For the longest time, my iPod was generally something I used only at the gym. I’m not overly fond of headphones because (and I know this is why most people like them) I don’t like being insulated from the outside world. And there is something about my ears that actively rejects ear buds.<\/p>\n
We got a transmitter for the car, but didn’t seem to remember to use it except for longer trips… and even then, the power outlet was often prioritized to the DVD player for the boys. (When it worked.)<\/p>\n
Eventually, though, the boys came to realize that they liked the music on my iPod and started asking us to bring it into the car more often, and I started building up one of those “on the go” playlists of the songs that they were asking for again and again. <\/p>\n
For Christmas, Beloved got me an AM\/FM radio thingee where you can just slide your iPod into the docking station and listen to it through the speakers, which I love. And so, unfortunately, do the boys. I’ve got hundreds of great songs on there, a handful of playlists for upbeat or mellow or nostalgic moods, and yet every time they see the iPod, we’re stuck listening to the same five songs over and over and over and over and over again.<\/p>\n
Now, I suppose it could be worse. The Wiggles CD hasn’t been dusted off in a while, and I don’t remember the last time we listened to the Pixar Cars soundtrack, or one of the ubiquitous Disney movie CDs that Beloved collects. They have, after all, selected these songs from the ones that I liked enough to include on the iPod in the first place, and truth be told they’re even among some of my favourites. But there’s too much of a good thing, right?<\/p>\n
Tristan and Simon’s favourite songs, circa winter 2008:<\/p>\n
I can just imagine them at school, singing their favourite lyrics out loud. Tristan singing about a schoool shooting “And he can see no reasons \/ ‘Cause there are no reasons \/ What reason do you need to die?” and Simon doing his inimitable fiddle dance as he bellows ” You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best \/ I’ve been gone for a month \/ I’ve been drunk since I left \/ And these so-called vacations \/ Will soon be my death \/ I’m so sick from the drink \/ I need home for a rest \/ Take me home….” <\/p>\n
That’s not too inappropriate, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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