iPod Addict Unplugs

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From the New York Observer:

"I’m about a week into my post-iPod reformation. Quitting cold turkey has been difficult, and I’ve certainly had my lapses. But I’m much happier now. I moved to New York, in part, because I wanted to experience the city’s sidewalk cacophony, everything from the rumbling buses to cabbies hollering "Get the fuck outta my way!" With my earphones in, I became deaf to the urban orchestra playing around me. Even worse, my iPod had sapped the energy that makes New York more exhilarating than the places we all escaped from. Except for better bagels, I had traded one kind of suburban isolation for another. So it’s farewell, my iPod. The sound of the city is starting to seem like the best song of all."

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