I have a lot of bad dreams. Not nightmares, but inane visions and boring fantasies. Last night, I had an “epic” one about arguing with my girlfriend over who was sluttier in their prime, Madonna or Samantha Fox. Before that, I’ve relived highlights from a recent night of karaoke. I’ve dreamt about buying broccoli, about reading the newspaper, about drinking orange juice. I’ve dreamt about watching “Charles in Charge” (but never about living the Baio lifestyle). Most often and most unfortunately, I dream about a typical day at the office.
Over the next few weeks, I’m making some improvements to my external life—taking a trip, starting a new job—and I hope my internal life will get better as well. Dreams should be about possibilities—living a life where you can stop time, build a robot sister, be a secret superhero or at least be really rich. But right now, the banality of my unconscious life haunts me more that the worst nightmare ever could.
Here’s to not living your dreams.
Today I was wondering why Ric Flair didn’t have a reality show. Turns out, he might. WHOOOOOOOOOOO!
After a long conversation about John Candy’s character in Who’s Harry Crumb?, the mustachioed man on my left sighed and said, “Good times. Good friends. Good beer. What more could you ask for?”
The man to my right, finishing off a $7 bucket of Bud Light, piped in with perfect timing: “More money.”
We got another round and talked about Hootie and the Blowfish.
“I’m surprised it’s not grungier,” my friend Mike said when he first saw ABC No Rio, but I was shocked that the music could cut through the stagnant, stale air with such intensity. The Birds and Wires show the other day will probably be the last time I go to the legendary squat before it becomes even less dank, but the club’s ceiling not leaking isn’t the only positive thing happening with music this year.
The ’90s are back. Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Superchunk, and a bunch of other bands that have ’90s celebs (Obits) or sound like they should (Double Dagger) have new records out. Jay-Z has pronounced autotune dead. Hopefully, indie rock’s version of vocal alteration—heaps of reverb + distortion—is on the wane as well.
That said, here are some songs from the first half of the year that I’ve enjoyed. I hope you like (and download) them too.
09/90 mix
1. Death - Keep On Knocking
2. Obits - Fake Kinkade
3. Wavves - Friends Were Gone
4. Jay Reatard - You’re Gonna Lose
5. Mika Miko - I Got A Lot (New New New)
6. Superchunk - Misfits & Mistakes
7. Dinosaur Jr - I Want You To Know
8. Sonic Youth - Walkin Blue
9. Scout Niblett - It’s Time
10. Double Dagger - The Lie/The Truth
11. The Future of the Left - Land Of My Formers
12. Children - Subterranean Cities
13. Isis - Stone to Wake a Serpent
14. Wolves in the Throne Room - Crystal Ammunition
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