Book Library Part 2

In an earlier post, I showed you one side of the Book Library.  In this picture you'll see my 1970-1990 Topps Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey card collections (in binders).  I also have some oddball card collections like 70's Wacky Packages, Star Wars, Charlie's Angels, and Kiss.  I even have a complete set of 1991 Desert Storm cards.

The bottom two shelves of the middle bookcase houses my roleplaying games.  Dungeons & Dragons books, adventures, playing aids, dice, etc.  I mainly played D&D but I was also into Gamma World, d20 Modern, and Call of Cthulhu.  Yeah, I had a lot of interests as a kid (and continues as an "adult kid").  I was a jock, musician, and geek (in no particular order) all rolled into one.

On the far right bookcase, I have my musical equipment manuals as well as music software, music theory and training books, etc.

On top of everything is my National Geographic magazine collection.

Video Library Part 2

In an earlier post, I showed you one side of the Video Library.  Here's a picture of the other side.  You can see the end of my DVDs (U-Z) as well as my fledgling Blu-ray collection and VHS tapes.  

The far right media case houses original FFS VHS.  Contained on these tapes are our early music videos, video shoot footage, live performances, etc.  We've been digitizing these tapes to DVD for archival purposes and, from those DVDs, I've been pulling content for this blog.  We've only scratched the surface of what is there.  We have everything from MC2P4's Oil In the Gulf mouth chewing video shoot to the making of Ho Magos' Esotericka videos.  Punch Drunk's 1993 strobe light intense Silk City performance to Any Questions? "burn down the club with a flare" 4 G's show.  Oddities which include a long haired, corpulent Ttam Troll waxing poetic and footage of a partygoer puking into a plastic pumpkin.

Good entertainment for the whole family!

The Book Library is unpacked!

I finally made some time this past weekend to get back to unpacking boxes and organizing.  After all, I've been in the new FFS since mid-May so I'm starting to run out of excuses as to why I'm not "unpacked".

In the Book Library, I needed to build some bookcases but, after that, it didn't take me much time to decide where to place things.  The picture above shows one wall of the Book Library.  You'll see my Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written and Masterpieces of Science Fiction collections as well as my  Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror paperbacks.   In between are such goodies as MAD magazine books, The Three Investigators paperbacks, graphic novels, comics, etc.  There's even a couple of Space coffee table books in there.

Try to identify a book in the picture and post a comment.  I'm sure someone will find my reading tastes "humorous" and will be able to come up with a "smart" comment.

Vinyl Available Here!

Yes, at FFS you can even listen to your favorite 70's, 80's, and early 90's music on vinyl!

Looking for Metallica's Creeping Death on blue vinyl?  It's here!  How about Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! UK Picture Disc?  It's here!  Maybe a Cure live bootleg LP?  It's here.

Whether you want classic rock, progressive rock, new wave, electronic, ambient, industrial, metal, death metal, hair metal, NWOBHM, you can be sure to find something here.  You might even be able to find a Madonna album if you really want to!

Do I see Beverly Hills, 90210 in your collection?

Yes.  After watching almost every season and episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 with my friend Jackey, how could I not add some to the Video Library?  In my defense, right beside it is Beyond Re-Animator.  Something a little more in character for me.

This picture features another borrowed shadeless lamp.  I guess that I really need to do some lamp shopping.

P.S. 90210 was much better after Valerie replaced Brenda on the show and, of course, it was all over after Brandon left.

Unboxing the Audio Library

I finally made time to build media towers for the Audio Library so I was able to get out some of my CDs and cassettes to set up part of the room.  I think that borrowed (and temporary) shadeless lamp is a nice touch.  It really adds to the decor of the room!

Even more boxes...

This will soon be the Audio Library in the new FFS. It will house all commercial and FFS CDs, cassettes, vinyl, DATs, ADATs, 1/2" reel to reel, and maybe even a couple of 8-tracks. Yeah, that's right. Even I have some Jethro Tull Aqualung, Heavy Horses, and Songs from the Wood on 8-track. I couldn't pass up those $1 bargain bin buys from old department stores like S.E. Nichols, G.C. Murphy, and Woolco back in the early 80's.

More boxes...

This will soon be the Video Library and home to all my Blu-rays, DVDs, LaserDiscs, VHS, 8mm, etc. For now, it's just a library of boxes.