Vid Rec!! Angel!

Luminosity has a new vid, AtS and it is heartbreaking and creepy and she has wanted to vid this song for years and I can't believe it took this long to realize it was about exactly...what she vidded it to. I mean, in hindsight it is blindingly obvious. Of course, in hindsight Illyria is the Velveteen Rabbit.


http://www.livejournal.com/users/sockkpuppett/303598.html

Refusing to Be Steve Jobs' Minion - One Day At a Time.

I no longer want a Roomba for Christmas. Now, all my desire has been overtaken by the Video iPod. I cannot believe the amount of mental brainpower that I have spent fantasizing about having one of these things. This is brain-time I could have spent on Ray's Annoying Social Worker Girlfriend and instead I am thinking about how my life would change if I had a singular piece of electronics.

I blame America's consumerist culture and I am here to say - I do not need an iPod. I want an iPod. But I want many many things. I want a season six for Angel. I am used to not getting what I want. I do not need an iPod. I need a lot of other things. I need to make my student loan payments. I need to buy new linens for my bed. I need to replenish my savings. I need to travel more and worry less. I need to eat better food. I need new shoes.

I actually do need new shoes. I confronted my mismanagement of funds and compulsive clothing shopping last year and now I am proud to say impulse buying of clothes, makeup and shoes are currently at a 25 year Liz Low. My brown suede Chinese Laundry loafers are about to bite the dust. I've worn them steadily for 4 years now so I need desperately to either replace them - or reheel them. I can't decide. The shoes were somewhat trendy back in 2001 when I got them so they possibly look dated. The suede has held up remarkably well considering how much I have worn them but even so - I just can't decide if they are worth reheeling. Except they are extremely comfortable. I can't replace these shoes with just anything. So I actually need to either repair them or replace them.

I don't need an iPod. Even if it is sleek and black and slim and will play videos. I don't need it. It is a car payment plus insurance. It is a week at Vividcon (including Kennel fees). Back when I was a kid - I looked at money in Barbie units. $10=1 Barbie Unit. 1 60gig Video iPod = a gazillion Barbie Units.

So, I am making a list. I'll be checking it twice. For the purposes of this list, it matters not if I have been naughty or nice.

Reasons NOT to buy an iPod:

1. Four years ago you had never heard of an iPod. How can something go from not existing to essential for you existence in four years?

2. CDs are FUN! They have nifty plastic containers that break in the most interesting of ways and sometimes Sid decides to chew up "Fug-ee-la" in a fit of self preservation and you have to just love that story. And liner notes! You love reading liner notes. If you had an iPod, it would separate you from your CDs.

4. How would you know that you are on a roadtrip if not for the box of 80 CDs in the back seat? Heh - you people who have never traveled with me only think I am joking.

5. If you had a video iPod, you would wreck your car.

6. Or wander off into traffic.

7. Or walk into a wall.

8. If you had a video iPod, someone would just steal it. This would then be just one more mark on your soul because you won't be able to keep the anger out. Then you will trust humanity in general just that little bit less and what if that little bit causes you to make a decision that you wouldn't have made otherwise? These things change you, whether you want them to or not and is it really worth all the existential angst for a tiny bit of plastic that plays music (and video!)?

9. On chilly winter days, when you are late for work and the car windshield is coated in ice and you can't find a scraper? CD covers will do in a pinch. If you had an iPod, you would be sooo fired.

10. You have no organization skills whatsoever. The process of making playlists in iTunes escapes you. If you had an iPod, you'd end up listening to a lot of "Alabama" because they will come up first on the list and while the click-wheel is supposed to be intuitive, so are those third eye posters.

11. When you listen to music, it tends to be one song, on repeat. Why do you need to spend several hundreds of dollars to listen to one song?

12. Do you know what kind of stereo you could get with that kind of dough? Dude, you could have a turn table. DUDE! You could have TWO turntables and a microphone! YOU COULD HAVE A SECOND CAREER.

13. Imagine the yarn versus iPod scale. falzalot could knit a blanket that warms the world. Awwwwww. It would be like Hands-Across-America only warmer and not lame.

14. You are really happy *not* watching Desperate Housewives right now, thank you very much.

15. What if you broke it? What would you name it? Would your iPod want to vid like renenet's does? Do you even have room in your life for yet another pretend personality? I bet your iPod's favorite Jim Croce song is "Operator" and when you call it a Pussy (cause it IS) it will take it all wrong and sometimes there is just no talking to some mp3 players. But "Operator" is a pussy song and Croce's best work is "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" closely followed by "Don't Mess Around with Jim" and I am sorry but this is just true.

I thought so.