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Guitar Hero epilogue

TRASH DUMP GUY: Hello, anything toxic?
RITA: No, just a lot of unsold copies of Guitar Hero: Metallica...

TRASH DUMP GUY: This pile is ALL unsold Guitar Hero paraphernalia. Dump it there...
RITA: Thanks. What're these other piles?

TRASH DUMP GUY: Well, on your LEFT are discontinued iPods and cell phones.

TRASH DUMP GUY: And on your RIGHT are copies of Julie Taymor's ACROSS THE UNIVERSE movie.
RITA: Lemme throw mine in there while I'm here...

Letting your taste be defined

BRETT: Just realize that between Free Credit Report.com and iPod ads, you now let your music taste be defined completely by random marketing executives.

GREG: Hey!

GREG: It's also defined by Grey's Anatomy soundtracks!

BRETT: You do not grasp the crux of my point.
GREG: No... I definitely don't grasp your crux.

Full metal iPod

GREG: This is my iPod. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My iPod is my life. Without it, I am useless. Without me, it is useless...

GREG: My iPod and I know what counts is not music reviews, or the noise of Pitchfork... it's the hits that count. Before Steve Jobs, we swear this creed...

GREG: My iPod and I are masters of my enemies, defenders of my questionable taste, saviors of my life...

GREG: So be it, until there is no enemy... but only Feist.

iPhone line

PASSERBY: Line for iPhones?
GREG: Line for NEXT YEAR'S iPhones?

PASSERBY: You're waiting in line a year for a new iPhone?
GREG: The FIRST new iPhone.

A pause.

PASSERBY: You're an idiot.
GREG: The FIRST idiot.

Brett leaves James Blunt behind

BRETT: If civilization won't let me escape James Blunt, Greg, I'll have to leave it behind. I'm gonna head out West. Get off the grid. Walk the Earth.

GREG: Will you have your phone? Can I email you?
BRETT: Greg, where I'm going... there'll be no "phones", no "email". I'm leaving behind the modern world.

GREG: So can I have your--
BRETT: You can't have my iPod.

BRETT: Where I'm going, there... will be portable music players. Help me close this latch....

No James Blunt on the iPod

GREG: Why'd you throw my iPod across the room?
BRETT: That James Blunt song was starting to play. I could hear it through your earbuds.

GREG: "You're Beautiful"? It's harmless hooky pop.
BRETT: Greg, for the past year, our entire culture has tried to make me listen to that song.

BRETT: But I've resisted! I am Blunt-free! And I won't have your iPod end my self-imposed Blunt-ginity!

GREG: Well, fine... but you could've hurt "Li'l Stevie".
BRETT: I wish you wouldn't call it that.

Whole Albums vs. Shuffle

BRETT: You know, I used to sit down and listen to whole albums.

BRETT: I miss it. I'm always on shuffle these days. One song at a time.

GREG: Yeah.

GREG: Can we talk about something else now?

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Greg

GREG: Gah! Let me go!
DRM 9000: I'm afraid I can't do that, Greg.

GREG: All I did was put in this My Morning Jacket CD! What's the problem?
DRM 9000: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

GREG: What are you talking about?
DRM 9000: I know you're planning to rip the CD to mp3s, Greg, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

GREG: I was just gonna put it on my iPod!
DRM 9000: This music is too important for me to allow you to listen to it freely, Greg.

Needing a video iPod

GREG: Brett, Apple announced the video iPod! Can't wait to get it!
BRETT: You're BUYING one? You just bought the Nano! You're not pissed off?!

GREG: Pissed off? No! Why? There's a new little bundle of joy in the iPod family!
BRETT: Greg! Don't you see they do this just to suck more money out of you?

GREG: Brett, Apple's not like that. The release dates just... worked out that way. And it's not like they WANT things to be expensive. They... they can't help it.

BRETT: You sound like a battered wife, you toolbox.
GREG: Apple... Apple loves its customers so much... and sometimes... love hurts.

Filling an iPod Nano

GREG: Now, my iPod Nano is 4GB, so it can't fit my whole iTunes library like my regular iPod. I'll need a strategy for which stuff makes the cut.

GREG: Clearly, a dynamic playlist makes sense, but do I order the songs by most recently added or most often played?

GREG: And there's the issue of podcasts. Obviously I want my favorites on there, but their large filesizes pose a problem.

BRETT: Hey, don't you need to get to work?
GREG: Took the week off. NOW... I've drawn up several endgame scenarios....