Out and about with my folks this weekend, but I'm still making time to do, well, you know. Anyway, I don't really have a whole lot on my mind, except for the sounds of nature. I think a lot of people say that they want to get out into nature to get away from the "hustle and bustle" of the city—cars driving on the streets, lots of chatter, those assholes with the exhaust mods on their cars who slam their foot on the gas in a school zone. But honestly, I don't think the sounds of nature are less annoying. Birds chirping, cicadas buzzing—I think that shit is more annoying than a city. I try to find silence in music; if I can control the stimuli going into my ears, I can at least pretend there's some form of silence, right? It's a strange thing, dealing with noise. In a lot of situations when I'm out and about, I carry a small set of noise-reducing earplugs so that I don't get overwhelmed by all the loud shit that everyone else just seems to not mind. I've always been that way, but felt I…
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