Last year, a friend of mine had an amazing dream: he was a terrorist, playing golf with other terrorists. In his golf bag, slung over his shoulder, he carried an array of clubs (putters, irons, and the like) along with a number of machine guns. He knocked a golf ball high into the air, withdrew a machine gun from his bag, and shot it to bits…
The dream got me thinking: surely, the incidence of terrorism dreams has soared in the last six years. The constant barrage of terrorism-related news, the stupid yapping mouth of G.W. Bush, the See Something Say Something signs on the subways, the haranguing voice on the airport intercom that talks about the never-ending Orange Alert — it all must seep into our subconscious minds and then get hilariously scrambled at night.
So I’ve been trying to find people who’ve had these dreams, record them, and turn them into tiny radio stories. my original idea — that people are having unprecedented numbers of terrorism-related dreams — doesn’t seem to be true because I haven’t found very many. But here are three of them, anyway… they’re a peculiar mix of hilarity, absurdity, and sometimes revealing xenophobia… Have YOU, good listeners, had any terrorism dreams?
Tony (2:14)
Exactly the Same Height (3:31)
featuring the voice of No Neck
Download Exactly the Same Height mp3