{"id":6177,"date":"2019-10-28T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2019-10-28T20:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T01:29:05","slug":"infinity-song-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/infinity-song-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Song Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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!<\/em> … 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

(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.)<\/em><\/p>\n

These days, I listen to Spotify on my phone.\u00a0I’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\u00a0about a 30% success rate for interview success. Which is decent.<\/p>\n

(2019 edit: I do still listen to “Don’t Stop me now” before job interviews)<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading Infinity Song Loop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6188,"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deansanta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}