I have gotten into the habit of listening to music and seriously, staring out the window anytime I am on a bus. It reminds me of going to school in Germany when I was an adolescent punk. I had got my first iPod shuffle, probably because my parents could not afford, or did not want me to break an iPod with a screen. And I proceeded to enjoy music all the time. Having music in my pocket that didn't skip when I was running or jumping or skateboarding like I often was, was a blessing.
To be honest having the iPod shuffle even made me more interesting to myself. I had to load on only the minuscule 1gb of music from iTunes and deal with it picking all the songs for me. Granted I could skip the songs I didn't want to hear I rarely did.
The Gorrilaz, The Blooodhound Gang, Turbonegro, MF Doom, and Nirvana. All we're outside stimulus for me. I had a friend named Garret who introduced me to his brother Nick who was the downloading master of our time. He had some program called DC++, and it was all matrix looking black back round, green text, and mysterious beyond my years.
Little did I know he was ultimately just using a torrent website that predated everything I understand now.
MF Doom was something of a music God to me at the time. I was listening to his music all the time and enjoying the fact the he was exploring the lyrics of the song in an amusing way 'Poo Putt Platter' was one Garret and I particularly liked, and to this day we can recite together. "I tripped a lot out here in the woods lately".
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