i magically appeared in the middle of a mysterious sniper type shooting spree, where no one could figure out who the shooter was or where he/she was shooting from. certain cast members of the o.c. were there, including adam brody. i came into it after someone had already been killed and the entire school body had, for some reason, been shooed into the (empty) cafeteria. apparently i was a masthead of some sort at the school because people were looking to me for instruction. as the first shooting took place, van morrison was blasting out of the loudspeakers. as i witnessed the second shooting take place, some modern day rock song (indiscernable to me in the dream) was playing through them. the other school teachers deduced that it was a student because of the modern day song. i remember thinking it was an older person for some other reason. one of the victims was somehow connected to lori (a lawyer here at my law firm) and she was bawling and i comforted and said that she shouldn't be sad because she had other people in her life that loved her and that was what life was about and then i tossed out very randomly a token jason anderson line that he gets everyone to sing at his shows: "the best thing in the world is to love someone and they love you back" and then i came to a revelation; that i had to get everyone to sit down in the cafeteria and that way we could figure out who the shooter was, so i somehow got everyone in the school sitting and then we all started singing: "the best thing in the world is to love someone and they love you back", and then someone was shot and we realized it had come from a window above the cafeteria (which seemed more like a gymnasium actually now that i think about it), but we kept singing and an elevator opened into the cafeteria and a 20something boy stepped out and said, "i have a bomb for the rest of you." then my cell phone alarm woke me up and i laid in bed thinking how truly bizarre that dream was and how happy everyone was singing those words: "the best thing in the world is to love someone and they love you back." how what was happening really and truly didn't matter.
anyways, it blew my mind completely.
friday night i saw new zealand's the brunettes at the elbo room because of liz's insistence that i see them. i went with brendan and met liz