I Need a Bigger iPod

     I've figured out part of my current problem and come to the conclusion that one reason I'm not able to listen to much new music these days (and hence am not writing much about it) is because my iPod is way too small. I only have a Nano, which barely holds 400 songs, and so I'm constantly listening to the same stuff over and over. I feel like my musical field of vision is getting progressively narrower and I don't like it.

     Now, it's not that I don't put new music on it fairly frequently, it's just that in order to add to it, I have to take stuff off. The trouble is, there's some music I like so much that I don't want to take it off, which means that the space available from the stuff I rotate on and off is rather limited.

     All that to say, if I had a bigger iPod, I could keep a lot more music in my active listening queue and therefore I could listen to a lot more of it.

     Despite my limitations in both time and space, I did manage to listen to some new stuff this week and I really liked a few songs. Liked them enough to give them a coveted spot on the old Nano!

Mr. Gnome--"Vampires" mp3 off Heave Yer Skeleton (buy) Mr. Gnome is a spooky cool duo from Cleveland (my home town, don'tcha know). Nicole Barille, the vocalist, has a very distinct voice and she uses it to great effect. This is off their second album, which came out Nov. 10th.

Heather Greene--"Moon Hangs Fire" mp3 off Sweet Otherwise (buy) This is a beautiful song, pure and simple. I don't know much about her other than she's from New York, she's pretty and this is her second album, which came out Oct. 6th.

Hawksley Workman--"Maniacs" mp3 off For Him and the Girls (buy) This caught my ear immediately. The press release said something about yodeling, which turned me off when I read it, but upon hearing it, it's really good. I'm very interested in the rest of the album, which comes out Nov. 17th.

p.s. I used to have a much bigger iPod, but it met a very sad end when I got it wet and it died. Sigh. Maybe Santa will bring me a shiny new one that holds many, many more gig. I guess I'd better start writing my "I've been a good girl" letter ASAP.

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