Why I have an iPod
Well, it's finally happened. iPods are our undisputed lords and masters. Like some sort of parasite or alien baby, they have latched onto normal human beings and turned them into zombies.
But why do people have iPods? Because it's fashionable? Certainly. The little white ear buds and the white cord immediately send the signal, "Look at my iPod. Look how trendy I am!" Especially since our favorite movie heroes use iPods.
Let it be known: I had an iPod before it was cool to have one. I got an iPod for Christmas two years ago because I was looking for a good MP3 player. And what do you know? The iPod was the best MP3 player on the market. It didn't play "brain-damaged DRM" formats (to use Cory Doctrow's phrase) like Real's MP3 player or Sony's old MP3 player. It used iTunes, which is a superb music management program, and it's also useful as a regular old hard drive, unlike MP3 players which operate using memory sticks. It's stylish and well-built, and for your money, there's no better MP3 player on the market. That's why I have an iPod.
This is what it must have felt like for the runners who wore New Balance shoes because they were excellent shoes. Now everyone has New Balance shoes, not because they need good shoes, but because it's hip to be seen wearing New Balance shoes.
I suppose it's best for high quality to be trendy.
Comments
You sound like a whiny emo baby that cries, "I knew that band before they were mainstream, blah, burp me." Because emo babies always want to be burped. No one cares whether or not you had an ipod first or not, because your ipod is filled with so much junk i want to spew just thinking about it. I think that maybe one person has ever cared you had an ipod, and that was that kid who tried to steal it, saw it was full of danny elfman, and then punched himself in the face and ran away.
On the other hand, dear moron, I feel your pain. I must talk about Napoleon Dynamite here for a second. My homie Shelly and I saw ND back in the theaters. Everyone else said it looked stupid - we prevailed. We were even going to see it twice, but the second time it wasn't in the theaters anymore. We have been quoting ND since day one, and of course no one knows what we are talking about. Then BANG shazaam. ND comes out on video, and everyone is wearing "Vote for Pedro" shirts and misquoting the movie, much like Mark, who never gets the ND quotes right. Shelly and I loved ND long before it was some teeny bopper fad, and the parts people quote aren't even the funny parts.
"A frickin' 12-gauge, what do you think?!"
That is how you quote it. Sucka.
You're still a whiny emo baby.
Posted by: Bud-dy | January 18, 2005 11:11 PM
ahem. (c/k)athy... kudos.
well, since iPods have now become our lords and masters, i feel the need to declare that my lord and master no longer works properly, which means one of two things:
a) i have been given a unique opportunity to escape the horrible fate awaiting all college-age humans, that being total, hideous enslavement by the iPods.
b) i got fucked out of $400.
who wants to guess which one?
Posted by: matt | January 19, 2005 11:28 AM
These I-podians of which you speak, the one enslaving your human race (I say your human race, because I am not of the emo strain). They are small, correct? And shiny? I don't understand how your civilization fell so quickly. I mean, an uprising of microwaves, or deep fat fryers, or even pornographic DVDs I could understand. But I-podians? I just don't get it. Perhaps there is an inherent weakness among emomen as I assume you are called. Hmm... these are great points to ponder. While you are being conquered (and burped apparently, perhaps the I-podians deny you burpings causing the gas to build up and your bodies to explode) my race (whom you emomen often called mad) will be out testing home made explosives and firearm powered can openers in the near the gas station. Good luck with the invasion of the I-podians. And Cathy ... Napoleon Dynamite is good, but only the preWaterloo stuff. Anything after that doesn't have quite as much power. I'd also recommend Cornwall C-4.
Posted by: Wolf | January 19, 2005 9:15 PM