I was catching up on me pal's blog entries this morning when the age old questions of personal space & tastes, minor but persistent irritants, tact and obligations came up in FeralKid's blog [ people.tribe.net/a2e63106-...4a089e969b ]. Replying to his post prompted me to wonder what others listened to on their mp3 devices for distraction and why.

I live in an urban area, albeit a nice enough one. Most of the time I find I am in need of 'mental space' between me and the outside world when I have the occasion to spend time traveling on the bus or sitting in a waiting room, et cetera. {It's an introvert thing}. One of the tools I use is an mp3 player with a respectable storage capacity. Until recently, I used a Palm Lifedrive which I loved the idea of and hated the quirks however; it gave me the ability to have various forms of diversion, distraction and even a comfort or two in my jacket pocket at all times. My Lifedrive even had a respectable battery life as long as I did not try to watch feature length movies, one after the other.

Here is the short list of diversions in no particular order;

Gregorian Chant - sooooo soothing
Beethoven - a deaf genius and magnificent, what more can you say?
Enya
Enigma - {see gregorian chant}
John Williams - one of the most talented & prolific modern composers
CSN & (Y)
Santana
Seger - Rockin Bob with and without the boys in the band
Sade
Sinatra
Dean Martin
Harry Connick
Mozart
Ravel
CCR
Vox
Manhatten Transfer
Russel Watson
Monk
Parker
Davis
Rollins
Shawn Phillips & Shawn Pittman

The list is much longer than that and it also included books on CD & audio lectures because I am after all, still a student.
Alas the damn thing disappeared on one of those excursions to buy new gym shoes and it is too expensive
to replace. So now I have a scaled down version in an off the shelf MP3 + images.

Easy come, easy go . . .

P.S. You can see for yourself what wacky taste in music I have by launching my YahooMusic [music.yahoo.com/launchcast/station.asp ]

P.S.S. You should know that Y's LaunchCast still does not work with the amazing & talented FIREFOX. The only browser WBF uses.
In other words, you have to "choose" some other browser. Hmmmm.... could this be one of the reasons why people download songs to their devices and choose the tools, playlists, et cetera *they* like?