There's no use for rock and roll—it died for the digital age

[sovay]

I recognized the problems with the timeline as soon as I woke up, but any dream in which an experimental director adapts a short story of mine into a short surreal film starring Anthony Perkins is a good dream. I wish I remembered enough about the story to write it. I wish I had the time to write.

It was a small Thanksgiving this year: immediate family and no really fancy side dishes except for a new style of pie and the squash it turned out there was nothing to be done with except full military honors, but the turkey was a pearl among birds and my niece brought her new Elsa doll and demonstrated her cat meow for me and fortunately the sudden outbreak of baby spiders in the living room (which we had just vacuumed that morning, of course) held off until after she had left with her family. There are lots of baked apples left over. I foresee a pleasant frequency of Turkey Terrifics in my future.

I did not know that "behind the sofa" was a cultural trope. That is exactly how my fifth grade class watched Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Everybody started off on or in front of the peeling, faux-leather sofa that was part of the classroom furniture, and gradually migrated behind it over the course of the film. I include myself in this group. I always assumed other people spoke from equally literal experience.

I just like this image very much: Cornelius Ary Renan, "Les Voix de la Mer" (1899). Courtesy of handful_ofdust.

Comments

[asakiyume]

I am not sure your dream was not precognition--okay, the Anthony Perkins part may be a little difficult to arrange, and I realize it seems like a central element, but there is still his son, who I'd take over a slap in the face with a wet fish any day.

[moon_custafer]

Looking up Oz Perkins, I suddenly realized that apart from the stuff I knew (directed Blackcoat's Daughter, etc) he was the nerdy law student in Legally Blonde who Elle briefly but publicly pretends to have had her heart broken by (she does this to improve his social standing).

[sovay]

Looking up Oz Perkins, I suddenly realized that apart from the stuff I knew (directed Blackcoat's Daughter, etc) he was the nerdy law student in Legally Blonde who Elle briefly but publicly pretends to have had her heart broken by (she does this to improve his social standing).

I didn't know that! That's adorable. I have seen him only and briefly as flashback-child Norman Bates in Psycho II (1983).

[asakiyume]

I was thinking of Elvis, actually! But a quick google of Oz leads me to believe that he will do, too.

[sovay]

I am not sure your dream was not precognition--okay, the Anthony Perkins part may be a little difficult to arrange, and I realize it seems like a central element, but there is still his son, who I'd take over a slap in the face with a wet fish any day.

This is true on all points. It is encouraging of my subconscious to think so, in any case; awake I am going through a protracted phase of feeling that I have done nothing of any value that will last.

Speaking of the Perkinses, did you see that Elvis is performing in Boston on December 16th? I have a family commitment that night and cannot bilocate, but I feel you should know.

[asakiyume]

I did not! Boston is a little far for me to go for an evening thing these days, but a surprising selection of people actually make it out to Northampton; I hold out hope.

As for that bilocating, you should keep working on it. Practice makes perfect.