What’s on your iPod?
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For Caroline Dempsey it’s “Do I look good in this?”
Surely it’s time for a ChinesePod song, or perhaps a mash up. (We’ve already had the poetry and the Photoshop.).
Ken Carroll
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Music on mine is mostly Happy Hardcore, Freestyle Hardcore, Gabba, Hard House, Hard Trance, Hard Dance, Speedcore and Techno. Plus a little bit of most other styles as well.
I don’t have an iPod; but whatever… currently, apart from C-Pod lessons, I switch between Jolin Tsai, Vicky Zhao, Faye Wong, and some Beijing Opera (as my player has limited space, I have to swap things around and don’t feel I can justify anything not in Mandarin!)
I have to admit I will listen to cheesy pop so long as it isn’t in English (I still can’t take boybands, no matter what language!) – that may change once I understand the lyrics!
The opera, I just like… so there! For that you can blame Sammo and his classic film, ‘The Prodigal Son’!
Ken
This is kind of like going into the confessional. But ok
Japanese – mostly bands led by a beautiful woman singer
Garnet Crow, Zard, Do As Infinity, Day After Tomorrow, Every Little Thing, Dreams Come True, Chihiro Onitsuka, Cocco (Okinawian), Angela Aki (Japanese-HawaiianAmerican)
Korean- Always women but more jazz than pop
Linae, Camilla (Korean American)
Chinese- Almost always women who can sing pop and look beautiful
China
Ma Yu, Zhao Wei Piao (Vicky) Daolang(only guy)
Tawain
Hou Xing Ting, Xiao Xiao, Justin and Sophia
I will admit I also have quite a bit of the most juvenile CPop but it makes me feel good
Singapore
Tanya Chua, Stefanie Sun (Sun Yan Zi) — I love her more than Aric loves Wong Fei
Malaysia
Fish Leung
Something Completely Different
1hr discussion between Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry on Blasphemy from Hay on Wie Festival
Not a single English/American song out of about 100GB!
Mike in Jubei
CPod, Pimsleur Comprehensive Mandarin 2 and 3 (I’m almost done with level 2 !), and lots and lots of bluegrass, blues, and hip-hop. Current favorite: Crooked Still (www.crookedstill.com). Best new acoustic band, bar none (and friends of mine, but still, a great band)
Language: Selected CPOD stuff; Pimsleur Mandarin I,II,III; a little Hebrew and Spanish on the side.
Music: Mozart, Pink Floyd, some old Alan Parsons Project stuff.
Video: an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Once More With Feeling)
Podcasts: Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac”, NPR News, NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”, Jack Clark’s “Blast The Right”, Stephanie Miller highlights, Deutsche-Welle’s “Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten”.
FDW,
What do you do? Yo uahve a very wide area of interests and activities. In your photo you don’t look ‘corpoprate’. I’m trying to guess what your job is. Are you in something creative? Why don;’t we have some guesses over here?
Ken Carroll
The last four CPod advanced lessons (I’m behind!), four or five JapanesePod101 lessons, and a bunch of random mid-90s alternative rock (I’m reliving high school, musically, lately). I only have a 512mb iPod mini, so I can’t hold that much.
Ken … not a very interesting life, I’m afraid. Perhaps the language stuff provides a bit of escape from that? Mainly, I do a lot of telephone configuration at the switch (ie: computer) level. At one time, I had interests very much akin to your own — which might be why I’ve been ahead of the general curve in recognizing the potential of podcasts. In college, I started out as a Russian major and a general interest in linguistics landed me in the Classics (Greek/Latin) and English departments. Our English department (like most) lacked much in the area of “language”, or else I would have likely taken some sort of ESL route. On the other hand, it had an excellent medieval section, so I found myself studying Old English and helping a professor catalogue linguistical differences between several variants of Middle English. So, even though I wasn’t actively seeking them out (except for Russian), I somehow kept falling into language classes.
John B,
How are your Japanese classes going?
Ken
As well as about 4000 music tracks I also have a number of audiobooks on mine: Around The World In 80 Days and Journey To The Centre Of The Earth – Jules Verne. Inflight Mandarin Chinese and Vocabulearn Chinese Levels 1 to 3. Imajica by Clive Barker (which I converted from tape to mp3 myself), Greg Bear – Darwin’s Children. Bill Bailey Live At The Apollo: Part Troll (which is brilliant) and Raise Your Self-Esteem.
