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 Posted:   Nov 13, 2011 - 10:02 AM   
 By:   maritereh   (Member)

On Tuesday, at night, I went to watch Ovo (Cirque du Soleil) with my sister but I spent the day listening to War Horse.
I reeeeeaaaaally loved the show. Then I dreamed about a circus full of insects and I was fascinanted about the artists but –don't really remember why– John Williams was there too. In the dream, I wasn't listening to Ovo's music. Instead, I could clearly listen to War Horse.
I remember that he was seating next to me. His beard was SO white, he was wearing a black turtleneck and he had the sweetest smile ever.
I had the chance to watch him closely at Boston in May and I will never forget the look and smile he gave at me before signing my Superman LP. So, in a way, I guess this dream was like a memory. He was just the way I looked at him the last time I saw him smile

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 13, 2011 - 10:53 PM   
 By:   Thgil   (Member)

Since I started watching Fringe (beginning at season 1 via Netflix) earlier this year, I've had no fewer than three dreams in which I've hung out with Anna Torv. I'm not complaining, not by a long shot, though it is a bit unusual. My dreams are never this interesting. I don't have recurring dreams so I guess my mind came up with a recurring theme.

 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 6:11 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

This is just for fun, Will! Sharing film music-related dreams may have some common entertainment value for us here, I think (although the interest in this thread is largely underwhelming these days). I keep my more personal dreams to myself, as well as my interpretations, but it's always fun to read your take on the shenanigans. smile




That's a defence mechanism, Thor.

The thing about a dream is that, unless you edit it, it is what it is, and it can point at what it points to.

Suppose you had a gun pointed at your head. You could go online here and tell everyone, 'There's this nutcase pointing a gun at my head, but, hey, I'm just typing this in fun. I've really got the police alerted and I'm just waiting to overpower him. Do you other guys also have stories about people who are pointing guns at your head? It'd be fun to share them'.

You know very well that this is no forum for that sort of thing, as I've said. I know how you work y'know.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 7:23 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Since I started watching Fringe (beginning at season 1 via Netflix) earlier this year, I've had no fewer than three dreams in which I've hung out with Anna Torv. I'm not complaining, not by a long shot, though it is a bit unusual. My dreams are never this interesting. I don't have recurring dreams so I guess my mind came up with a recurring theme.

Funny you should dream about Anna Torv, Krazyfilmscorefan, since dreams play a crucial part in the recent episodes (Olivia dreams about Peter before he reappears in their reality).

As for you, Will, sorry, your random rants will never make sense to me. As I said, this is all just for fun. But your dream interpretations do have lots of entertainment value, a case where your rant-like posts come to their right. That's a compliment, I suppose!

 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 12:41 PM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

As for you, Will, sorry, your random rants will never make sense to me. As I said, this is all just for fun. But your dream interpretations do have lots of entertainment value, a case where your rant-like posts come to their right. That's a compliment, I suppose!



Did you lay a little trap, Thor?




There's this old Arab proverb: 'Don't insult the man you invite to sit down to dinner'.

But then, you know that of course Thor, you have such good manners.



BUT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LAY BARE YOUR DREAMS FOR THE PUBLIC. YOU JUST EXPOSE YOURSELF.

Here endeth the lesson.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 12:55 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I'm gonna share more as soon as I get them, providing I remember them afterwards. Now share YOUR funny/weird film music dreams, Will!! You know you want to. smile

 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 1:01 PM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)

I'm gonna share more as soon as I get them, providing I remember them afterwards. Now share YOUR funny/weird film music dreams, Will!! You know you want to. smile


Not here, Thor. Very few relate to film music, only a half-dozen, but some of those were very important.

If you keep a thing sacred, it'll respond by being sacred. If you hand your dreams over to the sacred, then the sacred has something to communicate with.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 1:37 PM   
 By:   Ectoplasm   (Member)

Talking of weird dreams... Last night I dreamed I had received a copy of FSM's magazine on the mail. That was odd enough. There, among many, many things that had nothing to do with film music (and that for the life of me I cannot remember... I just know they were not girls, I always remember those) there was a monumental one page announcement of the upcoming release by FSM of Elmer Bernstein's rejected score for... snare drum... Ghostbusters 2! But wait, there is more... According to the blurb, this score stands head and shoulders above most work done for TV! How can I go wrong with this endorsement? I hope that in one or two nights I may be able to offer a detailed review of this holy grail...

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 2:44 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Talking of weird dreams... Last night I dreamed I had received a copy of FSM's magazine on the mail. That was odd enough. There, among many, many things that had nothing to do with film music (and that for the life of me I cannot remember... I just know they were not girls, I always remember those) there was a monumental one page announcement of the upcoming release by FSM of Elmer Bernstein's rejected score for... snare drum... Ghostbusters 2! But wait, there is more... According to the blurb, this score stands head and shoulders above most work done for TV! How can I go wrong with this endorsement? I hope that in one or two nights I may be able to offer a detailed review of this holy grail...

He, he....excellent stuff!

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2011 - 2:57 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Another film music-related dream last night.

I dreamt that Ford Thaxton(!) was establishing a soundtrack store in Oslo. A version of him, anyway, this one had a full, black beard, was bald and no suspenders. He looked like a young Rob Reiner. As no soundtrack store has ever existed in Norway, neither online nor brick-and-mortar, I was of course very excited.

Entering the rather small store with a huge crowd on opening day, I immediately went for a cheapie bin and found lots of treasures, among them Horner's COCOON (I have no particular interest in this score, but I assume it appeared as a lucrative object because of its collectability) and others I can't remember while the other non-soundtrack fans rummaged through the aisles. I was convinced that I had a huge advantage, being one of the few hardcore Norwegian soundtrack fans.

