February 7, 2001 3 AM? Woke up in the middle of the night bathed in bright moonlight with painfully full bowels. Thank god it is just freezing out and is not sub-zero. I am sleeping in the yard of a Gorung family. I met the family’s daughter on the trail. She was a cute sort and after just a few minutes of walking together she has already mentioned marriage, me giving her gifts and passports to the US. All this talk and when I got to her house all I was given for dinner was sour milk and salt-less popcorn. They put me out in the yard to sleep - Ok with me but a bit cold. Had two interesting dreams. The first one was about me living in this surreal dimension where I had the ability to fly by making myself flat like a piece of paper so I could pass through the cracks in doors etc. and move about as fast as a car. I used this power to sneak up on Mike Dugo from accrpss town. He was very surprised the first time he saw me do this and seemed to think I was instantly moving from one place to another. I corrected him, letting him know I was only moving about as fast as a car. He took me with him to some art center hangout where I assume we both used to frequent. I saw that my birkenstock sandals were still there by the door of the art center's coffeeshop and realized that I must have left them there last time I visited. Mike tried to play a tape of some cool songs he had heard on the radio for me but after just a few seconds of the music playing he got up, looked me in the eye saying "you know, this place used to be so cool" and left. I followed him downstairs but on the way I got distracted by a short art video reel playing in a niche monitor in the wall of the stairwell. As if in answer to questions I had in my mind the video panned across a scene of bug-like people building a huge adobe wall near a natural geyser. The little bug-like people then hung a huge toothbrush over the edge of the wall they were building to make it look like this place was the bathroom of some giant person. The camera panned out to show that this wall and geyser were sitting in a vast plain filled with huge narrow red buttes (think monument valley) with what looked like big birds or insects nests on top, each one with its own huge toothbrush hanging over the edge. Then every geyser in the great plain went off and all the adobe structures and buttes crumbled to the ground. In the rubble stood two cute and funny-looking creatures, one with a lumpy body and one with a skinny body. The lumpy creature turned to its friend and said "where did all the other bugs go? " with a look of horror on his cute face. Before the skinny one could formulate and answer he continued "but look at our new friends the worms…" just as big green slugs began to surge out of the rubble. All the creatures moved in claymation style chugging along. The camera moves over to a group of Latino musicians wearing green clothes with a smudge of grren paint on each one's face singing "Chicago's a city of greenies, we're a city of greenies.." as if they are referring to goobers (phelgm) but I'm not sure. Time to go back to sleep! Next Entry

 

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