I'll Know You By The Ringtone

So I've had to get a new phone after I'd had it with my LG Cingular phone. Between dropped calls and bad reception, it was time to part ways. Without much convincing I selected the Motorola RAZR for only $25. It's a great phone.

One of the perks of the phone is Bluetooth, which means I can link up my phone and my computer (iBook G4 w/Bluetooth). After a few google searches last night I found how I could send music from my computer to my phone. How is this cool? Well, if you have iTunes it's pretty freaking awesome.

In iTunes, there's a function that let's you edit a song based on start and finish times you manually enter. Then by a simple conversion to MP3's, iTunes basically copies the truncated song to your music playlist. Then you can export that 10,15,25 second song (or however long you want it) to your phone via Bluetooth.

So, what all does this mean? Well it means I've got some pretty cool ringtones that I haven't had to pay for. And that I can configure any part of any song to what I want that reminds me specifically of a person and then assign that, again, truncated song as that person's Ringtone ID. Here's my current list along with the part of the song I've used:

The Mrs.: "Trouble" by Ray Lamontagne: "I've been saved by a woman and she won't let me go.

eric: "Jimi Thing" by DMB -- the intro only, you played it ALL the time in college.

Dad: "It's the words Red Sox fans have longed to hear: The Red Sox are World Champions!" by Joe Buck. I'll fess up -- I payed for this one.

Mom: "Where You Are" by Bebo Norman: "The child in me would say, home is where you are."

steve: "T-Shirt Song" by Derek Webb: "They'll know us by the T-shirts that we wear."

mig: "A Little While" by U2: "A little girl, with Spanish eyes."

tim: "Into the Fire" by Bruce Springsteen: "Up the stairs, into the fire."

becky: "Piano Man" by Billy Joel: "Sing us a song you're the piano man."

sarah: "Mr. Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan: "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me in the jingle-jangle morning I'll be following you."

Obviously there are a few of you I haven't gotten to yet, like eric's Mrs., mike p., phil, OOBM, et. al. So if you've got suggestions, let me know and I'll get you on the phone.

Also this brings up an interesting idea for all of us. If we could be recognized by a song lyric, what would you want that to be? Would it just be from your favorite song? How would you describe yourself in song to be identified by someone else? Because, I have chosen these ringtones/songs as I did because I feel they best describe the person to me. Of course, it may also not be how such a person sees him/herself. But it's an interesting notion, that, first, we can be described as such and second, that different people would describe us differently.