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Give Me Back My Dreams
Jul. 15th, 2007 10:13 amHave any of the rest of you had certain unreal locations turn up in multiple dreams? Both a dream yesterday and one I had a little while ago had me living in a house that was twinned with another and located behind a bigger one. I don't think it's based on anywhere real, but my subconscious saw fit to use it twice. I also remember having two dreams about a small mall that had an uncrossable room full of dogs. I think a board game featuring Garfield but looking kind of like Chutes & Ladders appeared in at least one of these dreams. Those are the only recurring locations (not counting real ones) that I can recall offhand, but there might well have been others.
It looks like having my toe examined by the podiatrist is going to cost me a pretty penny. I thought I was told that I'd only have to pay the co-pay, but I probably misunderstood. It's all ridiculously complicated. But I'm sure I'll have plenty to say about health insurance issues after seeing Sicko (which I hope to do sometime soon), so I won't get into it anymore right now, other than to say that this makes me reluctant to go to any more doctors while on my current plan.
On a less expensive note, I'm currently listening to Hyacinths and Thistles, the second album by the 6ths. The roster of guest artists this time around seems more impressive, at least so far as I've actually heard of more of them. Looking at the list of guest singers' bands from Wasps' Nests, I think Yo La Tengo is the only one I've heard anything by, and I don't remember any of it. On this one, even just going over the names, I'm pretty sure I've heard at least one song each by Bob Mould, Melanie, Miho Hatori, and Gary Numan. Brian Dewan plays his infamous electric zither on the first track. And I think I might have seen Neil Hannon (the guy from the Divine Comedy, according to the liner notes) open for Ben Folds. His contribution, "The Dead Only Quickly," is one of my favorites, despite its shortness. I also quite like "He Didn't," "I've Got New York," "Lindy-Lou," and "You You You You You." On the less positive side, while I know Odetta is a favorite of the beatniks in Hairspray (and, for that matter, of Stephin Merritt himself), her vocal performance on "Waltzing Me All The Way Home" is a little too weird for me. Nice accordion work by Daniel Handler, though. And while the actual song part of the minimalisitic "Oahu" is pretty good, the decision to end it with about twenty minutes of the repetitive instrumental part wasn't so cool. At least it's at the end, so I can skip it pretty easily when listening to the album in the future.
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travspence did this, and while I couldn't come up with any suggestions for him, I still think it would be cool if people did it for me. Does that make me selfish? Anyway, here it is:
Leave me a comment and list not less than 1 but no more than 3 musical acts I probably haven't heard of and tell me why I should give them a listen.
It looks like having my toe examined by the podiatrist is going to cost me a pretty penny. I thought I was told that I'd only have to pay the co-pay, but I probably misunderstood. It's all ridiculously complicated. But I'm sure I'll have plenty to say about health insurance issues after seeing Sicko (which I hope to do sometime soon), so I won't get into it anymore right now, other than to say that this makes me reluctant to go to any more doctors while on my current plan.
On a less expensive note, I'm currently listening to Hyacinths and Thistles, the second album by the 6ths. The roster of guest artists this time around seems more impressive, at least so far as I've actually heard of more of them. Looking at the list of guest singers' bands from Wasps' Nests, I think Yo La Tengo is the only one I've heard anything by, and I don't remember any of it. On this one, even just going over the names, I'm pretty sure I've heard at least one song each by Bob Mould, Melanie, Miho Hatori, and Gary Numan. Brian Dewan plays his infamous electric zither on the first track. And I think I might have seen Neil Hannon (the guy from the Divine Comedy, according to the liner notes) open for Ben Folds. His contribution, "The Dead Only Quickly," is one of my favorites, despite its shortness. I also quite like "He Didn't," "I've Got New York," "Lindy-Lou," and "You You You You You." On the less positive side, while I know Odetta is a favorite of the beatniks in Hairspray (and, for that matter, of Stephin Merritt himself), her vocal performance on "Waltzing Me All The Way Home" is a little too weird for me. Nice accordion work by Daniel Handler, though. And while the actual song part of the minimalisitic "Oahu" is pretty good, the decision to end it with about twenty minutes of the repetitive instrumental part wasn't so cool. At least it's at the end, so I can skip it pretty easily when listening to the album in the future.
Finally,
travspence did this, and while I couldn't come up with any suggestions for him, I still think it would be cool if people did it for me. Does that make me selfish? Anyway, here it is:Leave me a comment and list not less than 1 but no more than 3 musical acts I probably haven't heard of and tell me why I should give them a listen.
