Brant Rumble '95 and His iPod in New York Times

November 6, 2004

November 6, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - "My friend Brant Rumble showed me his iPod the other day," begins an article in today's New York Times . Rumble is a 1995 graduate of DePauw University. Bernard Holland writes, "Brant, who edits books on popular culture for a Midtown publisher, has just introduced 11,000 songs -- two-thirds of his CD collection -- into iPodian jaws. The iPod, for the less than hip, looks like a cigarette case with earphones hanging out of it. It's meant mainly, I suppose, for listening while walking around or sitting in the subway or pounding a treadmill in the gym."

The column, which appears in the "Arts" section, continues, "As I write and you read, Brant is probably walking through Rockefeller Plaza with Waterloo Sunset in his ears, but I can't help fantasizing about Brant the Wagnerian, with 180 complete versions of Parsifal held warmly in his hand. Or Brant the Mozartean, with maybe 1,600 symphonies and room left over for an overture or two. Haydn wrote a lot of music, and though I haven't done the arithmetic, I bet that Brant's iPod could swallow the Haydn corpus whole with never a belch."

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