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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: yesno on January 20, 2008, 12:50:55 PM
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An interesting recent piece on Momus' blog takes the position that record collections are ugly.
http://imomus.livejournal.com/345642.html (http://imomus.livejournal.com/345642.html)
I've got to disagree-- but I have to say that CD collections *are* really, really ugly. Half shiny, half scratched. My entire apartment used to be filled with CDs. At the time, I thought it was great.
But big old record collections still have the weird mystique of a gentleman's library.
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The fact is, a library of books one has picked up over time and actually read is pretty ugly, too. Pretty vs. ugly seems irrelevant here.
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I don't collect records but I think they're beautiful, in the same way that I think books are beautiful. I have all of my music on iTunes and I think that's pretty ugly.
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The fact is, a library of books one has picked up over time and actually read is pretty ugly, too. Pretty vs. ugly seems irrelevant here.
I recently reorganized as many of my books by shape and color as I could. A big row of Penguins or some other series looks pretty cool. Even ratty old genre paperbacks can look at least interesting if you have them in a nice shelf.
(It's a very "queer eye" thing to do, but it's not like whatever insane system I try to impose on them-- sorting chronologically, or by genre-- ever lasts anyway.)
And I think that playing my music through Front Row, with nice high-res artwork, is more aesthetically pleasing than listening to a CD or a record ever was.
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My point is simply that a wall of books or a wall of records (or CDs, for that matter) exists for purposes other than decorative. Or should do. Me, I love the way they look--well, not CDs so much--but I don't admire the overall effect of a passel of 'em as attractive in and of itself.
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My point is simply that a wall of books or a wall of records (or CDs, for that matter) exists for purposes other than decorative.
Oh, I agree. But all else being equal, I think it's a fun thing to think about. I love it when I see people that have managed to have a house full of books and records not look totally awful.
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(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g69/forrestsimmonms/IMG00040.jpg)
I am willing to bet that I hold the FOT record for smallest living space, and I still could not live any other way than this.
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The Jewel Sleeve 3-Drawer Chest!
(http://www.jewelsleeve.com/mm5/graphics/prod_fs/threeChest_fs.jpg)
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The Jewel Sleeve 3-Drawer Chest!
I am waiting for the ultra-modern IKEA version.
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The Jewel Sleeve 3-Drawer Chest!
(http://www.jewelsleeve.com/mm5/graphics/prod_fs/threeChest_fs.jpg)
Is this a picture of the small living space Forrest lives in?
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I have a small record collection. It takes up a bookshelf in my house. I have my books on the other side of the room, parallel to the records, and I never tire of the musty charm of both of them.
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The Jewel Sleeve 3-Drawer Chest!
(http://www.jewelsleeve.com/mm5/graphics/prod_fs/threeChest_fs.jpg)
Is this a picture of the small living space Forrest lives in?
Top drawer is apt. #7. That's me.
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Show-off.