I got my iPod today and oh my, I can barely stand to even peek at it. It's so tiny. The coolest thing I've ever seen. I don't think anyone will ever be able to unseat Apple in the mp3 player market because they got it so unquestionably right from the start: the simplicity and elegance of the click wheel can't be improved upon. It's like reinventing the wheel. Just ain't gonna happen.
I bought a neoprene skin for it today, as these things are notoriously scratch prone; it came with two cute socks to slip it inside for added protection.
The earbuds are no damn good, though. Suprisingly bad.
New music for it: The Flaming Lips' At War with the Mystics, which is amazingly beautiful and cracked all at once. Imagine Paul Simon, not Buck Rogers, in the 25th century. No, wait, do throw some Buck Rogers in the mix: Gil Gerard was the mack in a big way.
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MSW justly corrects me in the comments below: for the longest time, the question I was asked more than any other was, "You ever seen Silver Bullet?
I haven't been asked that since 1992 or thereabouts, but I was asked so often there for a while it still retains its noble crown of idiocy.
And, yes, I have seen it.
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- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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I used to envision--and perhaps will again?--an action film called At the Core. It pitted Coreys Haim and Feldman against one another in a 90-minute crime thriller shoot-em-up. (Feldman with handlebar 'stash seems to be the most cop-ready...though I suspect he's consider a loose cannon by the chief, who's perhaps played by Ernie Hudson.)
At the moment, my interests are sans Core. I'd really like to write the screenplay for Six Pack 2.
-cK
Uhmm... I loo-uuved Silver Bullet in my early teens. I think what drew me was the apparent strangeness of that preacher from the minute he appears. But I would've never asked had you seen it in relation to the wheelchair thing. That's really a dorky inquiry.
Congrats on your ipod. I'm so far behind in this music technology stuff.
That priest is Big Ed!
I <3 my iPod. Anyway, what kind did you get? Can you watch videos?
Also, so the new Flaming Lips album is good? I'm thinking about getting it. Sounds like you dig it.
Grats on the iPod! I take mine everywhere.
I got the 30 gig video. It's awesome. I had purchased a couple of episodes from Lost and Battlestar Galactica that I'd missed to watch on my pc, before I had the iPod. The video quality is surprisingly good.
The Flaming Lips album is great.
Seriously, the I-pod revolutionized my life. Let's see what it does to yours...
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