Four Hundred Days Til Re-entry

Gold dust mixed with diamonds

A few years back I looked around my room despairingly and decided that something needed to be done. Usually this equates to something needing buy buying and so it was in this case. The problem: About 1000 CDs, DVDs, and SVCDs. The solution: A set of matching CD cases from the 100 yen shop.

Those of you out there who have done this kind of thing will appreciate why this is a poor idea. Say you want a particular CD - which one of the twenty identical cases to look in first? The inneviatble point where you realise that you have been putting them back onto the "to be looked at pile" meaning you have to go through them all again. You get the message, right?

So in preparation for the upcoming Belle and Sebastian concert this week I was growing increasingly frantic about the whereabouts of my favourite album of theirs, Tigermilk. I had been through all the "one last tries" and looking behind the toilet that accompany this kind of search. I had had the seats out of the car, put my more suspect CD-borrowing friends to the torture and still come up with nothing.

Then I came across a seemingly empty CD wallet. I opened it up and nestled inside were the following CDs:

Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian
The Great Eastern by the Delgados
Wonderland by the Charalatans
Global A-gogo by Joe Strummer

along with the thought-previously-lost entire CD collection on CDMP3 on about 7 discs.

Since then I have been listening to the four CDs listed above and floating around in a kind of fierce joy. These are amongst the best CDs I own and my God how I have been missing them.

posted by Between daisies @ 08:49