Nick's Blog #003

What a crazy day. My parent's bought me Michael Jackson's Dangerous when I was seven. I listened to it quite a bit back then. Give it a listen today and remember how awesome pre-1993 Michael Jackson really was!

June 20, 2009 @ East Village Coffee Lounge

June 20th, 2009 at East Village Coffee Lounge, Monterey CA

with Dakota Witt

Show last night was great! It was our first show with our good friend and new bassist Ray Padilla and it sounded great! We attempted to broadcast it on ustream.tv but apparently the sound was overloaded and sounded terrible. Sorry guys! But we do have video that we will put on youtube. Thanks so much to every one that came out.

Setlist for June 20th, 2009 @ East Village Coffee Lounge

1. Across the Water (Video Clip)

2. The Psychologist (Video Clip)

3. These Inevitable Insanities

4. Mistakes! (Video Clip)

5. Seventy-Six

6. Untitled Unreleased Song (Video Clip)

7. Rules in a Knife Fight (Video)

8. Hangin' Around (Counting Crows Cover)

9. The Regular G (Days Away Cover)

10. Collie Man (Slightly Stoopid)

11. I Want You (Third Eye Blind Cover) (Video)

12. Ashes Ashes

13. Halloween

Show this saturday broadcasting live on ustream.tv

We have a show this weekend in Monterey, California but you out-of-towners will have a chance to catch the show as it streams live over ustream.tv! We have used this website a bunch of times in the past to broadcast practice sessions, studio sessions, etc. but we have never used it to broadcast a live show outside of our studio! The show is Saturday, June 20th at 8PM Pacific time and it can be viewed here in the video box below. If you want you can also visit the show's page where there is a chat room where other D&S supporters will be watching and chatting!

The show's page with chat room can be viewed here: The Dreamer and the Sleeper's Ustream Channel

Our channel is password protected so you will need to enter the password: aite

to view the video.

*We are confident that we will be able to stream with no problems as we have done it a number of times in the past, but there is a chance that there will be technical difficulties as we are streaming from a coffee shop with wi-fi and not sure how stable the internet is. If the video doesn't work we will have recorded video's up a day or two after the show.

Nick's Blog #002: Guitar Tabs Coming

What's up in my world:

First: Me and Easton have both started compiling guitar tabs of all of our songs. We aren't really sure what we are going to do with them yet. But keep an eye out for Gutiar tabs starting to pop up on this website!

Second: Designing the second poster for the D&S Poster Series right now and it's looking great! I want to keep the songs that the posters are inspired by secret until they are released... more exciting that way! But I think you all will like it.

Third: Cannot wait for the show this Saturday. First with our bassist Ray. Should be fun!

Fourth: I'm seeing Third Eye Blind tomorrow in San Jose for free! How cool is that? In honor of that listen to the song below, if you haven't heard it before you need to get your act together!

Easton's Blog #002: "BREAKING" EVIDENCE! (PHOTOS)

As some of you may have heard, I fractured my elbow last Thursday night during a competitive "co-ed lower league" softball game. I had my roommate snap some pics of the bruising.

Alas, Nick has voiced his opinion in regards to me retiring from the sport. I think he's got a pretty good argument. I've now been subject to cortizone injections in my left TFCC tendon (wrist) via a "well-timed" slide into 2nd base back in my rookie year of 07', and now have had my first official "drainage" due to a "tagging-up" incident for the same softball team.

For those of you worried, I scored on the play, and we won 13-12. It will be glorified in a chapter of my memoirs: "Easton Broome: An Erotic Life".

Across the Water (Guitar Tab)

For all of you guitarristas out there here is a detailed guitar tab for our song across the water.

It is saved as a .rtf file you can download here: Across the Water Guitar Tab

Have fun!

Easton's Blog #001: INJURIES! D&S WILL FIGHT ON!

Well hello there folks!

This is your fellow companion, Easton. Alas, I am working with one functional upper extremity.

I was competing in a co-ed lower league softball game on Thursday night and wound up with a "distal radius head fracture." In normal people language, that means I have a fractured right elbow (my dominant extremity). However, and, luckily, I finally attempted to see what I could do with said arm, and I am ecstatic to say I can still play guitar as if this massacre never occurred :) I know that seems really strange, but I guess I got pretty lucky. Could be the "medicine" I was prescribed as well that's making me feel like superman; I suppose it could be the way you kind of just strum with your wrist more so than your arm.

