[78-L] tolerance

[buster]

You can't be serious. But you probably are, since you are so immersed  
in it yourself, as is your poor child.

Her trailer, specifically the montage of individuals, is the best  
evidence against your "not examples of misfits" remark.

Isn't it better to wear the badge proudly than to live in denial?  No  
one's denying the scholarship or the seriousness of this little  
collecting world, but to consider it anything even close to mainstream  
or normal is laughable...or fatally sad.

Everyone finds their niche eventually, and here we are.

On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> buster wrote:
>>> This group, by definition, is composed of a higher than average  
>>> number
>>> of "eccentrics." That's what we record collectors are, to  
>>> ourselves at
>>> least, as has recently been discussed. Outsiders are less kind,  
>>> often
>>> (seen "Ghost World" or "American Splendor"? 78 collectors are
>>> pitiable freaks and outcasts). We have bombastic pontificators,
>>> tightwads, endless repeaters, egotists, antisocial hermits, whiners,
>>> and who knows what else. I mean, fergawdsakes, if you need any
>>> evidence just look at Leah's trailer, or go to an ARSC event.
>
> Not quite.  If you pay attention to what Leah's whole documentary is
> about, it was the rebuttal to "Ghost World" and other such films,
> especially "Vinyl".  The collectors selected are among those we knew  
> who
> had made positive contributions to the scholarship and appreciation of
> the recording industry and the content of recordings.  And the same is
> true of ARSC, which actually is a serious group of professional
> archivists and advanced collectors, researchers, and enthusiasts --  
> and
> those who aspire towards those goals.  Sure we are a friendly lot and
> filled with diverse personalities -- some of them extreme -- but we  
> are
> not examples of misfits.  The documentary does touch on the compulsion
> to collect, and as Graham Newton says with a laugh in the documentary
> "We're all crazy.  We're nuts!" and as one of the posted clips show
> there were some extremes in The Syndicate, but on the whole it shows
> collectors with a life.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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