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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : DREAMs-Bad Omens"

DREAMs-Bad Omens

Stan and I were in Colorado, visiting his mom in Montrose. We were outside and Stan nudges my arm and points up to the sky at a fighter plane that is exhibiting erratic behavior. The plane looks like some stealth triangular-shaped thing from Star Wars or some such movie...stingray shaped. We notice that it has a wing that appears broken or bent. It keeps flying around over what appears to be Fort Collins (it's a dream, ok?), making loops and diving and ascending. It looks like it's coming toward us, so we hold eachother say our love-yous and goodbyes. Then finally it nosedives into a tall, newer building in Fort Collins. Stan and I look at eachother and say, "well, we better watch the news." We go into Stan's mom's house and turn on the TV, but her cable channels are limited, and all we can find on the telly are dog food ads featuring pugs. One of the pugs was very strange looking...it looked like a little man. I comment on that and Stan's mom laughs. Then as we keep switching the channels, we come across another tv show featuring a man with a black stubble-beard and a small nose, round face, and I say that he looks like a pug, but Stan's mom doesn't laugh at that. We do find a news show, but they don't report on anything about the plane crash. I find the cover-up very odd.

I was watching a baby nurse a woman, but it was very weird. The baby had milk in its mouth which the mother extracted with her hand, (I guess it was in a somewhat solid state) put it in an opening in her body cavity, which I guess made its way on its own to her breasts, which in turn the baby nursed. Weird.

I was at the gallery where I'll be having my show and talking to some people there. There was a girl there, maybe high school age, who was writing down the names of my paintings and spelling them wrong. I told her she was doing that and she told me it didn't matter. I was also talking to the director, and she was telling me that one time she hung someone's painting upside down because they didn't have wire on the back to give an indication of how it should be hung, and they got really mad. We laughed at that. Later, I was walking around the gallery and noticed that there was more to it than I realized, mostly with people's private studios. I noticed that anyone could go in there and take their art supplies and no one would know.

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I think that maybe you should see Men In Black II over the 4th of July and the whole pug/Colorado thing will get purged out of your system. :-)

Posted by JeanNINE @ 06:25:2002:11:51 AM CST

Hmmm...I guess there's a pug in that one too, huh? I saw the first one. MIBII will have to wait for VHS rental...Ann and Stan don't do theatres. Too cold, too expensive, too smelly, too uncomfortable, we're too short and other people are too tall, and you can't work on your laptop or pause the movie to go pee. ;-)

Posted by Ann @ 06:25:2002:02:35 PM CST

Hi again!! =o)

Men in Black was dead cool and I'm of course going to watch number II, on video cause I don't like theatres either. The sound is too loud, I'm too tall, the chairs are too uncomfortable and people always make noise with their potatochips bags ;o]

Posted by Nico @ 06:26:2002:06:11 AM CST

Yeah, Nico, I second the too loud thing. I forgot to list that in my theatre peeves. ;-) Not just loud with people chattering and babies crying, but the Super Mega Deluxe Dolby Stereo Surround Sound Systems cause one to do a Pete Townsend.

I think I could do a whole kvetch post on theatres. It's funny how with all those drawbacks and conveniences of home rental, people still flock to theatres in droves. Can't anyone wait for the movie to come to vhs or dvd? Are we that impatient a culture? If so, why? Maybe I'm just a paragon of patience. Who knows.

Posted by Ann @ 06:26:2002:08:24 AM CST

Judging from the previews, the pug is quite back again! Should be fun.

With DVD, going to theatres isn't as fun anymore, because DVDs have SO much more! Not to mention, that whole "comfort of my own home" thing is spoiling me. :-) I only go to the theater if I MUST see it NOW. Otherwise, I find myself waiting for it to be released on DVD now more often than ever.

Posted by JeanNINE @ 06:26:2002:06:31 PM CST

Yes, the comfort of one's own home is wonderful. The only way I can see a theatre as being more comfortable than your own home is if you live on the streets.

I had the option of getting a DVD player with the computer I bought last year, but I thought...why would I want to watch DVD at my computer? So I chose the less expensive model. We're still on VHS here. Stan read in this physics magazine he used to subscribe to (to find his biodad...long story) that there's something in the works that will be even more powerful than dvd. I think we'll wait it out for that and skip dvd...

And screw Circuit City and their forced extinction of vhs! I never liked Circuit City. When I walked into it the first time, it was just so snobby and yupscale and Mac-less and the boy-wonders in their clean little golf shirts gave me weird looks because I was wondering if they had Mac stuff. Bleah.

Posted by Ann @ 06:27:2002:08:30 AM CST

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