Monday afternoon, feeling good

[cleolinda]

Just as a follow-up to The Longest Entry Ever, I got tired of annotating Fifteen Minutes...es, so I decided to annotate my dream instead, using the Dream Moods dream dictionary. I'll spare you the teal deer, but the reason I'm bringing this up is that I highly, highly recommend this process. If you have a dream vivid enough that you feel it merits writing down, put it in a Word document and start looking up all the words over at the dictionary. Yes, even the ones that don't necessarily seem all that important; it might be in there, you don't know. Then use the footnote function (ctrl + alt + F, I think? I just hit the keys without looking now, I don't even know) or the equivalent in your non-Microsoft word processing program, and paste in anything relevant from the definitions. The key to this is a sense of recognition--if it resonates with you, you'll know, and if it doesn't, or it sounds kind of stupid, that's probably not what your dream was getting at. And if you can think of a unique, personal interpretation, that trumps a canned definition every time, obviously.

Here's why I'm telling you this: every single detail in the dream I had pointed to that final bit that made me so angry. It turns out it wasn't a random series of tangents; there was actually foreshadowing in the thing--my dream was better plotted than actual fiction I've written. It turns out the pinstriped shirt could be said to represent assertiveness, but dream!me then covered that up with a sweater--which could mean family. In fact, most of the symbolism related to assertiveness (the prominence of my legs in the dream, the guy in the hotel-motel room [who could represent a side of myself] leaving before I did, the driveway, the car, climbing the hill, even the stripes on the shirt) and obstacles holding me back, which were typically the weird tangents. In fact--man, this is so fucked up, but I'll tell you anyway--I realized that the dream had coded getting out/having fun/getting a life, whatever, as "committing a crime": the girl (who was probably yet another side of myself) accusing me of "killing her parents," and the movie about the gangsters I was watching instead of leaving the room and getting on with it. That's right: as early as that random chick in the school cafeteria, my dream was doomed to end with my mother shutting me down. And by the time I was done reading up at the dictionary, I realized that there was a completely different level on which (Hot Actor) represented me, and the dream could be read as being about conflict within myself rather than just chasing a hot celebrity. Although that was definitely a part of it.

I'm not saying you have to turn every dream you have into grad-school coursework, but this one stayed with me so vividly, and seemed so blatant in its attempt to relay some kind of message to me, that I felt like it was worth it. Although I'm kind of terrified as to what this one might mean.

Oh, and also, our long Jones family nightmare is over: the fridge has been healed.

Linkspam:

Yahoo spurns Microsoft again as bad blood boils.

The Chosen Two Cometh! World Gets on With Life Without Pregnant Brangelina.

Banksy Revealed?!

I want to go to gummy bear heaven, too!

I don't play Warhammer, but I would start if I could be a Faerie Candymancer.

Leaving car at home, mysteriously not saving gas; is exawstin getin hooman in carier.

Heroes' Peter Petrelli Writes Drugged-Out Comic Book Vanity Project.

You Fools! Why Are You Not Watching 'The Middleman'?

Hayley Atwell Takes Number, Joins ‘Prisoner’ Remake.

A Mega Violent Comedy, From The Office's Producer: "I see the words 'Jonathan Pryce,' 'The Office,' and 'extremely violent,' and I start to get strange flutters of excitement."

Paquin Blond, Southern In 'True Blood.'

PBS coy about nude 'King Lear.' Okay, I think that this article is missing the real news here, which is that omg PBS is going to air the McKellen Lear! YAY!

'Hellboy II' on fire at box office; 'Hellboy' Heats Up Weekend, Because Hell is Typically Depicted as Very Hot.

Full Comic Con Schedule.

Images: Sean Penn in his Harvey Milk costume; Two new 'Burn After Reading' posters, and I love the second one.

Trailers and clips: New 'Choke' Trailer and Four Clips from the Flick; Worth Watching - July 14: Ricky Gervais' 'Ghost Town' Trailer.

A ton of Jokerized 'Dark Knight' posters (scroll down); Tabloid Cable News... Jokerized [Gotham Cable News]; 'Dark Knight': The EW review; OH MY GOD THERE'S A BAD REVIEW EVERYONE FREAK THE FUCK OUT; 'The Dark Knight: HBO First Look' Online; The 'Dark Knight' Cast and Director Remember Heath Ledger; New Concept Art Shows The Batcave Under Bruce's Penthouse; From Christian Bale To Burgess Meredith, We Give You Our All-Star Batman Team…Now Tell Us Yours!; If Batman's Tumbler was an Autobot ...

