Anaylze This

Walking from the train to my office this morning, it slowly dawned on me that the 80s Go-go’s song Vacation was playing on an endless, interminable loop in my still half-asleep brain. I don’t think I’ve heard that song in probably 10 years, so I was wondering how it managed to worm its way into my head. Then I remembered a dream I had last night: the Go-go’s were in one of those 60s Gidget beach movies, and they were going to play a concert on the beach. But there was a problem: everyone in the band was only 2 inches tall. All the cool kids didn’t care they were small, so it was up to the requisite uncool/unfun girl on the beach to lecture the Lilliputian Go-go’s on the reality of the situation: the Lifeguards won’t let you play because they’re worried someone will step on you, and besides, since your amplifiers are miniature too, no one will be able to hear you.

I don’t know if the world would be a better or worse place if we could more easily tap into our subconscious while awake. But I can tell you this: it would definitely be a funnier place.