Carly got a new IPod for graduation (along with a few thousand other gifts). Her old one had gotten “weird” as she put it. She left it behind when she went to Texas, filled with a couple of years of downloaded songs. El Cheapo decided “what the hell, surely this thing can be fixed”. Sure enough, after a few weeks with a small company out of Kansas that does nothing but fix IPods, a few more newly purchased accessories, and now I have a “new” IPod.
But it’s still got Carly’s music on it. Thousands of songs.
Before I deleted it all and put all my “good” music on it, I decided to give it a listen – just out of curiosity. Hmmm…well - suffice it to say that it will be a long time before I reformat the thing. Listening to Carly’s IPod is a nice glimpe of our life together before she grew up and left me.
I like Green Day. American Idiot is a great song, and I especially get a grin when they say “fuck” in Boulevard of Broken Dreams (there’s a funny story there). She made me a CD of their songs before I became cool and got an IPod.
I listened to The Ballad of Curtis Lowe thirty years ago when my friends and I spent a Summer getting stupid and puking on our feet before we left for college and/or adulthood.
Phoebe Snow – Poetry Man
What I Like About You by the Ramones
Eyes of Silver – by my number one all time favorite group, the Doobie Brothers.
Veruca Salt, The Pixies – cool.
Aquabats – Magic Chicken nice…
And, of course, a full copy of Freebird and Stairway to Heaven just in case.
I will probably delete the Ashlee Simpson section – sorry.
I’m so glad that my two kids have found their own ways in life and are turning out different from me; but listening to Carly’s IPod reminds me of just how much we have shared, just how much we still have together now and in the future as adults, and just how much (bless their little hearts) they’re like me. It’s hard to get your mind around that sort of thing all the time so I’m glad I have this little metal box full of music to bring me back to those happy times, and to help me see the future.
I got a feeling I’ll be listening to Carly’s I Pod for a long time.
`Cept its mine now.
Same thing.
I pray for you each day dear ones.
Take the world.
I love you two,
lsa
“Ohh ohh, ohh ohh, chicken make me feel so good…Do the popcorn chicken….”
