It Was All A Dream

[venom]

i haven't been to a show in about two weeks, but my brain is definitely in show mode. dreams from the last few nights:

- i am near the front of a line to buy concert tickets. people i know keep walking by me saying "i'm in for 2 tickets" on their way to the back of the line. are they expecting me to buy the tickets for them because i'm near the front? then i notice a friend from college is in front of me. at the front of the line, she asks for one ticket. i then ask for the seat next to hers. the box office person puts us in the fifth row of the auditorium theater balcony. we leave and i say i'll see her for the show in a few months. i turn to go to the train. she continues to the parking lot. she offers me a ride home, even though i then realize she lives in north carolina.

- i'm at an outdoor show. the opening band has the same name as an account at work that's driving me a little crazy lately. there's a man in the front row heckling them. then rush starts playing and i'm like "why am i at a rush show?" i zone out of the show and am using google glass (or some equivalent) to check housing prices on the homes near the amphitheater.

- i'm talking to an old friend of mine in the hallway of an indoor venue. there's a band playing in the other room. she says it's her husband's favorite band and asks if i can record it. i walk into the music room and try to take a video, but the mic is just picking up the conversation next to me and the lighting is too dark. i think the band is bauhaus. then they abruptly end. i walk back out and tell her i couldn't really get a video. i remember i have to meet my girlfriend between 9:30 and 10:30, but all of the clocks only have a minute hand. it's 22 after the hour, but i don't know what hour it is.

[chvrchbarrel]

I feel like I forget 98% of my dreams the second I wake up, but this one has stayed with me all day -

Last night I was on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It felt like a big viking ship, but everyone was dressed like we were on a more-comfortable Deadliest Catch. Trey Anastasio is there but everyone is calling him Troy. It's unclear whether or not he is "Trey (Troy) Anastasio of Phish" in the dream.

Troy somehow manages to make himself small enough to fit in a tiny box that is eventually set on the railing of the ship. The box is maybe 8" x 8" and a foot high. After Troy is inside the box, it falls off the railing ledge and goes overboard, and everyone on the ship is screaming "TROYYYYYYY!" Two people jump off the side of the ship to retrieve the box, which is sinking. When they come back up, they have Troy's headstone instead of the box. I am casually surprised to see that he was born in the late 1800's.

[monasterymonochrome]

Aug 12, 2023 17:17:02 GMT -6 chvrchbarrel said:

I feel like I forget 98% of my dreams the second I wake up, but this one has stayed with me all day -

Last night I was on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It felt like a big viking ship, but everyone was dressed like we were on a more-comfortable Deadliest Catch. Trey Anastasio is there but everyone is calling him Troy. It's unclear whether or not he is "Trey (Troy) Anastasio of Phish" in the dream.

Troy somehow manages to make himself small enough to fit in a tiny box that is eventually set on the railing of the ship. The box is maybe 8" x 8" and a foot high. After Troy is inside the box, it falls off the railing ledge and goes overboard, and everyone on the ship is screaming "TROYYYYYYY!" Two people jump off the side of the ship to retrieve the box, which is sinking. When they come back up, they have Troy's headstone instead of the box. I am casually surprised to see that he was born in the late 1800's.

Lmaooo this could be the sequel to "Fee"

[venom]

i'm in a car with several other people. there's a sign that says "Last Exit in Europe" and we drive past it onto a bridge that presumably extends to north america. (by the way, the toll for this trip was marked as $39.99.) we soon arrive on an island and pull into a parking lot. the other people get out of the car and run into a nearby building.

when i get into the building, it's like a shoddy open mic stage with wooden benches. the people i arrived with are sitting in the first row. i ask what's going on. they say they're staying for the pearl jam show. i ask when it is because they're the only people in the room. they say it's hours or maybe days away. they're saving their seats. i say i have better things to do than wait days for a pearl jam show. i walk outside and wake up.

[venom]

i'm at a restaurant downstairs from where the hives are playing. pelle isn’t going to do the show and they ask me to fill in for him. i say i don’t know the lyrics and cannot put on a show like he does. he says he will coach me through it and they write the lyrics on napkins. i can’t read their handwriting. then they write the lyrics on paper and push me on stage during the first song. i am terrified because the hives are a great live band and why am i here? the music is “hate to say i told you so” but i'm reading different lyrics about beethoven agonizing over a symphony. i look out and see pelle in the soundbooth mouthing the lyrics at me. he's very encouraging, but it’s a trainwreck for me reading the lyrics off scrap paper.

[venom]

last night i had a dream about going to a talking heads reunion show at chicago theater. david, tina, jerry, and chris are standing in front of the curtain singing "life during wartime" with three women in black leotards dancing around and between them. i'm midway back on the floor and my phone's camera won't zoom properly to get a good shot.

[kb]

had a dream i was at a festival record shopping in the merch area and king gizz shows up in shimmery green robes and covers "mandinka" by sinead o'connor (with a sinead hologram?) and "cities in dust" by siouxsie. that's got to be the most pretentious dream i've ever had. though not as pretentious as a talking heads dream.

