I had this weird dream where the band was playing at this abandoned building in downtown Louisville, capacity 2000. for some reason, I was invited to cheer them on from backstage. the weird part was that backstage was outside, in the parking lot...everyone actually parked in the backstage area, and I sat on my car's hood and smoked and drank all night long while they jammed...
anyone else have crazy ass dreams about the band? hmmmmmm?
Holy Crap. I just had my first Jacket dream last night. I think I stayed up to late reading the T-Shirt and autograph thread.
I was in 4th grade, and Jim James came to speak to our class. They showed a reel-to-reel video that was black/white silent movie footage of a show in a stone dungeon type place. The video showed my wife and I dancing crazy akin to "reefer madness".
I asked Jim to autograph my Z-bats shirt and he refused... Later he was signing some other girls shirt so I asked him again. He signed his name completely around the entire shirt as "Jim James Jellybelly" (wtf ???).
I ran into him again at the waterfountain and he politely allowed me to cut in front.
Is it coincidence that I just got on the nicotine patch yesterday? Very weird and vivid dream.
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Is it coincidence that I just got on the nicotine patch yesterday? Very weird and vivid dream.
Not a coincidence. I had my best/weirdest dreams ever on the patch. I was thinking about getting some just for the dreams.
John your dream sounds like a field party to me. Now wouldn't that be awesome, MMJ 'round the bon-fire woo hoo!
hell yeah, i'm with ya on that!
It's been far too long since I've been to a proper field party, I guess because I'm old :( The last one I went to, there was this guy who passed out near the fire and the bottoms of his shoes got so hot they started smoking ;D
perhaps us Louisville old people should organize one!
Quoteperhaps us Louisville old people should organize one!
I'm pushing thirty, is that old enough? Who gots a field??!!
oh, anyone would be invited, regardless of age (unless drinking was involved, then over 21 please, I guess...just speculating here)
i'm just sayin' the older heads might know someone with a field?! that, and I was trying to make bug feel better...she thinks she's old, when I know in fact she is not.
I have the field, but you better bring tents because it's a bit of a drive from louisville.
Sadly I have no fields, but if I thought MMJ would come play around the campfire I'd get one.
I have a recurring dream about Jim:
I win the lottery, quit my job, by an RV and go on tour with the jacket. im at every show...finally jim notices...invites me back stage and says something like want to come out with us...so he walks me back to my RV, I invite him in, he makes fun of how ugly my dog is...i grab some things, and then we go out for some drinks with the rest of the guys. late night, he walks me back to the RV, and then my alarm goes off. every fucking time.
Oh yeah I dreamt that some of my co-workers came into work and started to jam a'la MMJ, then the guys said they were the guys from MMJ...and I just laughed and said they weren't, but good try...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/fan1975/other/bandseimmj.jpg)
Knowing the guys I could see it happening :D (in their dreams)...although I dunno if Jason can actually play the guitar like JJ.
hilarious! well, if nothing else, this thread proves I'm not alone in my deep obsession with the band!
The night of the gardens show this year I went to sleep with my ears still ringing and had a dream that I was hanging out with the guys around their tour bus and they were all dressed in red mariachi (spelling) with sombreros on and big guitars. I shook their hands and they asked me to come to their families house for thanksgiving. I told them I had to go to my parents house for thanksgiving and they said, "hey, you can either go there or come to our house instead" and I told them I wanted to go visit my folks instead.
I know that sounds lame but after I woke up, I felt like I had really met the band and while only a dream, I felt my subconscious made the right choice. Family is more important... I'm not sure my wide awake decision would have been the same though.
pfffft, I haven't missed a Holiday dinner with my family in 33 years. If MMJ invites me to Thanksgiving dinner I'M GOING!
;D most excellent post!
QuoteJohn your dream sounds like a field party to me. Now wouldn't that be awesome, MMJ 'round the bon-fire woo hoo!
I recently received an email informing me that my five-year high school reunion is currently scheduled to be a field party. No shit.
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I recently received an email informing me that my five-year high school reunion is currently scheduled to be a field party. No shit.
That's country.
