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[sovay]

Still sick. Brain AWOL. Sleep a joke. I ran half an hour's worth of errands on foot yesterday afternoon—post office, bank, library—and it wiped me out until the evening. Long after it had gotten light out, the temperature finally started to drop and I dreamed of introducing a recently restored film from the early 1930's, a pre-Code proto-noir adapted from a now totally obscure mystery novel whose importance to film history was the unusual combination of a female author, a female screenwriter, and a female director who must have been fictional because she wasn't Dorothy Arzner. I can't remember anything about the cast. The plot had something to do with stolen jewels and phony jewels and at least one body, of course. By the end of the dream, it had bled through its own metafiction until I was in the position of the director, introducing the film at its premiere. On waking, I had to double-check with the internet that there really was no such novel as The Ten-Cent Emerald and no such film as—I was really surprised by this one—Nobody's Lady. I appreciate that some part of my brain still understands how creativity works, but I wish it were the one that operates while I'm awake.

I know this article is basically reassuring, but any time public transit is found to be less gross than the human body, I feel it is less of a victory for public transit than a rather serious statement about the human body: "Boston's subway cars hold fewer harmful microbes than our guts."

Comments

[yhlee]

Oh, man. I hope you get better soon, and that you can get some rest. *support support*

[sovay]

I hope you get better soon, and that you can get some rest.

Thank you. At this point I feel too stupid to answer e-mail, which is a bad situation.

[thistleingrey]

Sending good wishes for health and sleep and clear-minded thought.

[sovay]

Sending good wishes for health and sleep and clear-minded thought.

Thank you.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

María Luisa Bemberg directed a film called Señora de nadie in 1982. Usually translated "Nobody's wife," but I did find it at least once as "Nobody's lady."

[sovay]

María Luisa Bemberg directed a film called Señora de nadie in 1982. Usually translated "Nobody's wife," but I did find it at least once as "Nobody's lady."

That's neat! It's just such a pre-Code title—Lady with a Past (1932), Dancing Lady (1933), Ex-Lady (1933), Ladies They Talk About (1933), Gambling Lady (1934)—I couldn't believe it hadn't been used by Hollywood.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

It's just such a pre-Code title

It absolutely is. I did find a copyright entry for a 1918 film called Nobody's Wife (see https://books.google.com/books?id=slocAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA137 -- and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009432/ ), but yeah, what you want is more like 1928 and Lady.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I had a very extensive dream that created a little boy/30 ton duck spirit in the inner harbor of Baltimore that challenged the descriptive abilities and appeared as a far more Pacific Northwest sort of duck representation on balloons that turned into the world's most frustrating order of dim sum.

I saved something from Vermont for you to try. I will have to remember to bring it to Readercon.

[sovay]

I had a very extensive dream that created a little boy/30 ton duck spirit in the inner harbor of Baltimore that challenged the descriptive abilities and appeared as a far more Pacific Northwest sort of duck representation on balloons that turned into the world's most frustrating order of dim sum.

Dude, get Studio Ghibli (or asakiyume) to animate that for you and you've got a hit.

I saved something from Vermont for you to try. I will have to remember to bring it to Readercon.

I look forward. Thank you!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That would be lovely...

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Years ago I had so vivid a dream about Maurice Chevalier singing that when I woke I had to check if the radio was on (it wasn't) and then try to find out if there really is a song called "When Vienna and I Were Young." As far as I know there isn't, but the bits I can recall still get stuck in my head sometimes.

[sovay]

if there really is a song called "When Vienna and I Were Young." As far as I know there isn't, but the bits I can recall still get stuck in my head sometimes.

If we ever meet in person, please remind me to ask you to sing them for me. It's an entirely believable title.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

There's not much to sing. I can remember the opening lines:

It's easy to say I'm not
But I remember Vienna
Its every phrase and thought
When Vienna and I were young

And the final ones:
The streets and the rain
(Something) in vain
When Vienna and I were young.

[sovay]

The streets and the rain
(Something) in vain
When Vienna and I were young.

That's wonderful.

[gwynnega]

I'm sorry the proto-noir you dreamed doesn't exist. Nobody's Lady does sound like a quintessential pre-Code title.

[sovay]

I'm sorry the proto-noir you dreamed doesn't exist.

Thank you. Seriously. I can't exactly get the Film Noir Foundation on the case of a movie that was never made!

Nobody's Lady does sound like a quintessential pre-Code title.

Someone really missed an opportunity. Probably starring Barbara Stanwyck or Lilyan Tashman or Joan Blondell.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wow. Not only do I want to see Nobody's Lady--fabulous title—but I want to read The Ten-Cent Emerald.

I once dreamed I was editing a film, which turned to be "Down the Wall."

Nine

[sovay]

Wow. Not only do I want to see Nobody's Lady--fabulous title—but I want to read The Ten-Cent Emerald.

Me, too! I want like six months to a year where I have nothing to do but keep up with my Patreon and write fiction and poetry. I probably wouldn't produce anything in that time that would justify the vacation, but I think it would be such a nice change. Alternately, I could start sleeping like a normal person and then I might have the extra time. I would enjoy that, too.

I once dreamed I was editing a film, which turned to be "Down the Wall."

Well, that gives me hope.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you dialed in the film catalog from inter-universal loans. Our is that Universal? Good trick, that.

Let me know if you find the buddy road trip flick that I'm convinced Donald O'Connor and Danny Kaye made a few universes over? Of course, finding a way to steam dreams is as-yet beyond our tech.

Here's hoping you find sleep of an actually excellent and repetitive quality soon.

[sovay]

It sounds like you dialed in the film catalog from inter-universal loans. Or is that Universal? Good trick, that.

Alterna-Warners, I suspect. Crime films and social message pictures were kind of their thing in the pre-Code era. If not, then maybe RKOver There.

Let me know if you find the buddy road trip flick that I'm convinced Donald O'Connor and Danny Kaye made a few universes over?

I genuinely mind that most of the art I dream about doesn't exist and isn't the kind I can create myself. Like, it's been six years and I'm still waiting for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Sleeping Beauty.

Here's hoping you find sleep of an actually excellent and repetitive quality soon.

Thank you. I slept almost seven hours last night; it was not on the greatest schedule, but it was uninterrupted. I just want that sort of thing more than once every couple of weeks, you know?