…said the pack-of-gum sized mechanical contraption when I took it out of it’s box.

It lay sleeping in a tiny clear coffin-shaped container, awaiting my iTunes kiss.

I immediately searched for the instructions to learn how to work the damn thing!  What I found was a Christian track sized flyer telling me to go to the iTunes website and good luck.  Oh, and it told me which  button to push to get the radio to come on, which I pushed with much success but then couldn’t get the stations to change and ended up adding some white noise station to my Favorites about 10 times.

Technology is hard!

Question?

If you could download any song, what’s the first song you’d want to download?  Any one.  Pick one. Just one.  Your favorite song?  The song you danced to at your wedding?  That latest Lady GaGa?  Song from the prom?  Song you sing every morning in the shower?  Something profound that speaks to you?

I chose the latter.

I downloaded Regina Spektor’s “On The Radio” because in it, she sings this…

This is how it works
You’re young until you’re not
You love until you don’t
You try until you can’t
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

And then I downloaded “Suddenly Last Summer” by the Motels.   Don’t ask why because I’m not going to tell you.

And then I downloaded “Here Comes Your Man” by Meaghan Smith from 500 Days of Summer. Would have preferred the Joseph Gordon-Levitt version from the movie but it’s only 92 seconds long.

Lastly, Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap (also from 500 Days of Summer and a Coke commercial (I think). )

And then I got lost in a sea of music I’d never heard before like a kid in a candy store or a reader in a bookstore, or where ever you like to go to get your groove on. So many songs, so many titles, so little time….

I think I will call my first playlist Shannon’s World.  After all, it is my world isn’t it and everywhere I go I hear music and I say, “If my life was a move, this song would be playing right now.”

Technology is awesome!