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January 06, 2005

Too much space

7.6 Days, 2509 songs. And still it’s only half full. Yes, I got an ipod for Christmas. And it seems my mum got talked into buying the big one, with more space than some peoples computer. I thought I had a big music collection, but now I just feel inadequate. It’s like hiring a hall for your birthday with a thousand person capacity. And only ten people turning up.


And then I found a sub culture. A secret society, that well, isn’t really secret anymore. Seeing someone with white earphones immediately identifies them as an ipod owner. Some exchange smiles of acknowledgement, some take it even further:-

"She walked right up to me and got within my comfort field," Crandall stammered. "I was taken aback. She pulled out the earbuds on her iPod and indicated the jack with her eyes."
Warily unplugging his own earbuds, Crandall gingerly plugged them into the woman's iPod, and was greeted by a rush of techno.
"We listened for about 30 seconds," Crandall said. "No words were exchanged. We nodded and walked off."

Of course, not all exchanges are this frank. And wearing the white headphones does have it’s drawbacks. It is basically saying to people “I’ve got a couple of hundred pounds in my pocket, come and get me”. So the white earphones club is like a mouldy banana, it’s starting to turn black. People are starting to realise that maybe it would be safer to pretend you don’t own an ipod. Still, maybe that’s a little difficult, they glow in the dark when you press the buttons.

So what does my ever growing two and a half thousand song personal duke box do for me? Well, as I walk along, I am constantly surprised by the random button. One minute it will be Nine Inch Nails, followed by classical, followed eighties music.
Then there are the songs that you download, the songs that said one thing, but are actually completely different. It’s the feeling of uncertainty. Of course you can press the next button, but that would take far too much effort.


Some times I hear songs that I have never heard before, even though they have been sitting on the shelf for ten years. After an hour of walking, the random songs have played a complete history of my life. For every song has a meaning, a picture in time, it’s better than any photo.


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