What I’m listening to 1/6/26

1. The buckets on my floor filling up with water drip by drip. I’ve already been in one ceiling collapse so if it happens again, it’s a little embarrassing.
2. Cameron Winter’s “Vines” – particularly struck by the line “Didn’t I say, didn’t I tell you / So long and so often / This house is falling apart / And you don’t give a damn.” The water on my floor, the windows that won’t shut all the way, the burst pipe in the kitchen. I wonder if he wrote this from the perspective of a crumbling building. Or maybe my apartment sent him the lyrics.
3. Howard Hanson’s Elegy – You’re on a rock by the ocean, watching a storm roll through, and when that one special theme hits (you’ll know which one) the fury clears and leaves you with a glistening peace over the glittering orange and blue water.
4. Manuel De Falla’s “The Three Cornered Hat – final dance/jota” – I played both the Elegy and Jota in high school. Always thought this one sounded the way it feels to fall in love.
5. Space heaters.
6. My car’s engine trying too hard to make it up that ice rink of a driveway.
7. The Powerpuff Girls (End Theme) – from Bis, a Scottish band. Never noticed the accent until yesterday.

Hope the first week of 2026 is going all right.
Eva