I mainly have two platforms of which I listen to music with. One is my Macbook, one is my ITouch. Yes, I am an apple boy. The two work in unison to create an ideal musical environment for me. This is how it works: the Laptop (being the faster downloading source with the larger amount of memory) is the music capital of my world. Every bit of music (sans CD’s) I have is kept on there, and when I’m working on my laptop, or surfing on my laptop, I have it set on party shuffle.
The laptop also acts as the gateway to the ITouch. Music, for the most part, doesn’t just get thrown onto Luke, it has to earn it’s way. As I hear it more and more on party shuffle I form an opinion, always making sure I never form an opinion immediately about any song, ever. That’s not fair to it. What if I’m not in a good mood when I first hear it? or worse- What if I’m not in the mood for that type of music when I hear it? Is my whole opinion of one song going to be based on just one listen? I hope/think not! Every song, every made, by anyone, is a piece of their mind and heart, and deserves at least a few listens. Of course, their are always exceptions to even the greatest of rules, and this is no different. If it’s a “trusted artist” (Muse, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, The Killers, Andrew Bird, Aqualung… there’s more) than it goes right on, any new stuff, without even a first listen. They’ve earned it in my book.
The ITouch, of course, is the portable source of music, and when I’m using it in the car, or while working, or where ever, I only want the best of the best, to keep me going strong (suck on that! coffee and red bull and thoughts of sex I’m supposed to have every seven seconds, but are rarely realized) Of course if I’m in a mood, or playing Call of Duty 4, I only want to hear the best of the best as well. That’s where the IPod dock comes in. It’s louder than the laptop at top speaker volume, so I can really blast things when I want to.
This is all fine and dandy, except for one problem: Recently I had a major ITouch malfunction. It did that annoying thing MP3 players do when they only play out of one side of the headphones, until you wiggle the headphones in the jack, at first it’s very slight and only every so often, and the slightest jiggle will do, but as time goes on it gets more and more annoying, and you have to jiggle more and more (and now spinning is involved) until you just want to throw the MP3 player and call it a day. I took said IPod to the Apple store and the wonderful people there and after my quiet, yet hand gesture animated explanation, plus the addition of the fact that I “don’t do any of those stupid MP3 player things like leave the headphones in the jack while it’s in my pocket” they took a look at it and just handed me a new one. This is not the first time I’ve had an apple issue, yet every time I do, I get wonderful customer service. (They always leave me smiling and satisfied)
New IPod!!!! Yay!!! Not. Here’s the thing, as I am very controlling about my IPod (which is weird because that is not at all my nature, I’m very easy going) I always manually controllled what songs and videos were on it, instead of using the sync feature. That sucked, because I lost all my “notes” things and the like. More than that, I don’t have a complied back up list of what was actually on it, so now I’m waiting for songs to play on random that aren’t even there. Now begins the process, the long drawn out process of finding CD’s, putting them on the IPOD, then using this to get the cover art, then copy pasting all the lyrics. Then I have to triple check that I have all the songs I want (I won’t each time, trust me) then the weeks upon weeks of suddenly realizing songs I should have on the thing, I don’t have then I want to hear the song right then, but can’t because it’s not on Luke, then waiting to get home and forgetting to put it on Luke, then realizing when I’m once again not at home. Grr. That’s all I can say on that. Grr.
Music recommendation of the day: “Bones” by The Killers
The post title comes from The Killers song “This River is Wild” (I’ve a theme going today, No?)
