After several months of work, I'm THRILLED to announce that my 2007 GarlickDance Film Festival entry will have it's premiere showing tomorrow night at the Official GarlickDance Film Festival in West Point, Utah. It's awfully short notice, but anyone interested in attending can contact me for details. Sometime in the next week or two a Logan showing will take place...we may not watch all of the films at the Logan showing...maybe just the best few and mine...We'll see what people want to do.
For anybody unaware of what the GarlickDance film festival is, it's my family's version of a yearly family reunion. We've never been much for just getting together and having a BBQ...we prefer to be entertained...and who's more entertaining than us!?! So each summer for the last three years our family has organized this mini-film festival. "Mini" in that (A) the festival is small, and (B) the films are short. There's a 12 minute time limit on each film (including credits, previews, outtakes, etc.) but I think this year the average film length is only about 7 minutes. This year there are 11 entries in the film festival. Entrants include: myself, my sister, both of my parents, 2 aunts, 2 uncles, a cousin, a nephew, and 2 family friends. Yes, if you count that up there's 12 people, but two of the directors collaborated to make a single film. In the film festival, each film uses the exact same script. The trick is that the script is riddled with mad-libs-esque blanks. These blanks allow the filmmakers to fill-in the necessary customizations to adapt the script to their unique idea.
Originally this shared-script idea made all of us a bit nervous that we'd end up with nearly identical movies...this has never even come close to happening. It's amazing how the exact same dialogue can be used in such completely different situations! Last year's film festival ended up with many of the movies being some sort of action film. This year it sounds like comedies are the predominant genre...of course, I've not seen them yet, so I can't be sure.
Okay, well that's about it for GarlickDance information. Let's talk about my latest dream!
*** Dreamt July 19-20, 2007 ***
It was time for school, but I really didn't want to walk up to the university, so I decided to take the recliner (yes, the recliner). Next thing I knew I was whizzing up 200 West on a light brown recliner. The only tricky part about driving a recliner, it turns out, is that they spin, so you really gotta keep your balance as you're crusing down the road or you might get spun around backwards and not be able to see where you're going.
Eventually I got to a dead-end (which I don't remember ever encountering on 200 W in Logan in real life), so I got up and picked up my recliner and ran into the HUGE house that was blocking my path. My idea was to cut through the house then I'd be back at the road and could continue on my way. Unfortunately there was a very narrow stairway in the house that led up to the front door, and my recliner simply wouldn't fit. At about this point I realized that there were several people in the house looking at me..I tried to ignore them as I started heading back out. It was also then that I noticed how remarkably light the recliner was...maybe 20 lbs tops. Not bad at all considering the engine and wheels and stuff that must have been attached under/inside it. I got back outside where I'd entered and mounted the recliner and headed back to ButterKnife, trying to think how else I could get up to campus. I thought about taking my bike, but I didn't know where to put it up on campus, then suddenly I thought, "Oh man, where would I have put the recliner?! It'd be way harder to find a safe place to keep it than a bike."
I made it back to ButterKnife Estates and when I entered it was now dark outside. I greeted Thad and started to chit-chat with him, when I noticed that several people (none of whom I recognized) were coming in and congregating in our front room. I tried to ask Thad about it, but he kept shushing me. Apparently he owed some of these people something, so he was letting them use part of our house for the evening.
I went downstairs to my room and noticed that I'd been followed my parents' cat, Gus. "Get out of here, Gus!" I shouted. Unfortunately Gus is a very old cat who's pretty much deaf and quite stubborn, so he wouldn't leave. I picked him up and took him out a couple of times, but he kept running back in. I really didn't want him in there, because he's kinda not fully with it these days and sometimes has bladder control issues. Again I went to pick him up, and when I did he latched onto my right hand. Thankfully I was wearing a bowling glove, so it didn't really hurt, but he kept attacking the back of that hand, and it was just really annoying. I finally got him off and kicked him out of the room long enough that I could close and lock the door. I was trying to figure out why he'd been so keen on attacking my right hand, so I took off the glove, and that's when I remembered that I'd dripped some barbeque sause on the back of that hand, which is what he must have been going after. I started off to find a sink where I could wash the barbeque sause off my hand, but I woke up before I made it there.
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2 comments:
You have the most vivid dreams, and you do very well at remembering them. Bravo to you! I look forward to seeing your film -- keep me posted on when the viewing is (sounds like a funeral)
You know...I have been wondering how you could see the movies you make so vividly in your head, but after reading about your dreams, there's no more question. You're like Mozart who could hear the music in his head before writing it down. It seems like the inspiration just comes to you straight from...from...I was going to say heaven, but do you think they have recliners as a mode of transportation in heaven?
Have you ever considered becoming a director by profession? I think you'd be excellent...like Thad would be an excellent street statue - it's your true calling.
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