New Album

You download a new album at 11pm. You heard about it on a blog or from a friend.

Your first listen goes well. There’s a couple of standouts. You play it again. And again.

It goes from beautiful to annoying and back to beautiful. Your headphones dutifully keep the music coming, like the brooms in Fantasia.

You lose track of how many times the album has repeated. You count the hours since 11pm and divide by the length of the album. Wow, that’s more than you thought.

As the sun comes up, you remember the rest of the world exists.