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October 26, 2007
It's better to fade away than to burn out
And with its last dying breadth, it uttered “And I am a writer, writer of fictions…”
Oddly, it isn’t all that rare an occurrence when I’m offered something “that fell off the back of a truck”. As it turns out, I know a guy who knows a guy, a relationship that, coupled with my ’04 fantasy football winnings, helped to create the perfect storm known as iPod ownership. It probably isn’t wholly necessary for me to tell you that music-listening-wise, the past almost-three years have been the best of my life. Countless songs and stories, each one more randomly shuffled than the one before it, so I suppose it's coda track is rather fitting.
True: I have straight-faced, and on more than one occasion called the iPod my “favorite invention ever.” So it is with surprisingly little regret that I meet its passing.
Mine didn’t end with a frowny-face or a battery with an exclamation point. There were no flying sparks or loud bangs. Instead, it went gentle into that good night without any fanfare or pomp and circumstance. (Although in its livelier days it could have played us some Elgar.) Looking back, I suppose I would always prefer it that way; no fuss. It was over without much argument or discussion. Still, it is impossible not to lament this loss, or more appropriately, the impending loss of another $250.
When it comes my time for my corpse to be set a drift a flaming ship, here's what I want soundtracking:
Posted by Randall Monty at October 26, 2007 10:51 PM
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