Those of you that are Matt Nathanson fans, or possibly fans of VH1's Don't Forget the Lyrics, know that he was on there recently and almost won all the monies (check out a clip here). Unfortunately, he did not win, but he was completely entertaining to watch and certainly fun to listen to sing. If you've ever seen him live, you also know that he is hilarious and a teensy bit whacky.
In my dream, I was on a stage, and my friend Jill was with me, and there were a variety of other people there, and, of course, Matt. I have absolutely no idea what this game show was because it's nothing I've ever seen or heard of, but it had something to do with singing along with Matt, or Matt singing and us mimicing him...seriously. It was bizarre. So, there are some people sitting out in folding chairs and some of us up on a stage, and I was standing next to Matt, and he keeps cracking himself up and therefore cracking me up too. Jill was a couple of people down from me, and a kid next to me kept getting talked to by the producer. It's like he wasn't into it enough or something and the producer was trying to get him more excited. Meanwhile, I'm just standing next to Matt cracking up and practically have tears in my eyes because I was laughing so hard.
At one point, Matt's supposed to sing a part of a song and basically stand in front of each person and sing it; again, no idea what sort of crazy show this is, but that was the deal. So he's sort of walking down this line of people singing this line, and when he hits the person next to me (on the other side, not the one that kept getting talked to) he just cracks up when he watches them sing the line back, and this cracks me up, and we sort of get in trouble because they have to start something over. The next thing I know, he's back standing next to me, and we're watching the playback or something and we both just die laughing and he puts his arm around my shoulder and we are seriously laughing so hard that it hurts. And the producer seems at a loss for what to do because clearly he can't get that upset with Matt since he's like the star of this show or whatever.
So then the guy goes to the piano and is telling all of us, Matt included, that we need to be able to hit certain notes, and then he just plays this completely random series of notes on the piano. They are all over the place from very low to very high and people are trying to sing them and the producer is in pain from listening, and Matt turns to me and he's like, "Oh, I got this," and I say something like, "Of course you do." Then I guess he sings them, though I don't actually remember hearing him sing them, because the next thing I say to him is, "Nailed it!" and I do a little motion with my hands, and then he laughs and says, "Nailed it!" and mimics the motion I did and we crack up laughing again.
So then we're just chatting and this woman comes up and sees that we're getting along, and she seems to be his manager or something, not really sure. And it seems like we're talking about how long I've been following him, and how much I love his music, and he says, "So, did you like that thing we did in November?" and of course I say I loved it and it was great and he seems really excited about that and so does the woman, and I'm not completely sure what he was talking about, but I didn't get to find out anymore because naturally, that's when I woke up.
And now I'm thinking, November? What thing in November? I must know!
So there you have it. A little pre-Christmas crazy from me to you.
