Boring Dream Believer

[vovat]

Am I alone in thinking Thanksgiving is a pretty lame holiday? You'd think I'd like a day devoted to eating, but turkey is something I can have a little of and not need more for a while. Why couldn't it be about eating shrimp? Anyway, even though I worked that day, it wasn't until evening and I was able to have dinner with bethje's family. Her mom is one of eight, so they have a pretty large family. Not all of them show up, but enough do to make the basement awfully crowded.

On Friday, I took Beth to see Peter Tork at New Hope Winery. There had been a Monkees tour earlier this year, but it was canceled prematurely, and she likes to see the former Monkees when they come to the area. He played with his band Shoe Suede Blues, and neither of us are all that keen on blues music, but it was pretty good. They did four Monkees songs in their set: "I'm a Believer," "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" (I guess he felt Neil Diamond wasn't getting enough promotion already), "Daydream Believer," "Last Train to Clarksville," and "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone."


I found the Simpsons episode last night to seem rather phoned in. It wasn't too bad, but it kind of just went through the motions, without the conflict ever really amounting to much. And ending with the ridiculous cliché of someone trying to do two things in the same place? Yeah, I think they were making fun of it instead of just using it, but it wasn't that funny anyway. Well, aside from Mr. Burns saying he survived the wreck of the Titanic by making a raft out of steerage passengers. Burns is usually still pretty amusing even when the episodes themselves aren't, although the writers seem to have largely given up on the running gag of his always forgetting who Homer is. Come on, don't forget the classic jokes! As for Family Guy, with all the meta-episodes they've been doing recently, it's kind of nice to see a straightforward story every once in a while. Sure, jokes about the Amish are almost as outdated as the Amish themselves, but they worked pretty well anyway. Also, we finally get an episode that uses Meg as an actual character instead of a human punching bag. The roller coaster thing was kind of weird, as it's mostly older coasters that have problems with heavier riders, but whatever. And the highlight of American Dad was how calmly Roger took being dissected. It's too bad they killed off the alien hunter guy, as I think he might have been a good recurring character.

Sometimes I have a certain amount of control over my dreams. I'm not talking about that lucid dreaming stuff, which I'm not even sure is real, but simply that I sometimes mentally change things when something doesn't make any sense. Or sometimes it's just when something is boring, like how a recent dream about high school graduation rehearsal changed into one about a video game that involved shooting monsters with silver bullets. I wonder why graduation rehearsal came to my mind. That really was boring, and totally unnecessary. High school seniors, many of them legal adults, have to practice walking in a straight line? What the hell? I also frequently have dreams about going somewhere that I enjoyed before, like an amusement park or an Oz Convention, and not being able to do anything. This could be because nothing is happening, but it's more frequently because I'm with someone else who's not letting me. I must really dread boredom.

Comments

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Why don't you think lucid dreams are real? I've definitely had them.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe they're real, but I've certainly never had one.

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. They definitely can happen though. We were just discussing them in last week's Cowtown as it happens, people were wondering how to make them happen and I was the only one there who has ever had any--the thing is I don't know any tricks for how to bring them on. They've always just happened with me. They are pretty cool though (though I usually waste mine on just trying to make John materialize rather than, like, flying or something).