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

[tofty.livejournal.com]

You are surely not ignoring the entire Prince catalog. Surely not.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

No, but I may be mixing up my years. IIRC, Wood Beez was 1983 and I Would Die 4 U was 1984, but I may've not remembered Prince using alphanumerics before that.

Meep! Good catch!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Prince was using AN as early as 1980! Check out Dirty Mind.

Of course, that's not to say that someone else didn't use AN in a song title before 1980. Just, you know. I hate to see Prince go all unsung. :D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oops! Sorry, I just got home and looked, and it was actually Controversy in 1981. Okay, I am done with the Prince.