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la_belle_laideThe head-movie I had last night had lots of guest stars. Among them: family members, old friends, and newer friends.
In this one, it was Thanksgiving first. My friend Drex came around, with a poem that he had written; it was about trees. He was reciting it during Thanksgiving dinner. Also in attendance were some of my childhood friends (one who lives next door to me again, with his family,) and Wirrow, who I know from hitRECord. (I've never met him IRL, but my image of him is always like a young sort of Syd Barret.)
Wirrow said that if we all went outside, he would animate the poem for us. I was like, "How can you animate something outdoors?" but he soon showed us how. Everything Wirrow touched turned to animation. Drex read a line about the tree leaves turning red, and Wirrow went to the old sarsaparilla tree we all used to chew on as kids, and touched the trunk. The tree went all animated, and the leaves changed colors. "You made the tree blush," I told him, and he said, "Nature loves me back."
I asked everyone if they wanted to play Ghost in the Graveyard with me. Wirrow was down for it, but everyone else wanted to go have dinner.
Instead, we all decided to go to Disneyworld. We had to drive there, and, strangely, had to go through Seattle to get there. We stopped to pick up my friend Durga on the way.
It must have been a big car, because everyone fit into it. My Mom was driving. We went through Seattle and I was dismayed to see all these oil refineries that hadn't been there before. They were disguised as fountains and some of them were in Puget Sound. An el train went overhead when we were on a causeway (a causeway over Puget Sound, okay...) and I remembered a dream I'd had about a year ago, with special agents on a train - we had to run from them and I was crying because I had lost track of my training brother and thought he'd gotten captured. (I remembered the dream while I was dreaming, and I remembered telling people about that dream, too. Very weird.)
We finally made it to Disneyworld. I lost track of Drex, Wirrow, Durga and my family because everything looked different. I have a dream-Disneyworld, which is different to real life, but is the same in every dream I've ever had about it. But in this one, things looked different and out of place. I was hungry and I went to a buffet to order something for breakfast, but bagels were $13 each, and even just a muffin was $10. I was going to order a cup of green tea, but it was $7 and I had no cash.
Then suddenly my Dad was on line with me. He said he would pay. "Didn't I always pay for your breakfast at Disney?" he asked. I told him that yes, he had, but now the prices were through the roof.
He told me, "That's because it's ten years since you've been here. Times change." And, "You know that when you leave Disney, I'll still be gone, right?"
All of a sudden that made perfect sense, and I remembered what was wrong with the dream. I realized that my Dad could only be alive here, in this way.
He said, "It's only because I'm sick, and I don't have long."
I said, "That's not the way it happened; you were never sick."
He said, "At least this time you know."
I said, "That doesn't make it any better."
And then I woke up. But I wasn't unhappy; it didn't feel like a bad dream or anything. Just a strange one. I always dream of Dad, and sometimes I get the sense of why the dream is wrong, and sometimes I just forget completely. Honestly, the worst part of the dream was the oil refineries in the water. That really upset me, and made me feel depressed.
I should add, just because I always keep track of weather in this LJ, that today is the first snowfall of the season. We've got about 6" or so. All of my clients cancelled (it's Saturday,) leaving me with absolutely no money for the week. I went shopping for dog food and chocolate and wine, put everything on my stupid credit card (which I keep trying not to do since I'm still paying off Haku's latest $10K+ adventure and will be for quite a damn while!) and now I'm sitting here freezing my balls off and drinking tea.
Skyward Sword? Yes, I think so.
In this one, it was Thanksgiving first. My friend Drex came around, with a poem that he had written; it was about trees. He was reciting it during Thanksgiving dinner. Also in attendance were some of my childhood friends (one who lives next door to me again, with his family,) and Wirrow, who I know from hitRECord. (I've never met him IRL, but my image of him is always like a young sort of Syd Barret.)
Wirrow said that if we all went outside, he would animate the poem for us. I was like, "How can you animate something outdoors?" but he soon showed us how. Everything Wirrow touched turned to animation. Drex read a line about the tree leaves turning red, and Wirrow went to the old sarsaparilla tree we all used to chew on as kids, and touched the trunk. The tree went all animated, and the leaves changed colors. "You made the tree blush," I told him, and he said, "Nature loves me back."
I asked everyone if they wanted to play Ghost in the Graveyard with me. Wirrow was down for it, but everyone else wanted to go have dinner.
Instead, we all decided to go to Disneyworld. We had to drive there, and, strangely, had to go through Seattle to get there. We stopped to pick up my friend Durga on the way.
It must have been a big car, because everyone fit into it. My Mom was driving. We went through Seattle and I was dismayed to see all these oil refineries that hadn't been there before. They were disguised as fountains and some of them were in Puget Sound. An el train went overhead when we were on a causeway (a causeway over Puget Sound, okay...) and I remembered a dream I'd had about a year ago, with special agents on a train - we had to run from them and I was crying because I had lost track of my training brother and thought he'd gotten captured. (I remembered the dream while I was dreaming, and I remembered telling people about that dream, too. Very weird.)
We finally made it to Disneyworld. I lost track of Drex, Wirrow, Durga and my family because everything looked different. I have a dream-Disneyworld, which is different to real life, but is the same in every dream I've ever had about it. But in this one, things looked different and out of place. I was hungry and I went to a buffet to order something for breakfast, but bagels were $13 each, and even just a muffin was $10. I was going to order a cup of green tea, but it was $7 and I had no cash.
Then suddenly my Dad was on line with me. He said he would pay. "Didn't I always pay for your breakfast at Disney?" he asked. I told him that yes, he had, but now the prices were through the roof.
He told me, "That's because it's ten years since you've been here. Times change." And, "You know that when you leave Disney, I'll still be gone, right?"
All of a sudden that made perfect sense, and I remembered what was wrong with the dream. I realized that my Dad could only be alive here, in this way.
He said, "It's only because I'm sick, and I don't have long."
I said, "That's not the way it happened; you were never sick."
He said, "At least this time you know."
I said, "That doesn't make it any better."
And then I woke up. But I wasn't unhappy; it didn't feel like a bad dream or anything. Just a strange one. I always dream of Dad, and sometimes I get the sense of why the dream is wrong, and sometimes I just forget completely. Honestly, the worst part of the dream was the oil refineries in the water. That really upset me, and made me feel depressed.
I should add, just because I always keep track of weather in this LJ, that today is the first snowfall of the season. We've got about 6" or so. All of my clients cancelled (it's Saturday,) leaving me with absolutely no money for the week. I went shopping for dog food and chocolate and wine, put everything on my stupid credit card (which I keep trying not to do since I'm still paying off Haku's latest $10K+ adventure and will be for quite a damn while!) and now I'm sitting here freezing my balls off and drinking tea.
Skyward Sword? Yes, I think so.
