My dream with Bukowski in it
It was in the 1980's in my home town. Charles Bukowski came to a visit (don't ask me why, apparently we were friends) and we (me and my friends/relatives I guess) made a cocktail party to welcome him. The room was big (at first I thought it was in my old apartment, but no room is that big) and all over the walls there were paintings with Buk on them. The most interesting was a huge painting done in a manner of the baroque ceiling paintings, with lot of cherubs in the cloudy sky who all had Buk's head (?!?).
Henry Charles stood there sipping his drink and grinning and I came over and told him, "Man, all these faces... Don't you get sick of them?"
Some time later we were in the street and I was carrying Buk (who was pretty much intoxicated by then) over my shoulder (his face looking back). It's not that I was that strong to carry him, he simply was weightless in some inexplicable way.
We were going down the street and on the facade of one of the buildings was a huge mural depicting a bunch of Disney characters (engaged in some kind of a fight, if I remember correctly). I looked at it and I told Buk that I had to confess I always had liked Disney and his characters (OK, Mickey Mouse was soulless (in Hank's opinion), but I preferred neurotic Donald anyway). He just gave me a strange kind of look and said nothing.
It was getting dark.
Further down the street we passed by a rambling TV crew and I noticed that one of the members of the gang spotted Buk.
They marched behind us. All of a sudden the camera lights turned on.
Reporter: Good evening, sir. Isn't that Bukowski?
Me: Ahahaha, nice one. That's my grandfather. He's from Malča (pronounced Mull-cha, a village near my home town, famous for its wine production).
By that time I got too aware that I was dreaming and starting to consciously fabricate the story to proceed.
I was fully awake and I missed Buk.
P.S. I dreamed this last night, wanted to make a new thread, but Google brought me here.
P.P.S. I was intending to tell the TV crew a story about my "grandfather" (Buk) emigrating to the States as a child and spending most of his life in California (dark) wine cellars tasting wines as a professional, hence having slit eyes and a bulbous nose, but I guess that was me awake, making things up.
P.P.P.S. Excuse my English.