Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Sunday, January 02, 2005 The Pitch: It's like Poetic meets Justice! Ain't nothing worse than a blog entry (after such a long time!) where some guy whines about how good he's got it. If you feel the same, I advise you to skip this entry.Back at the end of October, Edi got me a stupendously wonderful birthday gift. So stupendously wonderful, it was both my birthday and Christmas gift. So stupendously wonderful, in fact, I couldn't use it. It was, of course, an Ipod, which of course you can totally use on your PC provided your PC has (a) Windows XP, and (b) the PC has firewire and/or USB 2.0. And, of course, with my creaky old computer, it was (a) nope, and (b) nope again. It says something kinda horrible about how fast time flies when you're old that it's suddenly the end of the year, and I'm still trying to scrimp and save for a new computer when Edi's cousin calls and announces he's just bought a new computer and would I be interested in his barely two year old one? For a small fee? So since yesterday, I've been tinkering with a new (for me) computer and of course the first thing I do is load all 40 CD's of burned music from some back up years and years ago. And then spend forever trying to figure out how to load it into Itunes. And then load it. And then spend forever loading it onto the Ipod. And then, finally, at about midnight last night, I held up my new Ipod, loading with 20 gigs of tunes (51.9 days of continuous playing, Itunes helpfully informs me), listened to it for about half an hour and went to bed, where Edi had been sleeping for approximately the last half-hour. And this morning, probably the very first thing I do is break out the Ipod and start trying to assemble playlists, looking for favorite songs, etc., etc., and of course they're nowhere to be found. Because I've loaded up the Ipod with everything, and it's all the stuff I backed up a year and a half ago, and meanwhile there's all the stuff I actually listen to, stuck on my tiny, slow computer (to say nothing of all my writing, photos, websites, etc.) and I have to figure out how to transfer it off. Everything but the new music should be pretty easy--the writing will go on one CD-Rom, the photos may take up another three or four, I have no idea how the hell I'm going to move all the music. A lot of it, I think, I can simply re-download from Emusic but that'll take some time. And then there's stuff that I burned to the hard drive and then sold the CD so if I don't figure out what it is, and then pull it from the old computer, it's gone. And maybe this will change but it looks like I'm not going to listen to The Best of Uz Jsme Doma or Blip-Hop Generation Vol. 2-6 on the Ipod any more than I listened to them when they were on my computer fresh off of Emusic. I really need to go through and trim down a whole lot of this stuff after all the hours I spent putting it on. I'd like to think of myself as a hip connoiseur of music, but transferring all this music to the Ipod has shown me my actual self: an avaricious music glutton, willing to wear the sloppy bits that have flecked off onto his shirt as medals of honor and achievement. posted by Jeff Lester | 10:21 AM | |
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