It's not really that i don't dream, or don't remember my dreams, it's that most of the time the things i remember are so fuckin' vague and undescribable that i don't think it's worh it to write them down.
BUT, i JUST remembered a pretty cool one. i was just talking to mikeliu about when we went to small's and i was telling him how i just downloaded a bunch of lester young's (amazing tenor saxaphonist) stuff to listen to. either way, the dream that i just remembered actually has something to do with real life (pretty rare)...
little background. in case you don't know i'm the lead singer/guitarist of a ska band called 'tequila vertigo' with christian (drums) salty (guitar) and my friend scott arfin (standup/electric bass). missing in action right now is also penny howe, who sings backup and plays the trumpet with us. either way, without penny now, all the melody has to come from my awful singing or a guitar solo, although salty and i...don't really solo. so i was thinking about, over the summer, picking up my brother's alto sax and learning how to play :) i played clarinet for like nine years, and switching to sax wouldn't be too hard (the hardest thing would be relearning scales in another key and transposing what i know in Bb clarinet to Eb saxaphone)....and then i could be a lead singer/guitarist/saxaphonist :) playing would become excercise, but it would be fun.
eitherway, my dream! i'm pretty sure i was in the Green Room (basement of lerner where we practice) and i was playing a fuckin' HOT sax solo, with all kinds of swoops and shit that i used to try on the clarinet. it's kind of funny (and the reason i'm posting this), and if you've ever played a horn you'll know what i'm talking about, but even in my dream, i was completely aware of my embouchure (that damn was even hard to look up), which is the position of your lips, and different parts of your mouth like tongue, cheeks, jaw, even the throat muscles used for different speech sounds. granted it's been three yeras since i've really played the clarinet, i remember the feeling, and the different movements you have to make for different sounds, and (this is where words do no justice) it just felt so real and vivid in my dream. i'm kind of excited to try it out again and see if i can actually do it. and that'll be so fun to play in the band too :) we'll see. i'll just keep practicing in my mind....
fin
