Thursday, December 19, 2024

Heavy dub

If you sometimes experience anxiety, like me, then the best cure I've found is blasting endless "heavy dub" YouTube videos through my £300 noise-cancelling headcans and walking or grooving around with sunglasses on. Bose Quiet Comforts not included, but you're welcome?

Heavy Dub 1

Heavy Dub 2

Heavy Dub 3

Heavy Dub 4

Heavy Dub 5

Heavy Dub 6

Heavy Dub 7

Heavy Dub 8

I posted the same mix 4 times, did I?
.... how much anxiety u got, bro?
Try to dissociate more--you won't notice

This is only a starter pack, a weighted blanket for your ears. Listen, if 5 tracks isn't enough, dial 111 for NHS24 and listen to their TV-dinner elevator music to fill the void? That shit makes my anxiety worse, but I dunno what else to tell you. Gaining access to healthcare in the UK can be like unsuccessfully trying to change cable companies, but if Kafka wrote the dialogue. 

((Meaning: infuriating and bureaucratic, but funny AF. We can't all be readers or members of the intelligentsia, but they'll let anyone with a bank account blow Jeff Bezos and buy The Castle these days))

JK, jk, healthcare seems decent in the UK, despite not being perfect. I wanted to wind up any American readers nervous about the notorious dangers of communist medicine, like paying 0$ for prescription drugs and your month-long hospital stay. We don't even pay for ambulances here, guys!! Shocking, right? True, the cost//benefit analyses of how resources are distributed will be guided by clinically relevant information, rather than sorting people by ability to pay. It's =a problem= with backdoor work-arounds if you *do* have money, because money runs the world wherever the fuck you are. So please, socialised medicine and free healthcare for everyone else in the USA? You barbarians.

Personally I'm here cos I got anxious about becoming too longwinded and serious about myself in this blog no one's reading, so hitting the DUB and feeling on top of the world again. 

Reggae or Dub with all their kin like Rocksteady, Dancehall, etc--except SKA... fuckoff SKA no one likes you(!!)---has always helped me reset my leaping heart back to normal sinus rhythm and spared me countless trips to A&E. Musical dope that's a pioneering treatment for panic attacks. 

There are probably specific bands and albums I'd point towards if I was trying to personally curate your experience today, but in a crisis--real or imagined--you reach for the nearest emergency services worker and let them decide what to do with you. Here's to the YouTube mix-makers who've rescued me and surprised me with unexpected gems over the years. Really and truly, thank u so much <3

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