The Other Side

Anonymous · 2013-10-03T19:50:04-04:00

I fancy myself as a bit of a thinker and an imaginative person. Not sure how much truth could be said about either. Regardless I still try and I am having fun with my thoughts. To get them it does involve me taking down observations. Well... I've been watching you lately. Doing so I have noticed something quite strange the last few times you have been in the presence of CDs/Records in a store. Everytime you pick one up you will turn it over immediately and look at the back. Everytime. Same motion in the arm. Without exception everytime. Why do you do this? Well... the answer is obvious. The tracklisting. At first it seems such an obvious question that it doesn't even deserve a thread. The CD/Record almost always has a tracklist and you are having a gander round back. Here's the problem. Well... I present quite a few problems with this thread. For example, sometimes you barely give the back a look. Sometimes, with no exaggeration, I have timed it to be literally one second of looking before you are putting it back on the shelf. The majority of the time it is 2-3 seconds at most. While this is still pushing it, one second surely is not enough to get any meaningful information from the action. What information will you be getting also? Sometimes you are picking up albums by artists you have never known before. Even when you spend the required time to read the tracklisting I still find it a bit odd. Would you buy an album based on a cool song title? Good for you if the answer is yes. Song titles are fun. If not, what does it mean to read those song titles? Other oddities include going back to the same album multiple times, staring so vacantly (swear you were drooling once) at the back its obvious you didn't read anything, spending your time looking at the backs in stores but only ever downloading music at home, repeatedly looking at the back of an album you have got already... I could go on... Also, the action itself. It never seem like a conscious decision where you are thinking "Hey, lets check the tracklist man" but more a reflex action. An action you do without thought. Trust me, I would know. I read a book this one time at college on cognitive... things. I'm by all means an expert in this field. May I ask why you are doing this? It would help clear a few things up hearing from yourself. In the meantime I will see if any such oddities come up in other areas of your life.

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meccalecca wrote:

I'm guilty of this. honestly, I'm indecisive. I'm cheap. And it's those 2 things colliding. If i could afford it, i'd buy every album that interests me, but sometimes it requires deep thought.

Haha, this. Usually, if I'm staring vacantly at an album, flipping it back and forth, I'm thinking, "I love you... but should I buy you this time (or, inevitably, next)?" And trying to convince myself one way or the other by holding it and reading the track-listing (which I probably already know).

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