Monday, January 24, 2005
Okay, I had the funniest dream last night. In it, I was at my local precinct polling station voting for something or other, and one of the workers (an old lady) came up to me and said "perhaps you'd like to pay a congratulatory call to Viktor Yushchenko" and she handed me a phone. It was ringing on the other end of the line. I was very nervous, and I did not know why I was supposed to congratulate Viktor Yushchenko. Somebody picked up and said in a grumpy voice: "hello?" I said, "Is this Mr. Yushchenko?" And here's the funny thing: I had accidentally said this in a thick Russian accent. No reply came. I was profoundly embarrassed to have spoken to the newly-elected Ukrainian president with a fake Russian accent, so I tried to say it again. "Is this Mr. Yushchenko?" I repeated, but I just couldn't say it without it coming out Russian. Then he hung up. And that's all I remember.
This wasn't the first time I've dreamt about current events. Once last year I had a dream in which I was a game show host and the two contestants were Lonny Pulkrabek and Steve Snyder, two gentlemen who were at the time vying for the office of Johnson County Sheriff. In the dream, Pulkrabek won the game show, and it turns out I had prophesied that he would win the election.
I like films. I like them as an art form. I want to write film reviews. Perhaps my new website, which I will try to launch within the week, will contain a movie reviews section. Today I rented five movies. Barton Fink (I'm a Coen fan, but incredibly, haven't seen this movie), Bananas (I just read a Woody Allen short story, and it made me want to see more of his early movies), On The Waterfront (another classic that I haven't gotten around to seeing), The People vs. Larry Flint (I saw an incredibly censored version of this in a high school class and have been meaning to see the real thing), and The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam's films identify well with me). Maybe I'll watch these and practice writing reviews on them.
This wasn't the first time I've dreamt about current events. Once last year I had a dream in which I was a game show host and the two contestants were Lonny Pulkrabek and Steve Snyder, two gentlemen who were at the time vying for the office of Johnson County Sheriff. In the dream, Pulkrabek won the game show, and it turns out I had prophesied that he would win the election.
I like films. I like them as an art form. I want to write film reviews. Perhaps my new website, which I will try to launch within the week, will contain a movie reviews section. Today I rented five movies. Barton Fink (I'm a Coen fan, but incredibly, haven't seen this movie), Bananas (I just read a Woody Allen short story, and it made me want to see more of his early movies), On The Waterfront (another classic that I haven't gotten around to seeing), The People vs. Larry Flint (I saw an incredibly censored version of this in a high school class and have been meaning to see the real thing), and The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam's films identify well with me). Maybe I'll watch these and practice writing reviews on them.
