Comments on: Thank you Walkman for the power of cinematic narration http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30144 meski Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:19:06 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30144 It's all interpretation, Helen. An iPod, aka mp3 player, is no different to a walkman when you strip away the roseate glow of how much better things were in the good old days. Except if you had to hold all the cassettes that a iPod can hold, you would have needed a small suitcase, and then there was the tape hiss, and the odd tape that got 'eaten' by the walkman, and its appetite for batteries... I'll stop now, shall I? It’s all interpretation, Helen. An iPod, aka mp3 player, is no different to a walkman when you strip away the roseate glow of how much better things were in the good old days. Except if you had to hold all the cassettes that a iPod can hold, you would have needed a small suitcase, and then there was the tape hiss, and the odd tape that got ‘eaten’ by the walkman, and its appetite for batteries… I’ll stop now, shall I?

]]> By: Stuart Hamilton http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30125 Stuart Hamilton Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:10:14 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30125 And those persisting in reading newspapers and books (even e-Books) in public - also anti-social gluttons? Quite different of course. And those persisting in reading newspapers and books (even e-Books) in public - also anti-social gluttons? Quite different of course.

]]> By: wyane http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30092 wyane Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:06:59 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30092 old enough to rather listen to swapped mix-tapes on megabass, but young enough to know that the grey dial has nothing to do with hair colour ... cf. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walkman.jpg old enough to rather listen to swapped mix-tapes on megabass, but young enough to know that the grey dial has nothing to do with hair colour … cf. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walkman.jpg

]]> By: Heathdon McGregor http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30080 Heathdon McGregor Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:18:02 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/01/thank-you-walkman-for-the-power-of-cinematic-narration/#comment-30080 Agreat walkman story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm I particularly like "it took me three days to realise there was another side" Agreat walkman story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

I particularly like “it took me three days to realise there was another side”

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