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[Kendal_Ozzel]

Works for me.

What's to laugh at? I saw nothing wrong. If it's size, well...size matters not, as a wise dude once said.

[pat_burke]

The laugh was for me setting it up. Figure of speech etc.
But now you've got me all self-conscious. :oops:

[Kendal_Ozzel]

Okay, I see what you meant now. :oops: Sorry about that; I read it the wrong way. I thought you were just being humble. (That's why I was surprised when I saw all of the pictures.) I didn't mean anything against your collection. (You have a whole lot more than I do!) I just thought that's what you were implying in your post. No offense was intended at all.

[Ren]

Maybe I'll just lay mine out on the table because you can't see the stacks under my entertainment center.

[Lurker]

Maybe I'll just lay mine out on the table because you can't see the stacks

I'm keeping my mouth shut.

Pat, I love your avatar. Oh, and the link works for me, too.

Neil

[David Vincent]

Here is a http://musicby.jw-mu.../collection.jpg picture of my collection (335 Kb), only John Williams stuffs.
http://musicby.jw-mu...ection=dvincent

[The Prick vs The DD]

For people that has forgotten about MY collection:



Heh heh heh.

[Johnnyecks]

I'm in the process of re-doing my cd collection rack and adding shelving on the wall so I can keep them all in one place. But, until then...here's the pictures...

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The pictures are a little out of order, but that's how the pictures were uploaded. Sorry.

[Lurker]

John, your link isn't working.

Neil

[EvanED]

My DVDs (had to photoshop them to try to remove glare from the flash; didn't really fix it, but it is better)

My CDs (sorted by genre then alpha. order; the CDs at the base don't neatly fit into the rack)
The above picture, but annotated; the sections are marked, and CDs with at least substantial part of John Williams music are highlighted in green

[The Prick vs The DD]

My DVDs (had to photoshop them to try to remove glare from the flash; didn't really fix it, but it is better)

Are you trying to trick us into thinking you own more DVD's than you own by placing that mirror besides your collection?

Hmm?

[Mr. Breathmask]

So do you have The Right Stuff twice, or did you just photograph the keepcase and the sleeve seperately.

Good titles, though! George Lucas in Love and Spaceballs, along with Python. Good going.

[EvanED]

Are you trying to trick us into thinking you own more DVD's than you own by placing that mirror besides your collection?

It's actually the door to my closet thing :-p

So do you have The Right Stuff twice, or did you just photograph the keepcase and the sleeve seperately.

I have it twice. Stupid special edition releases making me buy things twice. (The original was cheap though... like $10 I think. So not a big loss.)

And yeah, I'm a big Pythons fan. Need... complete flying circus DVDs... but too expensive...

[Mr. Breathmask]

I thought you had it twice, because the right one looked like a snapper.

- Marc

[EvanED]

Yeah, it is. The original release is pretty crummy actually. It's double-sided, and the movie is split between the sides. There are almost no extras. And it comes in a snap case.

The special edition is nicer; two discs, double layered so no swapping, three doumentaries, commentaries (though the movie is really too long to watch them :-p), etc. Comes in a case like X-Men if you have it... like a cardboard sleeve with a cardboard and plastic insert that holds the discs.

[Mr. Breathmask]

Cool. I still need to see that movie.

[Olivier]

Is this thread still going? Anyway I threw this together for a laugh:

http://www.geocities.../collection.htm

"An older picture - about 50 or 60 CDs ago "
Is that your dating system?

"This happened to me about 70 or 80 CD's ago"
"I think I met her about two weeks after they released the ultimate edition of The Phantom Menace."



livier

[Johnnyecks]

Ok,
I finally was able to figure this out! Thanks Ed!! I uploaded the pictures to Photobucket.com, and after around 8 hours of work yesterday I was able to finally put the cd's all in one place!

However, first, I'll show you what it used to look like:


This is the first side of my soundtrack spinner. From "The Bone Collector" - Craig Armstrong to "Alien (Expanded)" - Jerry Goldsmith



This is the second side of the spinner. From "Alien (Complete)" to "Alive" - James Newton Howard.



This is the third side of the spinner. From "Atlantis" to "I Am Sam" - John Powell



This is the fourth side of the spinner. From "Paycheck" to "Images" - Our Main Man!



This is the rest of my soundtracks. From "Raider's Of The Lost Ark" to "A Zimmer Christmas" - Hans Zimmer



This is the non-soundtrack cd's (Pop/Rock, to Classical) Along w/ my rear speaker for the computer.



This is rest of my cd's (Musicals to Spoken Word Comedy) Along w/ my signed concert poster from Goldsmith's concert in NYC in '98, and an additional copy of the "Goldsmith At Fox" set. This is also the future site of "the wall" which I'll put up in a few moments.






Next post will be of my DVD's.

[Johnnyecks]

Now for my DVD's ...

This is the main bulk of my collection. All movies are in alphatbetical order.



This is the main bulk of the box sets, which are on top of the tv. And also my main home theater setup.



This is the rest of my dvd's (Box sets, TV shows, and then the rest of the movies.




Next post will be of my new project, something that I am VERY proud of!!!

[ymenard]

You've got some THX Altec Lansing speakers. Those are nice, they are sitting around me at this moment also ;-D

[Johnnyecks]

As you could tell in my first post w/ my cd's, they were spread out on several various cd racks and a spinner. I have always wanted them all in one place, but since my collection is "to-the-point-of-being-silly" (which my 12 yr. old niece said yesterday... and that I also have to go to "CD-Anonymous"), it is pretty difficult finding a cd rack which will hold 1500+ cd's, with the dimensions that would fit on that wall.