Brolin, Wright, others in 'W' film crew arrested. Dude! I guess Dubya and Colin Powell went to war, I don't know. Also, this made me laugh: "We can't wait to see what carnage ensues if these guys actually do premiere before election day — in character as Dick Cheney, Richard Dreyfuss alone is good for at least a couple overhead beer-bottle smashes before he breaks out his shotgun."

X-Files Stars Are Old, Moany; Amanda Peet-centric stills; Flashback: Kurt Loder Visits ‘The X-Files’ Set, Circa 1998.

Rumor Alert: Full "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Trailer Due with "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"?; Brief Update on Closures, Construction for Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park; Actor Jim Tavare Competes to be Last Comic Standing; Mugglenet News Report - Slughorn's House; Gary Oldman's Bond ambition. I'm putting this with the Harry Potter news because he is wearing a very fetching Gryffindor scarf in the accompanying picture.

Looks Like Christopher Lee Might Not Return to Middle-Earth. EXCEPT MAYBE AS SMAUG, SQUEE.

Set Visit Preview: Zack Snyder's 'Watchmen'!

NYT columnist just doesn't get "The Twilights" that the kids are reading these days (with a Damn Kids, Get Off My Lawn remix at MTV).

The moment I decided I have to see 'Tropic Thunder': "A lot of times the fictional pop culture in a movie is not really believable enough to be very funny (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL is a recent example - funny movie, but the opening Entertainment Tonight segment almost lost me). Stiller (maybe because he used to do that sketch comedy show) knows how to make it all seem legit. If he's doing a trailer for a movie about farting fat people he knows exactly what the narrator says, how he says it, and when 'U Can't Touch This' comes in."

Woody Harrelson Joins Roland Emmerich’s World-Ending ‘2012.’

A Return to the Cuban Missile Crisis at 'Midnight.'

Kate Hudson Joins Rob Marshall's 'Nine.'

'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' Gets a Trailer and New Images.

Next Movie-Turned-Musical: 'Daens.'

With Jack Black Returning, Would You See A ‘School Of Rock’ Sequel? Well, I didn't see the original, so...

Early Review for Paul W.S. Anderson's 'Castlevania' Script. Note: This is not Paul Thomas "There Will Be Blood" Anderson; this is Paul W.S. "Event Horizon" Anderson.

Stone Slammed By Peta Over Spider Amputation... seventeen years ago.

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Aw, you should see the original School of Rock. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of Jack Black myself but he was actually better than tolerable in it, and the kids were hilarious.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that wasn't actually meant as a slam; I did hear that it was pretty good. It was just more of a "Well, since you asked..."

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Why is the Creature from the Black Lagoon giving birth to Gillian Anderson?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's a really funny Rolling Stone cover from 1997 or 1998 or so--the photo shoot kind of had a B-movie damsel-in-distress theme to it.

http://i1.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/a4/a0/3d61_1.JPG

[neveth.livejournal.com]

The Castlevania movie depresses me. Mainly because it's not a movie version of Symphony of the Night.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

This.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Ha. That Twilight cover shook the world (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-10magazinecovers14-july14-pg,0,5472017.photogallery?index=9)!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

And it ranks ahead of Demi Moore! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Christopher Lee as Smaug?

I can COMPLETELY get behind that! =D

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Is it feeling like growing up and out is wrong somehow, like abandonment?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's what it is. And I think that since I'm so very overdue for it, the guilt is a lot stronger--the guilt is what's tying me down in the first place. And I think the dream is trying to be like, "LOSER, GET OVER IT! THERE ARE (HOT ACTORS) WAITING!"

[chorusgirl.livejournal.com]

When I first saw the commercial for Hellboy I thought it was a clever parody.

I was sort of crushed to realize it was REAL.

[msilverstar]

omg PBS is going to air the McKellen Lear! YAY!

YAY!

Glad you have a fridge again.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Trust me, so is our milk.

[wmetoile.livejournal.com]

So I read that New York Times column on Saturday, and I thought at the time that, yes, she didn't get what the whole Twilight obsession was about, but worse (considering it was a columnist for the freaking New York Times) was that she didn't get why Twilight is objectionable to thinking, feminist women who don't believe little girls should aspire to find a controlling prick of a boyfriend (or two) at the expense of their own self-image...

