The honest to god truth about me is that I’m a kind of nerd.
I’m not a programmer, nor do I think thats terribly interesting. What I do get down with is the details of the process of the things I’m interested in. Far too much. Seriously. For instance, I have not told you in detail of how my home could be made sustainable and safe if there ever was a zombie war. The truth is I spent way too much time figuring that out after reading World War Z.
Which leads me to a book I bought this week and read the same day. It is simply called Low, like all the books published by 33 1/3 it is about one album, in all of it’s detail – about 150 pages worth. In this case it is about David Bowie’s Album Low. I’m not going to go over the big details or even the small ones you may not even care – or you might already know. There are tons of nuggets to keep a standard “trainspotter” like me happy. In fact I kind of rolled around in the facts (not unlike Mike Myers in that dreadful “Studio 54” movie) – the book was too much fun. My wife was kind enough to go to sleep and smart enough not to ask questions that would lead to my story telling. She’s smart in that way.
I strongly suggest if you have the same kind of weakness I do check them out – I used amazon.com.
I assume that the market for these books are primarily men – this seems to be the dominant gender attached to obsessive music collecting – not that I want to keep women from reading the books or even collecting music, everyone is welcome. I just always assume women are better balanced about this kind of stuff. And really how many people have more than 5 versions the same album. By the way they really are not the same – different covers, labels and track listings make for a very different musical experience, plus the cd versions often have extra songs…