This is like that what’s in your handbag party game.
My ipod is a LifeDrive, which I use for listening to mp3 files. Apart from the normal Palm calendar tools etc, I have
Audio:
ChinesePod, PCR1, TeachYourself, Pimsleur, FSI, T.Xie, tutorials from other web sites and CDs, audio phrase books, Yueliang daibiao wo de xin, raunchy medieval dance music, Gregorian and Buddhist chant, Joplin rags, flamenco, Chinese kids reciting stuff, two Chinese novels read in English, Matthew Reilly audio novels, a little introductory Cantonese stuff, old Giles lectures on China.
Video:
faces pronouncing Chinese words close up, Video HotPots, Firefly, a weird clothes folding tutorial with manic Chinese voice over, Warriors of the net.
Text, PDF, and web pages:
ChinesePod PDFs, other tutorial PDFs, The Analects and the Art of War in Chinese, proverbs poems and sayings, some web tutorials, radical charts, vocab lists, my own transcriptions and exercises, Forth tutorial, folk music notated in ABC format, CIA World Factbook, machine knitting patterns and machine repair workshop diagrams, ISO 27001 and 9001 reference material and notes.
Tools:
Chinese dictionaries, Chinese reading/writing/editing tools, Dragon fashcard and character writing tutor, midi composition tools, onboard PalmOS Forth programming environment, Taiwanese lunar calendar.
Other:
photos of my favourite parrots and tricycles, birds of Australia photos with audio, rogue game, tetris.
That’s the hard drive. I didn’t look at what’s on the 2GB SDCard, but you haven’t missed much.
I’m completely addicted to podcasting: Cpod, Slate daily podcast, anything on KCRW including Martini Shot, the Loh Down on Science, NPR shuffle, Mozart piano concertos, Anna Netrebko, Green Day, Benabar, Evanescence, a mix of New Orleans music, David Sedaris’s Naked, French Cafe, Rough Guide to Chinese Music, Shakira Fijacion Oral, the Shins, Frou-Frou, lots of misc indy stuff and girls with guitars among other stuff.
Current listening (no iPod though):
Holst: The Planets
BTVS: Once More with Feeling
伍佰： 白鸽
Jeff Buckley: Grace
MC Solaar: a few random bits
Les Miserables
Malumba (local folk music)
Shanghainese evangelical readings (for language practice)
System of a Down: Toxicity
Anything I can get my hands on that’s not in English…
FDW: Have you done much Anglo-Saxon? I’m going through Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi at the moment with my reading group – it’s really…umm…informative one Old English words for various sins.
The HitchHikers Guide to The Galaxy BBC radio series – all 3 – by Douglas Adams.
I’m looking for the Ron Goodwin theme for Miss Marple (as played/acted by Margaret Rutherford).
Other than that, anything I can find really, plenty of room on mine. I have my entire 300+ CD collection.
Aunty Sue,
Who’s Medieval music is that? Is it the Medieval Baebes? Sounds fun.
Good post = I also like what The Onion does with celebs and ask them to put their iPod on shuffle, and to name the first 5 that come up – now that will tell us something about you!
A
Ok here is mine first 5 from a shuffle of everything (4317 tracks):
1. Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk – Lesson Twenty-Five. Colors and Numbers. Review.
2. Top Of The Pods – Top Ten Things Men Will Never Do
3. Andy C & Shimon – Body Rock
4. Scott Mills Daily – Mills: Lloyd interviews Liverpool players – 25 Jul 06
5. Undercover Agent – Oh Gosh (From album – Jungle Massive)
Aric
As our in-house infamous musicologist, I would be interested in the top 5 songs that for sure would never be on your i-Pod. As well as confessional time 5 songs you are ashamed to admit (but you will among us friends) are on your i-Pod. Say some Barry White or Patsy Kline perhaps?
Mike in Jubei
Ken,
Japanese learning itself is going well. Class, not so much… I keep meaning to write about it, maybe I will get around to it soon
John B,
Good. Let us know when you post on it.
Ken
So Ken and Aric, what is on YOUR Ipod?