Ultramindset hack: listen to this while you do anything to make that thing feel more significant.
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Propagation by Com Truise
This is an atmospheric song for writing, reading, or exercise.
But the whole album is, as they say, totally boss:
Going to Concerts
I went to my first concert in a long time tonight.
It was for an 80s coverband named the Spazmatics. They were pretty good.
Observations:
- The BMI of the concert demographic has changed tremendously.
- The energy levels of audience members has had an inverse relationship with the BMI.
- When I was younger, I loved concerts, but I hated loud sounds. It was a love/hate relationship because I have abnormally good hearing. Now that I’m older, I kid you not, concerts are even louder. I used to go to metal shows. This was much louder.
- The song “Safety Dance” is still awesome.
- I also enjoyed “Walk Like an Egyptian.”
Over all it was a good experience. But my head hurts and sounds are a bit muffled. I suspect I’ll try to limit my concerts to orchestral/symphonic pieces from now on.
Music Monday: Motivation for the Gym
Here is a metal-esque song that really only exists to listen to prior to or during intense exercise:
I highly recommend this song for getting pumped up for a heavy set of squats or dead lift, but it’s also a good “getting to the gym by car” song.
Any other gym music recommendations?
Music Monday: The Rolling Stones
When I was younger I really like the song Paint it Black. I now almost never listen to the radio, but right after telling my wife that I liked it as a kid, it came on when I turned the radio on on a lark the next day. Then later that day it came on the radio at the gym. I listened to it when I did my heaviest set on dead lift.
I’m not certain about why I like the song. I think I gravitate toward negative and depressing thoughts, so I found a friend in Mick Jagger. Interestingly, I found out that my sarcastic, over confident, and paroxystic (new word based on paroxysm I guess) dancing style was similar to Jaggger’s after seeing a Stones video in high school. Amongs people who’ve seen it (I don’t dance in public any more), my dance moves are legend. A friend and I once stopped a hardcore show by dancing so intensely that the lead singer gave us a shout-out as all of the weaker, smaller, and less intense metal heads backed away from us in awe or a brief sense of rational self-preservation. Nobody was hurt.
Anyway, I hope this song helps you have a bright start to your day.
Music Monday: Murder by Death
One of my favorite poems is Paradise Lost. Naturally, this means that I enjoy The Desert is on Fire by Murder by Death.
The song takes place in a concept album wherein the devil was visiting a bar in Mexico and tried to make a few extra bucks on a drug deal. The other dealer double crosses him and shoots him in the back. When the devil gets out of prison he goes on a rampage against the entire village and when he confronts the villagers, he reminds them, “I fought off angels with my hands back, I set the heavens on fire.” It’s an exciting song with a fairly epic tone. If you want to know how the story ends you’ll need to listen to the whole album.