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I recently received an email informing me that my five-year high school reunion is currently scheduled to be a field party. No shit.
(gulp) FIVE years?! holy. shit.
sounds like a blast, though...enjoy!
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That's country.
That's Barren County High School.
As tempting as it sounds, I'm going to pass.
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That's Barren County High School.
As tempting as it sounds, I'm going to pass.
No way dude! You should totally go, just to show off how much you've grown.
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That's Barren County High School.
As tempting as it sounds, I'm going to pass.
Yea, you should go and just party like high school, it sounds more like a cool party than a stupid reunion where people are there to show off what they've got.
That's what I was thinking Kory! I'd much rather go to a field party than to a hotel ballroom with over priced drinks and sub-par food.
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Yea, you should go and just party like high school, it sounds more like a cool party than a stupid reunion where people are there to show off what they've got.
well, that wasn't my point, I said "show how much you've GROWN", not "GOT".
two different things.
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well, that wasn't my point, I said "show how much you've GROWN", not "GOT".
two different things.
I wasn't saying you said that, I was just going off my personal knowledge of how stupid high school reunions are. I know the difference between grown and got...
I must admit I am tempted to go. But I really don't want to hear about people's kids and disability checks and baby daddies and meth charges and parole officers or whatnot. My high school wasn't full of... how should I say... classy people.
Kids + Keg = bad idea. :-[
we talking barren co ky?
I'll assume yes... being that you go to WKU and it's right next door. God, I love that area!
Have we already discussed shanty hollow meg?
I had a Jacket dream last night. They were playing some outdoor festival and I was hanging around the side of the stage and some reporter started interviewing me. I was telling him that MMJ gives you your money's worth and was saying something like "the bigger they get, the more they give" when Patrick walks up (he was walking towards back stage) and I grabbed him and started to say "this is Patrick from MMJ..." when Jim walks up and so I grabbed both of them and asked them to talk about how they are bigger now than ever and that means more Jacket for everyone and Jim started talking very eloquently, "That's our plan, we get bigger and bigger and we give more and more. More Jacket for the buck; the bigger we get, the more we give our fans" then Patrick said something like "we're on" and they walked off.
So they started playing and I was pretty far back in the crowd but it sounded great. I decided to go up close to the stage. I got there and it was like 3 or 4 people there. Tom E was there (I swear) moshing and high stepping (with really no one). Tommy had come out into the crowd (well, in front of the stage, all the people were way behind us) and Tom kept going up to him and like fake hugging him. And you couldn't hear shit. You couldn't hear the drums, the guitars were nothing but little tiny guitar feedback sounds. You could hear Tom's strings but nothing from the speakers. It was really weird, and they were jamming and I looked back into the crowd and everyone was rocking, but up close, you couldn't hear shit (and Tom was rockin' out).
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QuoteI'll assume yes... being that you go to WKU and it's right next door. God, I love that area!
Have we already discussed shanty hollow meg?
Kory J, sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this one... :-[ I kind of suck.
Good ol' Barren County... my alma matter. Not much of a transition when I moved to Bowling Green. I lived in a major city most of my life (back when we were in Alabama), so it was hard on me to adapt. But... I did. Living this close to the country and the most awesome cave system in the world is nice. The more natural surroundings I have, the happier I am.
We have not discussed Shanty Hollow, but we should, as it kicks major ass. Haven't been out in a while, though...
I know that the presence of MMJ has graced my dreams in abstract ways in the past, but recently, I had one that was solely about them. It took place at the Blackbird in Portland, Oregon. The beginning of the dream was like a total deja vu of the first time I saw them play (March 8, 2002 at this venue). The whole atmosphere of the place was intact, right down to the juice press at the bar. I had some sort of fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice concoction. The Forty First and Swearing at Motorists played their sets. When MMJ took the stage, everything was how I remember it, including the horse/llama puppet Jim had attached to his microphone and his hair entirely in his face. I had no idea what he looked like until much later. They started to play and within moments, their bodies disappeared. The music continued and no one seemed phased by the fact that you couldn't see them anymore. I turned to the guy next to me and asked him where they went and he said, "just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not still here." I woke up with that thought in my head.