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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Blood has to be shed, I'm afraid.

Freedom of choice is nice, sure; it opens up possibilities. Too many possibilities, however, spells dilemma, and dilemmas, dear reader, suck ass.

You see, I have this iPod. I love the little bugger to death; it's shielded me from the mind numbing monotony of work a good few times already, and will continue to do so for a very long time. But here's the catch - it's a four gig one. And about 3.9 of those precious gigs are full.

I've already booted José Gonzales' Veneer, a terribly good album but ever so slightly too niche for my taste (sorry, David), and The Automatic's Not Accepted Anywhere, which, to be honest, wasn't as good as their first single Monster ("What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? Is it a monster?!") made it out to be.

The musical vacuum left behind by these two albums were quickly filled with The Guillemots' Through The Windowpane and The Magic Numbers' Those The Brokes.

So far, all is well.

However, of the four gigs, just under 80 megs is left. And, dear reader, let me tell you, 80 megs isn't nearly enough for LCD Soundsystem's album, aptly named LCD Soundsystem and Stevie Ann's astonishing debut Away From Here and John Mayer's gorgeous Continuum and The Five O'clock Heroes' Bend To The Breaks .. and .. and ...

I mean, what does this wretched machine expect me to do? Delete Snow Patrol? Give Damien Rice the boot? Politely tell The Long Blondes to leave? Kill off The Killers? Give The Veils the boot?

Argh!

Cheers

9 Comments:

Blogger The Snakehead said...

Too many words.... eyes hurt....

What happened to those stupid little little posts? What now that you got a master you can't be stupid anymore?

6:33 am  
Blogger Martin said...

This is a stupid little post.

7:56 am  
Blogger WestVillageKid said...

JG is dead. RIP.

Do what I did and buy the new, thin, super duper sexy black 30GB model. I just wanna lick it. And I sometimes do.

11:03 pm  
Blogger Martin said...

I would, if I had the cash.

Besides, the one I have is a Nano, and let me tell you, it is gor-fucking-geous! However thin and slick your 30Gig thingy may be, it will never be thinner and slicker than my precious Nano.

12:01 am  
Blogger WestVillageKid said...

True, that. I'm a sucker for da nanos. But the ability to store infinite songs outweighs any benefits of size. So there.

5:06 am  
Blogger Martin said...

You know what the upside of limited storage space is? It forces you to think long and hard about what music you put on it.

My Nano only has four gigs, but you can be sure that it's four gigs of excellent music. Your 30 gig machine probably has some so-so music on it too, because, hey, you have a few gigs left, so why the hell not, right?

I'm reaching, aren't I?

1:59 pm  
Blogger Lies said...

I have a Creative Zen Nano Plus, which is only 1 GB. I could say that that means my music is even better than yours, but since you were already reaching and I probably have shorter arms than you anyway, I won't.

5:54 pm  
Blogger The Snakehead said...

I'm going to Damien Rice's concert tomorrow night!!! I'm so excited!!

7:01 am  
Blogger Martin said...

Lies - I certainly hope your arms aren't longer than mine. If not, it'd be kinda freaky. And one gig - pshaw!

Snake - What's that? You're excited? I couldn't tell through all the exclamation marks. (You lucky, lucky git!)

12:47 pm  

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