Well, the upcoming show on June 20th is an absolute go! I will not be partaking in any kind of ridiculous activity that could jeopardize us getting the chance to play with some awesome people (hi Dakota!) in the upcoming weeks of what will be another beautiful summer for everyone to always remember. Thank you as always for your continued support. We love making this music for everyone!

True that. What up to my sister Ashley in Vegas!

Nick's Blog #001: Limited Edition Poster Series

Hello friends!

I wanted to let you guys know about a sweet little project that I have started that gives everyone a chance to have some super sweet Limited Edition D&S merch.

As you may know, probably not but... as a day job I am an aspiring graphic designer. I have a design company called Icarus Kids Design Studio with two of my good friends. In my spare time I decided I wanted to try and design a poster series for The Dreamer and the Sleeper. Each poster will be inspired by a specific Dreamer and the Sleeper song from any and all of our past albums. Because I want them to be special for whoever buys them each poster will have an extremely limited run of 20 or so copies and will be printed on nice card stock paper. I'll sign and number the back of each poster.

My goal is to release one poster a month for a few months. If people dig them, I'll keep making them! Like I said, they could be inspired by or designed with a specific song in mind from any of our 3 releases: Autumn in the Evening, Fireworks, and Oh, is for Overture.

Suggestions for songs to do are welcomed in the replies!

Take a look at the first in the series, 'The Psychologist' Here: The Psychologist Poster

Quick Blurb in the Monterey Coast Weekly

Found this quick blurb on our show next saturday on the Monterey Coast Weekly website:

The Dreamer and the Sleeper at East Village

This group, self described as a mixture of accoustic pop rock and indie-electronic, is comprised of just two recording artists. Neither one claims to be either the dreamer or the sleeper, but they insist that together they form a cohesive whole, united by their desire to produce good tunes. Their new album, Fireworks, is being featured at East Village Lounge and it should be noted that the two don't even live in the same city. All of their collaberations are done via internet or by mail, so seeing them live will be a treat, as the duo reveals their haunting guitar riffs and symphonic vocals in the flesh. Songs like "Across the Water" and "Ashes Ashes" are sure to hypnotize audiences, creating a experience that shouldn't be missed. [BP] - from the Monterey Coast Weekly

New Merch and TD&TS Song Poster Series

New merch has been added to our online merch shop! The poster below is now available in extremely limited quantities. Only 2o copies of this limited edition poster were printed. It is designed by band member Nick Pappageorgas and his design project Icarus Kids Design Studios.

This poster, inspired by the song 'The Psychologist', is the first in a series of posters inspired by specific Dreamer and the Sleeper songs. Read more about the limited edition Poster Series here: Limited Edition Poster Series.

Grab yourself a copy of this poster here: Song Poster Series 'The Psychologist'

Autumn in the Evening Now Available on iTunes

Autumn in the Evening is now available for purchase on iTunes, as well as Amazon Mp3 and Rhapsody! If you are the type who doesn't give a hoot about cd packaging and just want's the music right NOW download it! Otherwise head to our Online Merch Store and pick up a physical copy of the album.

Below are links to the different sites where Autumn in the Evening is available:

Apple iTunes

Rhapsody

Amazon.com

Online Merch Store

Halloween Lyrics

Here our the lyrics to one of our new songs, Halloween. The song is off of our brand new album Autumn in the Evening, Available today! It goes something like this...

Halloween by The Dreamer and the Sleeper

I sneak around in my old home town

it's colder than I remember in November

But nothing can be worse than last year at this time

I'm just happy to be with all my friends

I wrote you a letter last night to say it's over

and the worst part is I don't think that you'll mind

and there's so many girls in this town who I don't want to see

but there's one sea that I would kill to cross tonight

Where was I when you were born,

where was I when you first came to this city,

where were you when they told you for the first time,

where were you when you found out that I was dead... but I'm not dead

I wrote you a letter last night to say it's over

and the worst part is I don't think that you'll care

and there's so many girls in this town who I don't want to see

but there's one sea that I would cross but I don't dare

(ohh la la)

If you could save me for your rainy days

just keep me with you always

I'm not asking of you anything

just to keep my with you always

You were mine and I was yours

One week baby that's all we'll ever know

you never know...

