devil dream

Starting with the first lockdown of 2020, my night life was dominated by a vivid dream world, thoughts of which filled the dark spaces of my waking hours. The story's first lines arose fully formed, and the dream wrote itself into an opening. But dream logic translates into a tedious narrative. After all, there’s not much so boring as listening to a friend’s dream. In the end, attempts to write something other than a Mary Sue fantasy fulfilment went nowhere. A year passed.

In the interim, I’ve been thinking. According to the podcast metrics, a total of zero people saw my last post. Granted, it wasn’t great, and I don’t have one-hundred percent confidence in the stats on my dashboard, but it’s looking like without a FB post pointing here, no one sees or hears what’s up. 

Meanwhile, I dreamt that I was employed by the devil. In this instance, it manifested as two strip mall optometrists with obsidian eyes. My duties were pretty vague, as I recall, though I was afforded a degree of immunity from consequences. Regardless, I had to take leave after committing a particularly grisly murder. One of the diabolical eye doctors told me to get out of town, crossed my palm with a bus ticket, and said, "Try Ohio." Then I woke up; and now I’ve told you about my year-old dream.

TRACK 01 "Echoes," The Rapture INDEX 01 00:00:00

TRACK 02 "Deleters (feat, Holy Fuck. Angus Andrew)," INDEX 01 03:06:38

TRACK 03 "Bound for Hell," Love and Rockets INDEX 01 06:18:68

TRACK 04 "Blood in the River," Zeal & Ardor INDEX 01 12:08:68

TRACK 05 "You're Dead," Norma Tanega INDEX 01 15:41:59

TRACK 06 "Run On," Moby INDEX 01 18:02:42

TRACK 07 "Save Me From What I Want," St. Vincent INDEX 01 21:46:01

TRACK 08 "Bela Lugosi's Dead," CHVRCHES INDEX 01 25:19:29

TRACK 09 "Beat the Devil's Tattoo," Black Rebel Motorcycle Club INDEX 01 29:06:40

TRACK 10 "Save Me (Remix)," The Tea Party

TRACK 11 "Look to the Orb for Your Warning," Monster Magnet INDEX 01 39:23:23

TRACK 12 "Damned," Unloved INDEX 01 44:06:24

TRACK 13 "Big Joke," Dive INDEX 01 48:32:37

TRACK 14 "Bloodbuzz Ohio," The National INDEX 01 51:10:11