Thanks to this thread of people showing their collections, and Marians, Eplicons, and David Vincent's displays, I decided to finally have some kind of set-up which would really allow my collection to shine and give it enough room to display the way I wanted.

So, I decided to go to Home Depot and buy some shelving wood and hardware and build my own shelving.

Now, I'm not that much of a handyman so for those that have built houses, or decks, may think that this is a simple no-brainer thing to do but this was a big feat for me, one which I am very proud of!!

So, without futher adieu I present to you, my friends, my entire soundtrack collection in one place!

Since I can't get a straight-on shot of "the wall", here is the first half. On the top shelf, is now my rear left speaker + various signed photos that I have collected over the years (Danny Elfman, John Ottman, Williams' 'Sound Of Music Concert' in Pittsburgh brochure, Williams with me, another Williams, and Marc Shaiman).



Here is the bottom half of "The Wall"



I decided to walk out of the room a bit to see if I can get a full picture, and while it is tilted to the side a bit I was able to get most of it all in one shot. Here is that pic.






That's it!
That is my lifes' passion, and most kept-up hobby!

I am very proud of it!

[Mr. Breathmask]

[Johnnyecks]

You've got some THX Altec Lansing speakers.   Those are nice, they are sitting around me at this moment also ;-D

Yeah, they came with the Dell that I got three years ago! They're great, but the "Turtle Beach" sound card pretty much blows. Well, either that or it's the subwoofer.... because I only get rear sound out of the right speaker! I had a problem like that a year ago, and they sent me a re-furbished set. Now, it's happened again. It was the sub last time, probably it again but I'm not sure.

But I'll live because, and Neil would LOVE this, because I plan on getting a Mac as my next puter!

[fommes]

...

We're still young Marc.

[Elmo Lewis]

[Stefancos]

Bloody hell!

[John Crichton]

Is that your house or a record store?

[Johnnyecks]

Hahaha... relax folks!

I've spent mucho dinero on this, but spread out over the past 15 years or so! I don't want anyone thinking that I'm loaded, because it damn sure isn't like that! I would say that a good 70% of that all came from used cd stores ($1-$9). When I lived in Atlanta, I had like 6 stores all within an hours drive or so and I used to go there twice a week and spend about $100. Before, and after Atlanta, there's a few places here in Jersey where I've gone ballistic but I definately don't have the selection that I did in Atlanta.

This is my only hobby and my most enduring passion here! I don't play golf, or scuba dive. I don't travel anymore, and I don't collect anything else. So I have my bills, and that's it!

It's funny, John, that you ask if it's a record store because as I was doing this I kept thinking to myself that it does look like one. And if there were more of a larger community of us, I would love to open a specialized shop. But I don't think that a place devoted purely for soundtracks, would really do very well. That's why "Footlight" has a big selection of musicals, and LPS as well as scores. At least, that's what I think.

PLEASE please please, I don't want anyone to think that I'm doing this to brag becuase I'm not.
I was geniunely interested in how others disply their collection because I've always wanted a nice display. This thread gave me some ideas, and I had the time and a little extra money to do this.
I sincerly hope no one thinks that I did this to 'top' anyone else, because I am not!

I really enjoy this thread, and I hope to see other peoples pictures!!!

[Henry Buck]

Johnnyecks is a higher form of life than myself.

[Marian Schedenig]

Marian -

[Kendal_Ozzel]

Does anybody else find a strange amusement in picking out the Varese CDs in everyone's collections?

I might just take a picture ("picture", as in singular) of my collection, if I get around to it.

[fommes]

I don't want anyone to think that I'm doing this to brag becuase I'm not.

Don't worry John, we don't think you brag,
we're just .

[MAG-SI]

Nice backyard!!

[Rogue_Leader]

Damn! That one collection made my bow down with utter awe.

NOW THAT GUY IS HARDCORE PERSONIFIED!

[Stefancos]

Damn! That one collection made my bow down with sher awe.  

Isn't is spelled Cher?

[Rogue_Leader]

OMG typo ..... alert the presses!

Seriously though, John up there should have that collection named in his bloody Will. It is worth that much!

[Stefancos]

Very tempting for anyone who has his adress...and a crow bar.

Be sure to tell us when you are going to Atlantic City again John.

[Johnnyecks]

Nice backyard!!  

Yeah, looking at the pic it looks like I have a bloody bomb shelter back there! That's my "Garage"! LOL.


I've seriously spent my entire life collecting. It's like a damn disease! I even had a dream last night about stopping a used cd store. On one rack they had cdr's of boots, and the other they had legit.
But the coolest thing, was that if you pulled one cd out of the rack a little for each letter in a guys last name then say the name and push them back in, all the other cd's by that composer would stick out. It was weird.

It's funny you mention what you did Steef, cause I got a little paranoid after I did this. I trust you guys (and Ren), but just the plain outsider........ now that I think a little more about it Steef, you HAVE my address!


Rogue, I have considered adding them to my will but I don't know anyone personally who would want these. I have some friends who are into scores that I see face to face, but even they think I'm completely nutso!

[Johnnyecks]

Oh and... um... 400 posts! YAY.

[Stefancos]

now that I think a little more about it Steef, you HAVE my address!  

I believe that was the general idea i was trying to convey.