i care about music again lately for some weird reason so i'm gonna bump this thread. sorry
when i was a kid first getting into seriously listening to non-video game music at all, i had this lil walkman and pair of headphones. every night i'd just lay in bed and close my eyes or sit by the windowsill and stare out the window at the night sky and listen to music on them... i'd stay up WAY past my bedtime, when i was going to bed around 10pm every night, until like 1-1:30 in the morning just listening to random CDs.
these days, 90% of my music listening is just me on my computer, desktop or laptop, with headphones on. i use foobar2000 with default skin rn, because i'm too lazy to try anything else or customize foobar2000 anymore really and i don't care about UI aesthetics in my music player that much because i only look at the window to change songs anyway...
i (almost) always always always always always, always, ingest music on headphones. i do not like listening to music with other people around where they can hear it, at all at all. i don't really love being social about my music taste because it feels like such an intensely deeply personal thing to me to listen to music at all, and i'm also pretty bashful about my tastes frankly. (i won't even contribute music to my friends' plug.dj nights lol)
i also frankly don't like listening to music on speakers really, because i like my music to envelop/engross me and the easiest way to accomplish that is with headphone listening.
anytime i'm in the car with my girlfriend, though, she's playing something, and i've on occasion really like stuff she's liked and gotten into it that way. if i drove ever and if i were the only one in my car, that miiiight be another way i'd listen to music
the sequel to the first story is that sometimes i listen to music laying in bed on my phone right before i go to sleep, just closing my eyes and absorbing it in the quiet of night. got a lot harder when i stopped having a working phone but i'll prolly go back to doing it when my new one arrives
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