It’s interesting the kind of music that helps me actually get work done. You’d think that word-less mellow background music would do it, right? Something like Deep Forest or Amethystium? Not at all. I fall asleep — even with a quad mocha to start the day, an inspiring project and comfy work environment. Turns out that I need wall-of-sound, minor key tonality, heavy guitar, strong lyrics and dense synth effects. At least, that’s what Pandora.com tells me. It used to be Gravity Kills and NIN, but now I lean more toward Birthday Massacre and Collide. (I suppose the girls are a little more “chipper”.)
Thusly acoustically armed, with a big mug of orange-spice tea to sip and hummus+pita to nibble, I’ll now be getting back to writing some test cases.
