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March 14, 2008
off came those awful toe rings
as a general rule i do everything possible to schedule work in the scenic city on fridays. but sometimes it's unavoidable that i have to fire up the impala and hit the road and this morning was just such an occasion. when the alarm went off this morning i had difficulty summoning the desire to get out of bed. i could hear that it was raining which meant traffic would be an issue plus i had to pull the trash can around the curb and drop some letters off at the post office before i began my journey in earnest. after considering all these things carefully i opted to snooze until 6:51. i somehow managed to shower, shave, dress, complete the aforementioned chore and still managed to settle myself behind the wheel at 7:15. not bad.
usually i'll listen to morning edition on npr during my morning drives until i lose reception or until i can no longer contain my seething rage at steve inskeep and his imdiscriminately smug interviewing style. but this morning i decided that i would break from that routine and give the new i-pod a whirl. and as i skidded and lurched my way toward interstate 24 i couldn't help that said i-pod - the i-pod that i have so aptly named the best of the 70's, 80's, and today was cranking out amazing song after amazing song. and i thought it was remarkable that after barely 48 hours together this little machine knew me so very well. the first five songs right out of the gate were as follows:
1. magazine called sunset ~ wilco
2. september gurls ~ big star
3. your ex-lover is dead ~ stars
4. come pick me up ~ ryan adams
5. cause = time ~ broken social scene....
needless to say my heart was filled with joy at the way these songs seemed so flawlessly sequenced and i sort of wished that i had a pen handy so i could write them down thinking that each of these songs could be part of a fantastic mix. it was around this time that i realized that i was in fact listening to one of my own mixes. brian austin green presents vol. 1 - i made it several months back as a birthday gift of sorts for some random chick and then completely forgotten about it.
which reminds me - i'm still trying to wrap my brain around the concept that i actually broke down and bought an i-pod. like most big events in my life it just sort of happened. there wasn't a whole lot of pre-meditation involved. and i have to spend that bonus somehow don't i? true there are plenty of sweaty projects around the house that could use my attention - but what would i listen to while performing said sweaty projects? i guess a big part of the reason that i boke down is because i have so much music on my computer (all obtained completely legally of course) that i seldom listen to if at all because making a playlist and burning an album or a mix became pretty cumbersome. especially since i have this really bad habit of not labelling things right away and then they suddenly disappear forever.
anyway, because i am a classy guy i went for the i-pod classic. 80gig. black. which has approximately 2.5 times the memory of the hard drive on the dusty old (dude you're getting a) dell. so now i have no excuse not to get back into the gym and trim back down to my 125 lb high school wrestling weight. because i have all those fashionable unitards hanging in the closet and they are completely going to waste. i'd love to re-introduce them to my adoring public during my stay in las vegas next month.
| By young_christopher | 6:57 PM
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