Until 11:59 pm December 31st, I’m exclusively listening to music released in the calendar year 2026. I’m starting my music library 100%… 99% from scratch.
For one thing, that means I would LOVE music recommendations. If your fave drops a new album, single, or 30-hour ambient noise epic, please hop in my ask box and tell me!
So here are the rules as I’m following them:
This only applies to music that I turn on for Recreational Music-Listening Purposes. If there’s an old song in a movie, or on the radio in a store, or playing in someone else’s car; that’s all fine. But whenever I choose to listen to music, the date restriction applies.
If a single was released in 2025 and then comes out in 2026 on an album, it’s a 2026 track - but only after the album comes out. For example, the Format released Holy Roller in 2025, and Right Where I Belong in 2026. I can listen to Right Where I Belong right now, but Holy Roller is off-limits until the entire Boycott Heaven album releases in a week. This rule is mostly for logistics reasons - I’m not going to spend my year checking every song on every album to make sure it wasn’t released as a single two days before the cutoff.
Live music is always allowed; if I go see a Green Day concert that’s a fresh & fun music experience.
Live recordings are not allowed; if Green Day has a 2026 concert and puts it out as an album, that’s just new recordings of old music and listening to them is cheating.
Covers are allowed; if some other band puts out a cover of (or performs!) American Idiot this year, that’s a transformative new work and is totally fine for me to listen to.
I get one cheat day per month, which I’ll chiefly use for logistics reasons. For example, my January cheat day was spent on a two-hour drive in a car with only a CD player, no aux or Bluetooth, and I don’t own any CDs from 2026 yet
Throughout the year I’ll post about the music I’ve been listening to, maybe monthly… tag for that tbd
debating if it would be funnier to have a bumper sticker saying “my other ride is a [exact make and model of the car the sticker is on]” or “my other ride is a [equally shitty but different car]”
2008 Honda Civic with the bumper sticker “My other ride is a 2007 Honda Civic”
i don’t want to be angry anymore i’m never going to hate again unless someone says something really stupid or if i see something i don’t like at all or maybe just whenever i feel like it
exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator’s narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight
i have crazy garlic fingers from peeling and chopping garlic cloves yesterday this phenomenon is always fascinating to me because it reminds me that i, too, am made of meat, and therefore i am also susceptible to being seasoned
