Firey Wreckage. June 30th.

Last night I dreamt that there was a lovely little cafe around the corner from my house that I lived in with my parents. It was a french place and they served foie gras omelettes. I was trying to talk to the owner about the omelettes and whether I should order them or not. I wanted to go swimming but for some reason I could not.

Then I was hanging out with my brother and someone came into the development in which we lived with the intention of taking it over. He was some sort of octopus creature and I had a little brother who rode around on a really fast scooter. We watched a plane crash into the sand by the beach which was right outside the city and a woman came running up out of the firey wreckage. I went into a diner to meet my boyfriend because we had an understanding that if something really bad were to happen we would meet at this diner.

I got there and we talked and then I went outside to talk to my little brother who was riding around the parking lot on his scooter. I was psychic and I could hear the caravan of crazy scientists coming. They got there just as I was getting my brother onto the scooter with me and we got right to the gates but they closed in front of us and these growths came up out of the top of them. I said, "Let's just climb them." And we started to climb the gates but the streets outside were full of black limos and even the other cars further up the street were stopped and the people were running out of them and up the street in terror.

We climbed back down and the crazy octopus man came and took my brother. He threw some weird powder on him and gave him a shot. We were all in someone's living room. My brother started writhing on the floor and groaning. He began to turn into a very bloody, wet, sea shell kind of like a clam. The octopus and his assistant were grinning and telling each other that it was working. They moved the clamshell out into the sun and it opened up and my brother was sitting inside of it having been made into a clam. He was not terribly unhappy about it but he said he could get used to it if they installed some kind of wheels on the bottom and he could ride around all the time.

Later I was in a huge mansion and I was looking through things I used to have when I was a kid. I lived next door to the Beatnick Barbershop which had been totally redesigned and was much bigger and blue and my friend from 5th grade Jessica Ash worked there. I remembered walking by and seeing her before and being confused. I was in the mansion after I talked to her in the shop for a while and I was watching videos of when I first was dating Walker and they were uncomfortable, weird videos. Then these crazy ladies dressed up like burlesque chickens came wandering in like it was their house and perhaps it was. They came in from doing a show at an arena that I was just looking at a poster for.

June 10th

I was in a large school where everyone was made to follow each other up flights and flights of stairs. We were supposed to be in alphabetical order but that wasn't working out very well. We got to the top of the building and there was a huge spaceship looking thing. It was like another world. It was all greys and greens and browns like some weird science fiction movie and everyone was walking around like a zombie doing whatever this weird alien boss guy told them to do. He wasn't actually an alien; he was more like an ancient man of the army. He had this uniform all made of brown metal and he had this huge hair which dangled down, dreadlocks, onto his back. He was rather angry and everyone did what he said. He told them that earth as we know it is destroyed and that we must live in the skies for ever.

Everyone had been hypnotized except for myself and I was a rather angry man who was intent on saving my girlfriend and everyone else from this life of thoughtless subservience. He was making the people into members of his army one by one and it was impossible to really go anywhere but where he had you stationed. There were these arms that came down off the ship (which was really just a tall building) and people controlled them and watched what was going on inside from them. The weird boss guy was taking a break and going up onto the roof and I followed him up there because I was the only person on whom the hypnotism did not work. He thought that made me strong and wanted to make me his assistant. He was making me all sorts of promises and he promised to tell me his biggest secret if I would join him.

So, I followed him up onto the roof and he had already given me a sword. He was waltzing around giving some dramatic speech about how humans are unnecessary and their whole lives are just little games that he could play with his chess boards. We looked down onto what I had thought was the earth he and his minions had destroyed but it all looked normal to me and he just had everyone hypnotized. He turned around and as soon as he did so I swung my sword and made a perfectly clean swipe of his neck with a little bit of his left shoulder. He continued his speech for a minute without realizing what had happened but he began to feel funny and so he turned around to me with an angry and suspicious look in his eyes. I was standing a bit above him on the jagged roof of the ship and so I kicked my foot out and pushed his head off of his body. His eyes widened and he fell over dead.

Next thing you know I am back on earth in a movie theatre as myself. I call my girlfriend who was my girlfriend on the ship (as much as you could have a girlfriend on that ship) and I tell her that everything was a lie and that she should just come back to earth but everyone is still under his power even though he is dead and I realize that they will etch out the rest of their meaningless lives as minions aboard what may as well be an imaginary spaceship. I say goodbye and tell her I will speak to her soon though I am sure I won't.

Saturday June 9th

I was living in a house with my parents which was haunted. All sorts of terrible things started happening and so we had to leave. I was on my way out and I ran into Eric Owens with two very cute dogs. I was going to adopt Kody from my parents but I decided I wanted a smaller dog. Then I was flying through the air trying to find a swimming pool. I was flying through the air with some expert flier who was a really young kid but whom I was in love with. I waited in line at a pool for some sort of drink but I didn't want it when I got up to the front of the line because it was a gross drink and they wouldn't let me in the pool anyway.

After that I was in school and I was in a dark room trying to figure out how it all worked. I was having a hard time figuring it out and I realized that I didn't have any negatives. I searched through this dresser looking in the drawers for someone else's negatives that I could use and I found a bunch of boring prints and then a book of photos with descriptions of the places and the people and why they were important to someone. In the bottom drawer I found negatives that I had from high school. I was about to try to start printing them when I realized that there was a huge puddle on the floor by my backpack. Someone in the class with me told me it was a little religious girl from the class next door. I raced next door and started screaming and telling the teacher that all my books were ruined and that someone was going to pay for it. I knew who did it because she had this snide little smirk on her face. She did it because I said something about Jesus being the ghost of Shakespeare's grandfather which is obviously a bastardization of the line in Ulysses.