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Post by alady on Oct 4, 2022 7:49:28 GMT -6
John Mulaney is giving me a ride to my folks' for Thanksgiving. We're catching up and he's marking our route on a giant paper map, I keep telling him I can give him directions but he's ignoring me. His route takes us through a subdivision on a lake where there's some sort of SXSWish festival going on in people's garages. We run into the guy from the Bear and my friend Evonne and we're all camping together. The next day we all go to one of the showcases, some of the bands are pretty good but there's a lot of problems with the sound system and old people from the subdivision keep stealing our seats on an old couch built into a hillside. John disappears and I find him shooting bottle rockets into the lake with Bear guy. There's a weird segue with a baby and a shark at this point. We all think it's hilarious. Then John admits he's on the schedule of the SXSW thing and that's why we're here; he's introducing the new season of his show. I go back to find Evonne and tell her we should go see John's panel. We watch a few more bands (including one with a guy who looks like an NBA-height, very young Jim James) then head over and on the way we stop in the restrooms, and find John holding an empty bottle of sake, visibly drunk. "You can't do the panel like this, dude," I'm telling him and then I wake up.
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Post by zircona1 on Oct 4, 2022 8:04:18 GMT -6
I'm in a bookstore, and I find a ragged novelization of Reservoir Dogs, it's written by Tarantino and it's over 1000 pages.
That's really all I remember.
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Post by neader on Oct 4, 2022 8:30:24 GMT -6
I became a scooter guy. More like a nightmare. I just remember being surprised that it was all controlled by my hands and not by the pressure of my feet like hoverboards are.
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Post by venom on Oct 4, 2022 8:57:07 GMT -6
i was at the empty bottle and the first band up has a lanky male singer/guitarist, a chubby male drummer, and a petite female bass player who kind of looks like the lady from chrvches. the singer says "hi. we're called soft cute charlie because one of us is soft, one of us is cute, and one of us is named charlie." they start playing. but everyone in the crowd is just interested in figuring out who's who. the guys behind me say the bassist is cute, the drummer is soft, and the singer must be charlie. the people next to them say the bassist could be charlie and the drummer's kind of cute so the singer must be soft. so everyone's just kind of whisper-arguing with each other and no one's really paying attention to the band.
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Post by alady on Dec 17, 2022 20:39:58 GMT -6
I'm on the board but we're all in a classroom and there's been a big controversy about something ten15 posted about a litter of puppies. I'm daydreaming and looking out the window and notice movement near a drain, sometimes it looks like the wind is just blowing the snow around and other times it looks like there might be some critters coming out of the vent. I leave and go to check out the drain from underneath via a back passageway and run into my friend Sha and her new poodle, and ten15's down there too and we agree that the puppy discussion got way out of hand.
The classroom is part of a larger museum campus that's hosting some kind of interactive event. I run into my friend at an exhibit where you could dress up as if you were addressing a statue or monument, and she and her husband and her folks are dressed up as a protest, holding signs. She and I leave the exhibit and as we're walking out we see Sonia Sotomayor there, with face tattoos (there were also talks and panels and stuff) and another girl dressed as a protestor yells "fuck you!!" to Justice Sotomayor. We are both horrified and hurry into the lobby where we find our friend Jeff in a dancing AI hologram exhibit (he's dancing in front of this mirror and it's generating a dance partner for him). It's at this point I realize my shoes (gold leather loafer mules) can glide with very little effort. I'm sliding over to Jeff, I'm moonwalking, doing spins, it's great.
We go down an escalator into a huge hangar-like space that's full of these exhibits but also used furniture for sale. We pass a bus stop where another famous person is rushing to do a panel. She's putting on a royal blue skirt suit as she hurries away and having trouble because the wind keeps blowing pieces off. We gawk a bit but empathize remembering times we've felt unprepared. In one corner of the hangar is a low stage, more like a long shelf, with various people sitting on it in a long row of folding chairs. Each person has a legal pad and pen in front of them and you can write down a question for them or ask them to do something. I realize one of the people is Ted Danson and I'm excited to ask him a question and record his answer, or find my dude and see if he wants to ask him a question. Ted Danson is kind of hiding his face with the pad of paper though and we decide he's going to be weird about it so we just give up.
Also at this point I realize I don't know where I left my coat or purse so we decide to retrace our steps. As we're leaving the hangar we stop in a booth where they're selling some kind of button that helps with your period. We each decide to buy one but then I remember I don't have my purse which makes the salesperson super annoyed with me. I find a credit card in my pocket to pay but she's still giving me attitude so while she's not looking I swipe an extra button.
