Mental Notes & Random Musings

For Whom the Bell Tolls. It is constantly stuck in my head at work, mostly because I am impressionable, but partially because there is a ringer that goes off for both ends of the line to communicate with each other. Now I came to this conclusion after days of whistling this song, not whistling this song, getting the song out of my head by any necessary measures, just to find it back in there again. I was leaving a meeting and walked past the line when I heard the bell and then started whistling again. I was so proud of figuring this out I was telling everyone about it and most of them reminded me of my looming senility. I of course work with someone named Jean, who anytime I start entering paperwork with her name on it in the system the song Billy Jean gets stuck in my head and more than once I have had someone walk into my office when I was making Michael Jackson sounds. Those are the looming senility by an obviously dirty old pervert moments, that forces me to use Smooth Criminal (Th...

Gym playlists are one of the most shared streams on music streaming services, and there was a time when I had my gym playlists on my MP3 player all set for when I went to the gym. Yes, my experience of gym playlist goes back to pre-streaming era when I had to go to Plan-NOT Fitness, and it was all I could afford on my single father salary. My experience today is as an empty nester that started building my home gym several years before the covid-apocalypse out of garbage picking and Craigslist finds. The entire scene here gets more casual as I set up a screen to listen to and watch my podcasts (usually Megyn Kelly or Sara Gonzalez) but I do make a habit of listening to the 80’s rewind Top 40 every week too. It’s not the usual power metal or symphonic metal I listed to on the old MP3 player, but this brings me to the topic at hand, with a little background.  Of course I have playlists on my YT Music, and I base them all on the decade. I have the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s,10s, and am working...

I genuinely don’t have any issue with today’s artists, or any artists for that matter. I can see the good and bad in just about anything and I have an honest criterion for music. If a tune is catchy, aka gets stuck in your head after you hear it, then it is good. At the very least at that point I can say, I understand why people like it. I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, per se, because her music doesn’t appeal to me, or I don’t seek it out, but “Blank Space” will stay stuck in my head for a while when I come across it in my travels. The same can be said for most of what Lady Gaga did, and a Katy Perry song now and again, regardless of how insufferable I find those two to be. It is what it is, but I usually make a joke about how I never appreciated someone else when I was a kid. My own taste in music generally has tempered itself over the years, as I am now listening to the stuff, I would have been listening to in my teen years if I had been a little more normal, I guess. The heavy metal, I ...