Too much music

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Some might think I have too much music.

I say there's just too much music to hear and have.

My husband got me a great iPod for my last birthday. It has 120 GB of memory. I've already filled 61 GB with music. Most of it is classical. I don't mean classic rock or instrumental music. I mean classical. Like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Medelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams, Holst, etc. Any other definition that comes up in conversation makes me smile and wince just a little.

With all that music at my fingertips, I've discovered a new source of enjoyment connected with an almost obsessive-compulsive need: compiling playlists. I'll be listening to a great piece of music and wish the next several pieces were in the same "family" of harmony or orchestration. Why don't I just turn off the shuffle or use the Genius button? BECAUSE I'M DRIVING, DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and I don't want to limit the list to a mere twenty-five tracks. Not when I can easily make a list where nothing repeats for two days. So I go home and create a playlist. Brahms is so especially loved that he got his own list right off the bat.

The list I made tonight is relaxing movements from Romantic/Impressionist/Post Romantic chamber and symphonic music. I called it the RIP Chamber. It was 2.9 days long. That just didn't seem right, so I found a few more things to make it a nice even 3 days. But I overshot and ended up with 3.1 days.

No worries, I'm not completely OCD.