I got to tell you about the cure.
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Alright well this really isn’t THAT much of a music post but I thought I would share it under the subheading anyways.
So for his birthday, I bought my friend Alex one of the Ikea CD towers that’s like 6.5 feet tall and holds something like 90 or so regular CD’s when you use all the shelves (I couldn’t tell with mine because I had a lot of CD singles in the slim cases or in like CD sleeves and not jewel cases… and now the ones I have are missing shelves) And when I bought 3 of my own I ended up selling him mine that I bought to be the polar opposite of his.
So he has 2 cd towers, and no cd’s in them because he was too lazy to put the CD’s in.
At the same time, I was dropping off two computers for him to frankenstein into one super-computer because he knows more about what he’s doing than I am. So I traded him. I would organize his CD collection (alphabetically by band name, or by last name, then by release dates… to the best of my ability) whilst he took apart computer parts galore and put together an awesometastic computer.
Before he began on my computer, he went through all his CD’s and was randomly throwing things out he didn’t want anymore, by looking at the front cover then dumping the contents of the jewel case into the trash can. (Keeping the jewel cases of course) and I vowed to go through his trash at the end to see what I might be interested in keeping.
So we’re both plugging away one fine Saturday afternoon, and it actually took us the same amount of time to finish our respective tasks, which I think was about 4 or 5 hours. Anyways, I grabbed all of the CD’s out of the trash that weren’t unlabeled burned CD’s just because if I liked it I could keep it, if not I could dump it. It’s all about recycling.
But Alex went through my pile of ill-gotten merchendise, and suddenly was confused. He found a CD that was a singles collection of the band “The Cure” and wondered what it was doing in the trash. We looked for the CD liner notes but they were nowhere to be found. We deducted that the CD was in the wrong jewel case.
Of course… this means nothing until he wondered where he got the CD from in the first place. And realized… it’s a CD he lost five years ago. Apparently his car was wrecked about that long ago, and it was claimed that this CD was in the car that was taken to the dump. But it wasn’t. IT was in a jewel case for the past 5 years collecting non-existant dust.
And better still. It’s not alex’s CD. It’s actually his band-mate’s Tynur’s Cure cd. Tynur, who gave Alex shit for losing said CD because it was one of his favourites at the time of the CD’s inception into the music collection of Alex’s unmanaged CD’s.
And I almost got away with it. But I didn’t. The CD is currently at Alex’s waiting to go back to it’s rightful owner, with this story tacked to it.
Awesome.