Entries in dreams (2)

Monday
Apr192010

Chasing A Dream

A few weeks ago I dreamed that I was at a piano writing songs next to a window. It was a white upright piano and immediately outside the window was the beach. The dream was so peaceful and so different from what I would dream about when awake because I always consider myself more of a mountain person than a beach person. 

Since I'm in the process of writing songs for my second album, I wanted the dream to mean something. I wanted the dream to mean something in the literal sense.

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Wednesday
Feb032010

Ants in my Pants, i.e., Waiting Out the Waiting Game

As soon as I heard about the cast of Nine, I couldn’t wait to see it. As December 25, 2009 closed in, more and more interviews and clips were being revealed—who can forget the Oprah interview (oy, that was good)—causing my anticipation to reach a boiling point. I wanted to see that movie diddymao. It. Looked. So. Good. Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judy Dench, SOPHIA LOREN, and dancing and singing and Italy?!!!! I mean, come on, it’s my perfect movie! And then I saw it. And I left with a giant “Meh” on my face. You know what “Meh” looks like. It’s when something really isn’t bad, per se—I mean, I liked Nine. I did. I thought it was a good movie. But “Meh” results when the way you imagined something to be is leaps and bounds better than the actual product or event. You always try to make the event logically seem good in your head, but in your heart you know it kinda sucked. Like the last Indiana Jones movie. Or the prom. Or the iPad.

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