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If youâre craving a bit more sauce in your life, I implore you to exit the figurative bubble that is noise cancelling headphones, and allow your environment to soundtrack your inner monologue â youâd be surprised how it affects the themes and tone of your inner world.
Some brief background on this theory... In my experience, my music selection would often colour my thoughts, and unfortunately I have a penchant for sad boy shit. And sad boy music = sad boy. Conversely, if I made the deliberate choice to listen to âhappyâ music when I was feeling off, my mind would try to manufacture happiness through sheer will, exposure, and a repeated âhappy thoughtsâ mantra. But this process rarely felt authentic, and all the more isolating.Â
Instead, I found that inviting the randomness of worldly sounds would take me on a crazy-eyed, spontaneous journey â internally and externally. Â
Jun 3, 2025
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I saw a quote somewhere that read âSilence is the language of God,â and a couple of days later my AirPods finally stopped working. I interpreted this as divine intervention, and began experimenting with quiet in various scenarios and settings.
Iâm typically the type of person who has some sort of music/podcast/video/voice in their ears at all times, and frankly I believe it was stunting my ability to think freely and withstand discomfort. I was beginning to feel that I was almost cheapening the media I consumed by multitasking, and I am hoping to renew my imagination and sense of mindfulness/presence by developing a better relationship to Quiet.
I am training myself to listen to the naturally occurring sounds of my own existence rather than drowning out the world all the time. So far so good.
Mar 16, 2025
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Iâve recently read a book about the concept of âsoundwalkingâ and listening to the beauty of your surroundings exploring your city and neighborhood. I used to become pretty over stimulated by the sounds of the world and would used my headphones religiously to block any sounds of the outside world from getting in. But I started to wonder if the things I use to protect myself from the outside world also isolating me from experiencing it to its fullest potential. Maybe the sounds of construction and people talking and birds and busses arenât just âsound pollutionâ but a reverberation of society and life. An organic inprov performance just for me where I am right now in the world. it made me think that anything has the potential to be a work of art depending on your perspective. Iâve started walking with a tape recorder everywhere I go and I record the sounds around me as an auditory diary of sorts. itâs fun to listen back and be reminded of the sounds of the bowling alley or the cafe or the sound check at the punk show. Since this perspective shift Iâve become allot less over stimulated by the world and become more creative with my greatest resource: the world around me.
Jan 10, 2025
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I have been trying to be more present recently so I have been not using my airpods for the last week because thinking your own thoughts is good for you as opposed to snuffing them out with movie podcasts and post-rock.
May 30, 2025
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Itâs been 8 months since my last smoke, the longest Iâve gone in 12 years.Â
Some unconventional tips:
- being delusional is effective. I tell myself cigarettes are bad luck. If I smoke one, something bad will happen.
- My relationship to cigarettes was spiritual, every single one was a little prayer. To fill the gap, I leaned into woo: candles, tarot, talking to god.
- Cigs were my edge, but they numbed me. To keep that rebellion alive, I leaned into things that scared me: fashion choices, challenging long held values, leaning into my queerness, wasting time.Â
- Somatic release. Shake your leg, wring your hands, go to the gym. Also, going to the gym gets a lot easier when you make the conscious choice to not hate on the bros or influencers.. everyoneâs trying to find their place. Love > Snark
- It only gets easier if you know exactly WHY you want to smoke in the first place, and address the root causes with mindset or lifestyle changes. Quitting cold turkey without change is not enough.
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It will start tedious. But if you acknowledge what youâre doing â extracting the beauty and essence and freshness from an expertly cultivated herb that was bred hundreds of years ago, itâs the closest youâll ever get to feeling like a sage prepping ingredients for a healing potion.
Jun 3, 2025
I wasnât so sure about the red but my roommate said I looked straight out of a Drakeâs look book (the menswear brand, not the rapper) which was very validating. Also not pictured is a pair of Ollie Quinn sunglasses I got for $3 which retail for $185.
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