{"id":619,"date":"2021-05-02T19:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/?p=619"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:53:56","slug":"audio-bio-kailah-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Audio Bio: Kailah Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1029421876&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-410222527\" title=\"Me\/Us\/U\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Me\/Us\/U<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-410222527\/audio-bio-kailah-johnson\" title=\"Audio Bio: Kailah Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio Bio: Kailah Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/me-us-u.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_8281.jpg?resize=286%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/me-us-u.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_8281.jpg?resize=286%2C300&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/me-us-u.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_8281.jpg?resize=768%2C805&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/me-us-u.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_8281.jpg?w=828&amp;ssl=1 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[slow music creeps up, euphoric feeling, a chorus of Kailah\u2019s echoes in the air]<\/p>\n<p>[sound by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/Rvgerxini\/sounds\/547113\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rvgerxini<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKailah, Kailah, Kailah.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s pronounced Kailah, like Kayla\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cKailah.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cNo, no nickname please.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cKailah, Kailah, Kailah.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cJust Kailah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[synth-like music starts playing, by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/InspectorJ\/sounds\/353032\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InspectorJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m Kailah, and every morning when I wake up I record an audio message of my dream I had the night before. Sometimes they&#8217;re like huge braindumps of the day. My mundane moments of being a college student. Other times, it\u2019s like an overfilling cup of the songs, movies, or other current obsessions. If not that, then they are leftovers of my waking moments with a pinch of wishful thinking. So, here\u2019s a quick walk into my mind.<\/p>\n<p>[the sound of small waves crashing and segulas flying in the distance air sound by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/John%20Sipos\/sounds\/191443\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Sipos<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m walking down the boardwalk in coney island around where my nana used to live. I&#8217;m wearing a pair of old Adidas and an old pair of shorts that are way too short and keep riding up my ass crack. <\/p>\n<p>[intense upbeat dance music starts playing in rhythmic patterns. Sound by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/sirplus\/sounds\/393489\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sirplus<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Then I see there\u2019s a man on roller skates with an aura that\u2019s so John Travolta Saturday night fever that it triggers my fight or flight. So I\u2019m running. Running down the boardwalk jumping over the planks of wood which now are growing faces and try to trip me up by poking out their tongues and screaming the friends\u2019 theme song. But I\u2019ve never seen the show so most of what they are saying is muffled instead of the chorus of clapping over and over again. And then I&#8217;m tired of running. So I switched to fighting. I turn around, pulling out a wrench from my back like those cartoon characters, and give it to the roller skater who now has shapeshifted into a younger version of Leonard Cohen. <\/p>\n<p>[sound of crashing waves by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/John%20Sipos\/sounds\/191443\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Sipos<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And once we get into the crashing, our bodies dissolve in the water.<\/p>\n<p>[Synth-like music by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/InspectorJ\/sounds\/353032\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InspectorJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>That was one of my quarantine dreams. I was thinking a lot about family, watching a lot of old movies and listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen\u2026 and by listening, I mean crying. This next dream, also really intense. Also a quarantine dream. But a little less\u2026 fun. <\/p>\n<p>[a measly and melodramtic violin starts playing by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/liezen3\/sounds\/475681\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liezen<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in a different dessert. Orange sand and crystals all around me, I&#8217;m slipping further and further into the heat. The sand is practically swelling me whole and my friends \u2014 a whole bunch of them dressed in rave apparel, with sweatbands on their foreheads and a boombox slugged over one of their shoulders &#8212; and they pass me, \u201cHey, Kailah,\u201d they say and I wave. \u201cHey guys, where are you going? What\u2019s going on?