Thursday, June 28, 2007
TURN ON, TUNE IN AND DROP OUT.........
Taking the tram to physio is an interesting exercise in people watching.
The tram arrives and like some mechanised whale, swallows up the half asleep commuters until it cannot swallow any more of the CBD bound folk.
Later on it throws them up like some meal that did not agree with it.
It really is amazing how many of these people choose to shut themselves off from the world by inserting little ear buds and replacing the real world sounds with whatever they have downloaded into their mp3 players.
On one occasion I noted that pretty much all the people around me had turned zombie and plugged into a binary soundscape.
What really bothers me is the volume some of these people listen to their music.
Not only are they doing irreparable damage to their hearing, but they are also enforcing their usually crap taste in music upon unsuspecting victims like me.
It is not uncommon for me to be able to hear their audio broadcasts from distances of 5-7 metres, and that's on a tram packed with people to absorb the sound and also all the noise and clatter emanating from the tram itself.
If you are going to purchase and use a personal audio device then it should remain exactly that!
Personal!
I don't want to hear your shite commercial music because you can't deal with the sounds of reality.
Maybe their hollow heads act as a resonator, not unlike the body of a guitar and increase the volume?
None of these people ever bop to the music either.
It's quite normal to see people nodding their heads or drumming on steering wheels as they listen to music in their cars, but these audio terrorists on the tram don't even budge!
Not a toe tapped.
Not a finger drumming on a railing.
Nothing........
It's almost as if they're not even enjoying the tunes they're playing, which kind of defeats the purpose of listening to music in the first place.
When was the last time they made eye contact with a fellow traveller, shared a smile or god forbid had a conversation?
I partly blame Apple and their iPod for successfully flooding the world with these little hearing destruction devices.
Their successful mass marketing has resulted in millions of people around the world actively choosing to disassociate themselves from their fellow human beings.
It's almost uncool not to be wired for sound these days.
I'm very tempted to take my little travel speakers, which actually pump out a decent volume and enforce my impeccable musical taste on these people.
After all, if I am forced to put up with their musical choices then they can cop some of their own medicine in return.
Freaks.
Ahhhh, I feel a lot better after that rant.
.
The tram arrives and like some mechanised whale, swallows up the half asleep commuters until it cannot swallow any more of the CBD bound folk.
Later on it throws them up like some meal that did not agree with it.
It really is amazing how many of these people choose to shut themselves off from the world by inserting little ear buds and replacing the real world sounds with whatever they have downloaded into their mp3 players.
On one occasion I noted that pretty much all the people around me had turned zombie and plugged into a binary soundscape.
What really bothers me is the volume some of these people listen to their music.
Not only are they doing irreparable damage to their hearing, but they are also enforcing their usually crap taste in music upon unsuspecting victims like me.
It is not uncommon for me to be able to hear their audio broadcasts from distances of 5-7 metres, and that's on a tram packed with people to absorb the sound and also all the noise and clatter emanating from the tram itself.
If you are going to purchase and use a personal audio device then it should remain exactly that!
Personal!
I don't want to hear your shite commercial music because you can't deal with the sounds of reality.
Maybe their hollow heads act as a resonator, not unlike the body of a guitar and increase the volume?
None of these people ever bop to the music either.
It's quite normal to see people nodding their heads or drumming on steering wheels as they listen to music in their cars, but these audio terrorists on the tram don't even budge!
Not a toe tapped.
Not a finger drumming on a railing.
Nothing........
It's almost as if they're not even enjoying the tunes they're playing, which kind of defeats the purpose of listening to music in the first place.
When was the last time they made eye contact with a fellow traveller, shared a smile or god forbid had a conversation?
I partly blame Apple and their iPod for successfully flooding the world with these little hearing destruction devices.
Their successful mass marketing has resulted in millions of people around the world actively choosing to disassociate themselves from their fellow human beings.
It's almost uncool not to be wired for sound these days.
I'm very tempted to take my little travel speakers, which actually pump out a decent volume and enforce my impeccable musical taste on these people.
After all, if I am forced to put up with their musical choices then they can cop some of their own medicine in return.
Freaks.
Ahhhh, I feel a lot better after that rant.
.
