Music From Heaven
Posted on | December 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm | 5 Comments
So, the other night the girlfriend and I attended a work-related (hers, not mine) shindig at the Denver Zoo. There were refreshments. Yes, there were refreshments. And then we got to wander around the zoo and take in a preview of their Zoolights exhibit, which doesn’t officially open until next week. Basically, it’s a lot of animated light sculptures showing various animals doing various animal-like things. Like this one of a spider catching a fly (there’s also another one with a big cat in the background):
We could also catch some glimpses of real animals, especially in the inside exhibits. They thankfully didn’t light the outside enclosures and disturb the many sleeping animals we saw. And there was the requisite cheesy instrumental Christmas music blasting from speakers in the trees, including one particularly horrid rendition of Jingle Bells that we had to hear over and over and over again. I’d say that the song is now ruined for me, though I’m not sure I’ve ever been okay with it since I was a kid.
Anyway, every once in awhile, when I was away from the Xmas music speakers, I would catch a snippet of other music coming from somewhere. Good music. I kept looking around for other speakers to see if I could tell where it was coming from. At one point, they were playing a New Pornographers song (I think it was “The New Face of Zero and One”) and I exclaimed to N, “Hey, they’re playing the New Pornographers!” and she was like “What are you talking about?” We resumed our trek through the lighted animated pathways.
And then, it happened. I heard “Sword Swallower” by the Loud Family. I stopped dead in my tracks.
N: “What’s up? Why are we stopping?”
Me: “The Loud Family! I can hear the Loud Family! The zoo is playing the Loud Family on one of their other sound systems! I have to find the speaker!” I started looking around and N looked at me with an exasperated expression.
N: “The Denver Zoo wouldn’t be playing the Loud Family”. We both stood there very silently so I could pinpoint the direction of the sound waves.
Me: “Don’t you hear it?”
N: “Yeah, I hear it.” She paused. “It’s coming from you, you moron.”
I pulled my iPhone out of my holster, and sure enough it was on the iPod and was playing a Loud Family song.
I have no idea why the iPhone was playing songs (in shuffle mode, no less). I think the last time I had taken it out was hours before, and I hadn’t done anything with the iPod mode in ages. Somebody at the shindig must’ve removed it from my holster, started playing songs on it, and then returned it. Yeah, that must be it.
Or maybe The Powers That Be just wanted some good music to counter the lame-o Xmas music at the zoo, and my iPhone was Their instrument.
But I still had to shut it off.
Latre.
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5 Responses to “Music From Heaven”
December 4th, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
No wonder the zoo had such great taste in music.
December 5th, 2008 @ 4:25 am
Maybe it activated itself in self-defense, attempting to block out the Christmas music before it went insane and fried itself.
December 5th, 2008 @ 5:56 am
That’s hilarious! Does the iPhone have a hardware don’t-wake-up-switch like the iPod does? I wish my phone did. I’m amazed at the the interface actions that random jostling can accomplish.
December 5th, 2008 @ 10:19 am
I don’t think that iPhone has that switch, probably having something to do with the fact that it’s a phone too.
December 5th, 2008 @ 9:51 pm
Blame the zoo. I was a night security guard there for a couple months in the early 90s. Nothing especially strange happened during my time there, but – and here is the key factor – I did not have an iPhone with me at any time….
Spooky, eh?