I work for an Internet company, am an dithering pseudo intellectual and live in La La Land. If “smug” was a color, I’d tint my glasses with it so as to better view the world. In short, all signs point to me being a Mac person, yet I’ve been plugging away on a PC ever since I launched into the corporate stratosphere. But given my semi-snobbish makeup and the fact that you could classify me as a Wannabe Digerati, it’s not surprising that I broke down and finally sprung for an iPhone.
I’ll spare you the gory details from the connectivity and productivity orgy I’ve been undergoing this week, but I will say that I’ve been pecking at that little black wafer of electronic elegance whenever I have a spare moment. At traffic lights. In the restroom. While walking though a crowded shopping mall. Between flossing my upper and lower gums. Mr. Jobs would be proud…and maybe even a little disturbed.
I had a funny moment when moving over some information from my old handheld. Among the bevy of lists you’d expect from an obsessive compulsive, I have a roster of bands/musicians that I’d like to add to my music collection (so much for that old record store spontaneity). One line on this list caught my eye:
Beethoven/Mozart
Perhaps you’ve heard of these fellows? Uncanny geniuses who encapsulated the shimmering beauty of the universe? Men whose music serves as the foundation for all that is good and true? The two artists in the last 1000 years whose work has stood the harsh glare of time, the two artists whose compositions are widely acknowledged to be direct testimonials to the depth, complexity, and spirit of the human soul?
I can picture Ludwig van Beethoven coming upon my list and trying to keep his cool: “Is it too much to ask, given my irrefutable place in human history, that I have MY OWN LINE APART FROM MOZART ON YOUR PRECIOUS “MUSIC LIST?” We’re bundled us together like Sonny and Cher. Really? What, not enough choice material in our respective catalogs to stand alone, so we’re a package deal? Is there a Beethoven/Mozart Greatest Hits album you have in mind?”
Embarrassing. What I really should have written on my list was “Smart Person Tunes” or “That Fancy Sounding Music." Jotting down “Nick Lachey/98 Degrees” would be one thing, but “slashing” those two musical masters in the same line is shameful. I should probably be embargoed from buying classical music on iTunes. Steve Jobs, take note.
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