03-23-2022, 08:25 AM
I'm on a crowded bus with Mike Grialou talking about the last time he saw Pete Donohue. The bus becomes a train or streetcar and we are heading into a dense urban landscape. It's evident there's significant police activity to the sides of the tracks. One cop is pointing a bazooka down a side street. As we round the bend there's a car across the tracks. A crowd is massing next to our streetcar. They look like rastas when they have their dreads under a massive beanie, except that many don't have beanies. That's just the shape of their heads (aliens!).
It's dusk. We have to leave the stuck train car. Somehow, I'm scurrying around with and NPC played by Paul Dano (who fits right in here) trying to find a place to shelter overnight. There are lots of creepy people everywhere. There's a hill surrounded by wall or building that has these stalls with partial doors and people have staked them out. Paul finds one of the last empty ones and goes in, but I say I need to go back and grab my stuff (what a cliché).
It's getting dark. I'm unable to get back to "my stuff" and also not able to get back to the stall, or any other stall, so I lay on the crowded hillside in the dark, looking up at the sky. I don't sleep.
At this point I wake up and think, that's a weird dream. Then I fall back asleep.
Now, I'm in some crowded flop house, stepping over leathery looking people on the floor. I'm trying to keep up with someone, while taking in the surroundings. I'm hearing about some illicit drug called "Stessy". The person I'm with is quickly following an official, yet shady-looking medical person (white labcoat). Apparently, in this world, one can have themselves dehydrated and donate their water to another (but it's a scam!). The person I'm with is desperate to get work, maybe as one of their entry level medical technicians (a job that is akin to being a burger flipper at McDonald's). There's a lot of back and forth and I watch from the sidelines. Then, the official person tries to engage me.
I'm not sure what happens after that.
--tg
It's dusk. We have to leave the stuck train car. Somehow, I'm scurrying around with and NPC played by Paul Dano (who fits right in here) trying to find a place to shelter overnight. There are lots of creepy people everywhere. There's a hill surrounded by wall or building that has these stalls with partial doors and people have staked them out. Paul finds one of the last empty ones and goes in, but I say I need to go back and grab my stuff (what a cliché).
It's getting dark. I'm unable to get back to "my stuff" and also not able to get back to the stall, or any other stall, so I lay on the crowded hillside in the dark, looking up at the sky. I don't sleep.
At this point I wake up and think, that's a weird dream. Then I fall back asleep.
Now, I'm in some crowded flop house, stepping over leathery looking people on the floor. I'm trying to keep up with someone, while taking in the surroundings. I'm hearing about some illicit drug called "Stessy". The person I'm with is quickly following an official, yet shady-looking medical person (white labcoat). Apparently, in this world, one can have themselves dehydrated and donate their water to another (but it's a scam!). The person I'm with is desperate to get work, maybe as one of their entry level medical technicians (a job that is akin to being a burger flipper at McDonald's). There's a lot of back and forth and I watch from the sidelines. Then, the official person tries to engage me.
I'm not sure what happens after that.
--tg