As I shouldered through the crowds, iPod buds shoved deep into my ears, I imagined how much better life would be if everyone walked around in a visible cocoon of digital music, a big, pixelated bubble of playlists, like a force field deflecting everyone with piss-poor taste and letting all the Ting Tings strolling within an aura of blue-eyed soul slip right into your life with an easy smile and a first conversation.

currently playing…black eyed peas…rejected.

currently playing…jolin tsai…rejected.

alert…two thousand three hundred sixteen matches…currently playing…

james brown…live at the apollo nineteen sixty eight…

track nine …

i feel alright.

That’s Tunage. If you’ve got an iPhone…check it out.