I am on my own in the flat...

[baratron]

... so what am I doing?

Blasting out CDs as loud as I dare and dancing round playing air guitar!

I always wanted to be a rock star... shame I can't actually play any instruments well and lack the patience to learn :)

And someone please tell me how I can own over 200 CD albums, and still have to stand staring at them for 5 minutes before I can find anything I feel like listening to?

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[bethdeth.livejournal.com]

Heheh, thanks for the cute visual!
I have the same exact problem with my CDs, only I've got closer to 500. Sometimes ya just get sick of every damn one of 'em, and sometimes you're in such an indescribeable mood that you just don't know what's best to put on to complement it.
It's times like those I bust out the Canadian Power Pop. Thank f00k for Aldo Nova, Coney Hatch and The Tea Party! \m/

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Hee! You'll even approve of the music I was listening to - the last album (the one I was really posing to) was Silver Ginger 5.

"I WANT MY SUPER SONIC SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE!"

[kixie.livejournal.com]

That is quite probably one of the best things to do.

Sing one for me!

[ceno.livejournal.com]

And someone please tell me how I can own over 200 CD albums, and still have to stand staring at them for 5 minutes before I can find anything I feel like listening to?

Heh, I can relate to this exactly.

[aegidian]

I get the same thing with Sky TV, and racks of similar cans of baked beans in a shop. It's a simple enough idea though:-

Increase the available options and one's ability to make a choice decreases.

Now imagine an evening where all your poly-partners are available and horny, but you only have energy for one, what to do?! :)

[ceno.livejournal.com]

Now imagine an evening where all your poly-partners are available and horny, but you only have energy for one, what to do?! :)

Hmm, being monogamous, I appear to be missing out on something here!

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

's obvious. you lie back and let them do you. :)

[baratron.livejournal.com]

The baked bean thing is different, though. Different makes of baked beans are fundamentally all the same - perhaps some are slightly nicer or have less sugar in, but they all achieve the same thing. My music choice problem is more like being faced with the entire fruit & veg department and only having £2 with which to buy something.

All my music is matched to a particular mood - one of: music to listen to when depressed and wanting to mope, music to perk myself out of depression, or mellow music to listen to when already in a good mood. And this matching has been emphasised over time by my previous choices of music. I can't help but remember that the last time I listened to a particular CD was the day that X, Y or Z happened...

So when I have to choose a CD, it's not just a case of choosing something I like, because I like all of them. It's a case of choosing something I like that fits the mood I'm in and won't make me suddenly unhappy as I remember some past event that occurred while I was listening to it, or won't annoy me by being too damn perky for my mood, or make me completely hyper if I'm already feeling okay. And that choice is a lot harder.