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Originally Posted by swa(y)
i like keeping alot of books, as well as albums. not because i feel the need to listen to all of them, but i think they serve as a diary. when im looking through my albums and see crass's "the feeding of the 5000", it reminds me of who i was, and what i was doing at whatever given point in my life.
my album, and book collection also serve sometimes as a nice reference if i need to look something up. not to mention books are great conversation pieces, and ya can often tell alot about someone by what they are reading, and are (as well as once "were") listening too.
i can understand where yr coming from though lux. i dont relate, but i can understand.
i just look foward to being 75 and having a room in my house devoted to art, wether it be music/whatever.
and i think alot of the albums i own may one day be difficult to locate (even with the rising popularity of torrents/etc)
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I think though I've begun to feel very disconnected from a lot of the things I normally would've seen as a sort of milestone. I just think this, because once you grow, as much as you try to give meaning to those old things, they just really can't hold up, so what's the point in keeping them around? It's really a waste. This isn't stuff that I'm embarrassed of in any sense, that is not my point at all. I can't think of anything I'm actually embarrassed to own. This is stuff that I still "love" but in the same way that I say I love Fruit Roll-Ups: I haven't eaten them in a while, and I know that if I tried to eat them again, I wouldn't be able to, because they do not sit well with me anymore. The only thing that makes me say good things about them is the memory of how I used to like them. But I know that it's not going to be one of those circular things where I can come back to it years later and enjoy it. A lot of books, music, movies, and just stuff in general can fit in here.
I guess unlike you, I don't want people to come into my house and look at all my stuff and try to come to some conclusion about the sort of person I am. I've had people do that before and I think it's lame. I would prefer keeping my stuff hidden, and right now all of my stuff is at my dad's house, but my dad is the sort of person who likes to show off the things that he owns, so he puts all of my books and his books on display, and did the same thing with the music, and the movies, and it just strikes me as a crap thing to do. But it's his house, and I have nowhere else to keep this stuff (which is one reason I'm getting rid of it), so what can I do.
My idea of having a house devoted to art is hanging up your kids' drawings they bring home from school, and any sort of crap they might put together. My mom does this all the time. I think in our entire house, there are only two store-bought pieces of "art," and everything else is school projects or art work done by me and my brothers. My favorite drawing ever, in the history of all art, is this portrait a friend of mine sketched of Geddy Lee once during lunch period in high school. It was totally from memory, yet it looked exactly like him. I don't have this drawing, but I would like to get my hands on it someday. My second favorite piece of art is a 5-minute painting a guy in my class did when everyone in class had to model for each other when we were learning about the human anatomy. The painting is of myself, and I have this gigantic witch nose and an enormous chin and I'm wearing a red hat, and this guy hated so much how it turned out that he tried hiding it from me, he was really embarrassed of it, but I found it, and so he let me keep it.