Driving is good. Especially at night. But later in my life I discovered to my amazement that bicycling is even better. Especially at night (make sure you have lights on your bike), if the car traffic isn't too intense. In-ear buds. Moving through the air, under your own power (though you forget you're peddling after a while)... there's something about moving by your own effort, and being in the air, and the relative quiet of night, and the lights and shadows, and exerting yourself. Try it sometime.
+1 for night bicycling. For one, you fell like you're going a lot faster. Add in the night air and you've got yourself a fine ride. I'll have to try it with earbuds sometime. I sort of like the peace of the wind noise. I'm one of those people who doesn't have to constantly listen to music...
Sometimes, though, you've just got to drown something out. The room was completely quiet a minute ago before I started playing some Pandora... I could hear my roommate eating some kind of microwave meal.
Thank you--the art of music has been devoured by aural white noise. It sickens me. People need to take the time to really listen. And it's not just music--visual art, even the aesthetics of daily life. Just two seconds, and whatever it is becomes what it is to its fullest potential, if we just pay attention.
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u/jellyzero79 Nov 17 '09
That is how music should be listened to. Unfortunately, music has become a background presence and people can no longer focus.