I was watching "high Fidelity" last night, and it got me thinking about how men collect things (if you've read the book he gives an excellent reason as to why men do this, and why women are to blame, but I'll leave you to find that one out...). Basically, men like stuff. In the movie, the major characters obsess about records, and the rarer the record, the more they obsess about it. The musical quality of said record, is, as can be expected, a moot point.

Pretty much as a direct result of watching that movie, I went upstairs and rearranged my bookshelves. Not that this, of course, is my entire library. No - that covers another two bookshelves in Scotland and four packing boxes in a loft in Nottingham. And videos. I have a lot of videos - and soon maybe a lot of DVDs too.

And sports equipment - look in my cupboard and you might think that I was re-stocking the Commonwealth games - tennis gear, squash racquet, basketball, fencing foil and mask, a variety of odd shaped pads and body armour....

What I was wondering is, is this a general case - are all men doomed to collect books and CDs and vids and musical instruments and comics until we no longer have the capital or the physical energy to do any more, so we just sit around collecting dust?

What does everyone else collect? I can't be the only person thats made his friends have Blackstar do a video hunt just so that they could find a copy of the alternate ending of "Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness" or an ex-rental "Pump Up the Volume"?

"He may not be clever but he sure is...ummmm..."

Bourne

Oh yeah; IMDB lists (in the goofs section) for High Fidelity that they mention "Evil Dead 2" but actually discuss "Evil Dead 3" (e.g. "How can he make shotgun ammunition in the 14th century?") - This should be an "incorrectly regarded as" as Evil Dead 2 ends with Ash blasting a flying Deadite after being sucked throught he time portal - which could have provoked the conversation mentioned in High Fidelity.