Water under the bridge, yo. I've got the memory of a goldfish anyway.

As for the new avatar, it comes from the booklet in the CD jacket of Anais Mitchell's Child Ballads, one of my favorite possessions.

Glad to inspire ideas! I'm trying to figure out what these things are called - it's a birch wood frame with an aluminum rectangular cavity with rubber or wax seal lining to prevent leaking, and there is a small round hole in the center, presumably for a drain.

I imagine the thing is supposed to be filled with ice to keep beer cool? Anyone know what these are called?

EDIT: Some quick Googling suggests it's called a wood cooler or a wood ice chest. And the things aren't actually cheap. Building yourself is always the cheapest solution, or if you'd rather buy one ready to go, the favorite is the LP BIN.

Wooden Beer Cooler

That's the closest thing I could think of, but none of them have quite the same look as the piece you found.

A Tour of the Listening Room!
 

My birthday is fast-approaching, and as you would suspect, I am impossible to shop for. Despite this challenge, my fiance has successfully surprised and delighted me with her creative gifts more and more with each passing year.

This year I had more than once wondered aloud how much I would love a 2-row record bin to flip through my collection record store style. But, as other household expenses have always taken precedence, I'd never gone ahead and ordered one.

But as I mentioned in my preview post above, my fiance with her thrifty eagle eye spotted a wood-framed beer cooler roadside with a large rectangular aluminum-lined cavity that, as luck would have it, measures precisely wide enough for two deep rows of polybagged LPs! It even has an additional shelf underneath for oversize box sets!

It's been so long since I've done a video, and this new acquisition seemed the perfect opportunity for an updated tour of my listening room.

Note: I neglected to mention in the video - Underworld's quintessential album, Dubnobasswithmyheadman is not missing from the collection I present - it is framed on the wall opposite the Eno • Hyde Someday World art print!

A few of the unmentioned items featured include:

Atop the Bookshelf:
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops Box Set
Cyril Ritchard Reads Alice in Wonderland + Facsimile Clothbound HC of the first edition
Tangerine Dream – In the Beginning…
Tom Waits – Orphans
Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman Super Deluxe Anniversary Ed.
Underworld – Barking Super Deluxe Ed.
20 Years of Jethro Tull: The Definitive Collection
The Motown Story: The First Decade
Miles Davis at the Fillmore Box Set
Harmonia – Complete Works

Atop the Jazz/20th Century Avant-Garde/Funk & Soul/Blues/ and Proto Electronic Shelf:
Klaus Schulze + Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog Vol I-IV
Music From Some Guys in Space (Fan-Made Box Set)
FAX +49-69/45046 / Carpe Sonum - Die Welt Ist Klang: A Tribute to Pete Namlook
Lemon Jelly – lemonjelly.ky
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
Lemon Jelly – '64-'95 DVD box
The KLF Recovered & Remastered Collection (with new titles I'll be featuring soon!)
and the Buckner & Garcia - "Pac-Man Fever" square pic disc

As for the contents of the record bin; I think I covered each of these in the vid… but let me know if you're wondering about any titles in particular!

Thanks so much for watching and extra-special thanks to my dear fiance for doing the impossible year after year!

Thanks for taking the time to make a video. You really know your stuff!

Looks like you've got a nice apartment with a lot of character. It's nice to get to know you better!

Great setup! You have some awesome pieces, and I love the layout, the photos of your musicial icons in particular stood out to me.

Thank you both! It's just wonderful to have anyone interested in my bizarre subject matter.

Thanks! Believe it or not, I'm actually a homeowner. It's a very modest dwelling but we've filled it with our thrifted findings and made quite a cozy home out of it. Here's a quick tour!

Very happy to see The Great Destroyer! Such an underrated album for Low, just so beautiful and calming.

Also, what's your camera setup like? I thought it was weird how the farther away parts were kind of jerky, but the foreground was really smooth and clear. I think it's be really cool to use whatever that is on a short film, couod you fill me in?

Oh, sorry! So that's just one room, then? Your music den? I wish I had room in my house for something like that. I'd have a combination music/gaming room.

Thanks for the feedback - it was a unique technological anomaly, but I'll fill you in.

I tried shooting the vid with my Nexus 7 2nd Gen tablet. The lens did a terrible job of maintaining focus as I flipped through the LPs so I got creative and grabbed my Sony Cybershot 7.2MP beast from January of 2005. For as old as it is, the massive thing is a tank and takes fantastic stills in low to medium light environments - perfect for the hundreds of shots I take of my vinyl acquisitions.

The camera features a video function, and I found that despite its lower resolution, the lens did an impressive job at keeping focus. The vid is a one-off first take, and when I uploaded it to YT the site detected some shakiness in the vid and offered to auto-center the frames. The result is the vid you saw.