Especially now. It screams at night and it screams in the daytime and it feels like it’s trying to take over my brain.

Not all the time, of course. Just every once in a while it starts shrieking and will not STFU. And it’s a bit like the very first time you wrote a computer program with LOOP in it – at least once you would forget to write END and it would keep going until you shut it down. Sometimes you could even get it to do an exponential core dump (probably the wrong terminology but those of you who’ve played with UNIX know what I mean and the rest of you would have to have it explained) and everything would just screech to a halt veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly and you’d need a complete system reboot.

I think we managed to anger a few sys.admins in the old days.

But I haven’t got a sys.admin to reboot my brain. Sometimes I just need to drown the noise and although it’s much more fun doing it with alcohol, music works just as well.

Noise, pure and simple. Real noise. Sometimes you’ll find the perfect album which won’t leave the cd player for weeks. And sometimes you’ll find that perfect song and let it go on repeat for hours on end.

You weren’t really expecting some major surprise here, were you? These two together – damn. Not often two such greats make each other even better.

Play it LOUD. Drown in the music. Just be. Feel the core dump dissolving. Play it again until your mind feels more at ease. Then play it again cos this is such an awesome piece of music.