in which my worst impulses are thwarted

[lolaraincoat]

Why are all the other iPods so elegant and the stupid new full-size iPod so very, very hideous? Why?

I wanted to spend my tax refund on a shiny new iPod -- the 80-gig kind that would have room for all the music currently jammed onto my hard drive instead of only about a third of it at a time -- even though my beautiful 6-gig mini works just fine and is pretty. But the new, 5th-generation iPods are even uglier than the full-size iPods used to be. They've now in two shades of gray, black and white at a time, rather than just white-and-chrome, which was bad enough. And the grays are in diagonal blocks, too, in some kind of misguided tribute to that retro '80s aesthetic. Couldn't they just sell them with preloaded Bananarama and Scritti Politti?*

Fuck it, I'm just going to donate my damn refund to Amnesty International then. Bastards.



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* Yes, I still love Scritti Politti. Shut up.

Comments

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttt !!!

Actually I've been listening to them half the day, having just found Cupid & Psyche 85 at the used CD store, and the synthesizer is a tiny bit irritating after a while. I keep thinking of all those poor unemployed brass and woodwind players whom the synthesizer replaced, but not very well.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

I think the tiresomeness of the sound is all part of the Art. Did you listen to Anomie/Bonhomie? (their late 90s "comeback"). Smooooth sounds to the point of madness. My admiration was mostly intellectual.

It's weird- this is the 2nd conversation I've had about SP in as many days.

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

I did not hear one note of A/B, nor have I heard any of the new cd that came out last year.

Who else have you been talking SP with?

Also, just so you know, I sent you that key yesterday -- sorry for dawdling.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

s'okay! I was glad to see that you had successfully used it to lock the door.

Who else have you been talking SP with?

Must have been HDGF. Who else? I owned A/B- let me see if I still have it. I think I might have put some on a tape I remember making for you when you were in LA (not at Xian U, a later sojourn), but maybe it was a tape I made for my own driving enjoyment.