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Happy St Patrick’s day. I don’t think this one is going to wash off.. #irishtattoo

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This is a fire pit built directly under a very flammable pine tree. I rest my case… #darwinawards

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A dream within a dream.

Last night a had a dream about a song. This happens to me every now and then, and usually I remember the dream but I don’t remember the song. I am a very.. semi lucid dreamer. By that I mean, on occasion I know I’m dreaming when I’m dreaming. I can’t do too much with that information but a good number of times when I’ve dreamt a song melody, I’ll know I’m sleeping and I’ll tell myself to WAKE UP! so I can remember it. Although I usually wake up, I almost never remember the song the next day. The reason is.. that even if I wake up, I’m not really totally awake, and I’m not really good about waking up, so I’ll slip back into sleep and then wake up later totally unable to recall the melody.
Last night, I had a dream where I was singing a song I have not yet written. I had that impulse from sleeping to wake up so I could document the melody, and I did wake up around 4:30 AM singing the melody, but then.. I told myself, as I have before, that I would remember it in the morning. The same devil that tells me to hit the snooze button one more time “you won’t be late..”
We’ll I can’t say for sure if I would have remembered it because a couple of hours later, I had another dream, but this time, it was a dream within a dream. I didn’t know that I was two layers deep in a dream at the time, but I was I dreaming that I was singing the same song and I once again told myself to wake up so I could remember it. And so, in the dream I woke up again singing the song, thinking I was awake.
Only this time.. I was not awake. How do I know I was not awake you ask me? Because as I lay there awake in my dream, singing the song from my dream within, I noticed something on the ceiling. I can’t say for sure what it was, but it was sort of colored like a clown fish. As my mind connected the dots.. that I’m looking at some kind of “thing” crawling on the ceiling. It drops directly on me and POW! I am really awake now! 6:00 AM. And the shock of something falling on me in my bed, in a dream woke me up right while I was singing that melody. And… It totally stuck with me. Now I’m laying in bed, but instead of wanting to fall back to sleep I’m like pumped with holy shit some clown fish spider thing just jumped on me adrenalin, so I got up still singing the melody and within an hour I had written the lyrics to a new song. And.. and.. wait for it…
It’s a really happy song! Now if you know my music.. I don’t do happy so that in itself is a pretty big deal, but the whole dream within a dream thing was pretty crazy.

Just Announced! DSimone @ DSIMONE Farewell Show @ The Bitter End in New York, NY - June 3rd

D'Simone Live tonight @ The Bitter End 8PM #livemusic #barband #indierock #newyorkmusic #nyc #tonight

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F&CK YOU JOHN OLIVER!! I am sure no one will be surprised to find out that I am a huge John Oliver fan. John has picked up the torch where John Stewart left off and really taken things to a new level. I wish he was on every night and the new Samantha B show is also really fantastic. Everyone should watch it but women especially, she’s breaking some new ground on TV, but I digress..

John Oliver’s show on Sunday night dedicated to the complete and total mockery of Donald Drumpf was Amazeballs. Not only does he nail DD to the wall for being a liar, a xenophobe, an ego maniac with basically a 10 word vocabulary and a shitty business man with bad ideas and a legacy of failed businesses, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and.. not nearly as rich as he say he is, but he created a new label for Drumpf that gives me something to hang my hat on. Thank you John Oliver… Thank you..

By the way, thanks to Drumpf my personal assets just went up by 3 BILLION DOLLARS! Yours did too, in fact, every person in America is a billionaire because Donald says your name is a brand and it’s worth 3 Billion Dollars! Even though Donald has made me rich, I think he’s the scariest thing I’ve ever seen on TV, I’m less scared about what he will do as president than I am scared what the zombie masses will do with the rhetoric he throws around so carelessly.

But shit.. digressing again. The reason for this post, aside from taking another shameless opportunity to remind you guys that I’m playing on Friday night is to say this. F&CK YOU JOHN OLIVER… and Please… GO F&CK YOURSELF. Before getting on the the Drumpf segment, John was talking about Obama’s attempts to close Guantanamo Bay. At about five and a half minutes, John makes this joke

“Guantanamo is like being 37 and still trying to be a singer songwriter. It’s time someone shut that down…”

Well.. I am 52, yes take a close look at the attached un-retouched, un-photoshopped picture. Time has been kind to the outside of me, although inside it’s all a waste land of decay and horror:) But that is not the point! The point is I’m 52 years old and I still play all original music in a rock & roll band and you know what JOHN OLIVER, I’ll keep writing songs and playing music as long as I god damn well please and you sir can kiss my wrinkled old balls and F&CK RIGHT OFF.

PS Come see D'Simone Live at the Bitter End this Friday March 4th at 8 PM

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