On a quiet Saturday night i am wondering what to blog about before i go to bed. I suppose i could mention the fact that the dog is following me around everywhere as if i am going to sneak out of the house and leave him behind. But that’s not really all that blog worthy (tonight anyway).
But I do have something blogworthy. I have been having a recurring dream lately although its not strictly a recurring dream so much as a half dramatic, half comedy series that comes in half hour episodes for viewer entertainment. Any longer than half an hour (including ad breaks) and viewers would loose their interest and change channels.
So the first dream, or episode as I like to think of it was a bit of surprise when I found myself in it not the least for the fact that I had written a novel. Not just any novel but I a New York Times best seller and with that honor it comes with certain obligations like book tours and book signings and the like. And in my dream I even had to go on Oprah for her book club. Yes I was excited, no I didn’t jump up and down on her couch. I am not by any stretch of the imagination going to do a Tom Cruise. Episode one closes at this point.
Okies so it could be just a bizare one off dream but for the fact that I have another dream in the series a couple of days later that followed on. N ow let me ask you, what happens when someone writes a good book? Let me tell you, it gets made into a movie of course! So my novel got made into a big movie and I got to be part of it being the writer for the movie script. Obviously not content with being an author I had to be a screen writer. I must stress that the movie was delayed until the WGA strike finished. Yes that was in the dream too. Even my subconcious doesn’t want to cross the picket lines.
So episode three was where it got freaky, or more freaky rather if that is possible. The movie was a hit and John Cusack was huge in the lead role with just the right combination of the necessary attributes for the lead character. A big hit indeed because it got a whole lot of awards and even some nominations for academy awards. Best picture, Best Costume and Best Screenplay. This is where the drama part of my dramatic comedy dream because being a nominee I obvioulsy have to go to the Academy Awards and do that whole red carpet thing.
Now I am no expert on the whole awards ceromony thing and red carpet but I am fairly certain that you don’t go on your own as stag would be frowned on and no doubt get a seriously probing segment on Hollywood today or similar questioning what ever they thought was wrong with me. I discovered in my drea that being a famous writer and screen writer with an academy award nomination its so hard to meet a nice girl who wants me for me and not for the trappings that came with my success. I did try but they were all interested in being a Hollywood “A Lister” like me but I wasn’t interested in being an older male Lindsay Lohan. The whole idea of ending up in rehab scares me.
So there we have it in my own little show. Three episodes to success, fame and problems in the affairs of the heart. If my show doesn’t get cancelled then there could be more episodes in the future.
Now I guess I can’t spill all of this without offering an idea of why this is happening. I am thinking it was some weird by product of having been rewatching Californication. Or thinking that this year I should have finally sat down and done NaNoWriMo. I do have the story in my mind but I forgot this year to do it. I was distracted. That’s my thoughts about why although I am sure there would be a better reason. Maybe I can find it after the novel, movie and academy awards when I am rich and successful and able to pay those expensive therapy bill.
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