In his comment on Sunday, Scott pointed me towards a list of cd’s; not to be outdone, I created one of my own. It’s over there on the right under Books & Music; the music page follows the initial page you see, so scroll down to the right hand corner and click the Music link. (Scott’s is much more lengthy and impressive; it’s also prettier.)
Creating a table of 32 cd’s is one thing; creating a spreadsheet of my approximately 300 vinyl LP collection is quite another!
I shudder to think of doing a books and music listing for myself. I have at least 500 of the former and approximately 300 of the latter. Eeeek.
I so want to put my books in a database! The idea of doing that is too daunting, though, without some program that can take an ISBN and pull up all the other info. I started doing that with comics (including listing major character appearances), but soon gave up.
However, Tom and I keep separate music databases (for now – we created them before we met each other). My cd count is about 1000 and his is 800+. There’s probably about a 6% overlap. I have about 100 more to add and I haven’t added the tapes (easily 500+). Records number about 400 for me, 200 for him.
Serious about music? Nah, it’s just a hobby. 😉
Holy cow, you two! And I’m cursed with the sort of mind that nearly instantly calculates “average cost times number in collection equals Yikes!”
I don’t even want to try to start on books; that would be upwards of 2,000.
I should say that that list was actually created by iTunes and a neat little applescript, which just exported the contents of my mp3 collection as an html table (I also made a database). I think I’m missing about 20-30 CDs in there, somewhere, but I just don’t have the time to hunt them down and rip them.
My vinyl collection is nowhere near as expansive as yours, it seems, but small as it is I have no intention of putting in the effort it would take make a public record of my poor taste in music from back then. 😉
Books? Not a chance. No way. Really. I recently boxed up eleven boxes of books for which I no longer had any room. Eleven. That left me, still, with far too many.
An occupational hazard, I suppose….
RUNNING ON EMPTY
(Jackson Browne)
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on
Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind
Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on
Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind
Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don’t know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that’ll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too
Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind
Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I’d love to stick around but I’m running behind
You know I don’t even know what I’m hoping to find
Running into the sun but I’m running behind
Links, I try not to think about it, but all the debt I have can probably be attributed to too much spent on music, books, and cocktail paraphernalia. About 8 years ago, an intern calculated that I averaged about 1 cd every 3 days.
Of course, I used to work at a radio station (just before cds became the norm) and did work at a music store for a year (and have friends in the music industry), thus received a LOT of promos.
Sheesh, Scott. Eleven boxes extra! I have about 17-20 boxes of books right now, but that’s only because I recently moved and haven’t yet bought bookcases (I got rid of the last ones, they’d bent too much under the weight).
Extra books? There’s no such thing. There are only books which are looked at less frequently than others. 😉