The Sleep Blogger
Sleep (the word) needs an agent
Sleep Awareness Week has come and gone (having ended with the advent of Daylight Saving Time and that inevitable lost hour of sleep). But here’s what your faithful blogger learned in that time: The word “sleep” has experienced a recent mini-boom in its use in titles of musical works and movies.
For instance, there’s “Sleep Mountain,” the latest album from the Danish indie rock band Kissaway Trail. Never heard of this group? Hey, welcome to the club. Still, you can reinforce your indie street cred by reading this review of the album from British online newspaper The Guardian, then dropping a casual mention of the band into a future conversation: “Have you heard Kissaway Trail’s latest? It’s pretty good” — (affix look of slight disappointment to your face here) — “but it’s not quite the breakout effort I expected. They still sound like a poor man’s Flaming Lips.”
Then there’s the song “Sleep Paralysist,” by the Austin, Texas-based synth-pop band Neon Indian. (Never heard of them, either? Don’t know what synth-pop is? Listen, by the time the Sleep Blogger is done with you, you’ll have music cred spilling out of your bleeding eardrums.) You can hear the song in all its “lo-fi haze” glory at this Web site. Again, casually mention that you caught Neon Indian’s national TV debut on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in February, and that you expect them to be the Next Big Thing.
Best of all is the coming sequel to the Oliver Stone movie “Wall Street,” expected in theaters in September. It’s called “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” and it features the return of Gordon Gekko, the outlandishly avaricious financial speculator played by Michael Douglas. You can watch a trailer for the movie here. It looks like we’re in for another scummy good time with ol’ Gordon — and we hope he sleeps well, even if his money doesn’t.
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