Anyways, I put the pile of collected CD's (all of them gems) next to me while I flipped through some CD's further on, but as I turned back, they had all gone! Who could have taken them? I looked around, and saw some potential thiefs, but I didn't know exactly who so it led to a sense of paranoia and anger.

He, he...

I wonder if it was triggered because of all the threads about the Family Store offers, and me wanting to "project" a similar situation to a Norwegian setting.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2011 - 5:29 AM   
 By:   WILLIAMDMCCRUM   (Member)


..... this one had a full, black beard, was bald and no suspenders.



Take note gentlemen, take note.

He had no suspenders. Unlike the Ford Thaxton we know, who always sports suspenders. Doesn't everyone?

All Thor's friends wear fishnets.

It's all right there.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2011 - 6:22 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

He, he....

I've never seen a picture of Ford without suspenders, actually!

 
 Posted:   Dec 10, 2011 - 12:48 PM   
 By:   First Breath   (Member)

Another film music-related dream last night.

I dreamt that Ford Thaxton(!) was establishing a soundtrack store in Oslo. A version of him, anyway, this one had a full, black beard, was bald and no suspenders. He looked like a young Rob Reiner. As no soundtrack store has ever existed in Norway, neither online nor brick-and-mortar, I was of course very excited.

Entering the rather small store with a huge crowd on opening day, I immediately went for a cheapie bin and found lots of treasures, among them Horner's COCOON (I have no particular interest in this score, but I assume it appeared as a lucrative object because of its collectability) and others I can't remember while the other non-soundtrack fans rummaged through the aisles. I was convinced that I had a huge advantage, being one of the few hardcore Norwegian soundtrack fans.

Anyways, I put the pile of collected CD's (all of them gems) next to me while I flipped through some CD's further on, but as I turned back, they had all gone! Who could have taken them? I looked around, and saw some potential thiefs, but I didn't know exactly who so it led to a sense of paranoia and anger.

He, he...

I wonder if it was triggered because of all the threads about the Family Store offers, and me wanting to "project" a similar situation to a Norwegian setting.


Another good one.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 20, 2012 - 4:25 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I had a new one a couple of nights ago that I need to write down (the little I remember of it).

I was in a city square of some sort....I think it started out as Oslo, but then turned into the capital of Ukraine or something. Walking along, I noticed an elderly man and his wife sitting by a roadside café. I noticed a piece of sheet paper on their table, and proceeded to jump(!) over the fence and approach the man. I'm fairly confident the score sheets were some Williams piece of some sort and I remember recognizing the man as Herb Spencer (Williams' longtime orchestrator) even though he looked more like a cross between Lionel Newman and Elmer Bernstein. I greeted him with much enthusiasm, and he knew who I was too!

Very weird. I think the score sheet was some new Williams composition that wasn't quite finished yet.

Anyways, that's all I remember.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 15, 2012 - 12:31 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

This last night I dreamt that someone had made a remake of Polanski`s classic film Chinatown. I do not remember from my dream who directed it or who starred in it but there is one name from that remake that I did remember, the composer. The composer was Alex Heffes. Don`t know why I dreamt this, heck I do not even own a single soundtrack by Heffes (or at least not yet) but this is what I dreamt.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 15, 2012 - 9:28 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Funny how those peripheral names pop up in your dreams, Tobias. Thanks for sharing.

I had yet another dream with Williams a few nights ago. Can't remember much of it, other than that I was in some sort of social gathering at a private residence (which looked very Norwegian). Spielberg was there too, and both he and Williams constantly had people around them. I remember thinking it was awesome that I was in the same room as them, but didn't have the nerve to go up and speak to them. At one point, Williams was at the buffet table with me, but even here I chickened out.

Could have something to do with my failed attempt to meet Williams at the Bowl a few weeks ago, I don't know.

 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2013 - 5:38 PM   
 By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member)

I was working for John Williams, who was a really nice guy, and he asked me to make hotel reservations for him for his next concert. He also asked me to make SURE that there was roast beef at the reception for him at his hotel.

Because he was a really nice guy, I made sure PERSONALLY to mail a roast beef that I had made myself to his hotel room, well in advance of the reception.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 5, 2013 - 9:01 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Ha, ha....great stuff, David. Why roast beef?

Also nice to see my favourite FSM thread ressurected.

 
 Posted:   Feb 5, 2013 - 11:53 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

i hadda jerry dream too recently!

Me and him were talking about the fanatics who buy every score of his.
jerry says "yeah, that Riotengine is the worst of all of them"


true story, greg, dont blame me
luvya
btrm

 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2013 - 4:47 PM   
 By:   First Breath   (Member)

OK, I have to tell about this dream I had about...


...JOHN WILLIAMS!!!

I was out by a road and I suddenly caught John Williams' eye a few yards away. He was playing golf under some trees. I thought, "well, he's not exactly my favorite composer, but it would nevertheless be fun to get his autograph". But I didn't have a pen and paper so I searched high and low out by the road, and at last I found a pen and a white purse (!) that had to work as a piece of paper. I actually ripped the purse in two so it would be easier to write on it.

When I came back to where Williams was, there was suddenly a long line of people who stood and waited for his autograph, and I didn't want it THAT bad, so I left.

Some time later Williams was playing/conducting some music at a party, and the last thing I remember from the dream was that some people carried a cascet out from the party, probably with a dead Williams lying inside. So not a happy ending!

 
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