dusting off

there are stacks of books, cds and boxes in my studio again. right when i got it all organized. see, it appears that sometime in the first quarter of 2005 we'll be moving house. over the years we've done well in reviewing our possessions and ridding ourselves of as many as we can. we have a small condo without a ton of storage space but regardless it's easy to get sentimental about things that really don't matter.

so i've got a couple of stacks of cds that i'm going through, trying to figure out how to dispose of them for the most money for the least work. some will go to ebay, some to wherehouse.com which has pretty good trade-in rates that you can see upfront. books will be taken to the various used bookstores or ebayed, adding to unspent store credit from when we did the same thing a year ago but bought very little.

one interesting thing of note is that i seem to have lost almost all interest in industrial music, which i listened to quite a lot back in college. there goes the nitzer ebb, front 242, nine inch nails and such. i'm also officially swearing off live albums. i think i'm getting rid of every single one from lack of use.

the upside is that over the next month or two i'll continue ripping the cds i'm keeping to my hard drive, rediscovering albums i haven't listened to in years. currently "dark" period early cure albums are occupying my ears. these are all being remastered and reissued over the next year or two with extras. i'm so looking forward to them, even if i'm not the depressed teen who first discovered and loved these albums. i'm also looking forward to getting some new cds. that cranes purchase a week or so back was the first new cd i'd bought in a long, long time. then again, there is very little in the way of new music that i've been inspired to buy.

given the favorite bands in my profile, if you know any bands i should look into, feel free to comment and let me know.