Dreams of undergroundsound

[robynbright]

After a great evening Friday night seeing local band the cygnets and many friends, Patrick and I went to Calgary with our 3 not so wee lasses to visit his family for Thanksgiving- it was so great to get out of the city here - a change of scenery always allows me to think differently- and in this case I had powerful dreams.

I dreamed I was eating pomegranate seeds- a call to the "underworld" or unconscious as I think of it. I also dreamed that the album was all about different forms of water as an undercurrent or theme throughout the songs which I also took as a need for more depth in this shallow world of FB networking I realized I'm missing real connection and real introspection so I've decided to take a break from billboard alley aka facebook and instead sit and think and respond to the more personal feel of live journal . Logan the lead singer of the cygnets had not been out for awhile I noticed- and he has lost weight and gained a lean mean stage presence which ties into what I' feel like I need to do- to go underground out of the public eye and demoralizing bad photos taken of me at nightclubs where I look like I am huge and ugly- to reinvent myself in a way - to emerge int eh spring with a new album and a return to my form. So this winter I shall listen to me dreams and fill the well with good films, cafe conversations rather than bar screaming- and just generally add the depth I feel that I am missing so greatly right now. I don't want to write an album without really exploring what it is I want to say or express but in order for this album to be a step forward I must also grow as a person and artistically.  I also dreamed that I need to type my lyrics rather than handwrite them- I have noticed I write more succintly when I am typing. Yes good dreams indeed. I needed to dream. I needed time to be on the road thinking. The highway seems like one of the best places for me to think.The dreams also reminded me that I love the underground scene and while I am afraid that my band is losing a bit of that due to it being open to all members contributing more than in the past I need to feel the underground pulsing in my veins so wither I will start another more scrappy underground raw band or just try to bring some of that into the current  band. ( I try to to but we all have different tastes now)here is the cygnets with my good friends Dylan and Sandra in the video (I was briefly an honourary member in Dylan's band as "Goblin" on guitar Profunda Rosa before they went on hiatus ;-)

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But also there are a few bands here that I would like to see more regularly- rhythm of cruelty being one- where the members seem to be of an underground ilk that I am so missing in my life now.I am starting a post-punk underground radio show with a good friend Brian this fall- excited to finally do this!So cheers to the underground!