Every once in a while, I’ll find a perfect combination of song and road. Today I had one – Pet Shop Boys “Somewhere” came on just as I was getting onto I-290 as it starts in Hudson and it just seemed right. THe song picked up just as I went under the 495 ramp and… well, it was just right.
For those keeping score, the other spots I’ve had this that I can remember are:
I-84 westbound just before exit 8, Abba’s “Dancing Queen”
I-390 north over a hill just before I-90, Depeche Mode’s “Get Right With Me”
I-87 north through Saratoga Springs, Prodigy’s “Voodoo People”
Anyone else have anything?
This may be the ability of the human brain to recognize patterns where no pattern exists (see The Illuminatus Trilogy’s “Rule of 5″ for another example), but I’ve noticed that sometimes my iPod acts smarter than it has any right to be. As an example, yesterday it played a bunch of songs in a row that were exactly what I was looking for at that time. Other times, it’ll choose a song which makes me think of another… which is the next song it plays. And then still other times, it’ll play a song but I’ll skip it because that isn’t the version I particularly wanted – so it plays another version next.
I know I’m not the only one to have noticed this.
