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Tour Diary: Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara Day 1

Tour Diary: Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara Day 1

9 Jan 2010

Sara Quin, 1/2 of super Canadian sister-duo Tegan and Sara (who are just now getting their dues in the press after over a decade of beating the proverbial shit out of the people who DO get all the attention where it counts in tour tickets, downloads and albums sold) is doing a tour diary for us.

But it’s not just any old tour diary filled with boozy nights and airport talk. Over the next month, Sara’s going to detail her dreams on the road. Oh you think that boring do you? Well we’ve known her for over a decade and girlfriend has some gnarly dreams, in fact we’re really looking forward to this one. More than usual. More than booze and airport talk. That’s a lot for us.

Tour Dream Diary: Tour Bus

It is the second morning on our tour bus. Everyone has red eyes and sore throats from the altitude change and the restless night of zigzagging perilously through mountain passes. This is a photo of my bunk.

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Last Night’s Dream:

I’m in a large house where a foot ball game is being shown on television. I hide my credit cards and ear plugs in an oven. The oven is on and so everything melts and the fire alarm goes off. The game is canceled. Texas is playing. People are very upset with me and so I hide in a room that I recognize as my cousins childhood bedroom.

A woman dressed in a football outfit enters the room and scolds me about the game, she insists I make a public apology. Then I am suddenly in a gymnasium and I’m standing in front of the entire team. I explain how sorry I am and everyone seems to forgive me. I leave the building to find breakfast, I realize that I am starving. I end up sitting outside of a cafe, seated with half a dozen people I don’t recognize. We are celebrating the relationship status of one of the male couples.

At one point I begin scrolling through a menu on my phone selecting films for my netflix queue. One of my selections starts to play on my phone and I’m really embarrassed because it is an adult film. I shut my phone off so it will stop playing. I keep asking people the time, I repeat over and over, “is it 10 am?”. I wake up when my alarm goes off at 10:18 am.

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  • Harry

    WOW. i wish my dreams were ever that interesting

  • kate

    Wow that is a very strange dream indeed! Sara stop the coffee before sleeping lol

  • ewa

    This is so cool! I love reading about dreams, even more when it comes from my favourite musician. Also, it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who has such random and amusing dreams. :D

  • Faye m

    Thank you S. Quin for giving us such a meaningful insight into the workings of your incredible mind. Seriously, sarcasm aside. Your songs are amazing (on directing and red belt especially)and I think I love you just a little too much. I hope to hear more from your unconscious…

  • http://twitter.com/Santiagosnafu Jamie Starr

    This is an Intense Dream. I have dreams that sync up with the time on the clocks often too Sara!

    I could go into a lengthy PsychoAnalysis but I’m sure you know what it means more than I do.

    I have a good friend that might be able to help you if you’d like though. His name is Dr. Deel. He has the most comfy couches too.

    I used to be a little scared of the numbers 5 and 10, but the more I got into Math, the more I realized that 5 and 10 were my friends.

    I woke up today at 8:02.

    Take Care,
    Jamie

  • http://myspace.com/bballgirl01 brittany

    This dream is crazy. I have weird dreams all the time. Recently I had a dream with you guys in it. Tegan was cooking and Sara you told me to put all electronics in the fridge. haha. I don’t know why. And then I believe that some sort of fruit fell on the floor and you and Tegan would not let me pick it up. Oh and there was something going on with a pair of jeans, I think you gave me old jeans that you didn’t want anymore. haha very random but very very funny. Its awesome that you guys are just as funny in my dreams as you are in real life. :)

  • http://www.twitter.com/ohlalalove Nadia

    Nice, lm loving this blogging :).
    l’ve a doubt, you guys are going to be blogging all her dreams during a month and you’ll be updating, or it was just this dream and thats all.
    l’ll aprecciate an answer so l can come here and keep checking.

    <3

  • ashlee

    hahaha dang

  • chndradra

    how genious!! hearing sara’s dreams HAS to be one of the most interesting, entertaining things ive read in my life…how weird to get inside someone’s head, while they sleep!!! my sister and i always tell our weirded out dreams to each other, and this feels like shes joining our circle of dream telling. ha, i love to hear the random stuff people dream about, that its not just me :)

  • yazbek

    ahahah…..best journal entry i’ve read in a long time. sara….watching a porn….awesome.

  • Ashley Sims

    where’s the rihanna photos? haha… thanks for the last two nights. Calgary shows were awesome!

  • Reagan

    Do you dream crazy things when you are at home too? Or just when your on tour?

  • Emilie

    Thats a really cool fucked up dream!!! I enjoyed the part where u had a adult film playing on your phone!!! lol!

  • Bia

    weird dream..
    girls, come to brazil!
    even though you haven’t released any cd’s here, you got a lot of brazilian fans. really!

  • Penny

    The day before yesterday I dreamt about sara
    She & tegan were in Greece for a concert.!
    basically,they didn’t sing ,they just selected& played songs for the audience
    So..i Tried to approach Saralove, but she rejected me cause my hair (for reasons unknown)were super frizzy(lion king)..:/

  • Splat

    Sara sounds very sneaky in her dreams. Credit cards in the oven and adult films on her phone.

    I don’t know about the credit cards, though. But that’s a pretty good way to burn money…

  • skittl3s17

    Sara. Thank you for sharing your dreams with us. I can’t wait to see what your next dream holds!

  • gingerninja

    hahaha aren’t dreams weird? It’s always fun to try and decipher symbols in them…ear plugs and credit cards in an oven?? That’s gotta mean something! I’m looking forward to the rest – you rock, Sa-sa :D

  • burlkittie

    Sara you could be a good adult fiction writer!

  • http://facebook.com/bettysuelovesyou Brittany

    …well I used to think my dreams were crazy. haha

    funny stuff. I look forward to more of her diary inputs :)

  • http://www.pinkmafia.ca anna

    Sara’s doing one month tour diary for Knee Socks beat Cleavage that will be exclusively about the crazy dreams she’s having while on tour in Canada

  • J-Bird

    Well I’m glad I’m not the only one whose brain goes completely haywire when I sleep. But hellio, my brain goes haywire when I’m awake. So random, but so entertaining. I guess if I had to sleep in a confined space for a long period of time, my brain would be out to pasture too. On a random note, I dig the green.

  • http://plungergirl.blogspot.com Carrie

    Today I was talking to a friend at work about one of the craziest dreams that I’d had. Mine are usually so bizarre. I just love talking about dreams with people. So now it’s as though I can do the same with you. I’m terribly pleased. I LOL’d when you said you melted your credit cards and ear plugs in the oven.

    For every post, I’m gonna tell you about one of my weird dreams. Kinda like a trade.

    I once dreamt that I was a teapot. And I was singing the “I’m a Little Teapot” song. When I was done, a very large woman picked me up and “poured me out”. When she put me down and took a sip of her tea, I grinned the biggest proudest grin, so big that it came right off of my face.