Gonna leave for a while

My wife Amy and I recently spent some time in Venice Beach and Santa Barbara, California. As a culture, we all enjoy easier access to music while traveling than ever before, yet I find my relationship to tunes estranged when I’m on the road. I’ve just published a book about how music soundtracks our lives. Yet, while traveling, I’m oddly disconnected.

Take off…. I’ve written here and here at No Such Thing As Was about listening to music while (literally) flying, that detached soundscape that can...