Tag: music
Friday, 02.01.2026
Thursday, 01.01.2026
: it’s 8 am. #january 1st, 2026. quiet. really quiet.
I’m #writing. #music is playing. #snow and sun at the same time behind the window. and it feels so unreal how #calm this #morning is.
I keep thinking how long it took me to experience a day like this. forty-one starts before this one. and only now it feels right.
last year comes back to me too. 2025 was good. solid. important.
today feels like a good moment to close it properly. to look back once more. and then move forward, slowly, into what’s next.
Monday, 15.12.2025
: today is the day! I’m going to #body #balance later, and that already puts this day in a slightly different category, because today is the first day of a new #choreography. new #music, new sequences, a new flow that will stay with me for the next three months. it happens only four times a year, so yes – this is a small celebration.
but the reason isn’t novelty. it’s what these Les Mills choreographed classes are for me. officially they’re fitness, technically they’re training, but very quickly they stop feeling like exercise at all. I don’t count reps, I don’t think about muscles – I move. well… I #dance. the #choreography connects everything: one transition melts into another, breath, #balance, arms, spine, all stitched together by #music. after a few classes the trainer fades into the background, I know the sequence, my #body remembers it – and that’s when it becomes #dance.
that’s why these three-month cycles matter so much to me. a #choreography isn’t something I use up in one class – I live in it. I come back again and again, it settles, deepens, becomes familiar, and in that familiarity there’s comfort, joy, and progress at the same time. today a new one begins, and it’s #monday, which makes it even more special – the big class, fifty spots, always full, familiar faces I know from seeing, bodies moving together in the same internal rhythm. it reminds me of a kind of #festival, really.
I’m on #body #balance three, four, sometimes five times a week, and every time I find this quiet pocket of #dance inside the #gym. not work on my #body, but time with my #body. so happy about this day!
Wednesday, 10.12.2025
: so yeah, i’m back on #spotify. still don’t like the #app, the whole feeling, mess, but love the recommendations it’s giving me. I know that a lot of this is my fault, I probably should configure #apple #music the way I want, but that’s also the reason for switching – I don’t want to configure my #music. it should work the way I want without even having to say the word “configuration”, and with #apple #music I feel there’s too much teaching involved. too many nudges, too many hints. #spotify just knows – and that’s what I like. for now.
Tuesday, 09.12.2025
: few days ago I fell into this little phase of listening to Kasia Kowalska again – a Polish singer with this beautiful, unmistakable voice. those songs are pure #music from my childhood. and it’s funny to watch how differently I approach #music now… the same tracks that once hit me with a whole storm of emotions, that still carry all those old memories somewhere in them.
today I look at #music through #dance. through movement. through the way my body reacts before my mind even catches up. and this shift feels huge for me. crucial. and honestly… it feels great.
and the ironic thing is: it’s a few days later now and I don’t even listen to Kasia Kowalska anymore. I’m actually a bit overwhelmed with Polish #music, and today I even decided to go back from #apple #music to #spotify. so yeah… #moods change. but that moment was real.
Saturday, 15.11.2025
Wednesday, 05.11.2025
: …and also, apple music keeps playing me so many #polish songs. and this, I don’t understand. I was never that huge fan of polish music.
well, I like it – it’s my first language after all – but not in this quantity.
maybe I just never told apple music clearly enough not to play me this kind of songs. so, like always in life – the fault’s on my side 🙂
: #apple #music, when I play something called “my station”, keeps giving me sad songs. well, mostly. spotify didn’t do that. and i wonder – does apple music think i’m a sad person? need sad songs? need this reflection time with music? or does it just remember me as that person?
I used apple music for many years, then switched to #spotify just a year ago. and honestly, I’m a completely different person now. #spotify knows only the new me – without the old luggage.
three years ago, my life was quieter. I was rebuilding, searching for my new self. kind of lost in some ways, unsure what to do, I guess. transforming.
and when I started using spotify, I was already dancing, moving, breathing differently. had that energy that spotify saw – and learned.
so maybe it’s time to raise apple music to who i am now.
Tuesday, 04.11.2025
: well… it looks like I’ve finally switched from #spotify to #applemusic. I knew it was coming. am I happy with this change? partly, yes. but I already miss Spotify’s music recommendations. with Apple Music I feel like I stepped back five years with my playlists. maybe it’s just a matter of changing my habits and the way I use the app. I know I can accomplish the same things I had on Spotify – it just needs time.
now, the next step is to change my podcast player from Spotify to… well, I’m thinking about Apple Podcasts or Pocket Casts.
it looks like I’m slowly staying loyal to just two companies – Apple and Automattic (the company behind WordPress). I just wish Automattic would integrate all their apps more. I’d love to use Day One as my main diary editor and sync it directly to my WordPress blog. the same with podcasts in Pocket Casts. and Simplenote! I’d totally use it – but is it still in development? will they abandon it? it feels so disconnected from other Automattic tools.
honestly, I could easily replace my Apple-centric ecosystem with Automattic’s one – with my WordPress blog at the heart of it. actually, that’s where I’m heading already. it would just be so much easier if their tools talked to each other a bit more.
Tuesday, 21.10.2025
: i wish i could quit #spotify and switch to #apple #music. there are many reasons for that. but there’s one small feature that keeps me stuck with spotify – the smart shuffle. it mixes new, recommended songs into my playlists, so every few tracks i hear something fresh, something unexpected. such a small thing, but brilliant. if #apple #music ever adds this feature, i’ll switch instantly.
last tuesday’s jazz class video
it’s tuesday again, which means another #jazz class. same #choreography, but not the same me. last week I recorded a video from the lesson – I’m posting it today. and now I’m wondering how to prepare better for tonight’s class, to get even more out of it. should I hit the #gym first to warm up my #body? or maybe an hour of roller dancing to feel the #rhythm and #flow? or just lock myself in my home #dance room and go through the steps until they stick? I really don’t know which would be better.
