this? I've bought a mini ipod, I know, I know, it may seem like I'm a slave to fashion but it is pretty smooth and groovy and the sound quality, well! I've also got a copy of Salif Keita's latest album M'Bemba and this afternoon was driving through deepest East Manchester (the ipod is to cheer myself up because my posh Ford cd player is buggered and Ford have told me to throw it away cos they no longer make them even though it's only three years old and was a pretty mean machine, yada yada yada)... anyway, there I was driving on a busy main road traffic to the left and right of me and heading east when from behind the setting sun lit the whole area. The music of Mali giving it what for in my head and everything suffused in a deep golden hue was mind bogglingly stunning. A quarter mile in front traffic crossed at a junction, white vans, red cars, silver vehicles, a large truck and trailer, an orange double decker bus whose windows flashed like they were on fire, all were picked out by the late afternoon sun. It was as if a beautiful necklace of huge stones passed in front of me and then was gone.
Such a lovely higlight in an otherwise crap day.
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Ipod is the way to go Dan.
I heard that after a few years...no more CD's. And folks will have to buy music online. And that you can play your ipod music on the radio, you tune the radio to a particular station...
Sorry you had a bad day, but that 'necklace' sure made up for the day.
To you both,
Sad sad sad of me to be going on about the product of a stinkingly rich company that produces in China at tuppence a machine no doubt but the quality of sound compared with my old mp3 player is amazing. Also this tiny machine will hold 100 albums (of course one might ask why I'd ever need to carry 100 albums with me but my answer is as daft as the question: because I can duh!). Another reason for buying it is that my Windows Media Player has pissed me off so much because it won't download tracks onto my old mp3 in the order of my choosing. It always jumbles them up and no amount of deshuffling has been able to change that. I've tried everything, deleting the programme and downloading a new one, I've even tried writing to Microsoft for a solution(ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ) I've even been in counselling but to no avail. And so I find myself suddenly an afficionado of Apple. What is a person to do? Blame that bastard Bill Gates that's what!
G, I also bought it because of its versatility and am looking for the ipod car radio accessory so I don't have to throw away my car system which has a pretty good sound.
Art,
My ipod motto is 'Don't believe the hype' cos even tho it's an excellent machine, it is a machine and not a god, a fashion statement, route to a better life, a path to wisdom, a saver of marriages, an answer to all the hard questions, a future partner, the solution to third world debt, a yeti (though it might be the new anti-christ), a tiny version of that thing in 2001, a fat credit card (I suspect that pleasure will be arriving soon), a tin in which one might keep mints or sardines but more likely anchovies given its size. I could go on but should stop for the sake of my health.
Nah! No iPod for me thanks. There are other choices in the market. Better ones, if you ask me.
You tried writing to Microsoft for a solution? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Ipod is not the solution to 3rd world debt? boo hoo sob SOB.
I want Apple. I NEED Apple. I will have Apple one day. Oh no, I'm become materialistic.
D,
I'm aware there are more choices than ipod on the market and that some of them are most probably better than ipod. I'm just making conversation...
G,
Speakiing of ipods makes me think of podcasts and the BBC. Have you managed to work out their new system for podcasting where you can download programmes whilst blogging?
I know how it feels when we have a new gadget. ;)
if i get one perfect moment like that it makes up for a whole load of crap...
Hayden,
Yup, catching a nice image can help get you through the day but what pisses me off is that life is so busy that we miss loads of opportunities to contemplate, to see what is really around us. Boo hoo. I find blogging helps me think about and remember images and things seen. And when I spend time in the blog groove I'm always looking for stuff to write about. I imagine there must be sights aplenty where you live on the outskirts of San Francisco?
Sigh. No Dan, I haven't been able to download BBC things while blogging, mainly because it's one phone line in the house, and I have to hurry and blog, so the phone will be free. And my ISP is constipated anyway.
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