The first problem is my 8gb ipod.  That's plenty of music at one time, if I am really listening to it.  8gb will last six months until i have outplayed & can barely listen to my favorite albums (Mountain Goats-All Hail West Texas, The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin, Ornette Coleman - Dancing in Your Head, Lee Perry and the Upsetters - Roast Fish, Collie Weed, and Cornbread, Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen) and have learned to love things I thought I could never possibly love  (Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships, Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters, Alban Berg - Lulu Suite, The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots) but then my love continues to evolve and slip away.  A day comes when I look at my ipod and I can't summon up the enthusiasm to listen to anything, even Rachmaninoff preludes.  How did I get here.  I feel my love slipping away and I don't care.
I hear a Queen song (Hammer to Fall) on the classic rock station while driving to work.  It is really good.  I don't know if it is because it is 5:45 am and I am offguard or because my ears have gotten a lot better since I last heard Queen.  I am deeply moved and I think, Queen, why have I forsaken thee.  Why have I pretended to be superior to classic rock for so many years.
I look at my 8gb ipod and I hate everything on it, and I miss everything it used to hold.  I have some of these albums, I want to put on Cat Stevens and Hall and Oates and Ryan Adams even for just a minute, to hold them close again in my hand.  The first and last problem is my 8gb ipod.  I do not know what to delete, I can't bear to part with any of it.  If I delete these, they are gone forever.  Why can't I hold all of the music I love in my hand, why can't I love it all at the same time.  It hurts so bad.