Spotlight: Dion McGregor
Dion McGregor was a songwriter in the 1960s and 70s who never really amounted to fame and fortune. Instead, he became known for his somniloquies, or vivid & verbal descriptions of his dreams, while he slept at night. According to wikipedia, Dion
"adopted various personas but frequently established a fey, argumentative, insolent approach to the subject at hand – be it a hot air balloon trip to the moon with a group of multi-ethnic children, a frantic journey around New York, or a tattooing job on a woman's tongue."
My personal favorite is his narration of playing a round of "food roulette" with poisoned eclairs on a lazy suzan, which I provided after the jump. His somniloquies can be found on a few CDs (money well spent, in my opinion) and conveniently on youtube...
I cannot help but feel inferior to his genius, for I have never had such awesome and creative dreams.
Secretary, please file this under "C" for "crazy shit."
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