Things I Said to Siri on My Walk Last Night

Geoff Coffey

2 July 2015 Archive Post

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The perks and perils of growing your music library from 6,000 to 30,000,000 songs.

• Hey Siri play the song You Can’t Hold Back Spring

  …what is this crap?!

• Hey Siri play the Tom Waits song You Can’t Hold Back Spring

  …wait what?

• Hey Siri play the song You Can’t Hold Back Spring by Tom Waits

  …ahhh, that’s the stuff.

• Hey Siri play the song Mexican Home by John Prine

  …oh my word no not the twangy one.

• Hey Siri play Mexican Home Live by John Prine

  …ahhh that’s the stuff.

• Hey Siri play the song Remember When by…um…Robert? Jackson

  …whoa stop stop stop.

• Hey Siri play the song Remember When by Jackson

  …oh Allen Jackson. Thanks Siri! That’s the stuff. (What can I say, I miss my wife and when I miss my wife my sentimentality shields are down to 20%.)

• [hey this could be cool] Hey Siri play the music from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  …what? No.

• Hey Siri play that Brian Eno music from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  …Darn. I guess you don’t have that.

• Hey Siri play some Iris Dement I don’t own

  …no? Darn.

• Hey Siri play that song from silver linings playbook

  …hey cool. That’s the one!

• Hey Siri play hits from 1993

  …holy nostalgia.