iPod Reflections

I joined the ranks of iPod owners. In a time when I should not be wasting any more money than I already am, I celebrated the fact that I didn't have to replace a pair of expensive sunglasses, by spending that money on a iPod nano. Normally such toys only serve me on those long trans-pac flights and are left in a drawer during the other 49 weeks a year. So at least for now, I sit at my computer with the headphones on and CNN on mute.

Volcano pierce the air, ashes block out the sun

It's amazing how 8 words can immediately take me half way around the world and years through time. Ash crushed cars, muddy gulches at the edge of every street. Places I've known and loved, gone forever.

Down in the lair, well I met her there
With a price for everyone

I know the song was not written about that place I know, but it might have been. Images flashing through my mind of times stretching back to when I was just a boy really. Whoever she was that I met, she became a part of my warm memories.

I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring
I couldn't take it off if I tried

That's about what I paid for mine and it's in a box along with other mementos from those times I was with that girl who was my one true love. You ever pray to God you wrong about something you were so sure about?

And the cactus sure tastes strangely sweet
As it goes down inside

Yeah, it sure does. Too bad tequila gives me indigestion. I drink it anyway and for once I was ahead of the trend. Now everybody and their brother is drinking expensive cactus juice and going on about blue agave. Bah!

It's the suck-ass rotation on MTV2, it's the Real World all day long just for you

It's the damn show she liked to watch and I loathed every second of it. About as "Real" as the fake tits on the latest female teen pop star the recording industry throws at us. JD Fortune won Rockstar INXS, going against my prediction and preference. Not a total surprise though, after all the guy can sing. First so called reality show I liked. Instead of a bunch of artificially beautiful people, with their big tits and six-pack abbs, a bunch of people who could actually sing and that's what they actually do. A little more real that Miss Suzi Watermelon Tits balancing on a see-saw making hoops for the chance to win cool million bucks.

What the fuck is real about that?

Lastly, today's "That's Fucked Up" Award goes to...

Comcast Cable. That's right folks, the "Comcast Local Edition" that replaces a section of CNN Headline News, usually the 90 second world news section, is just total fucking bullshit. Comcast is delivering 70 plus channels to my TV, most that I never watch, and can't manage to put the interviews of local city council members and other barely relevant shit on it's own channel?

Maybe next time I'll rant and rave about how the American Media lies through it's teeth, reports only what it wants to, and keeps American's ignorant of the world at large. But for now, I'll listen to music with CD quality, delivered from a device so small and cool it would have been mistaken for alien technology 30 years ago.

-Corwin