So I’m seriously thinking about buying an iPod shuffle.  Reasons are that:

(1) I need a new iPod very badly
(2) I need one for cheap
(3) I like to listen to certain music OVER and OVER again, thus don’t need much space.
(3) I need something small and easy
(4) I only really would use it for the gym, maybe the subway, and shorter flights…

So the questions are:

Does anyone have the latest models and if so what do you think? Does it bug you there isn’t a screen?

Which color should I get? Go here to look!

I’m leaning toward red!

Today in “way back when” I listened to Veruca Salt, a band I listened to a lot when I was 12 and 13. I drove up to Albany for this here conference. I kept trying to find the NPR station but I couldn’t find the proper one, so I gave up and popped in the CD.

As soon as I opened the CD case and saw the purple V on the CD I was taken right back to middle school. I was so cool in middle school, at least compared to high school when I was busy sucking up the various english teachers while editing the newspaper and lit. mag. (I really wanted to quit the newspaper and focus on the lit. mag but alas.) So, I blasted Veruca Salt in my rental car in the drive up from NYC. Listening to them made me remember how awesome women rocker were in the 1990s like Courtney Love and Kim Gordon, who was/is awesome before the 1990s and still is.

I can’t really think of any contemporary women beside one of my other favorites, the Dixie Chicks, that compare with bands like Veruca Salt.

They’re awesome. I wish they would make a big comeback and inspire some more kick ass music which were in desperate need of!