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Sonically Absurd

Absurd Culture II


This month, the Fever Dream team compiled the sounds of absurdity:

Laken: This is a voice note I found from when I was in Morocco in which I aggressively whisper "I'm being haunted by the word 'mimosa'" and then ramble the artwork description off the panel next to a painting at the Musée Mohammed VI. The painting is "Atelier Au Mimosa." I had just watched the ridiculous film 'I Am Not An Easy Man' in which former womanizer Damien (whose tactic to get women to say "mimosa" just to watch their lips curl into a heart is one giant load of [redacted]) smacks his head and wakes up in a world where men are *actually* oppressed.

Anyway, the next weekend I went on a date with a guy where somehow I ended up saying the word "mimosa" (totally rare for me...as a typical millennial I almost never discuss the luxuries of brunch) and almost punched myself in the face for saying it. He smiled in such a way when I said it, it me think he had just watched the movie too...and a week later I was looking at this painting in Morocco. Thus, haunted. C'est la vie.

Darren: This is audio from a scene in 'Phantom Thread' where the music cuts out and you just hear a woman spreading and cutting butter and pouring tea. The collision of artistic pretension and relationship pettiness, the sounds of Alma spreading butter and pouring tea so loudly are cacophonous for Woodcock, who quietly whispers his disdain while sketching at the breakfast table. I've never felt so gutted by the amplification of such simple sounds--both out of sympathy for Alma but also way too much familiarity with Woodcock's headspace.

Abbey: I totally forgot I had this, and it isn't labeled, so I didn't even know what I was clicking on when I went to listen to it. It's a recording of the hairstylist at [redacted designer name], taken backstage in February of this year, talking about the look and the inspiration for the models in the show. To me, it's absurd because it's SO generic. Imagine a cliche of a glamorous sounding French? Italian? woman doing hair for a runway and this is it. This could be literally any hairstylist talking about literally ANY show.

Ib: I used to only have audio clips of me coughing but unfortunately I deleted all of those, so now my most absurd voice memo is one I sent in to my favorite podcast. It was the only time I participated in any sort of listener interaction, and it was actually selected to be played on air (check out minute 49 of episode 79 of Another Round). I was (am) very excited about it and I think the fact that my only “weird” voice memo was something that I sent into a podcast says pretty much all you need to know about me.




River: What could be more fever dream-y than a fever pitch? The mood is constantly shifting, each verse is a new version of bizarre, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce you to the perfection that is this song.


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