ACCOZZAGLIA

i tried to play a pair of 12″ singles last night. the problem was that i couldn’t find them in the disorganised chaos that has become my Midnight in Halifax vinyl library.

between moving across country, bringing small stacks of vinyl to accompany my already-remastered MIH CD-R library to gigs before i left and working on remastering the MIH library, year by year (requiring me to break the library stacks down to year, along with special stacks for new stuff i added from my shopping forays), my stacks had gotten past the threshold of even being usable or accessible.

so.

prompted by my difficulty in finding three 12″ singles in particular — Robbie Nevil’s “Dominoes” (the first 12″, not the second), Jane Wiedlin’s “Blue Kiss” and Pet Shop Boys’ “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” — i threw everything down while sparkle_vixen slept, completely averted my list of things to do today and rearranged the whole schebang.

that was a smart plan. suddenly, my vinyl library just unlocked for the first time since i moved here. i can actually find what i’m looking for, so long as i know in what year it was released (which i do, so no worries there).

there’s always something keen about thumbing through all the sleeve art, getting that nasty “vinyl dust” encrusted in your fingertips from going through so much content. if i have a suspicion whether a friend of mine just spent the afternoon thumbing through a used vinyl shop — and they deny it — all i have to do is look at their hands to find the guilt. *hee hee*

plus, i learned a lot about the changes to my library’s content since i really last paid attention in early 2000:

–> 1987 is a lot bigger than i last remember it.
–> same with 1984.
–> 1985 is still the biggest stack.
–> 1983 still has some critical gaps that keep me awake at night.
–> 1988 must have been a weird year, since i still have so few from then versus 1987 or 1989.
–> 1990 was definitely the last great gasp. it was also the year i began the library, so there’s probably a connection somewhere in that.
–> everything on 12″ before 1981 is still far and few between. 1992 isn’t much better, but that’s because grunge and bad techno were already killing off much of what i was hearing and collecting by then.
–> my Frazier Chorus 12″ library doesn’t suck anymore, whee!

anyhow, the CD library is still in boxes and remains in utter disarray. how and when i’ll get to that is a mystery unto itself. i have nowhere to file and shelve that stuff right now, so in the boxes it remains.

but for the three hours i spent between two and five a.m. in utter silence, i’d say the effort was well worth it.

go, go me, wee-hee.