i believe jon says in that same interview that he doesn't have a day job, so there you go. as for coley, there's a great scene in the half japanese documentary (amazingly, left behind for me by a former roommate) where he's going through his record library and telling stories, and it's just walls and walls and walls. he has some other great bon mots in there too, but i can't remember them right now. -j.

Message: 2 Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:07:32 -0700 From: Chris Selvig <selvig@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: this whole "creative" thing To: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702095522.00a65380@pop.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed

I think Abbey's around 30. I've got about half what Abbey has, and with

the exception of a few dozen 20th-C. classical LPs I bought from the Memphis Public Library back in 1996, I've listened to everything I own at least once, and I'm a single dad & don't get much listening time (except to Bob Wills, Hank Williams, The Fall, and Joseph Haydn, my daughter's faves). I have friends who have tech industry jobs that don't require much human interaction & they listen to music on headphones all day long, and on their stereos when they get home - at that rate, it would be easy to get

through 10-12 albums a day. People I'm acquainted with who have much larger collections than Abbey's plan to spend a lot of time in the listening chair after retirement - so do I. I read an interview with Jimmy Johnson, who owns Forced Exposure, and he was talking about Byron Coley - he said Coley has about 4000 records that he's waiting to get around to at any given time, and around 150,000 records in his collection; unless something is truly exceptional, he only listens to it once.