Is this specifically related to when you listen to music or a more general thing, whereby … like an internal monologue … it’s constantly there in the background of your day, a sort of ‘soundtrack’/’score’ to your life?

A general thing. When I listen to music I am am focused on the music.

Did Mario Kart ever make it to the arcades? I used to play Cruis’n USA in one of those things that have a driving seat, steering wheel and stick shift. Get the school bus for the red wood forest, Fuck the winding road, fuck the trees, just go straight through. Just room for one friend to race against, but still, good times.