[chvrchbarrel]

Just dreamed I met Regis Philbin. I told him I really knew him from Millionaire, but the first time I heard of him went all the way back to Regis and Kathie Lee. Nice guy.

[venom]

this morning i woke up at 7:02, decided i didn't need to be up yet, and miraculously fell back asleep. when i woke up again at 7:22, i'd had the following dreams:

- i'm standing in front of a merch table at a show. joe from protomartyr and craig from the hold steady are manning the tables. shirts and posters are pinned to the wall behind them, but all you can see is that the shirts are navy blue and light blue. i ask why they aren't showing the designs on the shirts, like how am i supposed to choose a shirt if i can't see what the design is? joe unfolds a shirt to show me. but the shirt isn't for protomartyr. it's for another band. hawk dudes? hawk men? something like that. it has a police badge design. the hold steady shirts have the same design, but in a different color. the posters all show a different act in larger font - bibaz ansari. i'm very confused by it all. they pressure me about what i am going to buy. i tell them i will come back after the show and buy a shirt from whichever band played better. they roll their eyes and i walk off to the bibaz ansari merch table, which looks like a metal band merch area with dozens of shirts/hoodies.

- i'm helping a family member work at a renaissance faire/field hockey tournament. during a break, i go for a walk and get lost in a large building. when i get out of the building, i am in a crowd of field hockey players waiting for their turn to play. i walk through them and see that i have to cross a pond to get back to where i need to be. some people are walking straight through the pond on the water. i don't have the confidence to do that. so i look for a bridge. while i am looking, i hear the national start playing. "why is the national playing at a renaissance faire/field hockey tournament?" i never find the bridge. i never get closer to the stage.

[alady]

I dreamed I was at some kind of Love Island alumni, family and friends thing at a tropical resort. I think there was a competition element but because I was an older alum I was mostly just there for a free vacation with friends. I had some kind of VIP access from being part of the franchise for so long so I brought my mom to hang out in the green room because she really wanted to meet Lizzo. When Lizzo finally got there, I tried to introduce her to my mom but it was really loud and Lizzo was very confused about who my mom was and why she was there and kind of gave her the stank face, so that was a bust. Later there was some kind of competition event where we were all out on our balconies cheering and it was nice to just be able to hang out with the other alums and not worry about trying to win anything. Afterwards I met up with a real life friend of mine for drinks and we each had 3, then they gave us a bill and the drinks were $55 each. I was like "wait isn't this an all inclusive?" and she acted like I was being super cheap.

[kb]

i had a dream i went to a doctor's appointment and was finishing a red bull. the doc asked how many of them i drank a year, and i said 2 (IRL it's zero). but he yelled at me and said he knew i was lying and that i have five a month! he was so mean, then i yelled at him for being unprofessional. fun lil stress dream.

[alady]

Q: was the doc hot

[kb]

Not this time, unfortunately

[venom]

i had a dream that pulp and new order were playing at red rocks.

that was followed up by a dream walking into the empty bottle. i extended my wrist for a stamp and the doorperson didn't know what i was doing. instead they handed me a toy spider and said to return it when i left.

[kb]

i had a dream i got on the very wrong bus...i was over by the lake and we drove straight through downtown and then north on damen. i was one of the only people on the bus and the driver was regaling us with tales about the pogues, who in my dream were hometown heroes. then he announced that we were stopping to pick up the pogues themselves! shane included. i don't know where i was heading that day but i ended up doing lots of dangerous things with the pogues.

[doso]

For some ungodly reason the New York Knickerbockers needed me to play basketball for them (at my current age and fitness level). Presumably a 10-day contract. I met with someone from the brass hours before gametime to receive my uniform which included shorts that went down to my ankles. monasterymonochrome was there to take a photo to send to my mom and to help remove dozens of tags that were still attached to my uniform pieces. Then I was trying to figure out how to get to the court. I was in the public area of MSG, unable to navigate past a very elaborate pre-game show, and certain that I’d be viciously berated by Thibs for being late. Having never played organized basketball in my life, I was also very stressed about knowing the correct process to check into the game during a dead ball and I was looking for monasterymonochrome because I figured he’d be able to spell it out for me, but I couldn’t find him.

Then I woke up with pain in my shoulders from being tensed up while sleeping/dreaming/stress nightmaring. Lovely!

[sleeping]

I have a strange recurring dream where I'm the stage manager for a Taylor Swift concert but the primary thing I'm focused on is impressing my ex, who is in the audience.

[chvrchbarrel]

I am looking at my own books on a bookshelf with a friend, and she is shocked to learn I own a copy of a very rare book by the guitar player from Sonic Youth, who in the dream is named Jon something. The book is either about songwriting or guitar and even I am impressed that I own it, however it is gaudily wrapped in that library protective plastic and I am also embarrassed. 

