A few thoughts on my new iPod, now that I’ve had the chance to play with it for a few days. The color display is surprisingly sharp, much more so than I thought it would be. I can make out details that I didn’t think would be visible on such a small screen. I’m also digging the recording function. The quality of the recordings is far superior to those that were done on my old digital recorder. And now that I have an iPod that is bigger than my music collection, I can simply place the iPod in its dock and let it automatically sync with my iTunes library. The extra capacity also has enabled me to download a bunch of podcasts that I listen to at work. One of my favorite shows is Coverville, which is dedicated to playing covers of various pop songs. A recent show featured Sarah McLachlan’s cover of XTC’s “Dear God.” It’s really good; one of her most forceful renditions of any song. Not sure why she can’t bring that kind of energy to some of her more recent albums. I used to be a big Sarah McLachlan fan; I was one of maybe half a dozen guys at the Lilith Fair concert when it came to Minnesota in 1997. But lately she’s gone kind of adult contemporary and, well, boring.
God, I’m rambling. Time to get off the computer.
