iPod vs. Magnetic Tape
Today was a good day. I baked some molasses cookies and a savory ham, cheese, and chard tart for dinner. We utilized some leftover proscuitto, mozarella, and tomato sauce, and utilizing leftovers always makes me happy. I'm a frugal lady.
But the best part of the day was our bike ride. As much as I love riding bikes you'd figure I were some kind of mountain bike geek, a big gearhead. But I'm just a dork who likes to pedal around suburbia. My latent friend Bryan bought me a bike for $20 from a bum in Santa Rosa. That was over a year ago, maybe. It took me a whole year to work up the guts to mess around with the thing, because it needed some work. All I needed to do was take off the front fender--which was rubbing against the tire--put some air in the tires, and remove the attachment for the now-missing electric light. This took all of twenty minutes. Then Joe and I took off on the bike path up to El Cerrito. The path is called the Ohlone Greenway, but it's not very green. It's just a blacktop path that runs under the BART tracks in between the loading docks of big-box stores and the front of apartment buildings and low-income residential housing. But it was a sunny day, and it was nice to tool around in no particular hurry in the afternoon sun. The bum bike--a Schwinn--still needs some work (the front tire is squirrley and off-center, and the brakes are shakey), but I think it will be fine to ride around a few miles at a time.
Joe bought an iPod today. My lapton had little juice (I bought it mainly to use as a word processor), so it's not the ideal iPod loading device. Still, it's kind of cool to think of carrying all of your music around in your palm. I'm still behind the times, so right now I'm making a new mix tape to play in my Walkman while I run. An iPod is too expensive to run with. I'm probably the last person making mix tapes on the whole West Coast.
But the best part of the day was our bike ride. As much as I love riding bikes you'd figure I were some kind of mountain bike geek, a big gearhead. But I'm just a dork who likes to pedal around suburbia. My latent friend Bryan bought me a bike for $20 from a bum in Santa Rosa. That was over a year ago, maybe. It took me a whole year to work up the guts to mess around with the thing, because it needed some work. All I needed to do was take off the front fender--which was rubbing against the tire--put some air in the tires, and remove the attachment for the now-missing electric light. This took all of twenty minutes. Then Joe and I took off on the bike path up to El Cerrito. The path is called the Ohlone Greenway, but it's not very green. It's just a blacktop path that runs under the BART tracks in between the loading docks of big-box stores and the front of apartment buildings and low-income residential housing. But it was a sunny day, and it was nice to tool around in no particular hurry in the afternoon sun. The bum bike--a Schwinn--still needs some work (the front tire is squirrley and off-center, and the brakes are shakey), but I think it will be fine to ride around a few miles at a time.
Joe bought an iPod today. My lapton had little juice (I bought it mainly to use as a word processor), so it's not the ideal iPod loading device. Still, it's kind of cool to think of carrying all of your music around in your palm. I'm still behind the times, so right now I'm making a new mix tape to play in my Walkman while I run. An iPod is too expensive to run with. I'm probably the last person making mix tapes on the whole West Coast.
posted by Lefty at 10:10 PM
1 Comments:
It's interesting to live in a time when, if people did it right, digital and analog could co-exist peacefully...but I fear the former eclipses the latter. There is something unique about the analog mix tape that cannot be taken away, no matter what us monkeys develop technologically.
Sara, there are others out there making mix tapes. The Brightblack tape you made me is awesome. It's quiet, warm, chewy, analog, cricket-ridden, and lovely. & it wouldn't have been the same on CD, although I listened to and enjoyed the Autolux CD Joe made us tonight very much.
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