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Wednesday 23 March 2005
I Want to Take My iPod Everywhere
I WANT TO TAKE MY iPOD everywhere.
It’s true. I nearly left it in a hotel room tonight and it freaked me out so bad to find it sitting there, all perfect and gleaming and beautiful and filled with music that I realized I am truly committed to my iPod.
Am I now officially a slave to a gadget?
Filed under: music, pop culture, travel
Posted by: Molly | 06:34 | Comments (23)
Yes, Molly, you are a slave to that gadget. I’m holding off on getting an iPod until I can come to realization that’ll it might make a slave out of me. Just imagine Will Smith. He owns about 5 or 6 iPods, each jampacked with music from the 80s, 90s and today.
He’s a slave times 5 or 6.
Yes you are, but so am I. I took mine to the doctors today and it drowned out the screaming kiddies nicely. I can’t remember life pre-pod.
What are your most played tunes?
I’m trying (quite successfully) to hold off from getting one. It would only be one more thing to find space for in my pockets. I’d do better investing the money into something to hold my trousers up!
Less than a week after I bought mine, my husband decided he couldn’t live without one.
I don’t ever want to go on another long road trip without it, especially since I don’t listen to Country of Christian, which is pretty much the only choice in many rural areas.
I’m holding out for the terabyte version ;-P
My first iPod just arrived yesterday! After buying my wife an iPod mini I knew I had to have one (was using an Archos recorder 20 previously).
I wouldn’t say you’re a slave. How can something that offers ultimate entertainment freedom make you a slave? (oh yeah…the forums at ipodhacks & ipodlounge, iTunes organizing…) Well, it is atleast nice to be enslaved by something so elegant.
We likes our iPodess… yessss we doesss… it is our precioussss…
In all seriousness, the iPod is just a wondeful gadget. I prefer to think of the relation as a symbiotic one…
“Don’t fall asleep!” the Pods are everwhere, they are here I tell you. My next door neighbor got one yesterday and woke up singing old Micheal Jackson tunes off minor all day outloud in his yard,and he is seventy, he is an alien i swear.
I have to say, having just returned from SF, I have never seen so many iPods attached to people! My co-worker and I counted over 50 different people just in casually observing people while walking around downtown for three days. Gotsa ta get me one… They’re turning more into a mainstay than a fad now, it would seem.
I sold my iPod. How many can claim that?
I just don’t travel enough for it to get much use. Now a PSP on the other hand … hmmm
My iPod is near and dear to me, but it doesn’t hold a candle to my eyeballs. I would never go anywhere without my eyeballs.
You’re not a slave to it until it starts telling you what music to buy.
I’ve lived with an iPod for around three years. Although the experience is addictive, I don’t think it’s an addiction to the device per se.
McLuhan spoke eloquently of the qualitative change in the experience of reading when books became so inexpensive, ubiquitous and — above all, portable — that almost any member of society could amass a private library and carry books around with them.
I think we’re seeing the birth of something very much like the modern book — only for music. Certainly, the Sony Walkman was the first device that allowed individuals to listen to music truly of their own choosing — or making. However, the iPod/iTunes combination is the first music system to make the experience as easy to carry and use as the first pocket sized books.
And just as with the common, ubiquitous book, nobody gets to tell me what I can carry in my pocket and which voices I’m allowed to listen to.
That’s the really addictive part.
After all, what a brave new world it is when you can listen to a mix of Taraf de Haidouks and hardcore Bollywood bhangra instead of whatever kac Britney Spears extruded for Clear Channel last week.
Here’s a good guide for all of the various options and hookups for listening to your iPod everywhere.
I am seriously considering getting an Ipod since it seems like the people who have them just love them. I think that I would want to take mine everywhere too. By the way Molly, I am new to blogging and interested in web design and found your site very interesting.
Definately slave to the iPod, i was too and then mine broke. I am having serious withdrawl symptoms and i have no money to get a new one (it was an old ipod and not under warranty).
I spent spring break in Florida, and the iPod was curiously absent from most people’s ensemble. In my other two “homes,” Madison, WI and Chicago, that is not case. iPods are everywhere.
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i was at best buy and i spoke to a guy that said there were going to be very low prices during thanksgiving.
I dont think i can wait that long!!
i want one soo bad
all my friends have one, and they just show it off in front of me.
ipods are the new and you and lou and woo.
yes i got mine 3 days ago the itouch and iwant to take it evberywhere, i mean everywhere but then i have to have pockerts with every garment that i wear so i need more ideas on bringing it everywhere but no purse