It's ALIVE!

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I found out yesterday that my CDs are breeding. I was shoveling through the stuff on top of my desk, most of which had gone native and put down roots, and I found a huge stack of CDs that I’d been carefully placing on top of each other whenever I swapped the music I was listening to.

Well, far be it from me to allow their little hides to get further scratched, so I pulled out my giganticus CD binders and began to laboriously put them away by subject. Yes, I said by subject. Hey, at least I don’t alphabetize them!

But I’ve thought about it.

Anyway, I had finished putting away the rock music and had moved onto soundtracks when I noticed that though I had just put away the soundtrack to The Two Towers, here it was in my hand again. My first suspicion was too much caffeine. I have two toddlers and a full-time art career – I slurp down caffeine like my dog slurps down canned cat food. But then I thought “too much caffeine? Is there such a thing?” and so I checked the binder.

Ack! (Technical term)

There was another one there! Rather than trying to explain this anomaly, I decided to follow the example of government scientists and ignore the problem. I put the duplicate Two Towers soundtrack on top of my printer (whispering “you are dead to me, foul anomaly!” as I did) and went back to sorting my other CDs. I had just finished with my country CDs and had moved onto “atmospheric chick music” when I noticed that I was holding Enya’s “Shepherd Moons” CD in my hand. This wouldn’t have been weird if I hadn’t just put it away. Double-checked the binder.

ACK! (Repeat of technical term)

There was another Shepherd Moons in there. And I found two Last of the Mohicans soundtracks as well! Now I should tell you that I’m not rich and I don’t buy CDs often, so the chances of me buying duplicates is nil. Zippo. Not possible!

So obviously, they’re breeding. Left to their own devices on my desk (which had returned to the natural state of all wood: untamed forestland), my CDs had gone feral and begun to reproduce. What frustrates me is that they apparently breed very true to type: i.e., Enya CDs make other Enya CDs. If only I could engineer a cross-breeding between, say, Coldplay & Breaking Benjamin to get a baby Fuel CD.

Oh well, I’ll take it as a breakthrough anyway. And if anybody wants to swap soundtracks and Enya CDs, I’ve got a litter.

Links for this post:
Most Boring Website Ever using phrase "technical terms"
Amazingly, an Enya Fan Site of epic proportions
Feral Guinea Pigs -- for no other reason than because I like the word "feral"