Music For Leaving The Airport Alone

One of my favorite moments is landing at my home airport alone late at night and walking to my car with my headphones in. More specifically, the stretch from the jet bridge to the first floor front doors, and then the first few seconds in the night air. One part of it is the category of sadness that only lives in airport terminals and only shows itself there at night. I don’t want to fuck with it too much by trying to describe it, so I’ll just say that you end up walking through the same long hallways for so many different reasons over course of your life. But another part of it, as far as I can tell, is the way in which a midnight airport mirrors our own midnight minds. Dormant and exhausted, but never fully empty or still. Deep with the weight of themselves in a way that’s only available to something whose structure and function are so closely connected. And gliding just above the darkness like a great Blue whale singing.

As you can tell, I’m a bit of schmuck for liminal spaces and I’ve made us a playlist for walking that route, and perhaps a little further. At 26 minutes or so, it’s designed to get you to your car in one, overly-emotional piece and it should generally do the trick unless you run into trouble at the luggage carousel.