See dese CD’s?

I know some of you think I’m this great big world traveller [see Facebook albums 4 thru 12, all featuring international photos of yours truly], but I assure you it comes at its price.  Case in point… trip to California, Day 1, my mother calls to inform me that the sale of the car went through without a hitch.  That’s right — my parents sold my car.

[* That's not really how the story went, but for dramatic effect, I'll leave out the part about me convincing them to get rid of it.]

So, in light of this recent carlessness, and since I am now the proud owner of an iPod nano… I figure, what’s the point in schlepping these around anymore?!:

CDs galore

I mean, really.  In this technologically advanced day & age, no longer am I limited to making mixed CDs with titles like “She’s the Tear that Hangs in My Soul Forever,” “Music to Love Myself to, Like a Peanut Butter, Banana, and Honey Sandwich…,” and “Dismembered December.”  Or my personal favourite, “Springtime Can Kill You,” which was actually the title track… a little ditty by Jolie Holland.

Of course, I digress.  Point is, unless someone gives me a quick & easy way to jack the songs from the CDs directly to my iTunes music library, I’ll be painstakingly re-downloading each and every throwback and world beat, violating numerous intellectual property laws, subjecting thousands of starving children in Maradi, Niger to 12 more days of… starvation.

So, I implore you… send me a solution, or better yet, send me your music.  Save me the trouble.  Do it for the children. Pretty please…?