iPhone: Making Rock More Accessible
I’m kind of an Apple nerd. Okay, I’m a total Apple nerd. I like to think I’m pretty cool otherwise (I drink whiskey, write for a rock blog and have a beard), but there’s just something about Apple that brings out the best in my inner dorkasaurus rex (much more fierce than the traditional dork proper).
That’s why I bought the iPhone the day it came out, and even waited in line for a little while (read: a plural amount of hours, but I won’t divulge how many). Here’s an article from the next day’s Tribune that proves what an idiot I am (in case you couldn’t tell just by looking at me), complete with visual confirmation:
After having the iPhone in my possession for around 19 days now, I can truly say without hesitation that it is bar none the most beautiful and functional phone out there. But this blog isn’t about technology, it’s about rock, so I’m not going to fully review the iPhone (for that, visit one of our cousin blogs, Action-Squad).
For the purposes of this blog, I will say this: never has rock been so accessible.
Remember how the iPod changed the way you listened to music? Well this thing takes it a step further. Pre-iPhone, there were days where I would forget my iPod and spend the entire commute to work, walk around town during lunch, and trip home without music. What a fool I can be. Rare were the times, however, that I would forget my cell phone.
I would also usually refrain from bringing my iPod to parties, bars, weddings, funerals, cult meetings, etc., but now I don’t have a choice, because like most humans over the age of having hands and ears, my cell phone and I are quite literally attached at the hip, and by that I mean in my pocket, NOT holstered by a belt clip. I may be a dorkasaurus rex but I am certainly not one of those guys who wears my bluetooth headset out to dinner.
So you get my point. You never know when there’s going to be an opportunity to listen to that new record you’ve been trying to find time for during your little cousin’s baptism. Whereas before I had my music with my all the time, now I have it with my ALL THE TIME. The iPhone is my new best friend when it comes to rock. And as an example of how functional it is above and beyond rock, I posted this entry from my office toilet using the iPhone.
Okay that’s not true but I bet you I could have. I just hope nobody douche-alerts me for this post…
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What I’ll never, EVER in the world understand is how dudes–real men–can justify wearing a beltclip for their phone, when mearly inches, INCHES, away from their belt is a pocket. Quite possibly the the most convenient carrying device in the whole world.
Smange worked with a doctor who not only wore his cell phone, but two additional pagers on his belt. Such a douche. Although he was from Russia.
On the change in rock habits, I have to agree with everything you said. I am never without my cellphone–nev-VER–and therefore always have the rock. But now I also have music videos.
You know how that song went, “video killed the radio star?” well it’s something like that except not so negative. It’s helping me appreciate my music even more, and introduce me to new songs, that I’d previously just skipped over.
I’m so addicted to my iphone.
You may have waited in line, but you also heroically pegged a heckling hippie with a coke can while standing in said line.
I think it balances out…