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Post by venom on Dec 19, 2022 8:33:16 GMT -6
first, going back through this thread i found one of my dreams from may where jack white played at the empty bottle: jack white has a new band under an alias name and no one has attributed it to him. he and i are friends and he invites me to see them at the empty bottle. anyway, onto last night's dream: i’m at metro (but not really metro, looked more like the warfield in SF). there’s a band playing on stage. prince is playing guitar next to a piano on the floor surrounded by backup singers/bodyguards. i sit at the bar near the piano. when he's done playing, he sits next to me. the singer on stage signs an autograph during the show and he scoffs "how unprofessional." she is signing it for someone she knows who maybe has a terminal disease. i ask prince if it would matter who she signed it for. he says it might, but he'd never do it. when i turn back to him, he's now diana ross. a few minutes later, prince is playing on the roof. i am now on a roof across the street to watch. people are climbing buildings to see the show. a gang starts attacking people watching the show. i slip away to get to the el, but someone from the gang confronts me. i tell him i am not involved with the show and just trying to get home. he attacks me with a machete. i avoid it and run away. |
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Post by neader on Dec 19, 2022 8:42:17 GMT -6
I keep having the same reoccuring two dreams
The first I'm in high school and the bell rings. I realize I have no idea, where my locker is or what the combination is, and what my schedule is and what class I'm supposed to be at. Extremely nerve racking dream.
Another one where I decide to stop working early on some day and my phone keeps getting emails and I'm just intentionally avoiding them even though it's adding to my anxiety.
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Post by mookie on Dec 19, 2022 9:09:38 GMT -6
I keep having the same reoccuring two dreams The first I'm in high school and the bell rings. I realize I have no idea, where my locker is or what the combination is, and what my schedule is and what class I'm supposed to be at. Extremely nerve racking dream. Another one where I decide to stop working early on some day and my phone keeps getting emails and I'm just intentionally avoiding them even though it's adding to my anxiety. Man, I had the high school dream for years regularly. Thankfully I haven't in a long, long time |
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Post by venom on Dec 19, 2022 9:22:36 GMT -6
i also have not had the high school/college stress dream in a while. for me, it was almost always that i didn't know my schedule or that i showed up to a final exam for a class that i don't know anything about. but plenty else has filled that void in my dreamworld.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Dec 19, 2022 10:28:29 GMT -6
first, going back through this thread i found one of my dreams from may where jack white played at the empty bottle: jack white has a new band under an alias name and no one has attributed it to him. he and i are friends and he invites me to see them at the empty bottle. anyway, onto last night's dream: i’m at metro (but not really metro, looked more like the warfield in SF). there’s a band playing on stage. prince is playing guitar next to a piano on the floor surrounded by backup singers/bodyguards. i sit at the bar near the piano. when he's done playing, he sits next to me. the singer on stage signs an autograph during the show and he scoffs "how unprofessional." she is signing it for someone she knows who maybe has a terminal disease. i ask prince if it would matter who she signed it for. he says it might, but he'd never do it. when i turn back to him, he's now diana ross. a few minutes later, prince is playing on the roof. i am now on a roof across the street to watch. people are climbing buildings to see the show. a gang starts attacking people watching the show. i slip away to get to the el, but someone from the gang confronts me. i tell him i am not involved with the show and just trying to get home. he attacks me with a machete. i avoid it and run away. I would watch this movie |
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Post by neader on Dec 21, 2022 6:57:44 GMT -6
I was at a Nick Cave show. A lot of boarders were there. pulp and jack, cg, ktd, and a few others. We were in the balcony and for some reaosn people started to leave during the show on the main level. I tried to talk people into sneaking down there with me but no one wanted to go. I made it down there on my own and during Jubilee Street Nick Cave came up and hugged me from behind and basically sang the whole song like that. It was wonderful.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jan 12, 2023 10:03:41 GMT -6
I had a dream that Bill Cosby died and I got a news alert for it, so I came to the board to post it in the Celebrity Death Thread. Nobody had posted his name yet and I was excited to be the one to break the news. All I did was type "Bill Cosby" and hit post, and in the meantime two posts had been made before mine - the first said "Ol Bluebeard" and had a picture of Cosby, and the next one was a clouddead post of gif of someone who looked like Piers Morgan saying "....well, ANYWAY"
I actually looked up whether he had died when I woke up, I thought maybe I'd gotten the news alert while I was half-sleeping
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Post by venom on Jan 13, 2023 8:57:54 GMT -6
i'm sitting in a lab waiting room. adam from the war on drugs walks in with a plastic bag and asks them to analyze the contents. there is some quibbling between he and the staff. but they end up taking the bag. he sits down next to me. i ask him what's in the bag. he says "it's the underwear." i look back and can now see the lab tech holding pink underwear. i ask what that means. he explains that the band got popular after someone threw that underwear on stage at a show and there's a famous photo of it. at some point, he tells me that billie eilish and him wrote a song together and it's very popular but no one knows that they wrote it.
