Too indecisive for my shuffle

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, you probably have – you seem like a clever kind of a person, that I haven’t really decided yet what kind of blog I want this to be. It seems that at the moment I’ve got all the major genres covered (bizarre dialogular squirrel nonsense, nonsensical local news items, what I did at the weekend, photographs, local politics) except technology. Sorry, I mean tech.

So, to remedy that today I shall be telling you all about my ipod shuffle. Won’t that be exciting? Hey, come back. It’s either that or my triumphs on championship manager 06 on my mobile phone.

I have an ipod shuffle because I am far too poor to buy a nano or mini, and therefore I think that they are a waste of money. Do you see how that works? Anyway, I love my shuffle and I don’t mind that it hasn’t got a screen because I’m only going to put it in my pocket and scratch it. Contrary to popular belief you can listen to your songs in album order, if you so desire. You can flick forward and backwards, you can make your own playlists, you can download lots of exciting things from the i-tunes store. Even those lengednary podcasts. I know - wow.

But all of this is largely irrelevant to me because what I like to do is listen to the first seven or eight seconds of a song and then skip to the next one, listen to the first seven or eight seconds of that song and so on until the playlist begins again.

I hear tell of places like last.fm where you can download an instrument, or plugin, named audioscrobbler which send details to the site and compiles a list of tracks you’re listening to. You can even run an api (or something) which could list this information on your blog. How marvellous.

This would be of no use to me because I haven’t listened to a whole song since 2004. I exaggerate of course. The other problem is that a family member, good buddy and part time DJ burnt us some mixdiscs for our wedding and I have them on loop. Which is all fine except that we didn’t get a tracklisting so I have no idea what most of the tracks are called, or who they are by.

Nevertheless, because when I grow up I want to be like the other bloggers, I will blunder on regardless. Here is a list of the songs that I have been listening to in their entirety this week:

Gone, Daddy, Gone: Gnarls Barkley
Happy mambo-hip-hip track: some funky brazilians
That song that goes Well Khhhhello, Khhhhello: no idea, they sound british though
El Manana: Gorillaz, I know that one
Starts with a cough then a woman goes ee poo poo until the versus starts, very sunny sound: a woman, I think she might be portuguese
Chorus goes ‘watching their souls wallow, left you for me, left the room hollow, many will fall, a lot more will follow’: a very good soul-y female rapper
The Nosebleed section: Hilltop Hoods
Gone: Kanye West