{"id":40,"date":"1998-04-07T03:13:39","date_gmt":"1998-04-07T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1998\/04\/07\/every_life_shou\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:57:15","slug":"every_life_shou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1998\/04\/07\/every_life_shou\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Life Should Have a Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the reason<\/strong> I can usually be found walking around with a Walkman<\/a> on. I am so consumed by my love of music that I want it to surround me as often as possible. When I walk around, listening to music keeps my imagination engaged, and prevents me from becoming a walking vegetable as I commute.<\/p>\n

I find it difficult to restrict my listening habits to just one or two genres. Every nuance of my moods can have a different sort of music that suits it best. If you just look at the list<\/a> on the right, you\u2019ll see that the evidence speaks for itself.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as I\u2019ve become an overworked old fart, my concert attendance has dropped off considerably. For one thing, I\u2019ve lost my patience for seeing bands in any kind of stadium or other large venue. They lack any kind of intimacy that allows me to feel really involved in the show. At the same time, I have fallen into a vicious cycle where I stopped seeing shows as often because I wasn\u2019t too thrilled with the indie music scene in Boston my last couple of years there, and now I\u2019ve gotten so out of touch with local music both there and here in New York, that I never know what will be a good show to see, so I don\u2019t go.<\/p>\n

To top it off, New York seems to have an inexplicably crappy radio market, so I don\u2019t hear much that way. Thes days I depend on recommendations from friends and what exposure I get through TV and my frequent forays to sample the listening booths at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square. (Sending me into Virgin is like waving an open bottle of gin in front of an alcoholic \u2014 so dangerous.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s the reason I can usually be found walking around with a Walkman on. I am so consumed by my love of music that I want it to surround me as often as possible. When I walk around, listening to music keeps my imagination engaged, and prevents me from becoming a walking vegetable as I … Continue reading “Every Life Should Have a Soundtrack”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrahistorical","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71346,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/71346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}