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I Cried to Dream Again

Episode length: 30m

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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare (The Tempest, Act III, Scene II)

Host:
James Lileks

Discussion (5)

  • Fresch Fisch@FreschFisch

    I'm 61, and have a collection of old political pins from the 60's and 70's. I've tried selling them on E-Bay. Today's youth has no interest and most boomers have those in their collections. I'll try again this year.

    Selling your silver? Yup, most of those coins are worth just worth the silver, which is high right now. I've got a bunch that I'll keep with my other "prepper stuff" , silver, lead, water, & vodka.

    One thing the Gen Z/Millenials do like are vinyl LPs. At a garage sale, I bought my kid a starter set up LPs. The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Carol King, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, James Brown and others. Just listening to one James Brown album he now knows where half of his hip hop samples come from.

    My coffee drinking is declining, but I love to argue with coffee snobs that McDonalds is a pretty good cup of coffee.

  • Fresch Fisch@FreschFisch

    @jameslileks

    There is some hope. In talking to some car guy friends of mine, there is some hope.

    All the 50, 60, and 70's cars have mostly been found and have already been restored and are expensive for the Gen Zer looking to buy a car for collecting. I'm told there is a wave of kids buying up the Model A's and T's and others of that vintage. Lots of old guys passing on with them in their garage. The Boomer/GenXer doesn't have any interest in it.

    I think you and Geoff Charles need to do a podcast at Lake Phelen with The Clams playing music and eating Church's Fried Chicken.

    Thank you.

  • Brian J Bergs@BrianBergs

    James it is crazy about those coins spending more time hidden away than they ever did in circulation. My Dad kept a bunch of real silver coins, a big bunch of silver dollars and a pack of steely pennies. Like your coins they have spent the last 50 years in confinement. Most were in circulation for 40 years or less. As for those steelies here's the story.

    In his small town pharmacy old men with vision problems would argue that the steelies were dimes. So my father pulled as many out of circulation as he could as the 9 cent difference in the 50's and 60's was real money. As a result I inherited a bunch of them.