the next thing i remember is i am now in the war on drugs' road crew and we're at the airport leaving for a tour. someone asks "where is the underwear?" we realize it's still at the lab. we are suddenly back at the lab. everyone in the band is running around basically yelling "we need that underwear for our tour!" i walk into the room where they'd taken it, but there are now at least 20 pairs of pink underwear in plastic bags hanging from the wall. i have no idea which one it is. everyone is really upset with me for not knowing.
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Post by venom on Jan 24, 2023 9:02:23 GMT -6
i'm working at a venue where the national are setting up. bryan is not drumming with the band anymore and only one dessner brother is there. (coincidentally, two nights ago i watched the oasis documentary Supersonic.) later on i am trying to get a pass for the performance, but no one's letting me in. when i do finally get in, manic street preachers are playing and the crowd is really into them but i’m wondering what happened to the national. i go backstage and see them rehearsing. when they are supposed to play the show, i again cannot enter the room. i am running through hallways and alleys trying to figure out why i’m locked out, but then i realize i am actually locked in. i cannot leave the premises but i also can’t get into the show.
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Post by Pale Hose on Feb 5, 2023 9:18:24 GMT -6
Weezer & Scorpions announced a joint tour, playing Northerly Island June 9th. Tickets were $59.50, but then I balked at the $35 in fees. I didn't catch the rest of the dates.
In the light of day with full consciousness I think I would be willing to pay the $95 for that joint bill. I'd be curious to see the venn diagram on those fanbases.
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Post by venom on Feb 10, 2023 8:44:14 GMT -6
i'm walking to p4k fest. all of the performers are across the street waiting to go into the park. they're holding hands with kids, like soccer players sometimes do before a match. but no kid holds robyn's hand. so she doesn't go in the park. an adult walks out to talk with her. she's calmly refusing to go in. she finally agrees to go. but she's missed her timeslot and now they want her to play at the same time as another act. she agrees and it's a soundbleed mess.
i leave and go into a meeting behind the fest that is all of the p4k writers, which i am apparently one of. one of my friends is there, presumably also a p4k writer. he's there with his girlfriend. they are talking to another woman. my friend suddenly starts yelling at the other woman, accusing her of trying to break up their relationship. the entire room quiets down and looks at them while he continues yelling.
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Post by mookie on Feb 10, 2023 8:47:57 GMT -6
Robyn conblurmed for P4k
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Post by scoots on Feb 10, 2023 9:10:07 GMT -6
I had a dream that I was camping and a bear was trying to break through my tent and I woke up to my dog huffing loudly while dreaming next to me.
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Post by alady on Feb 10, 2023 9:26:14 GMT -6
Steve Bear-y
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Post by doso on Feb 10, 2023 13:18:11 GMT -6
Cocaine Doge
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Post by venom on Mar 16, 2023 7:51:10 GMT -6
i'm at a primus show with my girlfriend. (this alone kind of tipped me off it was a dream. she'd never see primus.) it's outdoors. the intro music begins. i leave our seats and walk underneath the stage, then wrap around to a platform by the stage. but the stage is too high for anyone on the platform to have a sightline to it. it starts to rain and i go back to our seats.
les starts the show singing a gospel song a cappella. then the full band comes out. the vocals aren't coming through at all. me and everyone around us are yelling at the sound guy that there are no vocals. my girlfriend says "you don't have to be so obnoxious about it. i'm sure they know there are no vocals." suddenly, some roadies appear at the front of the stage yelling that they're going to swap out the soundsystem. so while primus is playing "jerry was a race car driver", they're basically deconstructing and rebuilding the speaker stacks. it sounds pretty awful. everyone around us is looking at their phones. then i say to my girlfriend, "duran duran is playing like 5 minutes away. do you want to see them instead?"
