Every day last week, I had a light night followed by an early morning. I averaged 6 hours of sleep, so when the alarm went off earlier today so I could wake up in time to go to the hockey game, I smashed it with Thor’s Hammer and went back to sleep. I’ve only been awake for an hour, which disappoints the part of me that wants to wring every second out of every day, but satisfies the part of me that is like “shut up with that Type A shit for a minute and accept that you can sleep as long as you need to on the goddamn weekend every now and then.”
So I recalibrated my day. When I finish this coffee, I’ll have another coffee. I’ll probably make some oatmeal pancakes because that’s been on my mind all week long, and then I’ll clean up and organize my office, then my game room, and finally my kitchen. It will eventually be a busy, productive day in Castle Wheaton.
But at the moment, I’m having this coffee and listening to the classic Ambient album Earth to Infinity, by Deep Space Network, while I get my day slowly started.
As I do from time to time, I’m going to evangelize about this album, which is perfect for background music and active listening, depending on how much of a journey you want to take. So as I say from time to time, if you want some ambient in your life (you need it already, whether you know it or not), here’s one of the greatest tracks off this album, Soylent Green:
This album is nearly impossible to find, because it went out of print within minutes of its release. If you can track it down, though, it’s worth the effort.
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The music was nice and mellow. Really good “head space” kind of music. Thanks for turning me on to this.
Bowman: “Open the space dock door Hal”
Hal: “I don’t think I can do that Dave”
Bowan : (Thinks) “Oh bugger…”
Enjoyed it tho brings back a few memories! Thx Will
The YouTube link to Soylent Green is one of the best shroon produced videos I’ve seen in some time… Outstanding!
I used to listen to Hearts of Space a lot, a great way to wind down at the end of the day & to get your head into the right mood for creative thinking.
I needed this today. It’s now 6pm, and I’ve barely gotten out of bed all day (for lunch). I had a bad year (2012-2013) when I spent entire weekends in bed, so paralyzed by anxiety that I could barely got to work. Thankfully that’s behind me, but I still have the occasional day like today. Someone I know died this week, and this morning was cold and rainy. No dog park today, no compelling reason to do anything. So I didn’t. And that’s OK, as long as tomorrow’s different. Thanks, Wil.
An intriguing track, but it didn’t work as background for me. The speech excerpts and the percussive effects distracted me from the podcast script I was working on. All the same, thanks for introducing us to something to explore to possibly add to my iTunes library. Cool stuff!
That was very nice! Have you ever listened to Tangerine Dream? I think I have all of their studio CDs plus a few live albums. Great background music and I highly recommend the album Ricochet if you get headaches. There’s just something about the first track that is especially soothing.
sometimes you just have to skip life for a day. I ended up skipping a goth ice skating event downtown saturday because i had been trapped with my two best friends at my house for 2 days because of the snow. and I love them but sometimes I have to be like go away, the thing ended up being canceled so i felt less guilty shirking that commitment, instead i went to an independent bookstore here that’s going out of business and got a cookbook i’d been wanting and seeing if there were any tabletop games worth getting (there wasn’t), as i’m starting a tabletop game group that meets bimonthly because i prefer that to going out to bars and it’s still socially active and not as annoying as bars with the loudness and the crowds.Plus i often make my friends play tabletop games with me, they usually want to, and i won’t if they say absolutely not. and going to costco then pretty much slept the next 2 days (I slept 16 hours saturday total and about 13 last night and yesterday which is what happens when i get burnt out socially. my friend showed up unannouced saturday night i made him make me a manhattan (we always have the stuff for cocktails here, and he makes good cocktails, those are delicious btw) my mom ended up yelling at him sunday morning, he’s in a way her third child but people had been in and out all week, and my mom’s fine with him staying the night or anyone for that matter but she kind of wants notice. I tell my mom the same thing all the time, sometimes its ok to decide not to go to an event, to not help out with parties to tell people to find someone else, she works 60 hours a week in academia and makes chocolates as a side business (though she sold them at that bookstore and has decided to take a break and figure where she wants to put them and focus on getting the books in order, and you could see a weight lifted off of her when she decided to do that)
p.s. I didn’t care much for that song, which isn’t exactly suprising but i tend to like most of the music you share.
I can never tell whether I love or hate this kind of music. It always gives me a deep, fidgety sense of dissatisfaction and unease. Like maybe I’m on the cusp of a serious light bulb moment, but absolutely certain I’m not doing to get there.
Thanks, I think 🙂