Hair-n-Pants

The Finn brothers are playing in a double loft room. One side of the room is crowded, but in the other there are just a few people milling about. Neil asks if anyone has any hair product that he can borrow. I say "sorry, I don't" but look in my bag and there are tiny travel size containers of hairspray and styling product. I am surprised since I don't usually think about things like that. So I lend them to him, and help him fix his hair a bit. I comment that he has a nice texture to his hair.

DB and I are driving both our families across the country through fields of fireflies and towards the water. We both arrive at the tollbooths at the water and when you look out, you can see a black tornado and a gathering storm. We have to hurry, but the tollbooth operators have deserted their posts. We run to an empty apartment. They are charging thousands of dollars to rent the whole house, but there is a two bedroom on the top floor that is lovely. I ask how much they want a month for it and they want 2000$. Too much right now but maybe later this year. We set up lawn chairs in the grass and wait for the storm to hit us.

Twin Towers

We are filming something in front of the World Trade Center. I think it's a commercial, but the crew and set-up make it seem more like a film. It's a big production and when they call "action" I walk straight towards a giant fan that blows a red and pink scarf off of my neck. In the background a boat crashes into the marina. We do several takes. I am hoping today is not the day. I check the color of the sky to see how blue it is.

My dad is there. We are chatting and suddenly we are surrounded by tourists asking us questions. They are looking for information about the WTC. My dad doesn't say anything to them and they begin to wander away. I call after an older man in a green windbreaker "Tower 2! There is an office in Tower 2! That's where we got our permits from".

Now we are inside Tower 2. I know we are in the WTC but it looks more like the National Arts Club or The Players Club or even my old acting school. There are tiny stairways and tons of rooms. Every room is old fashioned looking like both clubs and there are pictures lining the walls. We come into one beautiful room full of dark wood and nothing but a bench for furniture, and there is my Uncle! We are so happy to see him since he died in 1990. He and my dad start to discuss the twins and talk about the wedding day. I'm not sure which wedding they are talking about and I wander over to the pictures.

The pictures show beautiful gardens outside the WTC. I am confused by this since I don't remember these gardens, so I assume they must have been there before they built the buildings. It seems that the gardens were often used for filming many many movies. There is a picture of 3 woman dressed up in Edwardian clothes. One looks like Agnes Moorehead but it's labeled "Ava Gardner". Her teeth are rotted from smoking. I turn to my dad and uncle and say that it makes sense now, that I had read a book about how her hotel was in Midtown and she didn't want to get into a cab and go to set.

My Uncle is gone and it's just me and my dad. I suggest we move on to other rooms and look at all the other pictures. I put my arm in his.

Time Out Arcade

We run through the grass and finally make it to the concrete square. GC walks up. I tell her that I will not be able to work tomorrow and she tells me no problem. Then she hangs around and I don't know why. But it turns out she wants to talk to HH who I have been running with. She knows we are going to the video arcade at the bottom of the hill soon and she wants us to see about getting her a job there. I don't know why she thinks HH has any "in" at the video arcade.