Journey from A to A
Posted by Mike Hull on 4 September 2008 - 7:35am.
My wife and I have driven down to Austria with the iPod for company. After hitting France at Dunkerque, we set the iPod to play songs alphabetically just to see what it would throw up. Our 750 mile journey took about 13 hours of actual driving time. By the time we'd reached our destination, we'd only got as far as 'Alone Again Or...' by Love!
Has anyone else attempted anything like this? And how far through the alphabet did you get?
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Crazy Bill
Bill Drummond in his new book 17, posits that you should make 26 alphabet letter cards, pick one out at random and only listen to artists/composers/bands whose name begins with that letter for a year. Once that year is up, chose another letter at random. I considered doing this, but felt a year too long, so am doing it fortnightly. Currently I'm on the letter 'C'.
What would happen....
If you followed Drummond's ruling and picked the same letter twice in a row. You'd be gutted. Unless it was the letter B. I could live my whole life and live off B bands and artists.
you ditch
the letter you've already had.
Fair enough.
Ta for clarification.
Got to C in the end
Just to update you, by the time we got home from our 2450 mile roadtrip, the iPod had made it to the letter C. By my reckoning, I could make it round the globe on the whole alphabet!