2006.04.04

Ring Ring Ring

Posted in House and Home, Music at 6:42 pm by Jeremiah Wittevrongel

Once again I’ve caved – I’m the (proud?) owner of a Motorola RAZR V3c, complete with unweildy service contract. What’s up with that? I mean geez… next thing you know I’ll be buying a car or something. Oh, wait…

But nevermind that. Thus far I’ve avoided the temptation of putting Madonna on the phone as a ringtone. (Yes, I can put whatever MP3 ringtones I want on this phone, and no I don’t have to pay anything to do it.) Instead, My current ringtone selection includes a few choice cuts from the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack.

So right now, it is quite possible that some unsuspecting stranger on the C-Train will re-live that moment in FF VII: Advent Children where Tifa looks around, confused, then realizes that the guy she just kicked the crap out of has the FF VII battle victory theme as his ringtone. That one’s on there. Cheesy, yes, but the only people who would think it was cheesy are Square Enix übergeeks like myself, so I figured, what the heck. I paid good money for the FF VII Original Sound Track, I might as well enjoy it. Most of you folks out there in cyberland have no idea what I’m talking about here anyways.

Note to self: Change ringtone before this year’s Otafest, or face the ridicule of hundreds of fellow geeks.

I’ve been thinking about other ringtones that might be fun to have for reasons other than their musical value (or lack thereof). For instance, it might be an interesting social experiment to switch my ringtone to a cut from Hang On, Here We Go by Jet Fuel the next time I’m in the USA. It’d be a sure way to see who the Canucks were, since I don’t think many Americans would recognize the tune.

By contrast, it’s practically a Canadian icon, a sort of Hockey Night in Canada theme for the MuchMusic generation if you will. I can’t think of many people of my generation who wouldn’t recognize the EC theme. Some of them would probably start dancing involuntarily. Now that would be something to see.

Any other ideas? What other crap can I put on my phone as a ringtone? Or should the phone stay on vibrate forever?