Wow, I just got un-funny real fast.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

W00t for the new fridge! I hope it never leaves you.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, it's the same fridge--it's just got a new compressor.

This entry's icon...

[christigilly.livejournal.com]

Hooray! It's my favorite X-files photoshoot! Thanks for bringing that back and bringing a smile to my face : O)

Re: This entry's icon...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. My other favorite was the other RS cover.

[schtroumph-c.livejournal.com]

Thanks you for the dream's interpretation link! Letting the little girls to be killed is less scary if it means growing up. I'll have to look what the all 'Mickael Jackson save the world by having a baby girl at 00h02' means.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Wait, how did I not hear about Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney until now? Now I have to see this movie.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I found The Middleman surprisingly good when I started watching it on a whim. The characters are all very likable, Matt Kessler is as cute as a button and instead of being campy, it comes across with an almost sort of Buffy smartness.

[quasar360.livejournal.com]

OT, but if that is Michael Weston in your icon, I agree 110%. Yay, Burn Notice!

[ladyvoldything.livejournal.com]

There will never be enough SQUEE for the thought of Christopher Lee as Smaug.

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was expecting another 'Alabama is the center of the universe' tag, since apparently another anti-gay republican (Alabama) has been outed as gay...

ETA: linky
http://wonkette.com/401018/anti-gay-alabama-attorney-general-caught-being-gay

[mercat.livejournal.com]

HAHA your icon is hilarious. =D

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's kinda awesome, and also I'd say a good way to use your break-time from annotating m15m! Self-realizations, ahoy!

Also, the Dick Cheney dream? CURSE YOU. AIEEEEEEE.

[virtuistic.livejournal.com]

Hey Cleo,

I'm wondering if you could pimp something for me. I work for national news distributor Internet Broadcasting. Come Thursday, we're going to be having a meeting to discuss how to take election coverage to a new, better level revolving on the reader's experience.

I'm trying to get reader's preferences with a poll on my lj.

http://virtuistic.livejournal.com/540310.html

If you could pimp, I'd love you more than I already do. :-D

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Stone Slammed By Peta Over Spider Amputation... seventeen years ago.

*rolls eyes at Peta* Well I'm sure they'd hate me. I can't even count the number of spiders I've killed over the years (or rather, had killed for me, as I'm typically too terrified of them to get close enough to do the killing.)

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

My spider killings generally involve a lot of shrieking and flailing with the biggest book I can find. Needless to say, the spiders are generally not just killed, they are terminated.

[missemilygracey.livejournal.com]

Kate Hudson Joins Rob Marshall's 'Nine.'

Shit. Really? That sucks so very hard.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Well, I am trying to get that dream link to work, because for the past two weeks I've been having the most vivid dreams I've had in a good long time, and I am definitely one of those people who remembers bizarre details.

And I just wanted to say, I really appreciate that you are so open about your life, as creepy as that may sound. I know you have said before that you post about your medicine and depression and stuff in case it helps someone, and for me, hearing about the stuff you're going through internally is kind of nice because it seems as though I'm going through similar things. (Trying to figure out when to move out, what to do with my parents, and assuaging the guilt complex and the nerves.) =)

...And also I am now super psyched to see Tropic Thunder. =D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, as embarrassed as I am about still living at home, I figure someone else has got to be in that situation, so, you know, if feeling guilty about everything is what gets in my way, maybe it'll help someone else feel less guilty and help them move on with things too.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

The Sharon Stone article seems either fake or ill-informed. a] The spider in the scene in DEADLY BLESSING was not real b] Spiders don't have pincers c] Tarantulas are not "small insects" but "huge freaking arachnids"...

TROPIC THUNDER looks funny *despite* Jack Black- the man is almost as physically annoying to me as Nicholas Cage and George Dubya...

[emisi.livejournal.com]

Frankly, with certain movie reviewers (see: Washington Post, New York magazine) I expect the reviewer to give a very bad review to a "commercial" movie. Frankly, I often judge how good a blockbuster movie is by how badly it's reviewed in the Post. If it's not "art," they hate it, so Batman fans should be happy that the movie was rated badly by the New York magazine reviewer.

[crimsnfirestorm.livejournal.com]

I just have to comment to thank you for linking to v827's dream comment. I laughed until I cried.