But several articles I read today noted the virtue of only having 20 records in your collection but knowing them deeply, completely, inside and out. Every lyric and every nuance of the song's production.

Yeah, I get that, though I think a lot of people who used to listen to music that way will still have that experience. It's going to be less common, but people who really love music and are deeply interested in it will still obsess over certain albums and come to know them in the same way.

I decided recently to give up my eMusic subscription, because although it was nice to be able to get pretty good albums for pretty cheap, the fact is, I was downloading three or four albums a month and then almost never listening to most of them. I've started deleting albums from iTunes that I've never or very rarely listened to, and saving them to add back later, at a much slower rate, and I already have something like 50 albums waiting for me to re-experience them.

I really should try and track down a theatre screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, because the one time I saw it on my mom's 26" tv screen, I was bored beyond belief.

Well, if you find a screening, Kathy, remember to toke up before you go, for the full late-sixties experience. I saw it in theater, and still dozed off. Maybe a toke would have helped?

Beverly, it might have given you more interesting dreams.

The big advantage of having things so available, especially when they're available electronically, is that those with small (if, so often, fervent) markets can find them and deliver what they want.

Well, if you find a screening, Kathy, remember to toke up before you go, for the full late-sixties experience. I saw it in theater, and still dozed off. Maybe a toke would have helped?

this was my experience too. (I was about ten at the time, but still.)

Yeah, I get that, though I think a lot of people who used to listen to music that way will still have that experience. It's going to be less common, but people who really love music and are deeply interested in it will still obsess over certain albums and come to know them in the same way.

I agree. I think that there will always be people who click with a certain bit of media (movie, book, album, whatever) and will immerse themselves in it. Isn't that the nature of fandom for anything?

I agree. I think that there will always be people who click with a certain bit of media (movie, book, album, whatever) and will immerse themselves in it. Isn't that the nature of fandom for anything?

Yeah, and I honestly don't see that having changed except for that the clickers can find fellow clickers more easily these days, be it clicking with a piece of music, or a movie, or a TV show, or book, or a style of bathtub.

There's a lot of OFFAMYLAWN I see cropping up, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Umm... there's an app for that?

Seriously, the Grindr model could be ported to a lot of things.

I don't often see movies in the theatre. Too much money for something I'm not sure if I'll want to spend a few hours of my life watching. I did see a movie on Friday! In a theatre! For SIFF! And as much as I enjoyed the movie (which I did), I HATE going to movies where the audience large crowd of well-mannered film buffs who are outside my social circle. They have this 'tude. I want to smack them and make them STFU while we wait in line. I do not bond with them over our shared enjoyment of the movie, these strangers. I find them annoying, and find that they detract from my viewing pleasure. (As this was a festival movie having its first NA showing, and I have no idea if it will ever be available on DVD or Blu Ray stateside, it was worth dealing with Film People. BARELY.)

Yeah, and I honestly don't see that having changed except for that the clickers can find fellow clickers more easily these days, be it clicking with a piece of music, or a movie, or a TV show, or book, or a style of bathtub.

For example, it's a LOT easier for me to find other Goths who like vampire books, punk pop, and fancy clothes, but don't like Joy Division.

There's a lot of OFFAMYLAWN I see cropping up, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Yeah, most of the complaints I see read like "Oh noes! Now there will be no Important Gatekeepers Of Knowledge", which does seem very OFFAMYLAWN.

I love going to the theater for a movie. It's definitely cost-prohibitive now, sadly. I still try to go for anything that seems like it needs a big screen. I've always loved the whole experience of the darkness, the popcorn, the trailers, walking out and listening to what the rest of the audience is saying.

I wish there were more second-run and dollar theaters around.

With the ability to sneak food into $7 movies here, it's not so bad. Hardly romance, though.