Music for my ears, pls!

[hellison]

Have survived first week of uni! It's gone well so far, am mostly scared now by the thought of writing an essay for the first time in Manymany years. It'll be fine tho. FINE.

The main problem this week has actually been the distance - the uni is 60 miles away and driving up/staring at screens/driving back is leaving me knackered - possibly due to being out of practice at concentrating that much, so I'm sure it'll get better. Going to try the train next week and see how that goes (less concentrating but earlier start and later back...).

Either way what I really need is Music. An hour and half in the car or a couple of hours on the train is a loooong trip to be stuck with crappy radio and the same cds I've had for years. I may even finally invest in an mp3 player!

So, suggestions please ! Music for drivng. music for train, music for studying to... what works for you? Ooh or podcasts! Give me SOUNDS!

ETA on a similar note, what's a good music player wossname these days? Does it have to be ipod?

Comments

[stephanielay.livejournal.com]

That's a long old commute - I'd definitely say try the train. I did most of my degree reading somewhere between Brighton and Eastbourne; papers on cognitive psychology these days give me flashbacks to Lewes station :)

I'm not the best for music recommendations as I tend to listen to film sountracks when I'm writing, and they make for rubbish driving music. (28 Days Later is my current favourite. Creepy.)

Hope the course goes well - and you'll find that essay writing comes flooding back. Happily, nothing ever seems to change about how to write a good one.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

The train could definitely be the way to go, I'll see how the timings work out, it'd be a good time to get some reading done too!

Ooh soundtracks, that's a good idea! The radio isn't so bad for travelling but when I'm working I find it very distracting, especially when writing/typing, I have in the past ended up writing down what the dj was saying on some kind of auto pilot!

[stephanielay.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean - I usually have Radio 4 on somewhere in the house, but it's too distracting for working to. Especially Any Answers, I tend to get all shouty and that's not good for creativity!