I was listening to a Chillout Classics playlist when I was hit with a sense memory from 2006: just lying in my bed listening to Moby, in the middle of the day. I remembered that I would often do this on days where I was hungover, or just feeling a bit lazy. Lie around and listen to music.
It also struck me how it wouldn't even occur to me today to do such a thing, given I get a moment to myself. Or such a "nothing". And even if it did, it would feel like I would need a monastic level of self-restraint not to go ahead and add a screen to the mix.
Moments like this want me to run down to the beach and throw my phone in to the ocean.
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Vale
I have plenty of memories listening to Moby as well. I remember jumping in my parents Prado immediately after school when we'd go down south for a holiday.
It'd be a Friday afternoon just before a long weekend, so we'd always be trying to beat the traffic. Inevitably, the freeway would clog, and traffic would come to a slow, meaning the blackness of night would be well and truly set in by the time we ended up at our destination.
The Prado's CD player's eject mechanism was busted, so we only had the discs already stuck in the player to choose from. Moby's Play was one of those CDs.
Whenever I listen to the album, it takes me back to being a little kid half-asleep in the backseat of the car as we drove through the Aussie bush while darkness crept in around us and the semi-ethereal sounds of the album played.
Ty
I needed to read this post today, thank you. Doing "nothing" is fantastic.
Felix
YES
Karen
Oh my yes. I used to just lay around and listen to music all the time. God, I haven't done that in ages. I think I know what I'm going to do tonight. :)
Erik
Whenever an artist I like releases a new album, I love sitting down with it and listening to it from start to end with full attention.
So without doing anything else at the same time. No reading, commuting or chores.
I can definitely recommend giving it a try!