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As a high school student, I was a big fan of British progressive rock legend Pink Floyd. Like, to the point of memorizing whole albums worth of lyrics. Here are some of my favorite lyrics from the band: Echoes Overhead the albatross Hangs motionless upon the air; And deep beneath the rolling waves, In labyrinths [...]

I was a little surprised at just how hard it is to find blank MP3s. So I decided, if nobody else is offering them, I might as well. A silent mp3 can have a number of uses, such as the following: Use silent mp3 ringtones to mute certain cellphone events without muting everything. Eg. mute [...]

How obscure are your tastes in music? Do you have an obsessive urge to buy CD’s from the 99 cent store? Have you ever sent a check directly to an artist because they’re too small for PayPal? Or maybe you’re the exact opposite. Maybe your radio alarm clock is set to Radiohead and your ringtones [...]

As you know, I’m a big fan of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, especially his epic poems Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I was introduced to these poems through, and both play a critical role in, Douglas Adams’ under-appreciated masterpiece, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. That book is the type of [...]

For the past three weeks, I’ve been experimenting with removing music from my worktime, no longer listening to it while I’m at the computer. I’d begun to suspect that I was addicted, and that I was listening to too much music, and that it was hurting my productivity. So far, the experiment seems to be [...]

I’ll have to make this a shorter post than usual today because I have no time today But I can’t leave my readers hanging right in the middle of this post-every-day-for-30-days challenge I’m doing. The night after my last post on the music addiction topic, one week ago exactly, I went to a concert with [...]

Some time ago, I started to notice I was getting distracted by listening to too much music. I’d put off things I needed to do, because I was caught up in whatever song I was listening to, even though technically it would only take a couple minutes to switch the song to my mp3 player. [...]

If you’ve been reading my articles regularly, you know I’m big on using flashcards to study languages. I use a Spaced Repetition System: that’s where you put flashcards on the computer and when you review a card, you rate it. Then a program uses your ratings to figure out what cards you should see for [...]

Lately I’ve felt like I really want to accomplish more with my time. Sort of like a growing pain, like my consciousness is trying to expand and it’s running up against barriers in the form of time and distraction. One thing I’ve noticed, is that as much as I love music, I’ve been listening to [...]

Since music has been called the Language of Love, I’m always striving to learn more about it. Over thousands of hours spent listening to music, I’ve gradually become aware of two types of music. Knowing about this distinction will greatly help anyone searching to expand their music horizons. Of course, just by reading GlowingFaceMan.com long [...]