November 2009
31 posts
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backlogged dream: lord of the fries
I am with a group of people I have never met before, and we are going to buy food from Lord of the Fries. For some reason Lord of the Fries is actually at Flinders Street Station, instead of next to it; there is a little inlet at the top of the stairs to Platform 1, and the Lord of the Fries outlet is tucked in there.
The guy behind the counter is frustrated because nobody knows how to order the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
The National (69)
The Mountain Goats (59)
Slowdive (33)
Carl Orff (25)
Bright Eyes (22)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
The Mountain Goats (80)
Manchester Orchestra (24)
The National (23)
Final Fantasy (17)
My Friend the Chocolate Cake (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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high school dream
My high school saxophone teacher is doing a strange mechanical dance in the middle of the schoolyard. As he steps and twitches, clicking sounds come from his mouth; he cannot speak except by doing the dance. Nearby, someone is blowing bubbles that turn into balloons.
I get in a lift with my English teacher from year eleven. She is carrying a big pile of yearbooks that she wants people to sign....
“I think it’s funny when people complain super loud about how...”
– Kate Beaton
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should be not-a-dream dream
I am asking my housemate when her friend (who has been at our house for almost two weeks) is going home, and explaining that being consistently woken at two or three in the morning by their racket and then kept awake for a couple of hours is not something I can cope with on an ongoing basis. My housemate is pouting and calling me a spoilsport.
There are a whole lot of other people in the living...
“Wallace was remarkably sensitive and ahead of the game on this front: this is a...”
– a grammar
“… great writing forces you to submit to its vision. You spend the morning...”
– Zadie Smith
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“As a vegetarian, I do not campaign for people to give up meat because, unless...”
– Brad Warner
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endorphin dream
I discover that lying on one’s face and imagining that one is walking backwards produces the sort of euphoric high that is usually not available legally.
I am not sure if I should share this discovery with the world.
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Classified!
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WHOA, tl;dr, next post will have some artsy ass photo with faded coloring to appeal to the hipster girl demographic that apparently likes to follow me on tumblr.
I’m not sure, but I think maybe I just got called a hipster girl? That has never happened to me before. Awesome.
The post in question was like the third shortest thing on my dashboard, though (not counting...
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group activities dream
There is a child on my train. He belongs to two of my friends, but they are not on the train. I take him with me.
We arrive at a camp where rows of children - the boys dressed like characters from Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, the girls dressed in red and yellow sacks - are performing slow-motion dance moves that are supposed to ward off diseases. I am told that children at this camp...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
The Mountain Goats (190)
Bright Eyes (36)
The National (25)
Tiger Army (24)
The Meeting Places (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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nerd dream
I received a Google Wave invite and started learning how to use it.
(This has been the most embarrassing dream to admit to so far.)
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eggcup dream
I am trying to give away my egg cups, because I don’t eat eggs anymore and it seems silly not to give them to somebody who will use them. I can’t stop calling them “egg cup holders” and so my conversations go nowhere.
So it turns out Tumblr is pretty terrible if you want to have two photos in one post in a particular way. Lesson learned.
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cruise ship dream
In this dream the main character is a guy who looks like Johnny Depp did fifteen years ago. He/I is/am on a cruise ship for work. (It is not at all clear what this work constitutes.) We are being pursued by a girl and also by the girl’s mother. Their intentions are not pure. It is especially awkward when they both make a move at the same time.
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toothless dream
A man is marching up and down asking everybody he sees to give him a name. He doesn’t have one, and he only has a single tooth in his mouth. Once he has a name his tooth problem will be solved as well.
“I’m very into representing your neighborhood. You need to be proud of where...”
– John Darnielle
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dreams from a terrible night's sleep
Two of my friends throw a huge party to announce that they are going to adopt a child from a third world country. I am worried that they are doing it to make themselves look good, as a public performance to demonstrate that they are The Right Sort of People. When I say something about it they become extremely angry in that way that means I am right and they were hoping nobody would notice.
***
I...
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“If you don’t like E. E. Cummings you’ve been reading him wrong.”
– Rory Marinich
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home invasion dream
We are visiting my maternal grandmother. We are telling her that my father’s sister is definitely still alive, although a letter sent to her in 1964 has just come back to my grandmother with a note from Australia Post saying it was undeliverable.
Then I am at share house I once lived in, where they have turned one of the bedrooms into a butcher’s shop because they could never finish...
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road trip dream
My improbably attractive friends and I are driving all over the country, and I am documenting the process by taking pictures of the sights, the laughter and the moments of introspection. I can tell that we will look back on the pictures later and wonder how life could possibly have been any better.
In this dream I am basically Peter Hughes.
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“People do things to people, books don’t. Books are like rocks. You hold one in...”
– John Darnielle
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Elliott Smith (46)
The Mountain Goats (28)
Tomáš Dvořák (24)
Get Set Go (21)
The Cure (18)
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merlin:
Top 1 Habits of Amazing Writers
They write.
I’m working on cultivating that habit, but it’s still pretty much impossible to have too many reminders about it.