Jeff the American Idol

posted by Jeff | Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 8:46 AM | comments: 2

I had a weird ass dream that I was on some kind of American Idolesque show, only it was not live, and it was a lot like summer camp. The reason this is weird is that I can't sing to save my life, unless you consider what Fred Schneider of the B-52's does singing.

I ended up on the thing somehow by accident and I sang "The Stairs" by INXS (which makes me wonder if I saw a TV spot for that INXS reality show recently). The "winner" for that round was apparently me, and I was just excited because I was going to get $10k and could quit my job. I was having to do all of these interviews.

Then I had to sing again, and I did "Everything" by Material Issue, at the urge of some producer who wanted me to "sing a song about girls." The other dude who was in the running to win, but wasn't going to (I somehow knew it was already decided), was there and talking through my entire song. He was like this Bo Bice kind of dude. I got in his grill and yelled at him and he cried.

Some girl who was also not going to win came up to me and asked if I listened to a lot of top 40 growing up because she could hear it in the way I was singing or something. It was strange.

Aside from the absurdity of me singing, one thing that stuck with me was the idea that I didn't forget any words, which is totally the opposite of my recurring radio dream. I have no idea what it is in my head that created this dream.


Comments

diddy

August 24, 2005, 3:16 PM #

Reminds me of my trip to Las Vegas last year.

Neuski

August 24, 2005, 7:03 PM #

"...yelled at him and he cried."

I love it!


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