The LJ Boycott and iPod advice

*sighs happily*

That was a nice break. I think I'll spam my f-list less, write more.

I'm collecting the pressies for wildernessguru's birthday this week. I'd like to get him an iPod.

So. iPod users -- what should I buy him?


ETA: Cool. Now I'm learning the questions I should ask.

- This will be music-only, for a guy who just graduated from cassette tapes to CDs and eyes mp3s with suspicion. Simple is the idea.
- Bear in mind my student budget. Top of the line is almost certainly out of reach.
- No extra features such as vids, games, phone, etc. Just music. I have 8 gigs of music ready to upload onto it.
- P.S. I am not brand loyal, so I'm using "iPod" in the sense of "portable device that plays mp3s," rather like using Xerox for any kind of copier. So please, do recommend other brands.
- P.P.S. We're on a PC, not Mac. My last Mac was 15 years ago when only Macs had a decent Tibetan font.

One more meme, and I'm off LJ until I have fic.

Working on Out Of Bounds. Good news: I have 8,000 more words written. Bad news: there are big blank spots in between scenes so I can't post the 8,000 words. But we're working on that, honest.

Toronto people, we have a winner! Rodney lives in the Scarborough Bluffs, a.k.a., "The Bluffs." Formerly cheap-ville, Kingston not being too pretty as Toronto streets go with all those strip malls. Now the early buyers are sitting pretty.


Now for the meme:

★ THE RULES ★
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post a line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: No cheating. No Googling. AND NO LAST.FM SEARCHING.

And today I learned that I have a lot of instrumental music. I had to go through about 33-35 songs to hit ones with lyrics. So here's a guessing game for you all.

What songs are they from?

( Most of these aren't that hard. )

A leeetle hint: there are two that have the title in the lyrics I posted.