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THEMES FOR THE PICTURES
{ had this dream... and in it my mother is sitting there cutting out
pictures of hamsters from magazines. In some of the pictures, the ham-
ders are pets, and in some of them, hamsters are just somewhere in the
background. And she’s got a whole pile of these cedar chips—you know
the kind: the kind from the bottoms of hamster cages —and she’s gluing
them together into frames for the pictures. She glues them together, and
frames the pictures, and hangs them up over the fireplace —that’s more
of less her method. And suddenly J realize that this is just her way of
telling me that I should become a structuralist filmmaker—which I had,
you know, planned to do anyway...
DOG SHOW
I dreamed I was a dog in a dog show.
And my father came to the dog show.
And he said: That’s a really good dog.LAURIE ANDERSON
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Iwas living out in West Hollywood when the Hollywood Strangler ?
strangling women. He was strangling women all over town, but he e
particularly strangling them in West Hollywood. Every night there
panel discussion on TV about the strangler—speculations