So Gapporin was the latest member of the DP forums to converge on the ol’ Greenhouse, all for a good cause – I was desperate to get rid of a good chunk of the ol’ record collection. The thing was, I had two rather sizeable boxes full of LPs, and a few singles, that I had been hauling around with me since I moved out of my parents’ house. These boxes basically encompassed my record collection, my brother’s, and my mom’s. So there’s quite a bizarre mix of stuff – Disney educational records, soundtracks (ranging from the Star Wars movies to a musical production of Cromwell with Alec Guinness [!!]), and any number of things in between, including Foghat Live (SLOW RIDE!), Kiss, and the Concert for Bangladesh. There’s probably some good stuff in there, but I’m already scrambling to archive VHS tapes to DVDs so I can toss the tapes to save space; I’m just not going to have the time to also do records-to-CDs at the same time, and the records were taking up a hell of a lot of space. So I hope he likes his haul – at the very least, for him, I hope it was worth ten bucks and the drive from Joplin and back. A lot of it may be trade bait for something much cooler, and I’m okay with that. The stuff I couldn’t part with, I kept, in a larger-than-I-really-wanted-it-to-be pile outside the ridiculously heavy box I handed off to him; I’m sure I’ll hear about that pile in due course.
Happy birthday to Flack, by the way – I’ve been talking to him quite a bit lately because I’ve been bitten by the book-writing bug. Actually I’m bitten by the book-writing bug fairly regularly, but I enjoyed “Commodork” so much that I’ve found myself asking “Is there a book I could write that Rob couldn’t just write himself?”, because Rob and I could each write a bunch of books on the same topics. Someone appeared out of the blue recently and suggested something to me that would indeed be a book that practically requires me to be the one to write it. I’m not going to tell you what it is just yet, because for pete’s sake, I need to research and write the thing, and then I need to get it published. But once you know what it’s about, you too will say “Yeah, that’s a book that only Earl would bother to write.” I know it’s a great idea to say “Hey! You know what? I think I’m suddenly going to start a major undertaking right before I have a baby to take care of!”, but this is something that will take some time. Like some time next year. But for all those who think I need to write a book, I’m working on it. Now it’ll just be a question of who in the world will want to read it.
TAKE IT EASY!*
I already knew that there was probably enough keepers to make the trip worthwhile, but I was pleasantly surprised by some of the selections I found when I perused it further (i.e. Roy Wood, Wizzard, film soundtracks, etc.). Some good stuff all around. All in all, I’m probably going to keep at least half the box, so it was definitely worth it.
Funny story: I tried taking the leftovers (or would these be leftover leftovers? :p) down to a record store today to see if they wanted any. After largely passing through the lot, the employee mentioned to me, “This is a pretty eccentric collection, isn’t it?” LOL! They did end up taking a couple, though.
Once again, thank you very much for the offer.
* = You know I was humming that the whole 2 hours back. 😛
By the way, you need to inform k8track that you’ve met my wife. I think he thinks I’m making this whole family thing up, as many times as he’s been over here and never met her. 😆
I’ve met your wife (so did Mr. Flibble). If k8track still has doubts, I’ll post the pictures as proof.