well, anyone who has hung onto the ireallylovemusic<\/u> rss feeds for a while will have noticed a slowing down in posts.<\/p>\n
the reasons were many and boring, but one of the main causes was that music was becoming painful to experience. it seemed that whenever i tried to listen to music that incorporated noise (synths or guitar based the results were the same) after a few minutes my head began to hurt.<\/p>\n
not my ears, (like others on the web i do suffer mild tinnitus for which i blame on-u sound<\/strong>, 1987 era swans,<\/strong> and my old walkman), but proper deep headaches.<\/p>\n during this extended period of annoyance i found the only music that could soothe the discomfort was blue note<\/u> styled jazz, various david axelrod<\/strong> productions (sorry, but after years of hammering his classic albums, i’m still not bored of them), and various other corners of the $tateside<\/u> archive.<\/p>\n in other words, old music.<\/p>\n as the situation went on, it was thought that maybe i should get my eyes checked over. i went to the relevant people who did some fun tests, after which it was confirmed that despite having sat in front of a computer for the last 20 years, the eyes are bearing up ok. <\/p>\n it was beginning to look like the headache was stress based.<\/p>\n after some soul searching i came to the conclusion that a lot of the stress that i lived with was down to my choice of mortgage paying duty.<\/p>\n yes, the job that pays the bills.<\/p>\n this meant there was only one real solution, and a plan was quietly put in place.<\/p>\n the outcome of which, is that as of january 1st, i am performing a different task during office hours, and lo and behold, today for the first time in months i have been able to listen to noisy modern(ish) synth-n-guitars based pop music with little indication of pain surfacing (cut\/copy<\/strong>, van she<\/strong>, the cazals<\/strong>, the presets)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n if such goodness persists, then all being well, the site will begin to tick tock in 2011.<\/p>\n i’ll leave it to you to decide how to rejoice, party, celebrate.<\/p>\n thanks<\/p>\n mark e\/ireallylovemusic<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" well, anyone who has hung onto the ireallylovemusic rss feeds for a while will have noticed a slowing down in posts. the reasons were many and boring, but one of the main causes was that music was becoming painful to experience. it seemed that whenever i tried to listen to music that incorporated noise (synths […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}