THE WORLD DREAM BANK ON CD-ROM

• THE CD-ROM is an exact mirror of the website--I burn them to order, so I guarantee it's up-to-date: all 2000 web pages and indexes, all 2500 illustrations, all 100,000 links, correctly organized so it works just like the site--only faster. If you want, copy the whole CD to your hard drive and it'll really zoom.
• COMPATIBILITY: Works on any computer with a CD drive and any web browser. The site's big, but I deliberately kept the code and architecture very simple. The only incompatibility I've found: on VERY old Macs (OS 7? OS 8? 9 and 10 work fine) and PCs (Windows 95? 98 works fine) some thumbnails (the small pictures on indexes) won't show; but all the real illustrations, text and links will still work.
• THE WAIT: I burn and fill orders within a week of getting them. Since you get my current working copy of the site, it's more up-to-date than the Web version, which I only update every month or so.
• PRICE: $10-25, sliding scale. If you work, send me about an hour's pay. If you don't work or have really low pay, send the minimum. You don't have to prove anything, I trust you. Sliding scales seem unfamiliar to many people, but they're a local custom here in San Francisco, in the arts community. If it seems too weird for you, by all means pay $25; you'll be subsidizing some low-income dreamers and artists.
• TO ORDER: Send order and $10-$25, to Chris Wayan, 242 Prentiss St, San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
  Or you can email me and pay via PayPal--it seems to work very reliably.
• QUESTIONS? Email wdreamb@yahoo.com

My demo tape. Just a small dream-animal with a four-octave range, banging its paws on a keyboard, or backed up by a virtual band with no opposable thumbs. 90 minutes of original songs! The music's catchy and accessible, though too complex for pop--Beatle harmonies, jazz rhythms, kooky often funny lyrics. No techno or rap (those boring disco descendants), except one experimental Celtic rap I liked. The arrangements are lean and rough--this IS a demo tape, not the final CD--but quite listenable.

Some of these songs will eventually go on the Krelkins CD. Some of them. Someday.
90 minute cassette, $10.

Order from Chris Wayan, 242 Prentiss St, San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Or you can email me and pay via PayPal--it's been quite reliable so far.

MEET THE KRELKINS

I'm in a band called the Krelkins--Nic Griffin on drums and vocals, Mike Marrelli on guitars and vocals, and Chris Wayan on keyboards and vocals. We compose all our own songs, many of them from dreams. We aim to be the next Beatles. Currently we're finishing our first CD. (Of course I'm also painting dream-art, working as the handyman for our co-operative house, trying to print out the last pages of a graphic novel (Dreamtales), and tapping out code every night for these !#$*!! webpages too...) The equipment's there, the music's written, the songs are (mostly) arranged, the band is recording (seven good tracks now--Aug 2007) but everything takes time. Daily do I offer up prayers to my savage deity: "Great Goddess, let this be the last take!" And lo, it isn't.

Tentative songlist for Meet the Krelkins:

• A Tour of your Brain
• The Busy Ness Man
• Coyote Sent Me Cash!
• Dawn's Dream
• Do What You Love and the Money Won't Follow
• Engendering Dysphoria
• Gaia's Song
• God
• Hold On, Harry!
• I Wanna Be
• Memory Pie
• Pink Ears
• Saboteur
• Sharky Love
• Tidal Wave of Yuppies

I'm listing this CD prematurely because I want people to nag us so we'll finish sooner! Come on! Nag! Nag! Nag!

You can nag better than THAT.

As soon as us techno-primitives master MP3 files, I'll post some dream-songs for you to hear. For now you'll have to make do with a few song lyrics: Anarchy Fair has chords, God Sends Cash! is presented as a poem; The Busy Ness Man is here presented as prose, but we're working it up as a sort of five-minute micro-opera in six voices (yeah, there are only three of us, but we're all schizoid, so that works out neatly.)

Hey, if you've recorded a CD, and have hard-won advice (sound studio versus do it yourself?), we'd love to hear your experiences:
wdreamb@yahoo.com

ART

• Canon color prints, around 8 x 11 inches (20 x 30 cm) are available for many images in the Dream Bank. They cost $10.
• Larger prints are quite feasible--ask me.
• I don't generally do commissions, I'm too busy these days, but yes, I'll strip the words off a picture or otherwise customize it if you ask sweetly. Or send me something very funny, or sexy, or magical...
  

CAUTION! These are uncensored dream stories for mature readers. Your brain may fry, your mom may turn purple, your government may fall. Cultural and legal codes are a chaotic patchwork, so I can't predict local reactions to this stuff.

What's "mature" mean? If you can handle the website, the books are similar: some sexy scenes, rather casual nudity and swearing, green feminist queer politics, and cheerful pagan blasphemy.