Things that are tagged delusion

Getting approached after the show

comic strip | panel 1 - JOHN: I always wanted someone to come up after a show and say, “Your songs really moved me.”
DAN: Yeah, or like, “You looked hot up there.” |comic strip | panel 2 - JOHN: “Your lyrics… they’re like poetry… sweet, sweet poetry.”
DAN: “The way you move up there, it just… drove me crazy.” |comic strip | panel 3 - JOHN: “You’re the most exciting songwriter of our generation!!”
DAN: “Daniel Lepp, I wanna ride you like Space Mountain!!” |comic strip | panel 4 - RONI: What’s, ah….. What’s up, guys?
DAN: H-hey, Roni, I, uh… look I’ll be right back, OK?
JOHN: “You!  Not Conor Oberst!  Not #@*?ing Conor Oberst!!” |

When do we get to be rock stars?

comic strip | panel 1 - JOHN: We’ve played clubs around here for years.  We’ve paid our stupid dues.  Where’s our record deal?  Where’s our groupies?  When do we get to be rock stars? |comic strip | panel 2 - DAN:  I got recognized by a waitress at Denny’s last night.
JOHN: Yeah?  Uou get the food for free? |comic strip | panel 3 - DAN: No.  But I felt like she gave me more little jelly packets than normal. |comic strip | panel 4 - JOHN: Too much jelly.  OK… OK, sure.  “Decadence.”  See that’s rock star, dude.
DAN: And she was, like, super quick with our free refills, too. |

First words that come to mind

comic strip | panel 1 - JOHN: OK, come on, song-a-day.  We’re overthinking this.  Look, just give me a word, and I’ll say the first few words that come to mind.  Those’ll be the lyrics. |comic strip | panel 2 - DAN: OK… “vegetable”. |comic strip | panel 3 - JOHN: Um… all right… “staring blankly at the wall… my mind is gone… I drool, I fall… here or there… I’m always… in… in my wheelchair.” |comic strip | panel 4 - JOHN: Hmm.  Pretty God damn touching actually.
DAN: Totally.  A song about a disabled dude.  We could, like, win an Oscar, John. |