{"id":1348,"date":"2008-07-25T05:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2013-06-12T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:02:09","slug":"the-necessary-year-day-55-damn-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/the-necessary-year-day-55-damn-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessary Year – Day 55: Damn It All"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(this post is part of an aborted 1 year experiment in material abstinence I called The Necessary Year<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

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[UPDATE: I just learned that the entire new Melvins album is available, streaming for FREE at this site<\/a> (as of 7\/27\/08, anyway). Gawd I luv the innernet!]<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n*sigh*<\/p>\n

I’ve been avoiding internet sites and stores for this very reason: to not be tempted.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Yesterday I am coaxed into a record store by a friend who wants to check out a group that I’ve been blathering about after hearing them on NPR and what do I see just inside the door?<\/p>\n

A new Melvins<\/a> album. Not buying this when I see it is similar to not eating a cookie I find on my plate or walking past a twenty dollar bill in the gutter.<\/p>\n

The good news is that this album will still be there in June of 2010. The bad news is that the Melvins are a bunch of rotten bastards who will also likely release a number of limited, r@@@re, and even cooler items along with it that, a year later, will not only be hard to find but bloody expensive so, though I can console myself about the main album release, there is also all this side crap that I will end up paying too much for in the long run.<\/p>\n

Or not.<\/p>\n

With the exception of the jolt of seeing a new Melvins album on the shelves (gawd help me if Tom Waits<\/a> releases something in the next 9 months) I’ve been doing rather well not thinking about or being especially troubled by the thought of all the new, shiny goodies out there.<\/p>\n

Further, when I do see something like this, all I really have to do is remind myself that it existed before I saw it and yet I was completely content – thus the “omigawd I gotta buy that!” anxiety is illusory to the point of childishness.<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s the point: ignorance is bliss while knowledge=torture. My present goal is to have the latter equation change into something a little less ridiculous for me, emotionally. It’s not like I break out in a cold sweat or begin making helpless mewing noises in my throat when I see such things but there is a definite uptick in my heartbeat and the sense that, just this once, maybe I could forget TNY<\/span>. Who would it hurt?<\/p>\n

But no. I can wait and I do have that $20 gift card. I could easily pick up one of the items on my “frivolities” list right now (though not the Zappa<\/a> album, dammit) and will, eventually, but I have come to the conclusion that I’d best save said for the halfway mark of TNY<\/span> in order to not only give me some rumination time as well as to see what the hell else is released that I “cannot live without” but also to give me the space to become more familiar with NOT having new things upon which to focus.<\/p>\n

Besides, I’m in the process of moving into my new place and am beginning to realize the large number of things I do not have, particularly in the kitchen, that I am going to need. It is highly possible that, instead of a new book or cd, of which I have plenty, I may need to translate that $20 gift card into something more practical, such as help in buying a toaster, a set of steamer pans, kitchen knives, etc. These items will make me a whole lot happier and improve the quality of my life a whole lot more than some movie, album, or goony toy.<\/p>\n

Another interesting discovery is that TNY<\/span> may not only be an interesting exercise in restraint but also end up saving my ass as, near as I can tell, this whole divorce\/moving process is likely to drain my finances down to 0 or farther – even without “unnecessary” expenditures.<\/p>\n

Talk about serendipity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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