ear-buds
At lunch time I took a walk from my work to
Bay Bloor Radio
to look at ear-buds for my iPod. The ones Apple ships are tinny
sounding, with horrible bass and even worse are uncomfortable in my
addmittedly small ears.
I tried several pairs while I was there, one pair cost more than an
iPod iteslf, but sounded amazing, however I settled on a pair of
Shure
E2c's which where slightly over a hundred dollars but have a
really warm, deep bass sound and best of all actually slide just
inside the ear canal. They come with a clam-shell hard case and a
bunch of different stlye and sized buds, the smallest of which fit
perfectly in my ear with no discomfort. They actually seal the ear
so it is difficult to hear any surrounding noise which makes the
music that much louder. I had to turn my iPod's volume down
otherwise they were too loud.
On my walk back I noticed a tallish, hipster looking guy heading
towards me, also listening, presumably to an iPod. He was wearing
jeans and a t-shirt but stylish ones and clean, nice Doc Martens
and glasses. He lookd like one of those guys you see in a
Volkswagen commercial. Every time I looked up he was lookng at me.
When we passed I shot him one of those semi embaressed, awkward
smile-nods as if to convey
"hey". I cannot speak for him but
what I was thinking about was an overwhelming desire to know what
he was listening to. Was it some hot new band I didn't know about?
Was it something I totally would love? Was it, as fate would have
you hope, the
exact same song as me?! I will never know. But
it did lead me to think about a line of digital t-shirts, maye with
fiber optic fabric that could update a "Now Playing" banner on the
shirt as your music changed. This occupied my thoughts for the rest
of the walk back to my office.
It occured tome some time later in the afternoon that everytime he
looked up, I was also looking at him.
My lunch in a nutshell, there you have it.