Collecting experiences vs collecting stuff

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I was never a big collector, even in the days when it could be said I collected records I'd only be getting two or three a week. SOmewhere along the line to realise that you aren't collecting to hear all this stuff, but to just own the stuff. I've never been a big book buyer for this reason (libraries sort me out) and have barely any videos or DVD's.

But iot struck me that my cinema going is a bit obsessive like a collector - except I am collecting experiences rather than stuff. This possibly ties into my disregard for home photography, in as much as I don't have a camera and I don't take/keep photos. Is it collecting, or is it something else? In the end there is no way I can verify the fact that I have seen these films (ie I have had the experience) which is almost the opposite to owning a book/album that you have never read/heard.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

You are hoping that being exposed to all these films is making your appreciation of cinema more sophisticated?

Going to the cinema provides a limited set of experiences. If you were that keen on collecting experiences you could do some other things. I suppose your approach is comparable to only collecting 60s ska records.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You need to limit the scope of your collecting somehow, surely?

Yours is quite a Geezaesthetic approach, innit Pete? As in: by collecting experiences you're maximising your chances of being able to have something to say in any given conversation. Not that not being able would stop you, obv.

I'm a hoarder more than a collector.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That makes sense. Nick, I'm not collecting experiences as a whole, I am still doing - as you suggest - limiting my experiences in a collectorlike manner. Possibly I might dress this up in the fact that it would make appreciation of cinema more sophisticated but that really isn't true (if that was the case I would watch more DVD's of older films perhaps but I don't really like watching stuff on TV, or even see more old stuff at the NFT, though i think I find the piecemeal approach there less structured). So I am anal about my film viewing in a lot of ways.

It strikes me that I want to collect the good and the bad, which would be quite geezaethetic too. It is not altogether that different after all to Tim's viewing of art. But certainly with cinema being a dominant art form I am definately maximising my talking opportunities.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You need to limit the scope of your collecting somehow, surely?

Rubbish. Mr Trebus to thread!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete you would maximise your talking opportunities if you had only ever seen 1 film in your entire life.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially if it was Reindeer Games.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I think perhaps in my case themaximising talking opportunities may be a red herring. Though note the way I surround myself with people who are effective limiters on this (in as much being donkey hind leg dangers in themselves).

Also I dont talk about films that much. Do I?

(BEN AFFLECKS CHIN. CHARLIZE THERON'S GAMMY TOOTH. GARY SINISE PLAYING CHRIS REA...)

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course collecting experiences is much easier when you're moving house.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't see a big distinction between going to see a film and reading a book. Having the book is like having the video, making it available again, but experiencing it is what counts, for me. The copy of Finnegans Wake that has sat on my to-be-read shelves for years feels far less mine in some important way than does, say, Eco's Baudolino (last book I borrowed from the library).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem with collecting experiences is that you forget them. But you can certainly do it.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Every shoes tells a different story....

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely that's "every shoes tells a different story". And what happens when a pair give different views on the same set of events?

I was going to try and make a joke about Runners = Ran, then I realised that was the wrong film, so now I won't.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Every shoe tells a different story. They don't always agree but they'll never let that get in the way of smiling for the camera.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

shoe. I meant every shoe.

My life is a ruin.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it because you haven't enough shoes?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, yes. My regular pair of boots got soaked a few weeks ago, so I switched back to by previous pair, which are lovely. The reason they're my previous pair is that the sole (like, just the bottom layer of rubber) was almost entirely detached apart from at the front and back. And yesterday it became detached at the back on the left bbot, so I had to a) stop and tear it right off in the street, harder than it looks b) walk into work and back with one boot an inch shorter than the other c) carry the sole around in my bag so I have something to show to whoever might resole it (a cobbler? do they work in rubber?) and d) go back to my old pair of boots, which aren't as comfortable, and the laces of which keep untying myself. Plus, I have only one weekend left in Dublin before Glastonbury, so Ill have to do a lot of wearing in during the last week.

So yes, then. And a good guess!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Shoe problem? You've come to the right laydee!

Cobbler's will fix any type of sole. Generally they will replace the whole thing rather than just a section, though. There is a shoe mender just beside Tara Street Station (a couple of doors up from McTurtles, nearer to the quays). You will pass by there on the way to work (?) but he is known to be a little pricey.

I had a sandal disaster once when the ankle strap on my sandal detatched when I was walking in Regents Park. I was mortified. I still live in fear of potential sandal disasters, they're like ticking bombs with their delicateness and strapiness.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, you can buy replacement soles in hardware stores. You just glue them on over the broken section. They usually come with instructions and, more importantly, glue.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Mending shoes is so classic it hurts.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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