Articles like this and this about people breaking up with their iPods.
“I moved to New York, in part, because I wanted to experience the city?s sidewalk cacophony, everything from the rumbling buses to cabbies hollering ‘Get the fuck outta my way!’ With my earphones in, I became deaf to the urban orchestra playing around me.”
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i’m guessing the urban orchestra gets old and overplayed after about a week.
This one in the Times today talks to stupid people unhappy with the shuffle function. Half of them never even heard of playlists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/technology/circuits/26ipod.html?8hpib
Sounds like they’re just stupid. “Nothing in excess” is what I say. This is just like when cocaine got popular but then people started overdoing it in public and now it’s cool to quit and write articles about it. Cocaine is awesome though! Right? … right?
Proof that asswipe hack writers remain such regardless of their involvement in or abstention from new technology.
I’ve been living in and around the NYC area for close to a decade now and I’ve never once heard a cabbie yell “Get the fuck outta my way.” They just honk their horns.
funny. I yelled “Get the fuck outta my way” at a cabbie yesterday who decided to park in the crosswalk. I’m totally New York now.
Headphones rock on the subway and on the street! Great way to commute. I listen to music every day on the way to work, and it makes the commute bearable. Also good– on the rare days when I leave the office around 6 and am subjected to “you’re all sinners going to hell, [Sept 11 reference] [current events reference]” or some variation delivered at the top of some proselytizer’s voice”– is the ability to drown out the doomsayers as well as the people who feel compelled to squawk and sing along with their own music. Or who listen to it loud enough that you can hear it.
Wasn’t the Urban Orchestra some shitty Christian pseudo-hip-hop act? Heee.
i was listening to my ipod the other day and forgot that i had to go to the bathroom. i was stuck in traffic and almost pee’d myself. i hate this numbness… damned you ipod!
Yeah well, it’s a safety issue as well, especially for women. You should be able to hear the sounds areound you in case you’re being followed. One of the reasons police think the woman who got mudered this year in Washington Heights didn’t put up a struggle is because she was taken by surpries becasuse she couldn’t hear anything. Yeah, it’s not the 70s anymore; the streets are much safer. But I still think you should be able to hear stuff around you.
Which is why I don’t wear headphones when I run, or at night. But on the subway and in the morning on the way to the subway, when I am surrounded by commuters, I think it’s pretty safe. I totally agree about it not being safe for women to wear headphones alone, especially when there are no people around, or fewer people. Definitely not where there is no sun.
I don’t own an ipod, because, well, I’m poor. Anyway, I’m getting sick of listening to albums/mix cds on my portable cd player (yes, those still exist), so I’ve cut back on that and started reading on my commute to the city. Must save ears!
Lightning Bolt listening L-train lesbians from Lorimer lick labias…
With my earphones in, I became deaf to the urban orchestra playing around me
and that’s exactly why i saved up dough to get one
why do New Yorkers work so hard at being so cool when New York city is already cool?
new york is cold, not cool…big difference
cool is san fran in the summertime
This is such a New York thing. You don’t see Ipods anywhere else with such regularity as you do in NY. I visited a few weeks ago and I had a contest with my friends over who could spot the most IPods.
They were obviously playing their music too loudly. There is a level at which you can achieve both, and it is perfect harmony. Twits, all of them.
What the fuck is an i-pod? I live in Oklahoma