Saturday, December 12, 2009

Saturday Night Dead


I have been having a recurring dream lately. Or ongoing, for it is a little different each night. I've been chosen to do the opening of Saturday Night Live. I am at rehearsal, but am given no script. There is nothing on the teleprompter. I am on stage with nothing. The band seems disgusted that I have been chosen and openly show disdain. "I can do this," I tell myself, and I think about making up my own script. But I am confused. Why have they chosen me? What am I supposed to represent? I ask the cellist only to play his part to the opening song. He does a bad job and quits part way through. No one is helping.

I know what all you little Freuds are thinking. But at least in this dream I am dressed.

6 comments:

  1. Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!!!

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  3. It is very good and Woody Allen-esque -- the celloist being disgusted and all -- the setting NYC.


    I dreamed something similar the other night actually -- seriously.

    As part of my job, I do presentations over WebEx -- teleconferencing. I had several stacked up this week -- I had a dream during the week that I forgot them, that I couldn't get on the call -- that I was on the call but the customers could not hear me -- it was all very very stressful but not nearly as artistic as yours. No orchestra and I was simply at home.

    I don't know what Freud would say, I just chalk it up to being fucked up.

    :P


    Hey. Dorks rule.

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  4. oh, if you were dressed then my analysis is shot to hell...never mind then! :)

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  5. I know it is supposed to mean that I feel vulnerable and exposed, and I know that that is true, too. I am embroiled in a power struggle at work that I probably will lose which will mean many bad things for me.

    But yes, the cellist was a weird thing.

    I can't understand, though, why I didn't suddenly discover that I was standing in my underwear.

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  6. could you lost your job? guess what -- you'd find another.

    really bad things -- nah.

    really bad things are really bad things. and mostly they don't have anything to do with power struggles at work -- those things just suck and are annoying and draining

    but not many bad things. nopey.

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