I saw you on the TV and you looked really cool. Those funky colours, three-dimensional silhouettes, and there you were, calling me with your blinding white light. And those guys, they really look like they’re having fun. Prancing. Dancing without a care. Then I took you home and that’s when I discovered that you’re more PC than Mac. I plug you into my Powerbook and you told me not to disconnect. So I don’t. Then I click on iTunes and you’re not there. You’re hiding from me. Why? Then my computer asks me if I’ve got the latest version of iTunes. So I downloaded the latest version of iTunes. But you’re still not there. Next, my computer asks me which generation of iPod you belong to, the click wheel, the four-button, or the touch-pad wheel? What? OK, so now I’m thinking to myself, you’re not a Mac. You are PC and you will punish me. And you will mock me for my PC-illiteracy. And you will do everything in your power to stop me from sharing my music with like-minded people and vice versa. You will force me into submission with thirty-five versions of iTunes, five generations of iPod, and god knows how many versions of firmware. And all I want is to dance with you.
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You might recognize today’s tune from a Gap commercial. This certainly isn’t the most depressing or slowest selection from the Red House Painter’s repertoire. But tonight, it seems appropriate enough given the iPod debacle. Click, if you want to play along.
Sometimes, blog entries seem to just disappear.
Posted by: Noel | 25 October 2004 at 16:30
Because sometimes, blog entries are written under the influence.
Posted by: J | 25 October 2004 at 23:55
Consumer slut pays the price for unbridled techno-lust. Luddites rejoice. National holiday declared.
Vinyl is macintosh, mp3s are PC.
Posted by: Laces | 26 October 2004 at 11:37
Would that be the same as the Amish New Year?
Posted by: J | 26 October 2004 at 13:34
so, you have your new ipod, and i hope it's treating you well. you haven't named it yet, have you? i hope not. also, i hope you don't regret your purchase, considering that apple just released their ipod photos: 40 and 60 giggers that boast a color display. fuckin' a.
the only downside to getting a typepad account--to me anyway--is that i'd have to pay for one.
Posted by: GS | 30 October 2004 at 13:12
ditto. torture my teochew soul why don't you.
Posted by: vee | 02 November 2004 at 00:30
I call it PcPod. Yeah, the 40 and 60 gigs are pretty cool. But no, no regrets here. I’ve long since accepted Moore’s Law (speaking rather loosely).
Oh and a friend once told me, if it’s free on the net, it’s beta.
Posted by: J | 02 November 2004 at 00:43
What is a pod (as in ipod)?
PODS, also known as PCpods, are audio and video files that have been published to the internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, thus allowing downloaders to listen to or view a wide range of music, video feeds, news and other information.
Find music and video pods for podcasting at www.PCpods.com
Posted by: Starphi | 10 November 2005 at 06:56