myTunes

I have recently, very kindly, been given the use of a macbook pro by a friend. She was not using her's, and since I lost my laptop to a virus, I was happy to... well... lap it up.

Of course, the macbook had all her files, including her iTunes populated with over a 1000 songs.... her songs, that she had copied, downloaded, bought... it was HER collection.

I remember almost obsessively compiling my iTunes on my Mac in Manhattan. Every song had a story, a memory. I could recollect the time and the place and possibly the frame of mind I was in when I had heard every one of them for the first time.

I almost feel like a tresspasser listening to the songs on this macbook. I am sure she has spent special moments in time choosing, compiling and enjoying her list. But most of them don't mean anything to me. There are obviously overlaps, but the tunes just don't seem to... well... belong to me anymore like they used to!

In general, I am not such a fervent discoverer of songs/music like I used to be. But what would I give to listen to Morrison chanting An American Prayer from my iTunes, on my mac, in MY Manhattan, just one more time......