iPOD

Like a blue cheese, my Pod is maturing nicely. Sometimes it's fun just to arrange things alphabetically. Filing has never been such a pleasure. Take the "I'm"s:

I'm a Man
I'm a Mindless Idiot
I'm a Roadrunner
I'm Always Crying
I'm Bugged at My Old Man
I'm Down
I'm Dreaming
I'm Glad
I'm Gonna Do It All
I'm Gonna Get Your Thing
I'm Gonna Keep What I've Got
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
I'm In a Different Word
I'm In Love With a Girl
I'm in Love With You
I'm Looking Through You
I'm Moving On
I'm Not Crazy
I'm Not In Love
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
I'm On My Way

... and that's just "I'm: A to O". There are a lot of "I'm: P to Z"s. It brings out all kinds of dilemmas such as whether to capitalise prepositions and articles, etc. And if you have the same song twice, to delete it from the album or greatest hits??

There are 5,000 songs now and each one is roughly vetted before it stays on. I don't want any filler or padding from albums, nor (much) mediocrity. So it shouldn't be that suprising when, playing it on random, it serves up three songs in a row that are not only perfect but perfect together. Like a fruit machine doling out three melons on the winning line, at the bus stop today I had:

Old John Riley (The Byrds). Ker-CHING!
Be My Baby (The Ronettes). Ker-CHING!
Laughing (David Crosby). Ker-CHING!