Lucid Writing Part 1

Vince and I are surrealists and we're very interested in the subconscious, so it probably comes as no surprise that we've been experimenting with lucid writing- for the past 7 years.

For the past 7 years, we've both been trying, notebooks next to the bed, ready to go, jotting down our last thoughts before falling asleep and our first thoughts when we get up. We've dedicated ourselves to it and we make sure we write every night and every morning. And you know what we have to show for it? Nothing. Well, not nothing, just nothing good.

Jokes with no punchlines, disturbing fantasies, and warped memories of high school. That's it. Well, that and 56 straight pages of "Buy Soup Mix."

Let me give you an example, here's what I wrote this morning. I'm only sharing because it seemed to take the form of a blog entry.

09.04.08

We see a lot of famous people/locations here in LA, because it's where all the famous people/things are, there's no point in bragging. If I told you I saw Natalie Portman at the store buying soup, you'd say you saw John Dillinger or Matthew McConaughey eating soup once. Everyone always has a better story. Until now. Today, while riding the bus, I looked down at the street beneath me and I saw the wheels on the bus... they were going round and round. That's right, I was on the bus made famous in the classic song. The bus with the wheels that go round and round, and I know it was the bus because everyone on it was (note to self: look up what the people on the bus were doing according to the song). Anyone can see an artist, today I saw a muse.

See what I mean? Crap!

Dan