Memory shortage

Explodedlibrarian writes:

[I]f I am always listening to music for particular moods or circumstances, when I am going to listen [to] new music and how is that music going to imprint on my present circumstances?

My problem is the reverse. I live with a pop music hobbyist/DJ. Hits of the rock era (1955-present) fill the house nearly every weekend as he and John tend their collection.

Years of indiscriminate exposure to pop music have confused my memories and rendered everything into a sort of soft-focus nostalgia.

Do chefs lose their sense memories as new gustatory experiences pile up? Does the intellect always interfere with experience?

I used to associate very specific images of middle school with "Ice, Ice Baby," but now I just lump all the early 90's stuff together, and avoid it whenever I can.

...Maybe that's not so bad.

And my world is a better place now that I've heard "Mr. Blobby," courtesy of the guys' British chart project.

Anyway, the iPod's cocoon of personal tunes has set me on the road to recovering my memories, if I concentrate. Yet wallowing in the known, as explodedlibrarian points out, has its dangers too. And it all takes up a whole freaking lot of hard drive.