The other night, Kamran came home with a package for me that included an iPod Nano and all the fixin’s. I’ve been walking part of the way to his apartment from work every night and have been trying to listen to my Pandora stations on my phone but keep finding myself with a dead battery after one or two songs because I’m too irresponsible to be trusted with charging the thing. So now I get to be one of those people with my iPod snuggled into an armband, pumping my arms as I march down the street in time to whatever mid-90s alt-rock I happen to be craving at the moment.
What really struck me is how tiny the new Nano is. When I first starting dating Kamran, he was using the 1st generation iPod Shuffle, which you’ll recall looks like this:
A big stick with absolutely no screen whatsoever. Fun if you like always being surprised by how much terrible music you have in your collection. Not fun if you like actually being able to choose what you’re listening to.
But the 6th generation Nano? Tiny! A one-point-five-inch square with a touchscreen! And radio! And photos! And a pedometer! Can you believe how far we’ve come?
So far, I have it loaded with every album from 2010 that I downloaded but never listened to. We’re talking bands I totally love–Sufjan Stevens, Tokyo Police Club, Crystal Castles–and didn’t even care enough to check out their new albums because I was too busy wallowing in 2007. This is what it’s like to get old, huh?
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I was never into the Nano (not because I’m all type A and feel the need to see / control everything. Really. Honest. Er…)
Anyway, this seems like a major improvement to me, too – Good job… Mr. … Jobs…
:)
I guess there was a little bit of excitement associated with not knowing what you were listening to. I remember going to the gym with his Shuffle one time and hearing what I thought was THE BEST SONG EVER. I asked him what it was when I got back upstairs, and it turns out it was an artist I’d been listening to for years. The sweat fumes must have gotten to my brain. But it was really fun and mysterious for a minute.
Fancy dinners at top restaurants AND an iPod?!
And he wears glasses and is heartbreakingly cute?!
Someone’s got it made, and it’s KATIE ETT.
Haha, it’s like fancy dinners and an iPod are the only things he’s ever bought me. Aaaaaaall those birthdays, left uncelebrated. Anniversaries ignored. It’s rough.
He really liked this comment, though. :)
Oy. I feel ridiculously unqualified to be living in the second decade of the 2000s.
I think I’m gonna go into the other room now.. cause I can’t even listen to an ipod, let alone a nano i could tuck into my nostril. So sad… And if you think you’re old sister, I hate twitter so much i want to puke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS OLD.
PS: I like being old.
PPS: Nice present! A+
Dude. You are so right on with being stuck in a certain year when it comes to music. I think I might be forever stuck in 2006, since I listened to SO much music that year after quitting my job and going through my big breakup. I think I even watched the GRAMMYs that year. I could probably count on one hand how many new albums I’ve actually given a fair listen to since.
Anyway, THIS is the watchband you should get for your Nano:
http://www.amazon.com/iPod-Nano-Watch-Band-stripes/dp/B004HCNG94
Sigh. I use an iPod shuffle. I have no idea what generation it is…but yes, it does surprise me how much crap-ass music I have. But no – I will not remove The Thong Song. That’s sacred shit.
If it makes you feel better, I had a moment in Chili’s the other day with “Don’t Speak.”
Also, some Our Lady Peace popped up on my iPhone during my walk yesterday, and I was pretty pumped about it. Maybe one day soon I’ll put some new stuff on that playlist.