My OperaIt's odd what happens in dreams
Friday, April 6, 2007 5:09:50 PM
I've been having an odd day today, and part of the oddness has been falling asleep in the bath this afternoon.
In itself it's not that odd: I do fall asleep in the bath with depressing regularity :-)
However, it's not often that I remember dreaming. So today in my dream I met Tom Verlaine on a train or plane. For some reason I was travelling with some people from work who hadn't heard of him (which figures...). In case you're in the same boat, he's a guitarist/singer who started out in a band called Television in the 70s, who's had a solo career since. Try Google or Wikipedia :-)
Anyway, he seemed a nice guy in my dream. In real life, he's one of the few artists who've managed to reduce me to tears, with the guitar on the title track from Words from the front. It's like all the anguish, pain, mud and blood of the first world war being dragged through your heart like barbed wire.
The only other music that's managed to make me cry spontaneously at first hearing that I can think of is New Order's In a lonely place, b-side to Ceremony, an early single.
Anyway, I had a pleasant chat with Tom in my dream, then we got to our destination and off he went, and I woke up.
In itself it's not that odd: I do fall asleep in the bath with depressing regularity :-)
However, it's not often that I remember dreaming. So today in my dream I met Tom Verlaine on a train or plane. For some reason I was travelling with some people from work who hadn't heard of him (which figures...). In case you're in the same boat, he's a guitarist/singer who started out in a band called Television in the 70s, who's had a solo career since. Try Google or Wikipedia :-)
Anyway, he seemed a nice guy in my dream. In real life, he's one of the few artists who've managed to reduce me to tears, with the guitar on the title track from Words from the front. It's like all the anguish, pain, mud and blood of the first world war being dragged through your heart like barbed wire.
The only other music that's managed to make me cry spontaneously at first hearing that I can think of is New Order's In a lonely place, b-side to Ceremony, an early single.
Anyway, I had a pleasant chat with Tom in my dream, then we got to our destination and off he went, and I woke up.
