows down. When arrived home and opened the garage door there was a guy exiting a neighboring office and started grinning widely upon hearing the music and shouted "Ah, that's so good!". Yeah, classic thing.

Walk around, often to work but other places too.

Reading, writing, drinking, cooking, working, walking.

I used to wear headphones when food shopping but I got out of that habit, it felt too confining.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 11:33 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just recently started listening to something while grocery shopping, but it's usually podcasts. It's the only time I'll wear ear buds to listen to anything.

surfing the radio, especially up in the Appalachian mountains, all the crazy psychedelic country shit they play on there. sometimes you will hear really spooky experimental yodeling or violin or whatever on some random AM station.

hell yes