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Post by venom on Apr 4, 2023 7:45:30 GMT -6
i'm at a thanksgiving dinner where a lot of people are sitting at one enormous table. two teenage girls walk in humming a song and say "we just heard of cheap trick. they're awesome." someone says "that's crazy. cheap trick is here." i look down the table and there's robin zander looking he did in the 70s. rick and tom walk in the room after that.
but then someone points to the short asian man sitting next to robin and says "that's cheap trick." they go on to say that his name in chinese translates to "cheap trick" and the band got their name from him, and he's been an integral songwriter. i'm skeptical. i've never heard of this. the asian guy downplays it. rick sits down and just wants to eat. this was all interspersed with me arguing with someone about chicken being vegetarian or not.
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Post by Pale Hose on Apr 4, 2023 23:26:12 GMT -6
I was at a Pearl Jam concert at a smaller venue than they would normally play. I think the show might have been somewhere abroad but now I'm not sure. What was really strange was they brought out Kid Rock as a surprise guest for the encore. I don't remember what song he sang, even in the dream I remember thinking it was all wrong.
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Post by kb on Apr 5, 2023 11:38:33 GMT -6
i had a very vivid dream i was getting into those sunglasses where the darkened lenses flip up like dwayne wayne on a different world. i had them in several colors.
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Post by alady on Apr 25, 2023 9:59:03 GMT -6
One of my old coworkers is getting divorced, so I agree to help her sell her house. I've never sold a house, but decide I'll figure it out as I go. The house is across from the Vic and it's enormous, like six floors, all glass and sunken living rooms. There's a gang of former coworkers that go to check it out (and scoots is there?) and we decide we all need to take a road trip to Florida for some of the paperwork. I drive all night on the way back and as we arrive back at the house, I'm exhausted and need a nap. I go into the front bedroom and Matthew Broderick is in there, just waking up. For a split second I consider seducing him so he'll buy the house?? but apparently he's my old coworker's ex and she's still very in love with him so I quickly ditch that plan. I can tell he knows I don't know what the hell I'm doing selling a house, but he plays along.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 8, 2023 10:05:06 GMT -6
three nights ago: i'm in a room full of people trying to decide a movie to watch, and i loudly ask if there are any movies in which hugh grant kills himself - expecting it to get a huge laugh, but everyone just stares at me and i wake up
two nights ago: i realize i have a report due that day, and i haven't even started it. the report is all about my car and my driving experience. i have to pay something like $600 to submit the report.
last night: i am looking for a copy of the 'nightmare on elm street' score on CD at a best buy circa 2007
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Post by venom on May 17, 2023 7:17:53 GMT -6
riot fest is doing in-person sales for aftershows. the aftershows have not been announced, but speculation is rampant. i show up and the line is very long down mlk drive. i start walking the other side of the street from the line. after several blocks, i walk back to ask someone where the line ends. they say it's 2 blocks with 600 people. i then notice there's a park across the street with more lines. i ask if those lines are also for the riot fest aftershows. they don't know. so i walk again trying to find the end of the line. when i get there, someone walks by to announce the on-sale isn't for two days, so we'd better get comfortable. i decide that's not worth it and start to walk home.
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Post by venom on May 30, 2023 7:50:16 GMT -6
i walk into a restaurant in evanston with jeff tweedy and mikael jorgensen after a wilco show. i think we're just stopping in to pick up takeout, but they walk around saying hi to people. someone tells jeff a couple just got engaged and he sings "i'm always in love" at their booth. i'm trying to get their attention because i want a ride back home. i realize they're staying for a while, so i leave and go to the "lily" purple line stop.
both trains that show up are going north and they're freight trains. i follow the lead of everyone else and climb on top of the freight cars, hoping to get off at the next stop and catch a train going south. the train rumbles along and goes too fast on a curve. it derails and the car i'm on smashes into a building. i am shaken, but ok. i walk away and look back at the wreckage. there's no way i should have survived that. i then notice an old boss is the train engineer and she's saying over and over "how could this have happened?"
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Post by zircona1 on May 30, 2023 8:17:55 GMT -6
I run into Tom Waits and his wife at a quick stop-type of store. Later on, I'm at a tiny club and Waits is performing on stage - in a corner - and he sings two covers. The emcee says his name afterwards, everyone applauds, he smiles and mouths 'thank you'.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 6, 2023 8:25:15 GMT -6
I walk into a restaurant and immediately approach the owner, who is standing behind the host stand. "We're here to shut this place down, you haven't paid your taxes." He gets nervous and tells me I must be mistaken and I say "9 years of taxes, what's that, $3,000?" and he nods. I say "If you give me $1,000 right now I won't report you" and he does it. I leave feeling so, so, so, so smart.
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