Mick Jagger Made Us Cookies

Mick Jagger Made Us Cookies 
A Dream I Had

After a long weekend of motorcycle riding with my girlfriend Lauren, and then going on a solo camping trip on the scooter, I was pretty beat today. So I took a nap and had the most pleasant dream with a celebrity guest star: Mick Jagger.

Mick Jagger’s Series III Jaguar XJ-6 broke down near Lauren’s and my country house. He came out to the house and we talked about the car. I asked what was wrong and he said it was running “too efficiently.” That struck me as odd, but I think I knew what he meant having had a similar experience with a lawn mower (in reality).

Mick stayed in our guest house, but had access to the main house. The next day, Lauren and I came downstairs to find that he’d left to go do something with the car, but that he’d made us 7-layer bars. Additionally, he had purchased seat covers for our bar stools. We only had three stools, but he’d gotten about 12 seat covers. They were all white with comics on them.

Those 7-layer bars were pretty interesting. Lauren didn’t care for them as much because they had coconut. But I liked them–they weren’t too sweet. I think he used brown sugar, butter, white chocolate, butterscotch, coconut, and baker’s chocolate. The baker’s chocolate was more to hold the thing together as a binder, I guess. Also, it had a bit of a crumble aspect to it, with a hint of cinnamon. There may also have been nutmeg. Who knew Mick Jagger was such a baker?

So later on I drove Mick out to the shop and we talked on the way about the Jaguar. He really likes it, though it has given him problems. I mentioned that the Series III was the last British Leyland Jag before Ford took over. 

Once we got to the shop I looked at the car. It was in need of some help. The paint was a bit thin, and there was this peculiar thing on the dash for holding notebook paper. It had little tabs on it that would hold the paper in place, but unfortunately, it had been installed backwards so the tabs were facing out. There was some broken plastic on it as well. At the least, it was color-matched to the interior.

Later on, Mick Jagger and I were talking while the mechanic was going over a list of things the car needs to fix the particular issue. Somehow or another the car needed bearings. I couldn’t figure out why, so Mick and I went into a room with model airplanes in it. This room seemed to be the start of a model airplane museum made by the owner of this shop. It was kind of strange, and while Mick and I were trying to figure out why the Jag needed bearings, we kept getting distracted by finding more model airplanes.

The car wasn’t going to be repaired anytime soon, so I drove Mick to the airport. While on the way I asked him why they stopped making songs like 10,000 Light Years From Home and You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Though, I also mistakenly added Hitchin’ A Ride by Vanity Fare to that list. Jagger said that it was due to Brian Jones’ death–he was the guy who was behind songs like that. (This is obviously wrong.)

Later on at the airport I invited him to play trivia with me and my friend Geoff. I joked that he’d probably be pretty bad at remembering the answers to questions about the Rolling Stones, but that he’d do okay on Beatles or The Who questions. Jagger then leaned in and whispered, “The Who are assholes. The two worst ones aren’t dead yet.” 

And that was it, he got on the plane, I presume.

So what have I learned from this dream? Well, Mick Jagger is a really nice guy who hates the Who and is a surprisingly good baker.

– Mike