My iPod Doesn’t Get Me
I have a tiny little 2g iPod Shuffle, the one with the little clip, and I wear it everywhere. Sometimes while I’m at work, the music helps me focus on what I’m doing vs. what’s going on in the office but the volume is low enough I can hear co-workers who are asking questions - most of the time, at least.
I regularly change out my playlist either picking the songs I want to hear or sometimes using the Autofill function. Most of the time my iPod will, as if by magic, play songs that I was thinking of or fit what was going on around me or in my mind. I love this about my iPod, it’s one of the reasons why I wear it a lot.
However, something happened today to make me rethink my feelings about my iPod. I had just gotten up to visit the facilities and Bill Medley’s Beautiful started playing, the soft piano intro seemed to add some unneeded drama to the moment. I got to the bathroom and pressed skip - I didn’t need some guy singing about beautiful things while I was standing at the urinal - and the next song was Greensleeves by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
How could my iPod play Bright Eyes’ When the President Talks to God while I was waiting for a Iraq War protest to pass so I could cross the street, Monkey Gone To Heaven by The Pixies as I walked past the Scientology building in Dupont, and Flashing Lights by Kayne West right when I needed a boost on the treadmill and then play these songs at the most horribly awkward moment?
I just don’t get it.
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