Yer Stuff

[EC]

Okay.  Tonight I looked at my copy of Z book and realized that it's getting to the same states as the other books, and it fact might be worse.

ie, it's been loved.  ie it's got wrinkles and folds and a coffee stain and some frayed bits to it.

Like books, I actually really dig that.  It means that I've paid attention to it and got all immersed in it.  

Now, some people are not like that.  Some people like to keep their things in really good shape (for collecting, or, I don't know, whatever reason people would do that).

What kind of person are you?  Do you freak if someone returns a book to you with pages dog-eared?  Do you like the look of a worn in cd booklet?

No answer is right.  It's just curiousity.  Maybe I'm trying to justify my messiness.  ;)

[dragonboy]

Haha - great thread EC!
I'm so untidy except for when it comes to my CDs & DVDs.
I take such good care them!
I hate lending my stuff to anyone else because it always comes back covered in fingerprints & scratches!!! >:(
I've spent so much money on CDs over the years it would be a crime not to take care of them.
I do look at CD booklets but I look at them carefully. Haha
I used to be the same with books but I don't care so much now...it's pretty hard to read a book without breaking the spine, isn't it?

[EC]

So, you mean you haven't used the Z book as a coffee coaster yet?  Oh man, you're missin' out.  ;)

[Coltrane]

i am the same dragonboy......but also a bit like EC. Sometimes I buy two copies of the same great record (see: At Dawn) so it's okay to ruin one of them. Kinda of like the Simpsons when Marge makes a separate cake for Homer to ruin ("I didn't know it was Magaggie's birthday").

but, at the very least...the cd's must be kept in order!!!!

My wife is notorious for taking a cd to her car, and months later it ends up in a totally different jewel case. If I wasn't madly in love with her, it would be unacceptable!!!!

Books should be messed up, but not so much that your kids and grandkids won't be able to read them one day (which, now that i think about it, should be the same with cd's, if I were sure cd's will still be around in 50 years.)





this is officially the most threads I have posted on in one day. What the hell is going on here?!?!?!?!?!?

[dragonboy]

this is officially the most threads I have posted on in one day. What the hell is going on here?!?!?!?!?!?

You've enjoying some good vibes thanks to the Jacket dude, nothing wrong with that  8)

[Coltrane]

Yes!!! and no bickering. Just awesomeness, advice, and some jokes for good measure!!!!!!!

[tomEisenbraun]

i'm a fan of the vintage-y look. i don't tend to buy stuff that's made to look that way, but i do enjoy it when my stuff starts to wear out some. the top of my acoustic guitar is beautiful for this reason.

i'll take a good picture some sunny day and post it on here.

[ycartrob]

I cannot buy pre-washed jeans, they have to be blue, blue, BLUE! when I buy them. As they fade, they become more important and meaningful.

CD's and books? Whatever nature and friends do to them is OK. But, they HAVE TO BE IN ORDER (CD's more so than books)! I almost had a meltdown last week because someone (probably my wife) filed an Elmore James CD on the wrong side of the Jane's Addiction CD's!!!

Elmore James goes before Jane's Addiction!!!!!!
 BEFORE!!! NOT AFTER!!!
[glb] AAAArrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/glb]
OK, I am better now.  :-/

[SiOuxTribe]

With musical books and stuff like that, and books in general I like to keep in better condition, but my instruments on the other hand, after I've owned them for a while I sorta like them scratched up and vintang-esque looking.

[ali]

i like to think i am a laid-back person, pretty easy-going. with the BIG exception of my books and cds. breaking the spine (or even creasing it) is mostly definitely a crime in my book (sorry, unintentional!)

so far they're all pretty much in mint condition, and trying my best to keep them that way... a couple of the books are a little bent at the corners from being in my bag, but apart from that, i am pretty much obsessively protective of my little library. ditto the cds. no putting the cds down label-side up on the counter, no putting coffee mugs on cd booklets... so i'm in the same camp as dragonboy. they're mine, i paid for them, i love them, so goddamn look after them if i lend them to you!!!!!