Then I'm at my mom's house and boy is she mad. She's mad about three things, but the one I hyper-focus on is that "my room is dirty" - I don't live in this house, and haven't slept in that room in years, but lo and behold it is filthy. After looking through the mess I realize it is all the luggage / clothes of the friend who was looking through my bookshelf. I get into a heated argument with my mom about leaving me alone and decide that as soon as I find my vape pen (which I've misplaced in her house), I'm going back to my apartment.

[venom]

ramsey lewis is leading a psych-rock band playing at an agricultural convention. the room looks like grand central station. i have to do something there, but i have to wait until the music is over. according to the setlist, they're supposed to play like 10 songs. they're on the first or second. i do the math in my head realizing they'll be playing an hour and a half. but my deadline for the task is before that, leading to a ton of anxiety as i pace the floor hoping that they will play shorter even though they sound great.

[zircona1]

I also had a concert dream last night, I was at a big Springsteen show in the forest, outside of St. Louis. I remember thinking, "he hasn't had any shows in St. Louis on this current tour of his."

[venom]

i had a dream that disappears announced some shows on an instagram post. but there were no details. it just read "june 10 - garden" and "june 12 - ray's house" in comic sans. i complained about it to a friend and they chided me "that first one is in a garden apartment in paterson, nj" as if everyone should know.

[venom]

i am sitting in one of the first rows of a chappell roan concert. band members from interpol are sitting next to me. we are apparently friends in the dream. she is bantering on stage and says something like "my favorite live bands are the older ones who are at their best in front of tens of thousands of fans." she points to the interpol guys with a thumbs up. i lean over to paul and ask "is she talking about you guys? do you feel you're at your best live in stadiums?" he shakes his head and says they've never played stadiums.

[chvrchbarrel]

Aug 5, 2024 7:48:06 GMT -6 venom said:

i am sitting in one of the first rows of a chappell roan concert. band members from interpol are sitting next to me. we are apparently friends in the dream. she is bantering on stage and says something like "my favorite live bands are the older ones who are at their best in front of tens of thousands of fans." she points to the interpol guys with a thumbs up. i lean over to paul and ask "is she talking about you guys? do you feel you're at your best live in stadiums?" he shakes his head and says they've never played stadiums.

i actually saw interpol open for u2 at soldier field (it was horrible)

[venom]

a childish gambino show pops up on reggie's ticketing site. tickets are $102.42. i am not enough of a fan to shell that out. but i want to tell one of my friends. however, i am lost in a maze of alleys and need to get home to shovel snow.

[zircona1]

I have had multiple weird dreams this week. Last night had one with many things, but I remember I was at a reunion and a guy who I hadn't seen since high school clapped me on the back and I was like "Hey!" We were friends in high school, but I don't know what happened to him, he was funny and had good taste. In the dream he looked the same.

[chvrchbarrel]

3 distinct dreams last night:

-My dad and I are getting in my car, I'm driving. I turn the engine on and it pretty much immediately shuts off and dies. I think "Shit!" and then I see on the dashboard that its saying there's trees stuck in the wheels. "Tree in Wheels." We get out of the car and are able to flip it up on its side to see the underneath, and my dad goes, "Yep, there's trees under here." and starts pulling huge branches out from under the front wheels.

-I am visiting the set of The Office and ask where Phyllis and Stanley's desks are, and a crew member tells me during the later seasons, those characters work from home

-I am at the second of two U2 shows at Soldier Field, having missed the first. I look up the setlist from the night before and see that they played 'Get On Your Boots' again for the first time in like a decade, and wonder if it will be in the setlist again tonight. I try to pull up a video of the performance and my phone dies.

[alady]

The other night I dreamed that a friend invited me to a party off the lakefront path around Promontory Point, and I went because there was going to be really good ice cream. On the way back I had to figure out how to get a dresser home on my bike, I was strapping the drawers across the handlebars and such. Also I think the ice cream party might have been a cult.

[venom]

i'm looking at flyers in a coffee shop and notice that the delgados have a show in chicago next friday. it starts at 11pm at a venue called the gel. i look it up on my phone. the venue is way on the northwest side like in edison park. i have a ticket to see spoon, but i wonder if i can see spoon and still get to the delgados show. the app says it'll take 40 minutes just to drive between metro and the gel. since i usually bike to metro, i doubt i can get there in time.

somehow i end up at the delgados show. the venue is a racetrack. the stage is on the infield and the seating is normal, so the track leaves a huge space between stage and audience. it's a very strange setup and the seating area is extremely full. everyone is complaining about the seating arrangement being so far from the stage. but i woke up before they started to play.

[venom]

i'm at a sturgill simpson show (prescient, no?) in a field across from a big house. many in the audience are sitting in lawn chairs. the band is spread out, even with audience members sitting between band members. i am late to the show and am told i missed a cover of r.e.m.'s "get up." they play a few more songs and then sturgill walks into the big house. he's in there for several minutes. mc taylor and his wife are in sturgill's band and take over while sturgill is gone. sturgill comes back eventually and the show continues. then i walk in the house after the show. i apparently own the house.