Dreamland
Dreamland is an "ambitious musical project" by Brent Spiner. Along with singer Maude Maggart, the two perform classic showtunes set to a supposedly film noir style. The songs are divided up between scenes where a bizarre and awkward romance storyline takes place, deliberately designed to leave any other human being other than Gail with overpowering feelings of second hand embarrassment and schadenfreude.
Brent Spiner's Dreamland was the second music album by Brent that Gail obtained, the first album being Ol Yellow Eyes Is Back. Gail is convinced that Dreamland was intended to tell the story of Brent and Gail's relationship. An exploration of the themes behind the album and its cut scenes begins to reveal where some of these delusions of reference come from. For timeline relevance, the album was released in 2008. This was after Gail had added men to her marriage list, but before her earliest Internet presence.
Quite strangely, the cover of the album depicts a figure strongly resembling Data from Star Trek sitting next to a woman with short, fluffy, dark and unkempt hair that actually does resemble Gail during her tinfoil hat period.
Scene 1
The first scene involves Brent and Maude sitting apart in a restaurant. Maude has just been stood up by her boyfriend, and to compile her misery, becomes the object of lust from a strange and probably drunk man across the room -- Brent Spiner. She eventually asks for help from a server in getting him to stop staring at her, and the server tells Brent to knock it off. She irritably asks for the check so she can leave before rape o'clock. She leaves and Brent secretly follows her, and sneaks up on her as she is nervously trying to hail down a cab. She calls him a lunatic and tries to tell him to stop. Still not hearing the word no, Brent offers to take her back to his car and drive her home. Maude says no again. A still lustful and obliviously creepy Brent sweetly says goodnight. Moments later, Maude, perhaps deciding that she'd rather get raped by a man whose face she can still relay the facial details of to police than risk taking her chances on the streets on the long walk home, changes her mind and asks Brent what kind of car he drives.
Just then, a bizarre exchange occurs.
Maude: "Hey..."
Brent: "Yeah?"
Maude: "What kind of car do you drive?"
Brent: "Oh, I don't have a car...I have a train." >:]
~CHOO CHOOOOO!!!~
Brent reveals that he drove to the restaurant on a goddamn train, and Maude is suddenly very excited.
The couple boards the train. Luckily for Maude, they aren't alone. They talk to the train conductor who asks where she wants to go. She wants to go home, which is a place called Dreamland.
Gail interpretation:
Gail felt "stood up" by her neglectful husband in the same way Maude was left alone at the restaurant. She was reminded of her experience with the perverted phone sex caller that she was initially frightened and disgusted by, before realizing it was Brent Spiner, who wasn't a pervert, and actually loved her deeply. Gail continued to turn Brent down, but that didn't stop him from pursuing her. In her desperation, Gail finally asked Brent to take her home to where she lives -- a romance fantasy world.
Scene 2:
Brent wakes up startled by a cruel sounding female figure who he has unwittingly woken up in bed with. The woman is flirtatious, and teases him about the night before. Just then, Maude comes into the room to wake him up (for some reason she wasn't sleeping with him) and walks in on the two of them in bed. Brent insists it isn't what it looks like. Realistically, Maude should have known what she was getting into when she hooked up with Brent in the first place, after a lustful night of him drunkenly chasing her out of a restaurant, but regardless she is shocked for some reason and very upset. Brent says he thought that the woman was Maude the whole time and that he just woke up in bed with her, and he swears he has no idea how this happened.
Gail's interpretation:
This is exactly where Gail's idea of a Loree McBride drug rape came from.
Scene 3:
Brent and Maude break up.
Gail interpretation:
Once Gail found out that Brent Spiner had a girlfriend, she dropped him for an attachment to Franco Nero instead.
Scene 4:
Brent and Maude see each other in a restaurant again. Maude has, surprise, found herself with another trashy boyfriend. Maude begs her boyfriend to pause their date and let her talk to her ex privately, and her boyfriend is painted as a really bad character for refusing to allow this. However, he eventually relents and lets them both talk in private, where Brent expresses that he is depressed because Maude left and has forgotten about him. Maude calls him on the phone later. Despite the fact that she broke up with him in the first place because he cheated on her, she proceeds to cheat on her new boyfriend to go back to Brent. Brent encourages this and asks Maude to sneak out of the house under her boyfriend's nose and come do him.
Gail interpretation:
Gail had hooked up with Franco Nero in her head instead of Brent Spiner. Meanwhile she was still actually married to David Schuler in real life. Once she realized that Loree McBride was a Vatican agent and that Brent never really stopped loving her, she decided to take Brent back as her main lover. She left Franco, and was then willing to sneak communications with Brent under her husband's nose until eventually becoming willing to divorce him under the belief that she was really going to be with Brent Spiner.
Scene 5:
Brent and Maude meet up as planned, and Maude warns Brent that her boyfriend has threatened to kill her. Right on cue, her boyfriend arrives and discovers Brent and Maude together. He fires off a shotgun. Then he actually starts reciting a creepy prayer. Maude has been shot dead. Her boyfriend walks away with apparently no police involvement of any kind. While Brent laments her death, Maude comes back as a ghost. Brent says he doesn't want to live without her, so Maude suggests he should kill himself to come be with her. Brent thinks this sounds reasonable.
Gail interpretation:
Gail was afraid of being caught cheating by her husband. If David divorced her, she wouldn't have his financial support or anywhere to go. During the time she was still cheating with Brent, she kept trying to think of Biblically valid excuses to leave David without offending Jesus -- and to little avail. By the time the marriage was nearing an end, Gail determined that David was a dangerous Jesuit agent and was actually trying to kill her with emotional abuse, and ended the relationship through divorce. Of further note is Gail's longstanding fixation with themes of death. Because of Jesuit interference, Gail has a belief that she and Brent will only truly be able to be together in death. In her novel Silver Skies, the two main characters that are supposed to represent Brent and Gail actually do die together, and the ending of the book depicts them walking off to be together at last in heaven. Gail believes that she and Brent will eventually be married in heaven by Jesus himself. Gail also believes and has repeatedly stated that should she die, her men would all commit suicide.
Scene 6:
Brent wakes up and hears Maude knocking on the bedroom door and realizes her dying was just a dream (once again, Maude is for some reason not sharing his bed despite the implication that they live together). Everything was all a dream, and Brent goes on to tell her about it. He then sings a song about how everyone that knows her loves her, because she is so great.
Gail interpretation:
Brent and Gail are finally back together. According to Gail, the song Brent sings on the album is supposed to be about how every man Gail encounters falls in love with her, and how they join her marriage list.
Gail Talks About Dreamland
Gail goes into additional detail about Dreamland in a video with even more parallels she found and discusses details about the musical tracks themselves, which she sings. She also discusses a little about Ol Yellow Eyes Is Back and how that album was about her as well.
| Brent Spiner's "Dreamland" for Gail Chord Schuler | |
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| Date | Tuesday, October 8th 2013 |
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An offshore video on OneTrueMedia runs through most of the album, including the scenes between the tracks and some of the tracks themselves, along with text commentary by Gail.
| Dreamland: 1991 The story of Brent and Gail in "Dreamland". | |
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| Date | Tuesday, October 8th 2013 |