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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Or maybe THIS is why people get married.
YES.
4gb iPod Nano: Best belated-thanks-to-eBay-dolt birthday present ever.
Serious advantages (ooh, goody! a list!):
- holds way way way more Librivox audiobooks than my car's 12-CD changer.
- oh, yeah, it holds all that music on there too.
- I hear stuff in music that I never noticed before, even with the blow-your-ears-off stereo we had in the Buick. Half the time it kind of freaks me out -- like, where is that COWBELL coming from? Who is banging on a COWBELL? until I remember that I have earphones in my ears and that is in fact Ringo himself on the cowbell. Oh yeah.
- Applying the above characteristic to Rachmaninov and Mozart (the only ones I've tried so far) = unbelievably awesomely oh my gosh wow. You can hear them turning the pages of their sheet music. You can hear them breathing. André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra are in my head, y'all.
- I know you all know this because I am the last person in the western world to get an iPod. I was the last one to see Titanic and also the last one to get DSL or a cell phone. And my cell phone still doesn't have a camera in it, which is actually quite an accomplishment. I am so far from an early adopter they had to create a new category for me.
- It forced me to finally organize all those mp3s I had sitting around in folders duplicating each other and hiding totally inaccurate metadata.
- Remember the first time you listened to "Bohemian Rhapsody" with stereo headphones and you entered a whole new world? This is like that all over again only more awesome, except now I am 32 instead of 10 so my awe is perhaps less excusable.
All is not perfect, however.
- The aforementioned 12-disc changer is feeling a little inferior and left-out. Or it will be as soon as I get a car kit.
- There is enormous embarrassment potential here, folks. I mean, I am, er, extremely musically expressive, shall we say, and my car dancing is the source of much mirth for others, in my car or out of it. Add 'singing along to music only you can hear' to the mix and I may have to buy a hermitage or something.
Comments
Yippeeee!!! It arrived!! by the way you are not the last one to get dsl. I was and still dont have a cell phone. Still working on dh on that one! LOL
Posted by: debi at December 27, 2006 03:42 AM
Yay for you! I want one for listening to books, too. But I don't have one yet, and I just got a cell phone for Christmas, but it's one of those pay as you go...which almost doesn't count because I can only use it if absolutely necessary. Anyway, enjoy your new toy and don't be embarrassed to express yourself! :)
Posted by: Denise at December 27, 2006 08:52 AM
Nope, you're not the last person to get an ipod - I still don't have one.
... I do have an mp3-player though. Love listening to audiobooks when biking to and from work :-)
Posted by: Maria at December 28, 2006 12:44 AM
I don't have one either, nor do I have a cell phone. In fact, I just got DSL a few years ago. I found my old pager the other day, that was weird. I'm glad it showed up. You must be so stoked. I found that one French song by the way...It was on itunes and I totally bought it. Just the one song...
Posted by: jenn at December 28, 2006 11:52 AM
