Gen Xer with iPod

I got an iPod for my birthday. Can you believe it? I'm 39 (today), I shouldn't be falling for that crap. Well, I love the damn thing. I got some speakers for it because I have a serious phobia about sticking anything in my ear. Also, walking around listining to music that nobody else can hear is just a little too close to being genuinely psychotic for my taste. Anyway, by the end of the first day I had about 600 songs on there and put that thing on shuffle. It's like having your own little radio station! I now have almost 1300 songs loaded up. The literature says that it can hold up to 15,000 songs. I told my buddy Jeff that I was going to try to fill it up. "Then what happens?" he asked. "The void," I said, "Oblivion. I throw it away and go buy the next shiny thing that strikes my fancy" I pity the poor kid that steals my iPod. What is this crap? Blind Willie Who? Norman Blake? Cat Power? The Be Good Tanyas? I am rocking to Tuvan throat singing, the anthology of American Folk music and the Clash. I was listening to a six-year-old describe the Black Death to me the other day, only he kept calling it the Black Dot. Good name for a band, I thought, The Black Dots. Sort of a rip-off of the White Stripes.