Kali
Dr. Ogyn - Dorm pride!!
Nope, not a typo.....
I was checking in our serials at work yesterday when I came across an article in the New Scientist (admittedly, a little geeky, but when you spend an entire day checking in the Journal of Physics : Nuclear and Particle and the Pacific Journal of Astrophysics you have to save some little treat until last) and there was this little article..... anyone do this? As a new iPodder, I can see the attraction.
Confessions of a cheesepodder
It started with Africa by Toto, a song so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter - yet also one of the outstanding soft-rock moments of the early 1980s, if not all time. It was late and I was drunk, mucking around with my iTunes library, when for some reason it hit me. I needed to hear that song, right now. Just 79 pence later it was mine.
We've all got them - cringeworthy songs that we would never admit to liking, at least not while sober. In the past, owning such shameful material entailed possessing a CD, tape or vinyl album that might be discovered and ridiculed by your friends. Not any more. Not in the age of the MP3 player.
After that the cheese flowed thick and fast. More Than a Feeling by Boston. Down Under by Men at Work. And a few I'm not telling you about.
I call my habit cheesepodding, and since I discovered it I have found I am not alone. In certain circles there is even an ironic cool to be had from out-cheesing your friends. There is a problem, though. As with all addictions, you end up needing bigger and bigger hits to get the same buzz. Once I started downloading Celine Dion power ballads, I knew it was time to stop.
Fortunately, I have found a variant that is, if anything, more entertaining. I download songs I know my wife hates and put them onto her iPod while she isn't looking.
Suddenly I have found myself with an overwhelming compulsion to download Kiss "Crazy Nights" and Van Halen's "Jump". And maybe, just maybe, that final song in Dirty Dancing where she jumps off the stage. Oh, and the theme tune for Footloose..... ooooh Huey Lewis and the News - it's hip to be square.....oh, it's getting worse already. It's almost at a very ripe deli Gorgonzola stage and I only started with pre packaged shop bought Edam.
What cheese would you download?:thought:
I was checking in our serials at work yesterday when I came across an article in the New Scientist (admittedly, a little geeky, but when you spend an entire day checking in the Journal of Physics : Nuclear and Particle and the Pacific Journal of Astrophysics you have to save some little treat until last) and there was this little article..... anyone do this? As a new iPodder, I can see the attraction.
Confessions of a cheesepodder
It started with Africa by Toto, a song so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter - yet also one of the outstanding soft-rock moments of the early 1980s, if not all time. It was late and I was drunk, mucking around with my iTunes library, when for some reason it hit me. I needed to hear that song, right now. Just 79 pence later it was mine.
We've all got them - cringeworthy songs that we would never admit to liking, at least not while sober. In the past, owning such shameful material entailed possessing a CD, tape or vinyl album that might be discovered and ridiculed by your friends. Not any more. Not in the age of the MP3 player.
After that the cheese flowed thick and fast. More Than a Feeling by Boston. Down Under by Men at Work. And a few I'm not telling you about.
I call my habit cheesepodding, and since I discovered it I have found I am not alone. In certain circles there is even an ironic cool to be had from out-cheesing your friends. There is a problem, though. As with all addictions, you end up needing bigger and bigger hits to get the same buzz. Once I started downloading Celine Dion power ballads, I knew it was time to stop.
Fortunately, I have found a variant that is, if anything, more entertaining. I download songs I know my wife hates and put them onto her iPod while she isn't looking.
Suddenly I have found myself with an overwhelming compulsion to download Kiss "Crazy Nights" and Van Halen's "Jump". And maybe, just maybe, that final song in Dirty Dancing where she jumps off the stage. Oh, and the theme tune for Footloose..... ooooh Huey Lewis and the News - it's hip to be square.....oh, it's getting worse already. It's almost at a very ripe deli Gorgonzola stage and I only started with pre packaged shop bought Edam.
What cheese would you download?:thought:
