From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #286 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, September 27 2000 Volume 06 : Number 286 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: How are your CDs organized [Joseph Zitt ] RE: Outwitting squirrels [Phil Hudson ] La Luna ["Datura Child" ] Re: La Luna [Bill ] Re: La Luna [RocketsTail@aol.com] re: how are your cds organized [meredith ] Happy cd's in Levittown, Penn. store [fsmcguire@juno.com] Re: How do you Store your CD's? [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] Re: How are your CDs organized [cjmacs ] Re: the day the solid format died [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] re: how are your cds organized [Bill Adler ] re: how are your cds organized [Neal Copperman ] Re: the day the solid format died [Joseph Zitt ] The easy way out ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Disarming simplicity in retrospect ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Re: Joan Osborne [Talamasca ] Re: the day the solid format died [bocchi ball ] she's done it again. [Jeffrey Burka ] Re: how are your cds organized [Bill Mazur ] Re: she's done it again. [neal copperman ] Re: she's done it again. [Jeffrey Burka ] Re: the day the solid format died [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] cd organizing [tenthvictim@mindspring.com] Re: how are your cds organized [Bill ] Re: she's done it again. [neal copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:12:13 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: How are your CDs organized On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 03:00:58PM -0500, Amy wrote: > I intend on importing this into Access at some point and then including the > song titles. The Excel thing I have now is just Artist Name, CD name, year > published and a type (like it's a bootleg or something). > OK so that's me... I strongly recommend getting a CDDB-aware CD database application. I use Catraxx, which works quite well. - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:52:30 -0700 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: Outwitting squirrels Obviously, you missed my two responses to your post ;-) I'm better off outwitting CDs and organizing squirrels. Thanks for your story, Bill; it's a lot of fun. I feel inspired and challenged to go out and prove my innate superiority over some of the local fauna. I shall go forth and hoodwink the possums living under my bathtub. They're pretty stupid. I can handle it. P ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:41:22 EDT From: "Datura Child" Subject: La Luna This may be a dangerous topic, but I simply couldn't resist. What DOES everyone think of Sarah Brightman's latest? I like it. Opinions? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:05:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Subject: Re: La Luna On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Datura Child wrote: > This may be a dangerous topic, but I simply couldn't resist. What DOES > everyone think of Sarah Brightman's latest? I like it. Opinions? It totally floored me that she did a Dido cover. Other than that, I haven't listened to the whole thing yet. - - Bill G. np: David Gray - WHITE LADDER (woo hoo! I found it used for $8!) nr: (who ever has time?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:11:46 EDT From: RocketsTail@aol.com Subject: Re: La Luna Even though I'm not a HUGE fan of Sarah Brightman she does have a great voice (just no emotion in it)...I bought "La Luna" and have to say there are three or four GREAT songs on it...the rest are either boring or...well, boring lol. The only thing that REALLY bothered me was her attempt to cover Dido's "Here With Me". WHAT WAS SHE THINKING??? hahaha! Not cool at all. But the album itself, it's cool for what it is I guess, I think she jumps around from style to style a little too much on an album. :-) ~Eric "This sense of humor of mine It isn't funny at all Oh but we sit up all night Talking about it" ~Kate Bush ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:40:17 -0400 From: meredith Subject: re: how are your cds organized Hi! Alvin commented: >This reminds me that in July 1996, I made a rough estimate on how >many CDs you had in those racks. At that time, if I remember correctly, >practically all your CDs lived in those racks, and they were pretty much >full. The number I arrived at was ~1600, so it seems I made a pretty >accurate estimate back then :) Yeah, especially considering the racks are advertised as holding 400 CDs, and we had 4 of them full at the time. ;> >Geez! I've spent ~10 years collecting my 427 CDs, and you guys acquire >more than that in _one_ year, meaning that you fill up your house with >CDs more than 10 times faster than me! :) Well, I do have to clarify that quite a lot of them are CD-R's at this point, thanks to woj's trading enterprise. But I think at this point if we were to restrict the count to bona fide releases and singles, we'd still be well over 3,000. I'm really not quite sure how it happened. Karen wondered: >what happens when two giant music collections, and their owners, decide to cohabit? The horror. <<<< That's when we alphabetized the CDs. ;> Bill added: >Meredith -- too bad I didn't post this question earlier. I was in the New Haven neck of the woods during the summer. Actually in Middletown, visiting my old college. If you happen to snap a photo of your CDs, let me know. This is one picture where you're allowed to have things messy. Get OUT. You went to Wesleyan?? When did you graduate? (Class of '92 here...) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:09:51 -0400 From: fsmcguire@juno.com Subject: Happy cd's in Levittown, Penn. store Hi, If anyone in the WXPN listening area is looking for Happy Rhodes cd's, Positively Records in Levittown, Pennsylvania had a few used ones last Friday. I can try and get their phone number and post it, but I don't know if they do any mail order. Building the Colossus $6.00 The Keep $8.00 Rhode Songs $8.00 Rhodes I $7.00 They used to stock all her cds, but I guess they ran out and weren't able to get them back in. Take care, Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:23:03 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: How do you Store your CD's? In a message dated 9/25/00 10:40:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: << Now create your master list and alphabetize that to figure out where they all are! This way, as you add more CDs, you don't need to renumber or rearrange the whole collection, you simply add "21" or "36" or whatever. As long as you keep your numbering together, and maintain the master list, it works. Of course, if you buy LOTs of CDs and run out of numbers too soon, then you're screwed! :) >> See, i would be screwed with that method! In recent times I have been buying TONS of CD's. I don't have a whole lot of CD's yet, I've got about 200. I keep all the stuff i'm currently into on one little spinning thing that holds about 75 CD's on my dresser. The rest I keep on a really nifty jumbo spinner in my closet. I file the artists A-Z and file the albums chronilogicly. Nothing too fancy, but it works for me. Joe http://www.angelfire.com/indie/impryan Now hit those gleaming faces hard You know you'd try to miss it you'd do the same for others Look now it's raising Ready to put you under light sedation - -Mary Margaret O'Hara ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:30:41 -0400 From: cjmacs Subject: Re: How are your CDs organized hi all! ok here's how i have mine arranged: i have a 16 foot piece of slatwall in the music room in the basement which has glass shelves, each one cd height apart. so far i have 4 rows of shelves up, which hold almost everything we have in classical, not including operas (which are in a 6-foot tall wooden cabinet of their own), and everything in rock from A to E by artist (not counting cd singles, compliations, soundtracks or anything we've gotten in the past two years). estimated on the wall: 1600-1700 cds on the floor are a few dozen boxes. the wooden ones (of which there are two dozen or so) are filled with cd singles, not including anything we've gotten in the past two years. estimated cd single total: 1200-1300 cds there are also cardboard boxes on the floor and on top of the wooden boxes that hold some of my vinyl collection (which at last count totalled 5000 not including a similar amount boxed up in storage at my dad's house) that are filled with cds from F to Z, plus compilations, soundtracks and recent singles. i ran out of glass shelves when i got to F and i just haven't gotten around to ordering any more... :-( estimated cardboard box total: 3000 cds in the living room is a tower that holds 200 cds; two wooden boxes that hold about 60 cds each, and an assortment of cds scattered in the wall unit. estimated living room total: 500 cds in the office there are four large boxes and six smaller boxes which hold mainly ecto stuff (this is where i do most of my listening lately). estimated total: 1500 cds then there are always cds in the cars... i also have two large armoires upstairs, one filled with cassettes, one filled with vinyl. only rarely do i panic looking for something. lately i've been hunting for "the keep" which i know i have here somewhere... oh and everything is alphabetized by artist as well as chronological by release date on the shelves and in the cases (not in the cardboard boxes though), although multi-composer/work classical cds present what seems to me to be an unsolveable dilemma. for instance, if a cd had ravel's ma mere l'oye, strauss' don juan and bernstein's candide overture on it, and it features lorne munroe on cello and leonard slatkin conducting the new york philharmonic on one work and the bournemouth symphony on the other two, and has no actual title, where would one put it???? chuck (hey anyone else notice all the chucks on here lately? ;-) np: lamb- mary had a big fat lamb nr: nelson george- hip hop america ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:33:19 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: the day the solid format died In a message dated 9/25/00 10:40:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: << As much as I enjoy having the physical media around, I think I'm pretty near ready for the day when its all done electronically by the computerized network device. I've resisted the investment in DVD so far mainly because I'm not looking forward to this new media sinkhole that will inevitably ensue. >> gosh, i hope that doesn't happen too soon. Perhaps it would be amazingly easy to just click on something and rock out, but the whole idea of an album, the front, the back, the side spine with the title on it, the little booklet inside with lyrics and arty photographs, I just wouldn't want to lose that. Hopefully the album format will stick around at least as long as I do. Joe http://www.angelfire.com/indie/impryan Now hit those gleaming faces hard You know you'd try to miss it you'd do the same for others Look now it's raising Ready to put you under light sedation - -Mary Margaret O'Hara ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:37:23 -0400 From: Bill Adler Subject: re: how are your cds organized Meredith, Small world! I graduated in '78. Spent my first two years in East College, then to Williams Street, then off campus. I had a blast at Wesleyan. (Okay, is everyone bored?) When we passed though Middletown on our way north this summer, we stopped to have lunch at O'Rourke's. One of the best concerts I ever saw was when I was at Wesleyan: Renaissance with Annie Haslam. They played in the hockey arena. One of the low points was when one of the college radio station DJ's played all of Peter Framton Live without a break. (Funny how I still remember that.) - --Bill n.p. The Velvet Janes, Venus Calling At 07:40 PM 9/26/00 -0400, you wrote: Bill added: >Meredith -- too bad I didn't post this question earlier. I was in the New Haven neck of the woods during the summer. Actually in Middletown, visiting my old college. If you happen to snap a photo of your CDs, let me know. This is one picture where you're allowed to have things messy. Get OUT. You went to Wesleyan?? When did you graduate? (Class of '92 here...) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ Bill Adler www.adlerbooks.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:00:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: re: how are your cds organized On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bill Adler wrote: > One of the low points was when one of the college radio station DJ's played > all of Peter Framton Live without a break. (Funny how I still remember that.) You can look for Mr. Frampton in the movie Almost Famous. I don't know where he is, since I didn't realize that til the credits. He seems to have co-written most of the songs by the fictional band, and plays some aspect of them (behind the scenes, or at least in the shadows). Course, maybe you won't want to see it now, though I think any music fan would get a big kick out of it. Plus, it's not a Dogma 95 film :) neal np: Ramblin' - Lucinda Williams ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:23:19 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: the day the solid format died On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:33:19PM -0400, RedWoodenBeads@aol.com wrote: > gosh, i hope that doesn't happen too soon. Perhaps it would be amazingly easy > to just click on something and rock out, but the whole idea of an album, the > front, the back, the side spine with the title on it, the little booklet > inside with lyrics and arty photographs, I just wouldn't want to lose that. > Hopefully the album format will stick around at least as long as I do. For those of us relics from the vinyl days, the idea of not wanting to lose the format with the *little* booklets is both sad and funny. - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:19:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: The easy way out My CDs are not organized at all. This often makes it hard to find a given one, but that's neither here nor there :-). Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:52:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Disarming simplicity in retrospect Decades ago, when I had LPs, I had them arranged essentially in the order I bought them. Just added new ones onto the end of the row of records on the shelf. As a onetime boss of my mother used to say, "it's terribly simple." :-) Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:57:54 -0500 From: "Amy" Subject: RE: how are your cds organized Bill wrote (to Meredith and I eavesdropped): > One of the best concerts I ever saw was when I was at > Wesleyan: Renaissance with Annie Haslam. They played in the > hockey arena. I was shocked to see the name, Annie Haslam. I got an email from someone asking me for information on her but I had no idea who she was. An internet search brought up nothing as well (but that's probably because the person that was asking for the info spelled her name wrong). I would appreciate anything you know about her (or if you could direct me to some info on her) so I can relay it to this person who wrote me. Thanks! ~Amy Women In Music http://www.ecalos.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:03:52 -0500 From: Talamasca Subject: Re: Joan Osborne At 10:16 AM 9/25/00 EST, Anne Deming wrote: >Joan Osborne, LIVE at First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, Friday, September 22, >2000. She played the next night here in St. Louis. >I walked into First Ave a little after 7PM to catch the entire set of the >opener, Lina. She had a rather pleasant voice, but little else. I thought she was okay for an opener. But then, we've tended to get lousy opening bands in St. Louis, so okay puts her ahead of the curve. >Joan hit the stage at 8:45 PM looking like a very pretty Janis Joplin (plaid >pants, a white t-shirt with a red car on it, tan suede jacket, and rose >tinted sun glasses). She sang three songs off her new release “Righteous >Love” and the crowd went crazy. If I Was Your Man, Running Out of Time, and Safety In Numbers started off the set here, IIRC. The crowd definitely felt the energy she exuded. >During “Right Hand Man”, Joan had the audience singing and dancing up a storm. Most energetic and crowd-pleasing, and here coming right after Pensecola, a favorite of mine. >I posted my brief and very disappointed review of “Righteous Love” at the >beginning of September which, unfortunately, has not changed at all. I haven't gotten a chance to read your review yet. My opinion: it's a pretty good album, lots of energy and all. I'm very much enjoying it. But it's disappointing a bit in that the subject matter seems to be the usual radio fair, i.e. love songs. Relish had some good character-driven type songs on it, a few philosophical songs, and songs related to love that weren't just "oops, I've fallen in love again" type songs, such as tend to inhabit the recent release. In other words, it had more variety, both in subject and in style. Righteous Love is a bit more homogenous than that. This is one of those kinds of albums that wouldn't be disappointing if it didn't have the previous album with which it would be compared. >There is one amazing track on the CD, “To Make You Feel My Love”, which was her >closing song. She did this song as the last of the encore at the St. Louis show, too. It's easily a favorite for a couple reasons: it's the only really slow song on an uptempo album, and so it's stands out as different; it's a slow song, and the slower songs tend to become my favorites most of the time; and it makes me think about how I feel about my girlfriend.... >It was simple, sweet and reminiscent of “Crazy Baby” from “Relish”. Ooh, I love that one too. It's my favorite song off of Relish. One reason is, much as I love Joan's rough voice, Crazy Baby features some lovely vocals, the smoothest I've heard from her. >I would recommend a front row seat to any show she’s giving. And I'd especially recommend you drop everything to see her if she plays a small club (dunno, perhaps 100-150 people, but I'm not good at estimation), general admission (standing and dancing) as she did here. John Higdon (Talamasca) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:18:18 -0400 From: bocchi ball Subject: Re: the day the solid format died when we last left our heroes, Joseph Zitt exclaimed: >For those of us relics from the vinyl days, the idea of not wanting to >lose the format with the *little* booklets is both sad and funny. ya beat me to it! +W ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:35:23 -0400 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: she's done it again. Oh *my*. Only managed to pick up one copy of _Lowlands_ today (would have bought another for my folks, but the store only had one!) Susan McKeown's latest is just *fabulous*, and well worth the wait (and what a wait it's been). Definitely in the _Bushes and Briars_ vein, but with more odd instruments from 'round the world then you'd find on an old Kate Bush album. I must say it's nice to hear the lusher arrangements of many of the songs I've seen Susan perform over the last 10 or so months. I'd say rush out and buy it, but I pretty much say that about any Susan McKeown album, so if she's not your cup of tea, just ignore me. jeff n.p. _Lowlands_, Susan McKeown ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:06:37 -0700 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: how are your cds organized Amy, Annie Haslam was the lead singer of the English progressive rock band, Renaissance. Renaissance had very strong classical and folk elements to their music as well. Renaissance were popular primarily in the early to late 70s. I saw them in conecrt during that time period. Annie has been doing solo work for a while now. Annie has a very beautiful, clear, and expressive soprano voice. Her voice was just as strong and clear in concert as it is on record. Here are two URLs to check out on Annie and Renaissance. http://www.anniehaslam.com/ http://www.enteract.com/~nlights/ All the best! Bill M. Amy wrote: > Bill wrote (to Meredith and I eavesdropped): > > > One of the best concerts I ever saw was when I was at > > Wesleyan: Renaissance with Annie Haslam. They played in the > > hockey arena. > > I was shocked to see the name, Annie Haslam. I got an email from someone > asking me for information on her but I had no idea who she was. An internet > search brought up nothing as well (but that's probably because the person > that was asking for the info spelled her name wrong). I would appreciate > anything you know about her (or if you could direct me to some info on her) > so I can relay it to this person who wrote me. > > Thanks! > > ~Amy > Women In Music > http://www.ecalos.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:20:52 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: she's done it again. At 11:35 PM -0400 9/26/00, Jeffrey Burka wrote: >I'd say rush out and buy it, but I pretty much say that about >any Susan McKeown album, so if she's not your cup of tea, >just ignore me. Did someone say something? :) neal np: ectofest 2000 sampler (You know, there is a Happy song on this sampler [that Chuck made] called How It Should Be. It's labeled as a "studio demo". I think Chuck said he found it somewhere on the net. I don't really remember hearing any comments about that around here, so in case it hasn't been mentioned (or other folks also weren't paying attention).) nr: City of God - E. L. Doctorow ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:23:05 -0400 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: Re: she's done it again. neal sez: > Did someone say something? :) Oh *stop* that, Neal. Don't tell me you don't either (a) already have it or (b) have plans to go buy it as soon as possible. > np: ectofest 2000 sampler (You know, there is a Happy song on this sampler > [that Chuck made] called How It Should Be. It's labeled as a "studio > demo". I think Chuck said he found it somewhere on the net. I don't > really remember hearing any comments about that around here, so in case it > hasn't been mentioned (or other folks also weren't paying attention).) > nr: City of God - E. L. Doctorow Dunno if that's a specific version or not, but "How It Should Be" was the bonus track on the european release of MWABT. Yes, I'm one of those people who ignored the fact that they'd already owned the album for more than a year and ordered the european release over the web for way too much money Just To Get One More Song. But it's a *really* good song. The strummingest guitar on MWABT... jeff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:33:47 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: the day the solid format died In a message dated 9/26/00 7:07:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jzitt@metatronpress.com writes: << > gosh, i hope that doesn't happen too soon. Perhaps it would be amazingly easy > to just click on something and rock out, but the whole idea of an album, the > front, the back, the side spine with the title on it, the little booklet > inside with lyrics and arty photographs, I just wouldn't want to lose that. > Hopefully the album format will stick around at least as long as I do. For those of us relics from the vinyl days, the idea of not wanting to lose the format with the *little* booklets is both sad and funny. >> Funny indeed, somewhat sad, but let's remember, we still have our booklets. Maybe when everything is electronic the artists will make little booklets you can order through the mail or something, haha. I think the whole idea of having something solid in your hand like that kind of goes along with being a music fan Joe http://www.angelfire.com/indie/impryan Now hit those gleaming faces hard You know you'd try to miss it you'd do the same for others Look now it's raising Ready to put you under light sedation - -Mary Margaret O'Hara ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:14:46 -0500 From: tenthvictim@mindspring.com Subject: cd organizing Hello, I had to wade in on the subject of CD organizing. I think organizing your collection of CDs is a vastly overrated activity. Why take the mystery out of life by knowing exactly what CD you own and where it is? I have spent many a happy hour stuck in the closet pushing CDs from one side of a cardboard box to another, exclaiming, "Oh yeah, Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, I wonder what that sounds like?" Or, "Gene Pitney, how have I made it through the last six months without you?" My method of CD storage involves a large ugly pine box from Crate and Barrel which purports to be an enterainment center. You fling open the doors of the box, hoping they don't bang closed on you while you insert your head into the dark cavity in which you have stored your CDs in three clumps of material, turn on the flashlight so you can examine the tiny lettering faintly evident on the spines of the CDs, and grab a handful so you can push them close to your eyes for easier identification. After this tentative exploration, you shove the CDs back into the empty space and try another chunk of CDs because what you were looking for was not in the first chunk of CDs. This continues until you stumble on what you were looking for, you find something more interesting, or you give up in disgust. The three clumps of material in my cabinet are: Classical, dance/electronic, and all other. But, if I recall correctly, my Synergy cd is in all other. Gershwin piano roll music lurks on the edge of classical, not quite happy to be there, more interested in snuggling up to Louis Armstrong in the all other clump. And what do you do with Brave Combo? It is dance music (try to sit still to any of their music) but there isn't a four-on-the-floor beat anwhere near them. Cardboard boxes hold CDs that don't fit in the cabinet, along with cassette tapes of all descriptions. I tend to grab plastic grocery bags full of CDs to take to work, so lumpy bags of CDs are scattered here and there across the livingroom floor. I don't know what happened to me. I'm a virgo and spent ten years as a library assistant. I currently track two hundred documents which are numbered and entered in a database at work, but I hate organizing CDs, and books. My bookshelves are jumbles of books with vague themes slightly evident in the sequence of titles. Could be a subject, could be an author, could be a genre. I suppose until I hit the 1000th CD mark, having a general idea of what I own and where it is will do. I understand that memory exercises keep your brain agile as you grow older. So I vote for randomness, chaos, labyrinthine memory threads, and serendipity. Bye, Lyle n.p. (in my head) Asylum Master: HR n.r. just finishing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: PK Dick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:19:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Subject: Re: how are your cds organized On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bill Mazur wrote: > Annie has a very beautiful, clear, and expressive soprano voice. And check out her cover of Yes's _Turn of the century_ on the Tales From Yesterday tribute album. - - Bill G. np: Frankie Ruiz - Tranquilo (I have just recently discovered Warehouse's used CD section; I am usually not a fan of used CDs (it's the anal retentive in Libra me), but I just walked away from there with a pile of CDs for $5 each; not bad at all). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:51:08 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: she's done it again. At 12:23 AM -0400 9/27/00, Jeffrey Burka wrote: >neal sez: > >> Did someone say something? :) > >Oh *stop* that, Neal. Don't tell me you don't either (a) already have >it or (b) have plans to go buy it as soon as possible. Ok. >Dunno if that's a specific version or not, but "How It Should Be" >was the bonus track on the european release of MWABT. Yes, I'm one >of those people who ignored the fact that they'd already owned the >album for more than a year and ordered the european release over the >web for way too much money Just To Get One More Song. Oh, I do remember hearing about that. neal np: winery cd - cowboy junkies ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #286 **************************