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"... is it me or was Blade III really an 1.5+ hour-long IPOD infomercial?"

-From one of my December posts

On the eve of the Blade III DVD release this week, I finally acted on this lingering side remark by FINALLY purchasing an iPod...and having it in my possession (I actually won an iPod on eBay but after a month, put in a claim to get my money back for fraudulent non-receipt). I think what put me over is the fact that saying your prayers and eating your vitamins like Hulk Hogan said to do only got you as far as the end of the 90's (not even that far really). It's a new millenia now; gone are the days of "hulking up" (which now comes with serious consequences in baseball and football). To fight the new breed of bad guys, we do the (iPod) shuffle - we get on our laptop computers, download, transfer and listen. Then we take our signature iPod earbuds off and proceed to kick butt.

Of course, that was just a movie. In reality, we listen to music that either bores us to sleep or is so bad we struggle through the rest of our day trying to get it out of our head by trying to replace it with more shitty music. That's what the iPod is really for - to show just how crappy your music collection truly is. They've even enlisted U2 as its spokesband:

U2 = Most overrated band in the world
iPod = Most overrated Walkman

iPod and U2 -> A perfect match

Birthday Kidnapping


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