The original of this had Hubris with a CD and player. CDs. Ha. Sooooo twentieth century.
In fact, I did buy a CD called ‘Sounds Of Whitewater’. It was supposed to keep me calm and happy while I worked on weekends that I couldn’t go kayaking.
It was a five or so minute loop of the sound of shusshing water repeated to make a 60 minute CD. The water wasn’t necessarily a river rapid. Coulda been in someone’s tub. I’d like to think I could imagine hearing the voices of rafters or kayakers in the distance, but that was just the same way you think you can make out something when looking at TV static or see images in the holes of acoustic ceiling tiles, or in clouds. Your brain fills in the details you really want.
I finally used the CD, played on loop, to keep my kids asleep.
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When the
radio in my car workedFerrari wasn’t in the shop, I’d tune to dead space between stations, turn up the bass and enjoy a soothing facsimile of a thunderstorm.Not so easy now there’s much less space between frequencies, but back in the day…
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I never got into those “sounds of ____________” cd’s.
And I remember when CD’s became a fad… and when they faded out.
In fact, when they became fad, I still had a Panasonic Shockwave (http://amzn.to/xlzwvQ) Cassette Player. I played “Jagged Little Pill” on that so many times, the tape wore out. Than I bought a Kross (remember THEM?!) “Portable CD Player” with 5 seconds of “anti-skip” and a few months later, upgraded to a Sony with 30 seconds. Remember walking around with a CD holder full of CD’s that you’d swap out ever 60 minutes?
Eventually, I bought an “MP3 CD Player” and slapped 700mb of music (or roughly 175 songs.) ah, those were the days!!!
Eventually, in 2006, I bought a “Creative Zen” 1GB player that held around 256 songs… now, I have an 8GB Sansa Fuze and I can pop in a 32GB SD card for more sound!! 😀