Indie Rock Dreams
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-------- Original Message --------Actually, Ben, I think this is more common than you think.
Subject: New Pornographers Bathroom
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:39:23 -0400
From: Ben
To: StereogumScott,
I had a dream last night that I was reading Stereogum and you had a YouTube video up of Carl Newman waiting to use the bathroom at Emo's in Austin. Then you wrote something below it like, "People, please stop sending us pointless videos. We've complained about this before," and the "before" had a link to where you'd discussed it previously.
I don't think this makes either of us look good.
OK, it just doesn't make me look good.
Everybody, share your confounding indie rocker dreams. I know my wife has one or two that involve Colin Meloy. (It was totally innocuous though; they adopted a kitten or something.)
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erm... your wife wants to get pussy with colin meloy? doesn't sound very innocuous to me.
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This isn't really an indie rock dream, but I think it fits the category:
I have a recurring dream where I'm failing college chemistry and haven't gone to class all semester, but for some reason I remember to go to the final. D'oh! Recently, I had that dream with a slight variation: Bruce Willis was the instructor, and Eric Clapton was a guest speaker/guitarist.
::shrug::
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Last week I dreamt that I went to Mile One Stadium here in St. John's for a Sarah Slean concert, and then Stars came out on stage and I freaked out and called my girlfriend that them and John Mayer were opening for Sarah.
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After seeing Belle & Sebastian in March, I had a dream that Stevie Jackson took me backstage and seduced me. It wasn't particularly steamy. But oh so twee.
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I have a crush on Tegan...does that count I dreamt that we had a conversation over msn about me propsing to her.
Details here: http://mp3this.blogspot.com/2006/08/fuck-killers.html
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Just last night I dreamt that that some unspecific member of Wolf Parade (maybe that Hot Hot Heat guy but with long, unkept, rocker hair) played a solo show in my suburbian Connecticut neighborhood and then walked around with a friend and I in the rain. He refused to talk about Wolf Parade, however, because they weren't on good terms?
I think we may have walked through a fast food drive-through, too.
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I had a dream a few days ago that The Decemberists put up a bunch of new songs on their Myspace and announced the release of a 7-inch with demos on it every week before the release of The Crane Wife. Good dream.
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Not a dream, but you can tell yr wife that I talked to Colin Meloy at the Long Winters show in PDX a couple of weeks ago. I mostly gushed about "Let It Be". He's shorter than I thought...
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I had a crazy dream about Evan and Chan once. He even played every song from 1993.
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I dreamt once that I got invited to a pitchfork christmas party, and people just wanted to sit around and listen to Blueberry Boat. It was kind of disturbing.
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I once dreamed that i came out and my mother was talking to Conor Oberst and Ben Gibbard. Then Conor went out, hopped on a motorcycle, and beat of a huge swarm of girls that had flocked around him.
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I saw Pavement play on some war-torn, rubble-filled stage that could have been somewhere in Russia. The set ended early when the troopers stormed the scene, so there we were, audience and band, all running away.
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A good number of years before the Pixies reunited, I had at least two dreams about them getting back together and me attending the shows. In one of the dreams, they played a couple songs, broke out into an argument, and walked off stage.
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I had a dream last week that I was watching the Cosby show. It was a later episode (much, much later) and one member of the huge extended family had grown up to be a DJ, and he was spinning "Whip You With A Strap" by Ghostface. So I actually woke up thinking that that song had premiered years ago on the Cosby show.
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i think mine involved a shuffleboard set, veruca salt, and a handle of captain morgan.....
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I had a dream I was at a water park with the Shins. We were on one of those log rides, at the tippity top where you just plunge straight down. James Mercer was in front. I remember he was scared to go down; nobody wanted to get in front. I was sandwiched between him and this other guy, who in my dream was the drummer for the Shins, but, in retrospect, looked nothing like Dave Hernandez. The drummer guy and I hit it off and after we got off the log ride, we were just talking and laughing.
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So this is even dorkier than a dream about an indie rocker, this is a dream about someone who writes about indie rockers...
I had this dream where I lived somewhere near Dave from Largeheartedboy and initially I had some reason to go over to his house (to drop off a CD or something) but then later I just started going over to hang out.
Do I with the major music dork award?
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Katrina Kerns (one of Sufjan's Illinoisemakers, and also a Ford model) was standing on top of a hill overlooking a vineyard, where I was walking through the field. She looked down at me and called, "You said you would wait for me."
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I had a dream that Wayne Coyne drove up to me in go-kart (complete with roll cage) at an outdoor cafe in the local Six Flags theme park. I tried talking to him but he kept pretending he was onstage and just drove around annoying customers and waiters.
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I had a dream that Jeff Mangum was a homeless man who wore a big red snowmobile suit with puffy gloves and played a show at the Catacombs coffee house in Madison. He sang "When we break, we'll wait for a miracle, God is a place you will keep for the rest of your life." He only sang that one song and they gave him a cold plate of fish sticks and tater tots and he ate them like it was his last meal on earth.
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Oh, wait, I gotta better one. I had a dream I was ::in:: the band No Knife. Anyone remember them? Underrated band.
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i had a dream a couple of years ago that i was getting married to kid koala. i was walking down the aisle toward him, and i looked over to see p-love scratching the wedding march. when i woke up, i told my then boyfriend about it, and he later shared the dream with p-love on some internet message board, only he fucked it up and told p-love i had a dream about marrying him, with kid koala scratching the march.
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Ah, The Brady Jones Project, it was all the rage in alt.music.ben-folds-five back in the day... thanks to me and my wacky dreams.
http://leadpencil.net/brady.html
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i dreamed i was in paris with devendra banhart cause he sat on the floor in front of me at one of those nights at el cid--all in black, cowboy hat...damn...
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one dream i had recently involved me coming into my living room one morning to find thom yorke on my couch strumming a guitar and singing, i ended up sitting on his lap and kissing his forehead, as he still managed to play and sing.
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I had a dream that I was dragged to some concert I didn't want to see and it turned out that The Decemberists were opening and I started freaking out, but everyone else thought they were boring and started talking. It was upsetting.
I also had a dream that I was trying to buy merch at a Tilly & The Wall show and I kept asking for the wrong style/size of shirt and the guy who was helping me was getting really annoyed.
I think I only have pre-concert anxiety dreams.
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i think i went over a screenplay with john vanderslice once. There were an awful lot of men in white suits and fedoras, and John and I sat in gigantic ornately sculpted golden chairs.
I have never written a screenplay.
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Going the way of popjustice.com, are we, Scott?
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I don't think that one about Jeff Mangum was a dream...
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I had a dream of Jason Falkner standing in the guys bathroom line at the Nick in Birmingham, Alabama. Jon Brion was playing the Playboy Pinball machine right behind him and singing along to local crapmetal band Zenkil do a cover of the Grays' "Both Belong".
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Not too indie, but: I had one once where I was walking through an airport and passed by Luscious Jackson playing in a lounge. This was a month or two before "Electric Honey" came out but I hadn't yet heard any of those songs. So all they did was sing the phrase "electric honey" and play the same riff over and over again. I felt a little bad, because no one was sticking around to watch them.
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I dreamt about Panic! at the Disco and here is the post I wrote about it a little bit ago:
http://www.notontheguestlist.com/blog/2006/07/dreaming_is_the.html
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I had a dream where all indie rockers were created equal.
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