I wrote this post in 2015. The year is now 2019, going on 2020. Anyway, I was looking at my website on a whim and decided to post these edits I had queued up to post later. It’s now 4 years later. Maybe I’ll get back into this.

Right now I have the theme song of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” stuck in my head. This is awesome (because it’s catchy and fun) and at the same time, it is agony (because I am slowly going insane — repeating the lyrics over and over and over in my head… UN-breakable! they alive dammit! it’s a miracle! females are strong as hell! … times infinity). I don’t know how I got into the habit of getting one song stuck in the front-loading washer of my mind. It’s a thing that every hearing-abled person on earth goes through at least once in their life, I think … given the excess of catchy song hooks and melodies out there.

In 5th grade I remember my uncle getting me a refurbished Discman for Christmas one year. My brother used to have a giant CD collection, from those old Columbia House Music catalogs. My first CD was Space Jam, and I remember playing R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” over and over and over again. This may have been the start of my infinite loop song habit.

(2019 edit: holy crap do I wish I had listened to Seal’s “Fly Like an Eagle” over and over and over again instead. Yikes, I wish we all knew about “Surviving R.Kelly” two and a half decades ago.)

These days, I listen to Spotify on my phone. I’ve been a Spotify subscriber for a while now, and in their earlier software builds they didn’t have the option to replay a song. What I ended up doing is making a playlist devoted to playing one song over and over and over ad nauseum. Well, I made two. One I devoted to my “get psyched for an interview” song, Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” I listen to this song over and over like a mad man before a job interview. It’s my ritual. So far it’s had about a 30% success rate for interview success. Which is decent.

(2019 edit: I do still listen to “Don’t Stop me now” before job interviews)

The other playlist used to be any one song I was fixated on. It was Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” that one summer that song came out. Songs in that playlist have a good propensity to become songs I get sick of, given how much I overplay them. These days, Spotify has finally integrated single song looping so that playlist does not get used so much. But I still single song loop.

So there’s not really anything I can take out of all this, I have no idea why I put myself through this glorious infinite song loop hell, when there is so much good music to listen to. An old discman habit.