Appear to be in a phase where I prefer working in silence – even ambient is proving too much and, when I’m watching something, I prefer silent films. Maybe I'm listening for the staccato vibration with the next bit of unfuckening news and can't bring myself to turn on an alert tone because they all offend my delicate ears or maybe I'm just too bloody tired to compartmentalize my brain into listening and creating or maybe I'm out of patience with the fussy and pissy Wi-Fi connection between phone and Homepod (efforts to bring the turntable and vinyl back here have yet to bear fruit), IDK – but something has shifted: going to roll with it, however it plays out. Only EarBliss at present is silence.