Yes, that is my copy of Cats. No, I really do like chicks.
The girlfreund took a huge step in making our current hovel into a home by creating two funky and amazing bookshelves out of wood and plastic cups. I was skeptical when she explained her vision to me - it sounded less Vern and more Hilde - but they look quite spectacular. Pictures to come later. Add this to her insane quilt project and the super cool wall of faces that makes hipsters everywhere drool, and you have quite the little creative genius. If there's ever a reality tv show about having the most schizophrenic list of talents, I'm signing her up.
Anyway, I liked the bookshelves so much that I immediately took them over to hold my CDs and DVDs. Instead of studying, I spent the entire evening alphabetizing and displaying my entire music collection. I haven't been able to do this for years, because I've never had the space for it. The experience brought me back to high school, when the rest of my bedroom was a cesspool but I'd obsessively catalog each of my albums in a state that was almost meditative. I have many favorite scenes from "High Fidelity", but I identify most with the scene where the protagonist is surrounded by rows upon rows of his records which he is reorganizing into the order that he got them. I don't have nearly as many albums (my collection tops out at around 300), but I bet I could do it. The first CD I ever bought was the Beatles Past Masters Vol II. Then came Clapton Unplugged...
If you have a significant collection and haven't bothered to organize it in awhile, I can't recommend it enough. Take all of your CDs out of that humongous CaseLogic binder you bought to save space and stick them back in their original cases (you know you kept them for just this reason). While you're at it, put your portable cd player on the floor next to you. You'll listen to discs you've forgotten all about even though the teenage you listened to them over and over again while lying in your bed, agonizing over why it is girls don't get you.
I discovered that I own a Tori Amos CD. Awesome. I'm gonna listen to it tomorrow. Cats, though? That's fucked up.
Anyway, I liked the bookshelves so much that I immediately took them over to hold my CDs and DVDs. Instead of studying, I spent the entire evening alphabetizing and displaying my entire music collection. I haven't been able to do this for years, because I've never had the space for it. The experience brought me back to high school, when the rest of my bedroom was a cesspool but I'd obsessively catalog each of my albums in a state that was almost meditative. I have many favorite scenes from "High Fidelity", but I identify most with the scene where the protagonist is surrounded by rows upon rows of his records which he is reorganizing into the order that he got them. I don't have nearly as many albums (my collection tops out at around 300), but I bet I could do it. The first CD I ever bought was the Beatles Past Masters Vol II. Then came Clapton Unplugged...
If you have a significant collection and haven't bothered to organize it in awhile, I can't recommend it enough. Take all of your CDs out of that humongous CaseLogic binder you bought to save space and stick them back in their original cases (you know you kept them for just this reason). While you're at it, put your portable cd player on the floor next to you. You'll listen to discs you've forgotten all about even though the teenage you listened to them over and over again while lying in your bed, agonizing over why it is girls don't get you.
I discovered that I own a Tori Amos CD. Awesome. I'm gonna listen to it tomorrow. Cats, though? That's fucked up.
posted by Skim at Sunday, August 12, 2007
1 Comments:
with that new computer you gave me, i now have my entertainment center set up. it connects to the cable box for TV viewing and i have my entire CD collection digitized (under 75 cds) into mp3. add in my new wireless media center keyboard, and booya.
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