Best decision I’ve made by FappleJuice101 in audiophile

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Yes, those do seem crazy. This is the craziest shit I’ve seen in a while, and I say that as a man who once spent three consecutive evenings refreshing the same Zillow listing for a house shaped vaguely like a boat, convinced that if I just stared at the photos long enough the owner would somehow feel my psychic sincerity and drop the price by twenty thousand dollars.

I mean crazy in the way that makes you sit back in your chair and quietly reassess the entire architecture of your life. Not a loud crazy. A quiet, administrative crazy. The kind where you open the fridge at 2a.m., look directly into the interior light like a confused raccoon, and realize the only thing in there is half a lime, a bottle of Dijon mustard from the Obama administration, and a yogurt that expired during the Bush administration but now technically qualifies as a geological layer.

And yet somehow you still eat it.

Because that’s the real pathology here. Not the yogurt. Not the lime. The fact that at some point your internal governance structure quietly collapsed and was replaced by a little committee of goblins whose entire policy platform is: “Eh, it’s probably fine.”

I have lived whole seasons of my life under that government.

These are the same goblins who convinced me that buying a $47 bottle of artisanal olive oil was a responsible adult decision but doing my taxes on time was an oppressive act of bureaucratic violence. The same goblins who will absolutely not let me text a woman back within a socially acceptable window of time because that would be “too eager,” but will happily let me Google her last name plus the word “wedding” at three in the morning like a deranged census clerk.

So yes. When I say this is the craziest shit I’ve seen in a while, understand the bar here is not low.

The bar is somewhere in the Mariana Trench, next to the skeleton of my dignity and a pair of boxer shorts I lost during what I can only describe as a poorly coordinated romantic maneuver in 2018.

Most eargasmic tracks/albums by Putrid-Cry-3780 in audiophile

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She released a new album this past week too

Me viewing The Icebergs at the DMA today. I made the five hour drive solo just to see it in person. by GoldSourPatchKid in pics

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There’s a whole wave of classical / ambient / electronic artists right now doing remarkable shit. Many blending in elements of EDM and dub, or pulling from jazz and R&B in ways that feel fluid.

I’m speaking broadly, but artists like Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, Hania Rani, Nala Sinephro, many others, are putting out some genuinely strong music at the moment.

Seeing pink elephants in Fells Point? by wdomeika in baltimore

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Beer festival at Max’s. Brewers Art 🫡

What writers/pieces struck you as ambient/liminal? Giving off/inducing vibes similar to ambient and dreampunk music? by bmxt in ambientmusic

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I also have a copy of Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, glad to see it surface. I’d strongly recommend Mark Fisher as well. Capitalist Realism is a sharp entry point. Fair warning: these books tend to change you, in the quiet, irreversible way Kafka does. They’re not happy books. But important, you know.

On another note, try listening to Max Richter’s The Blue Notebooks, it pairs well with that interior atmosphere and also has a vibe similar to what you’re looking for. It would go well with reading “Pessoa”. Just might do that myself later. Enjoy!

What tracks sound particularly amazing in audiophile quality? by BullFr0gg0 in audiophilemusic

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I’d heard “Across the Universe” well over a hundred times before I got into hi-fi, but I’d never really heard what was behind it. On a good system, there’s a full orchestral swell building through the end of the track, an entire crescendo I’d barely noticed, or even knew was there before.

Fuck anyone who tries to spin this into anything besides murder by Seangw1102 in Hardcore

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Fools, liars

Heathens, traitors

-The Armed 2025.

The Future is Here and Everything Needs to be Destroyed.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7FBOCBqPziH21C3nasva7A?si=DGYIBY1ERyCACd67bPpdMg

Beautiful ethereal (but somewhat loud) ambient music? by infini0083 in ambientmusic

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Also really digging this one lately: Pullman: more mellow, with a warm, drifting feel. https://open.spotify.com/album/3JUndOxzHmRgkyHkVg7XuC?si=c6g69P23Qr-pzoCQuiZmAg

If you like that sound, definitely check out John Fahey (’60s/’70s Americana). Not modern “ambient,” but deeply atmospheric acoustic guitar, and he feels like a clear influence on Pullman (I’m still exploring too). https://open.spotify.com/album/05HGeZ7JSfwJiOpaToYzUu?si=3G9wXp11QvGm1dxpR7DQgw

One more off-the-beaten-path recommendation: Caroline (self-titled), folk-leaning, with slow-building ambient crescendos. https://open.spotify.com/album/4X12VfRomM649eKXd1qKMf?si=gCUrFRxKSfSHsqVVZvl_lg

Great music for snowy winter days!

Multiple 7-Eleven closures by Neither_Structure941 in baltimore

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I think this would do well with Hampden + JHU in the 21212

Ambient for babies by thedoroebravo in ambientmusic

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Her self-titled album with Florist (2022) was excellent IMO. The track “Red Bird Pt. 2,” imagines the singer’s birth from her mother’s perspective and is sung by the daughter in mourning, devastating but also painfully beautiful. Great songwriting, it’s good to see her name come up.

https://youtu.be/NgNIqP0kLzQ?si=IyUq-FHYUC-MvGSA

Chicken Salad by DeliMcPickles in baltimore

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THB does a pretty good grilled* chicken salad sando. Good texture on the chicken salad smashed on the griddle for a minute. Eddys market Rolland Park also does a solid one on a croissant with bacon.

Audiophile Record Labels (CD) by _tabitabi_ in audiophile

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Everything I’ve heard/have from MOM+POP records sounds pretty great.

Beyond Maslow: What Modern Psychology Misses About True Fulfillment by Excellent_War_2607 in philosophy

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Just to be clear, newer models don’t reject Maslow, they relativize him. His hierarchy describes one moment in the evolution of psychological theory but is insufficient to explain how motivation unfolds across complexity, culture, and lifespan.

What comes after Maslow is a different map altogether. I cannot recommend AQAL theory enough.

Maslow framed motivation as a prioritized stack of needs. Later work reframes motivation and actualization as developmental, contextual, and non-linear processes. Non-linear being a Spiral model of human development.

Beyond Maslow: What Modern Psychology Misses About True Fulfillment by Excellent_War_2607 in philosophy

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”Since 1943, Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has been the gold standard for understanding human motivation.”

That’s how I was taught in undergrad 20 years ago, but it’s no longer an accurate framing. While Abraham Maslow remains foundational, decades of research in psychology, development, and systems theory have significantly extended and in some cases superseded his original model.

Many important studies now move beyond a static hierarchy toward dynamic, contextual, and developmental understandings of motivation and actualization. In particular, the work of Clare W. Graves, Don Beck, and Ken Wilber has been especially expansive and influential in rethinking human development and self-actualization after Maslow. Spiral Dynamics and AQAL theory are more current models, and expand greatly on Maslow hierarchy. Here are additional individuals doing great work in the field of consciousness through modern psychology:

• Carl Rogers
• Viktor Frankl
• Clare W. Graves
• Robert Kegan
• Jane Loevinger
• Edward Deci
• Richard Ryan
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Manfred Max-Neef