i am a freak, all my friends (& flatmates, although i had to have a little word with one, who was doing the cd thing) know it...  ;D

[ali]

different story with instruments - i'm looking for a nice bashed-in, well-loved bass... none of these brand-spanking new ones for me!!  ;D

[wellfleet]

i quit lending my cds to my friends because they would return them with cracks in the jewel case and that drives me nuts because it's not like a broken disc that they *have* to replace, it's "just" a jewel case and they make you feel like some cheap bitch if you ask for a new case...
my mother always puts her cds in the wrong jewel case and can never find anything in less than an hour. to me, that's blasphemous...
my friend chris said i was anal for maniacally alphabetizing my cds so i decided to mix them up just to show him. well, i couldn't sleep for weeks i was so unsettled. then i put them back in order and all was well.
if someone dog-eared MY books i would consider that pretty disrespectful of my property. i've had books returned with notes in the margin in pen! wtf?
so, yes, i'm a wing-nut about my stuff...

[dragonboy]

My CDs are all over the place  :-/
I wish I had them in order & on display but we don't have the space here.
I have some in the lounge, some in the bedroom, some at my wife's parents house - you get the idea.
At least they're all in one country now...

[Tree]

question: how do you arrange your cds?

I follow 2 things:
1. The artist- or bandname (alphabetic order)
2. Then the releasedate of the cd

[Chills]

question: how do you arrange your cds?

I follow 2 things:
1. The artist- or bandname
2. Then the releasedate of the cd

Yep, that's the way.
Unfortunately mostly followed by

3. Total chaos, all over the place.

Then hopefully back to 1 and 2.

[ratsprayer]

mine are arranged alphabetically.  my wife, like most women it seems (sorry just being factual based on other posts) can't seem to put cds back in their proper jewel case or back in the order like she found them.  i try to take care of mine the best i can, but i drive something like 40,000 miles a year, and inevitably on my adventure, i come across those lovely pot-hole filled roads or uneven gravel roads, and a lot of my cds are sratched to hell.  they don't skip, but still.  with the wonderful advantage of high speed internet, i probably just as many albums on mp3 as in actual jewel cases.  all these albums are randomly thrown together on cds, and that drives me fucking bonkers.  at this point though, im not willing to put everything back on my computer and do them in order.  

[aMillionDreams]

I'm bordering OCD.  My stuff is organized with indexs and crazy shit that's not worth the time it takes.  Except the CDs.  I don't deal with the CDs anymore because they scratch and are a bitch to  organize.  I've downloaded all of my CDs onto the puter and have it organzied by band, and within each band, albums by year.  I'd recommend that system, especially if you have an ipod!

[EC]

my wife, like most women it seems (sorry just being factual based on other posts) can't seem to put cds back in their proper jewel case or back in the order like she found them.  

this miiiiiight be due to the fact that women don't care about dumb shit as much as men do, and focus more on other things.
(you asked for it,  here's a winker so you know i'm only teasing ;))

Okay.  I have no order for my cds.  I never have.  Not true, once I had them in kind of order, but that was when I had a controllable amount of them.  Books are somewhat different - they're in general categories (poetry is together, philosophy is together, porn is to-whoops, just kiddin').  cds are in my room, by the computer, all over the bathroom, in my bag, in shelby's room.

 :-/

[Coltrane]

it's weird. when i go to someone else's house, the first thing i look for is their cd collection. when I find it, that's when the judgement begins. If they are in no particualr order, i usually think much less of them. I know that's harsh, but I have issues, ok!!!!!

And of course, if they own crap, I have to leave immediately. Unless it's Debbie Gibson. Because I totally wanted to have sex with her (and go to the mall with her) when I was 14. So that's ok.


We are all a bunch of OCD nerds who need group therapy. (except, of course, EC...who is wonderful. But she should be there, 'cause she makes me smile.)

[ratsprayer]

how do you determine your alphabetising though?  for instance, personal choices here--  i file captain beefheart under C, whereas some might choose to file under B for Beefheart.  also, PJ Harvey is under P and not H.  maybe i should put miles davis under M instead of D.  now i have myself thinking....

 ;)