i had a dream last night that i was listenin to “Rhythm of the Rain” with PackFM on a school bus. Pack hadn’t heard it before, but he liked it. No idea where we were going. I had a sub for lunch and I let pack have a few bites.
QN5_Fan said:So, I’d wager that we’re within two weeks of the first single.
no chance
I don’t see why not. I imagine the single leaking around the 1st of October, with the album releasing in mid-November.
If it’s the same process than Death Is Silent, we should have some kind of announcement soon…but yeah we have no clue meanwhile, we’ll probably have our DIS copy.
QN5_Fan said:So, I’d wager that we’re within two weeks of the first single.
no chance
I don’t see why not. I imagine the single leaking around the 1st of October, with the album releasing in mid-November.
If it’s the same process than Death Is Silent, .
The CL album will have a longer gap between the time a single is leaked and the time the album is released. Larger projects have a longer turn-around period.
I thought you guys would enjoy this. Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel discusses a vision he had in the state between sleeping and awake. An excerpt is below. Here is a link to the full article: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/5847-neutral-milk-hotel/
Pitchfork: I know you’re interested in visions and dreams, and that you sometimes record other people’s visions and dreams for your montage pieces. Do you remember many of your own?
Jeff: I did have a vision about a year ago that had an impact on me.
Pitchfork: What was it?
Jeff: Well, I was lying in bed slowly coming out of sleeping, and this voice in my head told me to go back in; to not quite wake up yet, but just to stay in that in-between place. So I did. I slipped back down and stayed in the halfway point. Then I was standing on the ocean. I saw a blur come around, from my right side to my left. It was a hand putting something next to me. When I looked closer I saw that what the hand had put there was a little sea turtle. I looked up to see who had put it there, and there was this mulatto boy looking at me, smiling. I picked up the sea turtle and put in my hand and it turned into a butterfly. And then it turned into a black spider. It kept turning into a butterfly, a spider, a butterfly, a spider. It would pulsate between the two. I put my hands around it to grasp it and blood ran out of my hands and fell into the sand. Then as I let go of it, the blood rose up from the sand and turned again into the butterfly/spider. It hovered about a foot above my hand, and turned into a little ball of light. So that whole sequence repeated two or three times: it would land back in my hand, turn into a creature, and when I tried to hold it, it would crush again into blood, and when I would let go the blood would rise back up and turn into a ball of light.
Pitchfork: Do you know what it means?
Jeff: Yes, I pretty much understood it right away. I didn’t have to analyze it afterwards. The butterfly and the spider represented two opposing sides: all the things that I love and consider to be beautiful and gentle and wonderful, and all the things that threaten me… the things about life that I can’t come to terms with because they don’t fit into my nice, happy picture of the way I want the world to be. It kept morphing back and forth to show me that they’re both one and the same; they’re dependent on one another to exist. When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it. But when I let go and let it be what it was, it would turn into light to show me that both sides come from the same source. I think the vision was trying to tell me to just live and be joyful and stop creating these internal wars over all the pain that is within myself and that I see all around me. That’s how I interpret it.
Pitchfork: Does your music stem from dreams and visions sometimes?
Jeff: Yes. I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I’m feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep and those play out even more in my dreams.
Pitchfork: What is “active imagination”?
Jeff: It’s a Carl Jung term. It’s sort of staying in that place between sleeping and waking. Just allowing your mind to completely begin to flow with images. Allowing it to become whatever it becomes. You know, you go to bed filled with worries and thoughts, caught up in that everyday kind of thing. With this, you try to concentrate on what you think is really important, or some type of interesting or mysterious image, and then allow your imagination to become like a stream. You can let the stream go, and just observe it to see what happens.
I’ve always been interested in recording other people’s dreams. A lot of people are. You heard the montage piece. I’m trying to create a dream world with the montage. It’s like when you look at a Dada or surrealist montage—I just love taking fragments from everyday reality and recombining them. Everything in the natural world is so amazing, but because we’re used to seeing it in one way we take it for granted. We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes an anthill and then moves on, without taking the opportunity to have the sense of awe that we could have if we really looked at it. The montage is about taking pieces of reality and rearranging them—creating new frames to make you have to stop and look at things in a fresh way. It’s basically taking pieces of everyday reality and rearranging them to show people the magic that is inherent in all of these things already.
The Trashman said:Also a good movie about dreams is called ‘Ink’ basically its an indie movie about two collective unconscious forces (dreamers and nightmares) at war for our sleeping minds. It’s pretty trippy and has a cool concept. The acting might not be the best but it’s free and streaming on hulu.com. I think it’s critically acclaimed, check it out.
I just watched this movie last night. It reminded me of hypnopomp a lot. Pretty decent movie.
I’m reading The Sandman books by Neil Gaiman, very good dream-based stuff. The protagonist is Dream aka Morpheus and he’s the ruler of the dreamworld called ‘The Dreaming’. He oversees all dreams and nightmares for people as all of humankind spend 1/3 of their lives in his kingdom (asleep).
Very well written and great art, tons of interesting characters and it all takes place in the DC Comics universe. I recommend while listening to the Oneirology instros.
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