I'll chase the shots with a lonely kiss

I'll go to bed with someone who I don't know

you'd never know

I wrote you a letter last night to say it's over

and the worst part is I don't think that you'll mind

and there's so many girls in this town who I don't want to see

but there's one sea that I would kill to cross tonight

Lyrics: Across the Water

Across the Water by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

Who left that little light on?
I thought that you were somebody else
You're the girl who dreams of diamond rings
And I'm the boy who just doesn't sleep
But we're not quite sure what that means yet

A light blinks across the water
I thought of that book you read
Of the man who longed for the love that he'd lost
And how mine was right there with me
But at the time I just couldn't see it, yeah

You cut me off
You cut me off
It's not your fault
It's not your fault

Fly with me south for the winter
You're a bird you just didn't know it
But the airlines are such a pain these days
And it's cheaper so it seems
If you just go and use your wings

I don't know if you've got it in you
I don't know if I care
All I know is that I love to hear you talk
And I love to hear you scream
From the tops of all your trees, yeah

You cut me off
You cut me off
It's not your fault
It's not your fault

Oh, there is nothing to do here
Oh, there is nothing to do here
Oh, there is nothing to do here
Oh, there is nothing to do without you here

You cut me off
You cut me off
It's not your fault
It's not your fault

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: The Psychologist

The Psychologist by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

Well girl, let’s make some dinner plans
She calls her group of lady friends
I’ll be the one man band, no one can hold my hand
Cause I’m using both my hands
Well I’m stuck here, drowned in girlish smells
Who thought this could become my hell

I’ve got these ho’s to my left, and ho’s to my right
Got all the girls looking cause I’m with ladies night
Whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh

And oh I must be going crazy
I’ve got two too many girls on all my extremities

And I start the arguments
I’m a psychologist, don’t you think so?
Well oh, oh, please, it’s so flattering
All of your blabbering, you’d find me royal too
Or am I blind, I’m blind to all my pride
I thought I glued my eyes open wide
So can we give up the fight, I think I just might
Go show to the young how to get back to life
Whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh

And oh I must be a little mixed up when the world takes me
It takes me incompatibly
And I, will fight bad mix by getting by
I will fight bad mix with fighting cries

And every single day that I get away from you and our
Break, my heart grows with every party
And all the lovely voices
How they are right on time
My mind begins to shine

They touch me baby
Don’t it drive you crazy

One, two, what you gonna do
Got all the right things, they’re right in front of you
And it’s the very same things that separate the youth
That yield strength from old age where lies become the truth
And my demons
They, they like to show
I just gotta keep them low
I just gotta keep them low

So girl, when you make our dinner plans
You’ll hold me in higher demand

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: These Inevitable Insanities

These Inevitable Insanities by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

I've got ghosts in my chest screaming
Kid you're out of time
The skies are ignoring the seasons
They've got colder intentions in mind
In mind...

The crows to the murder singing
"We live our lives on the line!
And we know your health is fading, we're waiting,
Outside your windows at night"
At night...

I moved to Southern California
To turn all my blues into gold
But I couldn't keep up with all of the motions
So I took the train alone
All alone...

I never asked for these twelve hour friendships
They're draining my arms in the night
And these birds out my window they're creeping, they're creeping,
Singing all the while...

"On the line, on the line, we live our lives, on the line
On the line, on the line, we live our lives, on the line"

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: Mistakes!

Mistakes! by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

Mistakes find me with some credit
New friends killing all the negative
And I’ve got none, I’m stable

Oh Mom, wishing I could say it
But you gotta go and listen to my every word
I love you

And if this feeling stays,
Stop the “if’s” I want it every single day
I’ll find my crew, but where are Ricky and Paul?
I gotta say that the crew...
We’re missing you

New friends, I call em’ again
And the company comes through
You’re crushing my expectations

And there’s something said about being nice
A sweet, sweet girl has come
To rotate the world, and slow down my whirl

And if this feeling stays
I will keep it 'til it burns out like a flame
But I bet you would come round, and light up my night
But don’t leave or I’m dead
Can we make some plans?

Oh if this feeling stays
I’ll keep it with a smile on my face
So put all your money on me

Cause I’m doing the things
I’m doing the things
I’m doing the things
Yeah I’m doing the things

Mistakes, find me on a ferris wheel,
Oh shit, what the fuck?
Didn’t you say that you were...

