Old ILX Posts Which Continue To Haunt Your Thoughts

thanks a lot

blame imago for re-posting on here 5 years ago, and then it haunting my thoughts ever since

I quite often fetishise the idea of a culturally rich dotage, listehning to, watching, and reading all the albums, films, and books I've hoarded over my life, and then I remember this...

In recent years the collector had no interest in his collection. Ailing health, bereavement, and slowly declining hearing had sapped his once immense passion for music and left him with little but crosswords and memories of springer spaniels, tabby cats, and a wife who had all passed on. For a long time, he didn’t even have a record player on which to listen to his collection, and it had sat, unmovable and unplayable, in his living room like a giant hibernating creature gathering dust.

...and I don't want that.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 30 January 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) bookmark flag link

and if covid isolation didn't teach us all to that, hopefully decades early enough to do what we will with the info.....