They were well-worn cardboard boxes
bulging from the weight
of documents obsessed with mindless slaughter and decay
For me to see
Boxes that depicted a sad reality
Full of fiction and reflections of insanity
For me to see
For me to see
- The Residents, "Boxes of Armageddon"
Only one more day before I see my favorite band here in my home town. Yay!! I pulled the title of this blog from one of their songs. That's because after looking around my room and thinking "What I can get rid of next?", I realized that I have quite a number of boxes of...stuff. So this time I thought I'd keep the mission pretty simple: pick two or three of the boxes, get rid of what's in there, then get rid of the box. And by "Get rid of what's in there", I mean that each object should go to its expected place (e.g., a CD goes on a rack with the rest of the CDs), or gets put in the eBay/thrift pile, or gets thrown away.
Box #1
First was a box of -- gee, whadda ya know -- cassette tapes! Not just any random cassette tapes, though. These were all "homemade" tapes. A box of store-bought blank tapes with stuff recorded on to them. No thrift store or auction would take these. They're either dubs of friends' tapes I made back in the day that I either own on CD or can find on CD, or personal stuff (band demos, etc.) that I should make digital copies of. So that means 1) throw out the album dubs, and 2) sift through and copy the rest. Step #2 is a whole project in itself. Like the VHS conversions, this is something that's going to take a few weeks to plow through.
I did also manage to eliminate a carrying case or two. My tapes were in a dozen different carrying cases, some that held 12, some that held 60, some that held 30. So far I've crammed everything I plan on keeping into the 60-tape case. Cassette holders are cases that you CAN sell to thrift stores, or to people who still have tapes and want carrying cases.
Looks like I'll be listening to some tapes tonight. Stay tuned for box #2, which makes me wonder just how many different weird things CAN be crammed into a single box.
