With no email from work (except for the company's servers, which will be archiving everything for seven years) I might as well post my response to Sugarhigh's assignat here.

What I noticed, rereading my headphone cento, is that what I take to be the recreational consumption of consciousness-restructuring invisible culture product is in fact a feedback loop informing me of the affect I am choosing to insulate at a given moment. Y'know, like dreaming.

David Letterman: "So tell me about this 'Odelay' album, people tell me it's a monster."
Beck: "It's a gentle monster."