Eliz, Tom Selleck, and Hippies

August 16, 2004 @ 10:35 am

I read an article in the New York Times about how the FBI is cracking down on protesters, then I went to bed and had this crazy dream:

I dreamt that I was going for a walk with Eliz, and I asked her where we were going but she wouldn't tell me. We came to the Schnucks (grocery store) on Clayton Road and there was a hippie sitting in the gravel parking lot tending a little camp fire. We asked if we could join him and he invited us to sit down, then offered us pot. Only then did I notice that the parking lot was full of hippies, who were hanging out and protesting the Schnucks for some reason. We were going to buy some pot but there were too many cops around so we just sat and enjoyed the campfire.

There was a lot of surveillance of our activities going on. One futuristic jet kept flying around, and I suggested that it was practicing surveillance of civilians for use in counter-insurgency in Iraq. I also noticed a blimp monitoring us and praised their ability to "stay on station" for long periods of time. Also there was a cop car sitting in the parking lot and lots of cops in riot gear milling around, so we felt pretty well surveilled.

Tom SelleckAs it started to get dark, Tom Selleck showed up (dressed like Indiana Jones) and I invited him to join us. He sat down and started filling out address labels. When he was done, he asked me to make a copy of his address labels. I looked at them, and they were all addresses of smoking magazines like Cigar Afficionado. While I was copying them, Tom Selleck started carving up a mellon to eat, and Eliz contributed two pineapples (that we bought in real life at the Eastern Market in Detroit but never got around to eating).

I started noticing that our little campfire group (clockwise from left, Tom Selleck, hippie, Eliz, and myself) was being joined by non-hippies who were just there because of Tom Selleck. I didn't spend too much time dwelling on this because at this point a group of angry anti-protesters walked by and made threats in our direction. One of them was carrying a pointy stick that looked kind of dangerous, but cops in riot gear interevened and ushered them into a designated anti-protester tent on the other side of the Schnucks. Tom Selleck said something to me that I couldn't make out, but eventually figured out that he was pointing out how many anti-protesters there were, around 500 of them.

Most of the rest of the dream revolved around my trying to copy Tom Selleck's address labels but not being able to on account of the darkness and the fact that the sticker sheet I was writing on was pretty much used up, so I was writing in the margins and stuff. But at one point Tom Selleck said that he was releasing his article on our protest as a CD with a title that I don't remember, but it began with an "S". One of the hippies got mad at him and said that no successfull CD has ever started with "S" because only CD titles that begin with a letter from the Kabbalah become successful. So I asked, what about "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which settled the argument in my dream even though it just occured to me that the title of the CD was Nevermind.

Then I woke up and had to blog about it and listen to some Nirvana.

Replies: 3 Comments

awesome

Urs said on August 19, 2004 @ 12:14 pm

Does this have something to do with TS being one of the original choices to play Indiana Jones, do you think?

srah said on September 8, 2004 @ 10:34 am

well, there are no hippies in eugene, but i've been seeing tom selleck EVERYWHERE!

eliz said on September 8, 2004 @ 9:04 pm