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August 23, 2006
The Sound of Silence
I walked down the stairs onto the downtown Q platform at 59th street, where the train was standing with all of its door shut to potential passengers. Worried I might have to wait all of five minutes for another, I began running along the platform to find an open door, and had gone about fifteen feet when I heard a sharp sound right behind me, and turned in time to see the white charger for my iPod skidding across the platform and underneath the train. Although I needn't have bothered, I made the obligatory check to make sure that my iPod had in fact also escaped the confined of my bag. Defeated, I waited around the ten minutes it took the train to eventually leave the station before jumping down onto the tracks to recover my charger, and search in vain for my iPod, wrapped as it was in a dark grey Crumpler bag that wouldn't have been remotely visible in the shadows of the subway tracks.
All of which is prefatory to saying that I've spent the last few weeks enduring the agony, familiar to numerous people our age who have faced similar fates, of iPod withdrawal. Commuter train rides are the worst; 50+ minutes spent recycling the songs stuck in one's head, without any way to satisfy the itch by actually hearing them. But then, my music tastes have become so arbitrary of late, the things I find myself pining for are Destiny's Child and Pharrell Williams, so I suppose I don't deserve anyone's pity.
Posted by tony at August 23, 2006 10:23 PM
Comments
I have to say, I am such a big fan of Neptunes production that I was really disappointed by all of the NERD stuff that I downloaded.
Also, the losing of an iPod is a serious downer.
Posted by: todd. at August 23, 2006 11:57 PM
To be fair, you can't really be sorry for me because I have a new iPod in the mail at present, as compensation for the work I've done the past week.
Posted by: tony at August 24, 2006 1:07 AM
i went about six months without an ipod. over time, i became used to it, and it wasn't that bad. i read more. i appreciated other sounds more. and then i freaked out and bought another ipod.
Posted by: ben at August 24, 2006 1:16 AM
[bill clinton]i feel your pain.[/bill clinton]
Posted by: jurvis at August 24, 2006 9:03 AM
Sweet mercy.
Was this a 3rd G?
Posted by: Adrianne at August 24, 2006 10:43 AM
Yeah. American students in Beirut were actually amazed at how old that thing was. Then, after crossing the Atlantic three times*, I lost it in New York.
* The first time it wasn't the same physical iPod. But still.
Posted by: tony at August 24, 2006 6:00 PM
Why is the number odd?
Posted by: todd. at August 24, 2006 11:58 PM
Oh, I meant back and forth.
Posted by: tony at August 25, 2006 2:16 AM