i love my ipod. Seriously. I think it's changed the way I listen to music. It's definitely made me more appreciative of what I have, and less judgemental. It's broken down my preconceptions about what I like and don't like, and introduced me to genres that I would never even think of listening to. All thanks to the shuffle feature.
Take for instance country music. If you had asked me five years ago whether or not i liked country music, I would have laughed in your face and said that I hated it. But now...I have to admit that I like it. (not including garth brooks and other such crappy mainstream country-pop that gets played on the radio. i'm not going that far.) Johnny Cash. Hank Williams Sr. Neko Case. Old 97s. Meat Purveyors. This is a lot of stuff that Wayne had that I didn't listen to because I thought that I didn't like country music. Now I listen to it all the time.
Other artists that I've "discovered" lately because of the shuffle feature. Aimee Mann. Modest Mouse. Digital Underground. A Tribe Called Quest. Blackalicious. Jimmy Cliff. Mia Doi Todd. And definitely defintely Tom Waits.
I've also discovered that I don't like Captain Beefheart.
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