{"id":141,"date":"2007-03-09T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T23:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-03-09T18:33:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T23:33:38","slug":"hi-fi-lo-fi-sci-fi-my-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/hi-fi-lo-fi-sci-fi-my-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"hi fi lo fi sci fi my fi"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must sheepishly admit that getting that ipod<\/a> is about the best thing that could have happened to my workout life. I used to think that as long as the gym played music that was over 120 bpm, everything was fine in workoutland. Sure, I don’t love the mindless dance music they play enough to run right out and buy it, but it was fine, really. But you know, I was wrong! Because it turns out that listening to music that I actually own and enjoy not only makes the exercise time fly by, it makes me elliptical machine-icize faster, to boot. Who knew?<\/p>\n

There has been a bit of a learning curve for me in loading songs onto the ipod. First I threw a bunch of albums on there, because I’m a complete record* kind of gal. I even put some stuff on there I’d been meaning to listen to but hadn’t gotten around to yet. But see, we have an ipod shuffle; there’s no display, and thus no way to read what song is playing. So that was totally dumb — I ended up having to skip song after song after song to get to one I actually wanted to ellipticize to.<\/p>\n

* Who still says record, even in this day and age. Because I sit around all day in my petticoats, listening to my gramaphone<\/a>. (Yes, I do know that the gramaphone played cylinders, not discs. But it’s such a fun word! Say it with me: GRA-ma-phone.)<\/p>\n

Now I’ve finally gotten with the shuffle program and am putting individual songs on it, which works much better. Voxtrot, New Order, Spice Girls, Komeda, that Language of Flowers song that sounds like Lush<\/a>, and also some Lush, among others. I’ve made exceptions for two records: Pixies Doolittle<\/i> and Bunnygrunt Jen Fi<\/i>, because nearly those whole dang records are good for exermacizing.<\/p>\n

This ipod may also be the first thing to make me seriously consider getting one of those newfangled vinyl-to-mp3 converters. Because I think that I need to be able to listen to Private Idaho<\/a> at the gym, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must sheepishly admit that getting that ipod is about the best thing that could have happened to my workout life. I used to think that as long as the gym played music that was over 120 bpm, everything was fine in workoutland. Sure, I don’t love the mindless dance music they play enough to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}