\u201d And they look at one another like they\u2019re all in on a joke I\u2019m too dumb to understand. So they say, \u201cyeah we\u2019re just heading across the medi,\u201d <\/p>\n<p>[music stops]<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;m like  \u201cthe medi?\u201d and they&#8217;re like \u201cmedi\u201d and I&#8217;m like \u201cthe medi??\u201d and they&#8217;re like, \u201cthe medi&#8230;the Mediterranean Sea?\u201d and then I\u2019m like \u201cOh\u201d and they just kind of look around. <\/p>\n<p>[measly and melodramtic violin continues to play by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/liezen3\/sounds\/475681\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liezen<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And then I ask \u201cCan I go?\u201d And by now half of my body is underground and I can feel myself still slipping further and further into the sand. And then they leave. And I try to bring myself out of the sand, I try to reach them, try to climb my way out. And I call out their names, but they just keep walking, and finally, I&#8217;m completely submerged by the sand. And they\u2019re gone. <\/p>\n<p>[Synth-like music by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/InspectorJ\/sounds\/353032\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InspectorJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And now my final dream I\u2019m going to share with you guys, this one? A cinematic masterpiece. You\u2019ve heard of the MCU but now here\u2019s the KCU, the Kailah Cinematic Universe. <\/p>\n<p>[intense action music plays by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/metrostock99\/sounds\/514686\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metrostock<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m the avenger\u2019s aircraft above new york city and it\u2019s on fire, there are malfunctions happening all over, people are screaming, there are alarms ringing and the avengers \u2014 cap, iron man, spider-man, thor \u2014 all of them \u2014 and were all gathered around this hole in the aircraft and we can see the whole city. Aliens are everywhere, buildings are destroyed and so we all have to drop down in parachutes into the ground but before I drop down, cap says, \u201cwe have to find each other.\u201d and he pushes me out. And as we\u2019re mid-air and flying down. Some of us land in Harlem, some land in NoHo, others in Hell Kitchen and Tribeca, were all over the place. I end up on the upper ear side and I enter this brownstone. And I took a shower in the nice bathroom and a lady there gave me a new suit to wear so when I left the brownstone, the world was ending, aliens had invaded and everyone was running for their lives and I was running down the street and I saw my family running and I was like no I can&#8217;t stop, so I run down the block and the streets turn to jelly and I\u2019m running and running and the aliens are near and capt\u2019s like \u2018Kailah we need you\u2019 And I\u2019m like, duh why do you think I brought this and I look down and my hand has crystallized into these sharp blade things and I crack the crystals on the grounds of union square and all the aliens disappear. <\/p>\n<p>[a chorus of applause by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/jessepash\/sounds\/139972\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessepash<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And I saved the world! But made a big mess and they throw me in jail for being the messiest person ever and I gave my Nobel peace prize acceptance speech from a public bathroom in Kissimmee Florida.<\/p>\n<p>[applause fades]<\/p>\n<p>[jail cell doors slam shut sound by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/TurtleLG\/sounds\/80449\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">turleleg<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[Synth-like music by <a href=\"https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/InspectorJ\/sounds\/353032\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InspectorJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Now, those dreams are kind of filled with some melodrama and some intense action-filled storylines. And I\u2019m no avenger or lonesome girl alone in the desert. They only show the fragments of my life. And honestly, my dreams keep me going and they\u2019re something I look forward to every day if I\u2019m fortunate enough to remember. They allow me to lean into my imagination and as a writer, that a solid foundation is so important. And there are so many more dreams I could give you access to but, honestly, a girl\u2019s gotta keep some things to herself. But, that\u2019s just a little bit about me and the crazy and messy dreams I have on the regular. Thanks for listening, I\u2019m Kailah, have sweet dreams and goodnight!<\/p>\n<p>[synth-like music fades out]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me\/Us\/U \u00b7 Audio Bio: Kailah Johnson [slow music creeps up, euphoric feeling, a chorus of Kailah\u2019s echoes in the air] [sound by rvgerxini] \u201cKailah, Kailah, Kailah.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s pronounced Kailah, like Kayla\u201d \u201cKailah.\u201d \u201cNo, no nickname please.\u201d \u201cKailah, Kailah, Kailah.\u201d \u201cJust Kailah.\u201d [synth-like music starts playing, by InspectorJ] Hi, I\u2019m Kailah, and every morning when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[120,22,121,92,119],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-bio","tag-avengers","tag-dreams","tag-melodrama","tag-music","tag-new-york","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-us-u.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}