I'm So Sick Of

i'm guessing the urban orchestra gets old and overplayed after about a week.

Posted by: jobert at 08/26/04 11:48 AM | Reply
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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

Posted by: mel at 08/26/04 11:51 AM | Reply
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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?

Posted by: Glenn at 08/26/04 12:00 PM | Reply
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Proof that asswipe hack writers remain such regardless of their involvement in or abstention from new technology.

Posted by: late secretary at 08/26/04 12:00 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Magnificent Bastard at 08/26/04 12:20 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: jenny at 08/26/04 12:39 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: karen at 08/26/04 12:47 PM | Reply
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Wasn't the Urban Orchestra some shitty Christian pseudo-hip-hop act? Heee.

Posted by: G3K at 08/26/04 1:37 PM | Reply
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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!

Posted by: chris ives at 08/26/04 2:16 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: janine at 08/26/04 2:35 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: karen at 08/26/04 2:42 PM | Reply
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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!

Posted by: faye at 08/26/04 2:50 PM | Reply
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Lightning Bolt listening L-train lesbians from Lorimer lick labias...

Posted by: earbuds are white at 08/26/04 2:55 PM | Reply
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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

Posted by: boo hoo at 08/26/04 3:42 PM | Reply
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why do New Yorkers work so hard at being so cool when New York city is already cool?

Posted by: dawson at 08/26/04 4:54 PM | Reply
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new york is cold, not cool...big difference

cool is san fran in the summertime

Posted by: mr. thermometer at 08/26/04 5:01 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Kim at 08/26/04 5:25 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Lane at 08/26/04 11:52 PM | Reply
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What the fuck is an i-pod? I live in Oklahoma

Posted by: parker at 12/08/04 2:02 PM | Reply
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