I'M the King of all Media

I started organizing a few things earlier, and realized that I am not OCD. I have a collecting obsession, but not one for organizational methods. While executing my ongoing operation of room cleaning I found a number of business cards, Magic: The Gathering cards, and a number of other small cardboard rectangles. The Magic cards are beyond organization at this point, I have too many. I played the game on and off (mostly on) from 1999 to 2006. I have at least 10,000 cards, mostly bulk common and uncommon cards from the Masquerade, Invasion, and Mirrodin blocks. I won't be able to organize these fucking things until I have a month to sit down and catalog them all. Some time this year, but not now.

Instead I set out to put all the business cards into a binder. I had this idea months ago, got the sleeve pages and binder, but never bothered to finish. Most of the business cards are contacts I've got for my work with the magazine, so I left them in the office instead of keeping them. I have space in the binder for eighty cards. Eighteen of them are filled so far, from my desk alone.

My books are beyond help right now. They used to be grouped by genre, volume, and author, but now there are just too many for my shelves. They've all been stacked on their sides, sometimes layered on the shelves so none go homeless. My CD's (a testament to my stubborn refusal to go entirely digital) have outgrown their racks as well, but they don't seem to mind staying stacked in front, near homeless. They too used to be organized by artist and album (year, not title), but that was many years ago. Now they are stuffed wherever they will fit.

The most heartbreaking thing is my sheet music. In high school I learned classical guitar, and that came with a limited knowledge of written notation. As the years slip by, the music slowly spreads out from its binder and fills empty spaces they should not dwell. I'm slowly rounding that up, just rediscovered Luis Milan's Pavane for a guitar ensemble. The page is mildly battered, but intact. I caught it in time. Other pieces I had are less fortunate. Bach didn't ware as well in this mess.

That's why I haven't been posting, and that's why my posts will probably include vast lists of things I've unearthed. I haven't decided that last bit yet.