What's on YOUR ipod?

I heard a story on the radio today about Tim Russert's memorial service. The audio clip from the service was Joe Cocker singing "With A Little Help From My Friends." I thought, "wow, cool service!" Then it was explained that the music at the service was taken from Tim's ipod. This struck me as a curiously intimate moment.

It used to be your mom would tell you to wear clean underwear "in case you were in an accident" and the doctors had to take off your clothes or something like that. Setting aside for a moment the complete bizarreness of this concept, these ideas are not too different. How do you want to be remembered? If you were to die this moment, what would people say at your service? Or even more thought-provoking, what would you be leaving behind, if you were not able to prepare?

Is there secret porn on your computer? Would your cell phone records show any surprises? If your mom, or spouse, or best friend, or even a complete stranger, were to go through all of your belongings, what would they find? Would it be consistent with the person they know? Would it be consistent with how you would LIKE to be remembered?

What's on YOUR ipod? It really does tell a lot about you. Broken into big categories, I have a bunch of jazz, a bunch of classical, and a bunch of musicals. Some rock and pop, a fairly big chunk of world music, and various oddities. I do have some music labeled "explicit:" Guns N' Roses, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, that sort of thing.

Is the life you're currently living consistent with the life you want to have led?