In my dream I was late trying to get to the film centre for an interview recording, the landscape was like Italy and it was summer time. I took a narrow fragile fire escape which was not the correct route and later descended backwards, returned to trying to find the film centre but while climbing the fire escape a woman with her young daughter were behind me and playing Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow by Joni Mitchell. They said it was by Freddie Mercury. I interrupted and told them they were wrong, it was by Joni Mitchell. They were offended and told me again it was Freddy Mercury. I realized they were not capable of understanding their imaginary knowledge was just that. When I woke up I was impressed that a song went off in my dream. It’s as unusual to hear songs in dreams as it is to read writing. Later, I heard two people ahead of me, in the line for fancy coffee, discuss Billie Holiday when they played a song by her over the speakers. At one point they credited her with writing Strange Fruit. I thought if I interrupt them and tell them about the guy who actually wrote it, they’re going to start talking about Queen so I tried to stay quiet just so I could preserve the possibility that this could happen and be beautifully surreal but it was dependent on me trying to not care about their incorrect exchange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“people misinterpreted the song as being sexual” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“how could anyone do that” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“they did” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“people are shits” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“she didn’t always play it even though it was like a hit for her”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“i read that, i read she wouldn’t do it if people couldn’t get it”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“you mean if people couldn’t understand it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“exactly”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“did she write it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“yes, it was her song, she sung it”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“that’s amazing, for that time too”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“certainly”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“she has rasp in her voice”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“rasp?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“ya don’t you hear it?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“i’d say class in her voice”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“uh huh”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“did she write god bless the child”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“maybe, probably”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"