Friday, November 13, 2009

How to use the phone

I thought "phoneheads" was a great time for this post, but it's not the name of a song; it's the name of a band that plays electronic music, which is why you probably haven't heard of them. My guess is that you don't listen to much electronic music. I'm not talking about music made with electronics (like electric guitars or synths). I'm talking about the kind of music you hear your teenagers playing, and you shake your head in disgust telling them, "That's not music!" Then one day, when you hear Van Halen's "Jamie's Cryin" playing on your oldies station, you look in your rear view mirror and tell your kids, "Now that's music!" The sad thing is - you're right. That was music. And the stuff kids are listening to today is nothing more than an aural assault on everything we hold sacred about "real" music, which includes: white headbands, skinny ties, parachute pants, big hair, the hood of whitesnake's car, inexpensive gas, and cassette tapes. Now that was music. I'm pretty safe in saying all this because you bought an iPhone, which means you must be pretty well off (or just incredibly loss the money), because iPhone aren't cheap. That mean you are probebly in your late 30s or early 40s, and you think that electronic music isn't music, so when I wrote that earlier, you were nodding your head. But there is a second scenario: one in which you're young, and have rich parents, and they bought you an iPhone because they're loose with money. In that case, make sure you check out phonehead's track "Syrinx(TGM Mix)." I love that song!

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