man,, fuck spotify for not paying artists shit... but sitting in class and hunting down more perfect songs for my finely curated playlists is much more fun than listening to avery's lecture on hurricanes
I felt like I was kind of in a rut with listening to new music for a while. It turns out I just needed to get back to an email job I could procrastinate at by queueing up 10 new songs at a time on Spotify. Boss makes a dollar I make a dime so I make playlists on company time etc
Sometimes the pressure to choose the music for my commute is too big, making the DJ decide is just better for me. Also, I feel like I'm listening to the radio which somehow feels better than just streaming my playlists over and over.
my mother and i would have serene dreams tea together every night before i went back to school. now we do it over facetime but it's really nice to have time to just sit down with someone you love and talk with them
i start a lot of my projects by researching things related to what i'm working on. just google your topic and look at articles (jstor is a great place to find scholarly stuff)π’ or if you're doing film ubu web is a lovely place to find inspiration! i'm also a big fan of internet archive because there's all sorts of crazy random stuff on there. i find that researching helps me solidify my ideasπ