So I do some writing about music. Nothing too crazy, but every now and then I get to interview and/or meet one of my heroes. I shook Elvis Costello’s hand once. I hung out with John Popper backstage at the Orpheum in Boston — I’d prove it but the pictures I took didn’t come out. And over the last ten years or so I’ve also amassed a fair number of CDs and tapes that I’ve gotten mostly for “free.” As my collection grew I kept buying storage units to hold everything. So, before this whole “media room” project started, I had about four or five mismatched, unfinished wooden shelving units. Classy.
Now the tapes I don’t know what to do with. There were a few hundred, so I did some triage. I threw out the tapes that I also had on CD, the ones that really sucked and I couldn’t defend keeping, and the ones that were still shrink-wrapped. But I still don’t know what to do with the rest. I’ve got them arranged artfully in a moving box and, you guessed it, an unfinished wooden shelving unit. I figure one day I’ll convert them all to mp3s, I’ll get started on that right after I stain and finish all my shelves.