when you've reached That Point...

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what is one to do when s/he can no longer maintain the tenuous denial that the fleeting thrills of hunting, attaining, and amassing music have always been a sorry substitute for such real and infinitely more rewarding creature comforts as intimacy, responsibility, and activity? when the soothing anaesthesia of the sonic fix is being slowly subsumed by the anhedonia of groaning, dusty shelvesa and a sinking sense of empty accomplishment? when confronted with the icily lucid understanding that the whole of one's self has been sacrificed to the endless, thankless business of curating a private library rather than a music "collection?" when the issue isn't the unholy measures of money and time and energy selfishly expended so much as the futility of the expenditure? when such realizations are overshadowed by the fear that one has allowed music to become his Alpha and Omega, and that without the little thrills of the full mailbox and the pride of possession of the hand-numbered editions there is only the vacuum?

― loxmyth, Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Open a window. Go for a walk. Stop listening to music for a while. Read a good book. Call a friend.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

anhedonia, eh

― athol fugard (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

The only real friend that you've got is your dog, Arrow. Take him for a walk.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

That's when I reach for my REO Speedwagon.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Sell entire collection on eBay. Use money to take trip around the world. Meet girl (maybe in Zambia, maybe in Finland). Fill life with love, laughter. Alternately, drink self into stupor.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

is this the "intelligent discussion" we're supposed to be fostering instead of, you know, nude pics of claire danes?

― athol fugard (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 November 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

S/he should buy some cheap cassettes at the drugstore/truckstop/cutout-discount bin, concentrating on genres s/he knows little or nothing about, and enjoy.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 27 November 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

lack of intimacy, responsibility, and activity + excess of money and time and energy selfishly expended = get one laid

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 27 November 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

i reached that point, got over it, and kept on buying music. i realised the only thing i'd buy instead of vinyl and cds would be (a) music recording gear (probably a better use of the money) and (b) booze (not a better alternative)

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 27 November 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

OTOH, blunt1200 OTM.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 27 November 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

interesting, thoughtful responses. there is a lot of truth here. tnx.

― loxmyth, Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

and plz YSI those naked Claire Danes pix, STAT.

― loxmyth, Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

start making art. isn't the point of consuming art to build a library of creative tools that you can use in your own pursuits?

― lf, Monday, 28 November 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

"Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 28 November 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

maybe music's just not right for you

― Jena (JenaP), Monday, 28 November 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

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