About Last Night's Dream

Last night, I had a dream. It was obviously inspired by Oscar Night, although I can't explain why it happened two nights after the Oscars.

I was in a diner and I noticed Jack Nicholson sitting by himself. Someone had told me earlier in the dream that Jack was super-approachable and that he'd probably love for me to sit down and have a cup of coffee with him. Add that to the fact that everyone else was oblivious that he was there, and I knew that I had to go have a chat with him.

So, I worked my way around the perimeter of the diner to allow myself enough time to collect my thoughts and figure out what my opener was going to be. As I approached his table, who walks into the diner but Tom Hanks!!! Nobody noticed him either. He walks toward me, trying to look inconspicuous. I wanted to play it cool and didn't want to fawn over him, so I decided just to give him a head nod and a tiny greeting.

But instead, I accidentally screamed, "Helllllllllooooooooo Mr. Haaaaaanks!!!!" at the top of my lungs. He gave me a dirty look and rushed past me as swarms of diner patrons start chasing him.

What's more is that Nicholson looked disgusted and shook his head at me.

Dream Diary!

Okay, so I didn't dream about string, gum or tiny toothpicks last night, nor do I know if its appropriate to post dreams about Heath Ledger quite yet, but I'm going to give this to all of you, anyhow.

Last night's dream was obviously influenced by this news story regarding Terry Gilliam's next film, [The] Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. If you didn't know, Ledger was filming this when he died, thus giving us a new addition to The Curse of Terry Gilliam. So, yeah, its now being reported that Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell are all going to fill in to complete the role started by Ledger. This is all made possible due to the complex sci-fi fantasy nature of the plot.

So, about the dream. I was working on a new docu-style TV show. The premise had something to do with me researching instances in entertainment where dead people were credited as playing a role posthumously. That doesn't nearly explain the entire premise. As an example, a dead guy was credited as playing drums on Rufus Wainwright's debut album. That's not actually true, so don't research it, but my dream told me it was true. As it turns out, Rufus has worked with a lot of dead guys.

Okay, this is going nowhere fast. I got a sneak peak at the set of Dr. Parnassus and it turns out that the reports that Ledger had filmed any significant scenes for this film were vastly over-exaggerated. In fact, he had only filmed but one or two tiny scenes. In order to save face, the producers had arranged to have Ledger's body exhumed. They threw him into a blue bodysuit and were in the process of filming a bunch of shots of Ledger shooting around on a zip line. I can't vouch for the authenticity of this story, but if this movie comes out and there's a bunch of zip line scenes, be prepared to be thoroughly creeped out and possibly vomit.

So, that was probably not an appropriate story to tell.