things you'd really want to remember
Jan. 20th, 2012 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI dreamed an irritatingly catchy pop song. Which is still stuck in my head. Thanks, subconscious.
I'd write down the words, which are also stuck, but they neither rhyme nor scan, because it was a dream.
In it the annoyingly perky girl starts out singing about how last time she got really drunk was ages ago because apparently all the best things happened yet she can't remember.
And then there was a great big list of things that (a) you'd really want to remember and (b) you'd really want to see on the video.
After we'd heard it in the dream people started getting in an argument about if it said "sang in front of rock stars" or "sang like fucking rock stars", which would be an obvious radio edit issue except we'd all just heard the same live performance.
It emerged that we'd all heard something different, like it was tailor made.
The line I'd found most memorable was "made out with Karen Gillan"
This song should totally exist. Except since we can't make it do magic lots of different people would have to do different lines. For the video.
In the dream I then started close reading the song, focusing on the tension between it being explicitly a song about not drinking any more, and yet most of the lines being about awesome things that apparently only happen while too drunk to remember.
You could sort of fix that with the video, like you're singing about Karen Gillan but then in the images you're drunkenly all over a poster or a standee or something. Or it switches from glamour drunk view to the view your sober friends remember. Because then you'd get both the video people want to see and the undermining of the drunk is fun message.
Yes I dreamed all that. My dreams are analysing my dreams and proposing fixed versions.
Also, either, when I woke up at 0600 and decided more sleep could happen, I fixed my essay and didn't get up to write it all down, or I dreamed about fixing my essay.
Today I am going to finish this essay. And then preferably stop dreaming texts and go back to dreaming actual stuff happening.
I'd write down the words, which are also stuck, but they neither rhyme nor scan, because it was a dream.
In it the annoyingly perky girl starts out singing about how last time she got really drunk was ages ago because apparently all the best things happened yet she can't remember.
And then there was a great big list of things that (a) you'd really want to remember and (b) you'd really want to see on the video.
After we'd heard it in the dream people started getting in an argument about if it said "sang in front of rock stars" or "sang like fucking rock stars", which would be an obvious radio edit issue except we'd all just heard the same live performance.
It emerged that we'd all heard something different, like it was tailor made.
The line I'd found most memorable was "made out with Karen Gillan"
This song should totally exist. Except since we can't make it do magic lots of different people would have to do different lines. For the video.
In the dream I then started close reading the song, focusing on the tension between it being explicitly a song about not drinking any more, and yet most of the lines being about awesome things that apparently only happen while too drunk to remember.
You could sort of fix that with the video, like you're singing about Karen Gillan but then in the images you're drunkenly all over a poster or a standee or something. Or it switches from glamour drunk view to the view your sober friends remember. Because then you'd get both the video people want to see and the undermining of the drunk is fun message.
Yes I dreamed all that. My dreams are analysing my dreams and proposing fixed versions.
Also, either, when I woke up at 0600 and decided more sleep could happen, I fixed my essay and didn't get up to write it all down, or I dreamed about fixing my essay.
Today I am going to finish this essay. And then preferably stop dreaming texts and go back to dreaming actual stuff happening.