I hope your new year is starting out awesome as mine's. What am I talking about??!!
Changing of the Vanguard, Part II
Every day over the last several months, it seems that while I treasure my 3rd generation 30GB iPod and all 6916 of the songs it contains, I'm constantly marred by the fact that almost everyone has one. It makes me sick to the point I lost that zeal in how much music I've stuffed, what's playing on it, and so on. It's no one's fault really: you can't keep up such materialistic zeal no matter how long one tries. But for me, it's a little worse. When I can pass the projects, and come across these ghetto-ass poders (people who walk out their project buildings, with the apple earphones on as though it were the trend, saying 'drop it like it's hot' out-loud like they're worth a million bucks) who want to show off their iPod that they bought off of eBay for cheap, it makes my iPod feel cheap. It's as though, without any real effort on my part, my iPod's value sort of depreciates.
Okay, this does sound like a hater talking. But after working so hard to get it, I can afford to hate, just for a little while.
No Such Thing
John Mayer
Room For Squares
In any event, the 4th generation was released back in August, and I vowed then that I wouldn't jump to buy those new iPods, primarily because I was satisfied with my 30GB'er, and it seemed to be geared more towards the less fortunate. But sometime in October, Steve Jobs & Co. heard my unsaid cries, and blessed me with the current holy grail of music devices:
The 60GB iPod photo.
Color screen, photo display, 15,000 song maximum capacity, and a 15 hour supposed battery life. It was just too good to be true, to awesome to resist.
Somewhere, after passing the thousandth, millionth ghetto poder with those cheesy earphones, going 'let me see you 1-2 step,' it was then I realized that I've had enough. It was indeed, time for an upgrade. As the most efficient of all the bankers at my job, I deserve it. As a recent college graduate, I should treat myself, just one more time. In fact, I have all the rhyme and reason in the world to buy me the new iPod. A well kept 30GB iPod could belong to some ghetto kid for $250-$300, and I only contribute another $200 for the next level of music bliss. The rhyme.
To stay one step ahead of these jabronies, and have the latest, greatest iPod out there. Not to mention be the envy of all my co-workers. The reason.
Having said that, there's no one I know that is gonna get it for me. And after Christmas shopping, my funds were not as great as I hoped.
Then, the Christmas bonus came.
And on New Year's Day, January 1, 2005, da Kat unda da Kangol Cap bought a brand-spanking new, 60GB iPod photo.
Needless to say, I feel good again.
Furthermore, in light of the photo you see on it, I even gave it a somewhat unique name. Introducing...
K. I. M. M. The Knight Industries Music Machine.
Song Count: 1215.
But even more interesting, I treasure this iPod like my laptop. Hell, like my crown jewels, I treasure this iPod. It has yet to leave my room, because I want to buy the Vaja rasta leather case for it. The songs have been uploaded, some of the photos I wanna carry are in there too. But it's just not ready yet to be released to the great elements.
Soon though, it will be.
Meanwhile, how's your new year going?
On a real serious note, my heart goes out to those families in East Asia who've been affected by the tsunamis that have hit the area. The last series of events have truly shown how blessed we as a nation are not to be hit with such natural disasters, and how much of a blessing we (as New Yorkers, to say nothing about the US as a whole) have been to others, helping out however we can. That's a New York spirit, for you.
Everything on my end is still the same. Well, except that there is now an increase in effort on my part to get a better job.
Other than that, that's pretty much it.
Later katz...