Yeah there’s something said about being nice
A sweet, sweet girl has come
And fixed up my whirl
And tilted my axis

And if this feeling stays
I will keep it til’ it burns out like a flame
But I bet you would come round
And light up my night
But don’t leave or I’m dead
We can make some plans

Oh if this feeling stays
I’ll fight it if it’s leading me away
From kindness, and trying
To court all the girls

That I think have good taste
Or just taste good
Or just taste good
Yeah you just taste good

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: Astronauts

Astronauts by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

My Thursday starts out with me alone, again
And if I had my way, we'd be in love
I look right back on it
I think if had twice the brain I'd solve it
But now I'm left dissecting half
I'm in the darkest places
And all I really want is familiar faces

So I look to the sky for answers
And no one answers
I look to the sky to check the rafters
To check the rafters

I walk an empty street, just me
I pray for shadows please, company
My only friend, on my side
I've come to conclusions
And in the end all I show are contusions
So I will rest, my doctor says
I'll end in affluence
My injuries heal into congruence

So I look to the sky for answers, oh an answer
And mister sky breathes love
In myself so I can make it through the day
Rise above the blackend
And fly above the sidewalks
And we'll forget the madness as we fly

High beyond it each new day
Cast the rockets off
Cause we're the astronauts

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: The Break and the Wake

The Break and the Wake by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

I took a plane
Over the sea to fine
I don't need anything
Beleaguered by the synapse and sighs

The bursts blasts our ears
From the break and the wake of relationships
Complications, oh what a time
All the love in my life is dying

And all my trust
It goes with showing
That nothing's golden
Our bonds our stolen away
Drifting away with the waves

The burst blasts our ears
From the break and the wake of relationships
Constellations fade in the sky
Cause the love in my life
Is dead

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: The Civil War

The Civil War by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

The civil war has broken out in me
And now I must choose a side
I found that Cali's divided
Into a wicked north and a south piece
And how I'd like to reside
And fight for southern's side
(With all the lovely sunlight)

Now with that all clear
I'll wrap up here
I just need motivation
To separate me from the terrible things around here

And I'm glad I'm alive
Cause all my friends know
This town could suck the life out of me
It thins out my blood
And beats up my head
So I will try out another instead

I migrate and think the birds are so damn blessed
To change their home as they please
And come and go with the seasons
(With all the lovely sunlight)

Now with that all clear
I'll wrap up here
I just need proper notice to such good employment
And I'll just hit the road
Through the mountain side
In the mid-day I drive

And I'm just glad I'm alive
Cause all my friends know
This town could suck the life out of me
It thins out my blood
And beats up my head
So I will try out another instead

And you, my baby you do
You seemed to get me
And I thought I got you too
But you got me to move
And now I'm here alone
You go and do it on your own

But I'm not standing here alone
You go and do it on your own
But I'm not standing here alone, no

And I'm just glad I'm alive
Cause all my friends know
This town could suck the life out of me
It thins out my blood
And beats up my head
So I will try out another instead

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: Halloween

Halloween by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

I sneak around in my own home town
It's colder than I remember in November
But nothing can be worse than last year at this time
I'm just happy to be with all my friends

I wrote you a letter last night to say it's over
And the worst part is I don't think that you'll mind
And there's so many girls in this town who I don't want to see
But there's one sea that I would kill to cross tonight

Where was I when you were born?
Where was I when you first came to this city?
Where were you when they told you for the first time?
Where were you when you found out that I was dead? ...but I'm not dead

I wrote you a letter last night to say it's over
And the worst part is I don't think that you'll care
And there's so many girls in this town who I don't want to see
But there's one sea that I would cross but I don't dare

(ohh la la)
If you could save me for your rainy days
Just keep me with you always
I'm not asking of you anything
Just to keep my with you always

You were mine and I was yours
One week baby that's all we'll ever know
You never know...

I'll chase the shots with a lonely kiss
I'll go to bed with someone who I don't know
You'd never know

I wrote you a letter last night to say it's over
And the worst part is I don't think that you'll mind
And there's so many girls in this town who I don't want to see
But there's one sea that I would kill to cross tonight

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: Rules in a Knife Fight

Rules in a Knife Fight by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

I don't even know you
You've become a stranger
The salt in my eyes
And the bottom of my drink

Left me for another
Found a new lover
You know I'll make a scene
But it ends the same

You let me know
That you had let me go
When you took my money
Down to Mexico

When you find a new man
Be sure to tell him
You're gonna up and run
With his love someday

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: Summer Ends Some Things

Summer Ends Some Things by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

Oh my life is like this story world
Where I fight the thought to have a girl
And I'd like to get through this sentence to finish the chapter
Cause the next is blacker

(Whoa, oh)

If I was a book maybe then you'd look, whoa
Because you focus your eyes downwards all the time
Please babe, my talking is supposed to get attention
Please don't let this be the last time
I've got to live it up with all the time...

