How to reduce the size of your mp3 files on your iPod.

No more space on your iPod? Need to remove some songs from your library? Relax, there is a simple way to make room.

The explanation: MP3 files are all different bitrates. The larger bitrate songs have higher quality sound, however they take up more space. The difference is hardly noticeable even to a trained ear. Standard CD Quality is 128 kbps. This tutorial will allow you to reduce all of the songs on your iPod to 128 kbps in order to save space. [Note: This does not change the quality of the original music file on iTunes].

Step 1: Open iTunes

Step 2: Plug in your iPod

Step 3: Click on your iPod, under Devices on the lefthand panel.

Step 4: Under options, check “Convert Higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC”

Step 5: Press Sync and allow iTunes to compress your library and add the songs to your iPod. [Note: The process may take a while]

Whah-la! Enjoy the extra space!

I pace down a familiar corridor
knife in hand, sweat in the other.
Knock on the door, and stick my eye on top of the peak hole.
I can feel you on the other side,
losing me.
“Who the fuck is it?”
“Your worst enemy, bitch”
The door opens and a face of sarcasm
As I shank you, I say “you lose”
fuck you. Fuck all of your bullshit

Thats all I have to say, mm thanks.

Song Of The Day – “The Way It Is” – Bruce Hornsby

I am starting this new thing called “Song of the Day” because I love music so much.
Each day, I will post a song that means a lot to me and I’ll tell you why

The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby …

Standing in line marking time–
Waiting for the welfare dime
‘Cause they can’t buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old ladies’ eyes
Just for fun he says “Get a job”

That’s just the way it is
Some things will never change
That’s just the way it is
But don’t you believe them

They say hey little boy you can’t go
Where the others go
‘Cause you don’t look like they do
Said hey old man how can you stand
To think that way
Did you really think about it
Before you made the rules
He said, Son

That’s just the way it is
Some things will never change
That’s just the way it is
But don’t you believe them

Well they passed a law in ’64
To give those who ain’t got a little more
But it only goes so far
Because the law don’t change another’s mind
When all it sees at the hiring time
Is the line on the color bar

That’s just the way it is
Some things will never change
That’s just the way it is,
thats just the way it is, it is,it is, it is

Have you ever had somebody tell you, “That’s just the way it is”, well that is precisely the message of this song. Don’t ever let somebody tell you that things can’t change, and you can’t make a change. Things are in the hands of us, the people. Even when things feel like they will never get better, they will, and they can. Don’t sit around and wait for things to happen – make them happen!

Back at school

So today I returned to hell… or Virginia Tech

Where I am away from everything I know

everything I love, and I become a robot.

There is only one thing keeping me sane

and that person is happily… back in my life

I don’t know what I would do

if things had not turned out well a few days ago

I was sitting on the floor in front of the closet door

and I asked, “Why can’t you tell me something”

“Give me some hint”

and then I hear “I don’t want to say anything right now”

and my heart sinks, because I imagine that good news

would want to burst out!

So I solemnly ask, “is it bad news”… putting my heart on a limb

and with a slow nod, the limb breaks

and just as its falling, and my tears are staining the floor

with transparent blood released from the corners

of my eyes.  My heart is dying

and just then, an outburst

“I’m taking you back”

and my body is in shock, and revives

and I grip on for dear life, to the one I love

for now my love is reciprocated finally

Just like it was before.

They ask “do you want me back”

and the words fly out faster than a Hare

“YES!”

and I squeeze and pulse, with sheer happiness

my pulse accelerates, and my brain still in disbelief.

Dies of happiness.

American Idle

I’ve said this since the beginning of Season 6, but American Idol has gone to the pits! It used to draw people in. It used to be refreshing and exciting, and now it’s awful. They are not going to find anything new and exciting. My personal favorite Idols are Kellie Pickler, Chris Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert. Who are your favorites?

Kellie in Shape Magazine!

Kellie is gonna be in Shape magazine! She really is in great shape.

“About a year and a half ago, I cleaned up my diet, becoming a vegetarian and replacing the junk I was eating with whole foods, like raw veggies, nuts, and edamame,” she says. “My energy shot way up!” Kellie’s current album, “Kellie Pickler” is in stores, and her single “Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You?” is Top 20 on country radio.

Some functional organs

A few hours ago, I was watching Wall-E.  The most depressing movie in the world

Well probably… not really.

But my mind was somewhere else.  I missed everything, all of the sudden.

My reality came flying back, and my hope came crashing down

For the xth night in a row, my mind is dying

my heart is sailing into an abyssal pit, and the captain has blindfolds on

… I couldn’t think of anything to do

So I took a bubble bath.  A hot, steamy bubble bath.

And halfway through I broke down, begging for an answer

I went sifting through the mounds of el bano de la bubula

I know I wanted to see something, if I did

but nothing surfaced…

I was inventing images in my mind.  First I saw two people, separated

by some large stone, but what was it?

I pondered as the stone drifted into nothing

and that’s when I realized, it was a heart.

A sign?  Maybe, if only my mind and eyes could see the light

a light at the end of this miserable tunnel

But words can’t concede anything, for I am lost in a wilderness

of hate and deception

I can only wait now, and as my beating pump dies

and my mind grows slowly insane,

I will fall away into skin and bones, and maybe

some functional organs.