That’s how I would describe my attempts to understand and like Mariya’s favorite band – Arctic Monkeys. She is not alone, the band is hugely popular, especially in UK. I think I know the answer now: Their music, though interesting, mostly irritates me not with aggression, loudness or something of that order. It’s the slightly off-key, or out of tune way Alex sings that bothers me the most. I was cooking my late breakfast, listening to Brianstorm, and suddenly it looked to me like wearing glasses with a wrong prescription lens. You constantlly have to make an effort to focus… I don’t do such things voluntarily, that’s why AM is not macupatea… Sorry. But generally speaking it explains how things evolve and progress. Tens of millions of Monkey fans cannot be wrong. They performed Come Together at the opening ceremony in London with the same ‘wrong prescription’ and people went ballistic. Obviously, it is us, sixty-seventy year old farts who miss something. Poor us. Oh, well, back to good old ‘No dark sarcasm in the classroom’…
I installed Pandora on my iPad on advice of a friend. I also coupled iPad with Samsung Chrystal Surround AirTrack using Bluetooth. I now wonder what to do with thousands of songs in my iTunes? Pandora plays all of them (for free) after I entered the names of my most favorite bands as Pandora radio stations. What’s most impressive, like Apple iTunes Genius, the program very cleverly and comprehensively (unlike any human) collects other samples of the same type and genre. You wonder how does it know it my favorite? Or you think “Wow, how come I didn’t hear it before?”
Before that, I had similar questions listening to another iPad app – TuneIn Radio, which allows you to listen to 50 thousand radio stations across the world…
How many other dear things and values will lose their … value thanks to technological progress. I already got rid of several shoeboxes of photographs (my whole life). Scanned into iPhoto library they took a meager 6gb. Before that, I put all my dictionaries (100+) in the garage and forgot about them. Now I don’t need any CDs, DVDs, etc. What next? Pandora box indeed…
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