Rythm of the City 
I have to come back to the music issue again. Not only does music help me code, it also acts as a firewall. Years ago I used to listen to Anne Clark while walking the streets of London. Now I found that it works just as well here. Any big city probably. It makes the surroundings surrealistic, just like a computer game.
Funnily some of my colleagues at Fraunhofer developed an mp3 player that adapts the beats per minute to the running speed or you can set a certain speed to go faster. While listening to music I find myself often walking in a similar fashion.
But in Seoul something else happened. My dear friends can probably tell about the kind of music I like. The last few years though I did listen to the same music over and over again and it was just the normal pop, techno and classic. But I rediscover my likings for the more speedy, hardcore and strange music. To name a few: "Das Ich", "L7" and who knows what sleeps in my iTunes database ...
(+iPod —stress)
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