5:52 AM... I awaken from a dream with the impulse to go looking through my nearly non-existent coin collection to look for 'something missing.' No, not the song, but I promise this IS Carpenters related. You should probably know a bit of my history; that I collected coins for years and sold most of them off before retiring to Florida.
Somewhere in the recesses of my brain while I slept, I conjured up the idea that Carpenters had been honored on a series of US commemorative quarters like was done with the states, territories, and national parks and monuments. And this series was something I'd collected, but forgotten about - that's the important part here.
In my dream, I was beginning to remember that these existed, that they had been issued in the '90s, back before we discussed things on the Internet, and that because they were locked away somewhere in a closet, that I just forgot they existed at all.
And here's why it became all-important that I find them: each quarter, if connected somehow, actually had a sound file embedded on it. That little factoid also needed to be investigated, but first I had to find the coins. Some of these sound files were standard stories of Carpenters rise to fame, but one actually featured a completed song that was never released anywhere else. My goal was to find that quarter and access that sound file.
Putting this into words, I'm beginning to understand just why my brain fabricated this little scenario. First, we had a thread started yesterday about "Before Carpenters". That translated in my brain to "Before we could discuss Carpenters on the Internet". In our thread, there were several mentions of Simon & Garfunkel. Bear with me here.
On this week's SUNDAY MORNING on CBS, they featured an interview with a US mint sculptor, and I watched it and then later sorted though some quarters I had lying around, looking for his initials.
Also within the past few days I've been delving into some Paul Simon stuff both with and without Art Garfunkel. Their CONCERT IN CENTRAL PARK has been airing on PBS, and it was brought to my attention that in another DVD of theirs (OLD FRIENDS LIVE ON STAGE), there's a bonus studio track made in 2004 called "Citizen Of The Planet". It's only available on that CD/DVD. I knew I had the DVD and began several hours-worth of attempts to rip the audio from it, but none of my software would work. Some sort of copy-protection was embedded on that DVD and it wouldn't allow me to rip just the audio.
Then it hit me, that I DID have the CD. It was included in a recent Simon & Garfunkel COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION box set which I bought for some of the remasterings. So it turns out I DID have "Citizen Of The Planet" on CD that was easily rippable to the computer. So that's where the idea of a long-lost song came from that was already in my possession. My brain twisted it to a Carpenters song embedded on a quarter, of all things!
So, my friends, don't go searching through your pocket change for that rare Carpenters quarter with embedded sound. You won't find it - and neither did I.
Harry
...now awake and functioning normally, online...
Somewhere in the recesses of my brain while I slept, I conjured up the idea that Carpenters had been honored on a series of US commemorative quarters like was done with the states, territories, and national parks and monuments. And this series was something I'd collected, but forgotten about - that's the important part here.
In my dream, I was beginning to remember that these existed, that they had been issued in the '90s, back before we discussed things on the Internet, and that because they were locked away somewhere in a closet, that I just forgot they existed at all.
And here's why it became all-important that I find them: each quarter, if connected somehow, actually had a sound file embedded on it. That little factoid also needed to be investigated, but first I had to find the coins. Some of these sound files were standard stories of Carpenters rise to fame, but one actually featured a completed song that was never released anywhere else. My goal was to find that quarter and access that sound file.
Putting this into words, I'm beginning to understand just why my brain fabricated this little scenario. First, we had a thread started yesterday about "Before Carpenters". That translated in my brain to "Before we could discuss Carpenters on the Internet". In our thread, there were several mentions of Simon & Garfunkel. Bear with me here.
On this week's SUNDAY MORNING on CBS, they featured an interview with a US mint sculptor, and I watched it and then later sorted though some quarters I had lying around, looking for his initials.
Also within the past few days I've been delving into some Paul Simon stuff both with and without Art Garfunkel. Their CONCERT IN CENTRAL PARK has been airing on PBS, and it was brought to my attention that in another DVD of theirs (OLD FRIENDS LIVE ON STAGE), there's a bonus studio track made in 2004 called "Citizen Of The Planet". It's only available on that CD/DVD. I knew I had the DVD and began several hours-worth of attempts to rip the audio from it, but none of my software would work. Some sort of copy-protection was embedded on that DVD and it wouldn't allow me to rip just the audio.
Then it hit me, that I DID have the CD. It was included in a recent Simon & Garfunkel COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION box set which I bought for some of the remasterings. So it turns out I DID have "Citizen Of The Planet" on CD that was easily rippable to the computer. So that's where the idea of a long-lost song came from that was already in my possession. My brain twisted it to a Carpenters song embedded on a quarter, of all things!
So, my friends, don't go searching through your pocket change for that rare Carpenters quarter with embedded sound. You won't find it - and neither did I.
Harry
...now awake and functioning normally, online...
). My frustration in the dream was that I only had so much money and not enough to scoop them all up. So I pondered over individual items, picking them up, putting them back down again, trying to weigh up which ones to buy that would give me the biggest amount of rarities and wondering if the ones I didn't buy would get snapped up by someone else. So I started hiding the ones I couldn't take in other parts of the store, hoping that when I came back they'd still be hidden there.
