A Gangster's Paradise-Rensselaer

A few days ago I was walking through the Pick N' Save family grocery--I'd like to know what other type of groceries there are but nonetheless--to pick up some lettuce, semi-sweet chocolate squares, and some creme for whipping. While I was wandering up and down the aisles, the chip aisle to be exact, a familiar tune starts to play on the speakers. Now, the Pick N' Save is like any other family grocery in that the music is not music at all but lounge type elevator music, like a really bad midi. So here is the scene: I'm walking down the chip aisle surrounded by flashy bourgeois consumer products in the small farming community of Rensselaer, Indiana in a even more quaint family grocery when what should come over the musak... you guessed it; Gangstas Paradise by Coolio--at least originally. I couldn't help but laugh out loud (lol as the kids say). I received a few stairs from the other patrons but I knew in my heart that this was the most surreal thing that would happen to me. I was wrong but that's a different story.

On to even more crazy things. I had a dream last night that was insane... The dream started out with me chasing around some woman through the north side of Rensselaer. Somehow she actually captured me and changed my DNA so that anything I touched would become poison to everyone. Well, everyone except me and her. She takes me to a Syrian Greek Orthodox church and proceeds to show me the food line. I get a bowl but the bowl is dirty and has left over tomato stems, bread crumbs and a half eaten black beetle. I show her the bowl and she cleans it off for me. As soon as I serve myself a bowl of the soup I am somehow in a cave/club. You know like club Zion in the Matrix. When I arrive I feel as if I need to run up a ladder and follow two women in bathing suits. When I arrive at the top of the ladder there is a ledge with a couch. Tommy Lee and Chuck R. (yes you charles) were sitting on the couch and the two bikini women had joined maybe 3 other women. It seems they (the women) were in a beauty contest of some sort. While I'm standing behind the couch facing the room of women Chuck says it would be a good idea to have an orgy. Of course Tommy Lee agrees and as such so do the ladies. I start kissing Chuck and the woman that had joined him and in a flash (literally a flash in the dream as if time fast-forwarded) the orgy was over and Tommie Lee and I were the only people left. He tells me he wants me to have sex with him. I tell him no and I wake up in my dream. So, I'm still dreaming but I have just dreamed I woke up from that dream. I begin to think about Foucault and how he is analyzing second century dream analysis in the book I am reading. So based on what I have read in Foucault, I begin to interpret my dream. According the common understanding of dreams my dream is a foretelling dream but because it is foretelling it is foretelling in symbols and not actual events. Also, my dreams are foretelling a positive outcome for me financially. The symbol of Tommy Lee represents fame and fortune and because Tommy Lee wanted me in the "active" role the symbol indicates that I will take control of the new and strange wealth. The dream also indicates that I will have a time where I will chase unproductive avenues of wealth filling my life with an "orgy" of avenues of gaining wealth and responsibility. At that moment I wake up for real and think to myself, "but you are going to deny the wealth and fame. Good!" I think my sub-concious is saying it wants to read more Foucault. I put him down for about two weeks now and I guess I'm craving deconstructionism or at least I'm actually crazy enough to give 2nd century critiques of my dreams within my dreams.