I get, we get, we get it, I get it
(Whoa, oh)

And I can't attach to the chances given
It's just like I am icy-smitten, yeah
Oh, yeah

It's like adeptness glides right off me
Sometimes I just gotta think
I gotta think

Let's say
(It's such a damaged countdown)
for a second maybe I am scared
(The Summer ends some things)
The Summer ends some things
Cause I think
(Even though I'm sun-kissed)
With a love attaching onto me

I can't attach to the chances given
It's just like I am icy-smitten
Like active learning's overridden

I can't attach to the chances given
(And I know that I will just love your taste)
It's just like I am icy-smitten
(Even more for the time and space...)
Like active learning's overridden
(...between)

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Lyrics: The Beginning and the End

The Beginning and the End by The Dreamer and the Sleeper
from Autumn in the Evening

I'm sorting through the things I do
When you're not here
And this list is despicable

My eyes are squares from a stagnant glare
Of lamps so bright there's millions in hiding
Behind the LCD of my friendly television

And over there she's without a care
Oh, how she needs to drink away her graveness
From the stress of college, and knowledge, and flawlessness

I met you there
In the Autumn air at half past five
The sun was sinking in the sky

Through old shadows and the store front glow
Do you feel like I do?
Are you talking to a stranger?
With all the weight of eyes and a love that we had left behind

I over sleep
It just gets me closer to Saturday
She's coming back Saturday

You see I write the songs sometimes to pass all the tasteless time
The senseless kiss and love just are missing from a wallowed, hollowed boy
All the testing brings an echo
(An echo)

I'm looking for the things that I miss the most
Way on past the hills and down those country roads
Some would say I'm crazy to try and stop the world
Sing it to me like an echo
(An echo)

This place is small and damn to big for me
All alone I swear the walls they talk to me
Creak uneasily and echo
(An echo)

You'll never find your future in the past
Keep me breathing while the years go stumbling past
Ringing through me like an echo
(An echo)

All lyrics © The Dreamer and the Sleeper

Discography: Autumn in the Evening

'Autumn in the Evening'

Released 6/2/09

The Dreamer and the Sleeper's second full length album 'Autumn in the Evening' was released on June 2nd, 2009. Just in time for... Summer. 'Autumn in the Evening' was recorded throughout the later part of 2008 and the winter and spring of 2009. Many of the album's recording sessions were broadcast live on the internet by the band allowing fans to get a unique look at the recording process (as well as the drinking habits) of The Dreamer and the Sleeper. As with all of it's preceding albums, 'Autumn in the Evening' was self-released by The Dreamer and the Sleeper on Icarus Kids.

Track-listing:

1. Across the Water

2. The Psychologist

3. These Inevitable Insanities

4. Mistakes!

5. Astronauts

6. The Break and the Wake

7. The Civil War

8. Halloween

9. Rules in a Knife Fight

10. Summer Ends Some Things

11. The Beginning and the End

Available at:

Hard Copy: TD&TS Online Merch Shop Digital: iTunes | Amazon.com | Rhapsody

Album Credits: Autumn in the Evening by The Dreamer and the Sleeper. The Dreamer and the Sleeper is Nick Pappageorgas and Easton Broome. Autumn in the Evening was recorded at "The Red Room" in Santa Barbara, California and "The Orange Room" in Monterey, California. All tracks recorded and produced by Nick Pappageorgas and Easton Broome. Autumn in the Evening was written by The Dreamer and the Sleeper during the Autumn of 2008. Produced by The Dreamer and the Sleeper. Mixed and Mastered by Nick Pappageorgas. Album photography by Jennifer Hogan (www.middlewithane.com). Album layout and design by Nick Pappageorgas and Icarus Kids Studios. Autumn in the Evening was self-released under the independent label Icarus Kids Recordings. Additional vocals on 'Mistakes!' by Dakota Witt. Additional vocals on 'Halloween' by Stephanie Wehe. Special thanks to Ray Padilla. All songs Copyright The Dreamer and the Sleeper 2009.