As many of you will know, and as I explained in this post, I am currently without an iPod. I'm just about getting over the fact that my trip to work every day now occurs in silence (if you can count the rumblings of thousands of alfacinhas as silence) and I have found something of a compromise at work by tuning into internet radio (although sometimes the frustration of not getting to pick the music gets too much and then I just spend a few hours with YouTube and get nothing done).
Yesterday though I had to pick my girlfriend, S, up at the airport. I say pick her up but all I did was get the bus, wait for her and then we got a taxi back together. i wasn't sure how long the wait would be so I decided to risk it and took S's iPod with me.
Now I know I'm being silly here but for me this is something of an intrusion, yes we've been living together for 9 months now, yes we know everything about each other and are completely comfortable with each other, but using another person's iPod...that's just a stage of intimacy too far. The music feels somehow dirty, like I'm reading through her diary. At any turn of the scroll wheel I might stumble across something that I didn't know was there, could I even find something unforgivable?
In the event, no. Somethings which I can and do mock her for but overall it's not too bad a collection. But I still miss mine!!!
Here's a few things that there's not a chance of finding on S's iPod:
Desperate Bicycles - I am Nine <- a band I love but who are pretty hard to find
Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves
The Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing <- A bit crackly
Dislocation Dance - Show Me <- Great Manchester band, should've been on the electro mix
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Friday, 4 September 2009
Monday, 24 August 2009
In memoriam...
Today we mourn the loss of a dear dear friend.
Last Thursday at approximately 9:45 the right headphone on my iPod stopped working. Despite a headphone transplant all attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful and stereo output was never regained.
It's a sad time for all of us but we have to accept the flaws in Apple products as a fact of life and get on with our own lives, as hard is this might be. It's tempting to dwell on how the full potential of such a short life was never fulfilled (I still had 30Gb of his 120Gb harddrive to fill, and I had never even tried the video function), or to imagine what could've been (we had, on occasion, talked about getting a DJ dock and starting a night together), but all this is ultimately fruitless and it is at times like these when we should concentrate on the joy and happiness that they have brought to your lives. I'll always have the memories of our long walks together, the trips we took and the soft touch of the scroll wheel.
Plus it's still under guarantee so we're off to Colombo this week to get a replacement :o)
Last Thursday at approximately 9:45 the right headphone on my iPod stopped working. Despite a headphone transplant all attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful and stereo output was never regained.
It's a sad time for all of us but we have to accept the flaws in Apple products as a fact of life and get on with our own lives, as hard is this might be. It's tempting to dwell on how the full potential of such a short life was never fulfilled (I still had 30Gb of his 120Gb harddrive to fill, and I had never even tried the video function), or to imagine what could've been (we had, on occasion, talked about getting a DJ dock and starting a night together), but all this is ultimately fruitless and it is at times like these when we should concentrate on the joy and happiness that they have brought to your lives. I'll always have the memories of our long walks together, the trips we took and the soft touch of the scroll wheel.
Plus it's still under guarantee so we're off to Colombo this week to get a replacement :o)
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