{"id":28597,"date":"2011-04-06T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28597"},"modified":"2020-06-25T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:47:26","slug":"the-ironic-musical-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28597","title":{"rendered":"The ironic musical episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typically, most prime-time dramas ultimately get to a point where they have a musical episode.\u00a0\u00a0House, M.D.,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Nip \/ Tuck<\/em>\u00a0come to mind as series that have, in later seasons featured at least one episode where there are song and dance scores.\u00a0 Such episodes are the oddest ones, because typically song and dance have positive connotations, and we’re expected to be excited, entertained, and made happy by seeing such boisterous activity.\u00a0 But in drama shows like the ones mentioned, the musical episodes’ routines always go the way of ironic.\u00a0 They’re still visually and sometimes audibly entertaining, but the subject matter in which they’re performing to, is usually either hinted through cryptic undertones, or blatantly, negative.\u00a0 Cuddy has cancer and is going to die.\u00a0 Christian Troy might have the HIV and could die.\u00a0 Julia’s child is going to be born with a physical defect.\u00a0 Etc, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night, I had a dream, that was the ironic musical episode of dreams.\u00a0 It’s amazing how a dream can feel like it takes place in an eternity, but when trying to re-tell it to yourself, it only takes seconds.\u00a0 Yet the impact of such a dream has me feeling miserable, and honestly was capable of altering my entire evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not so much that there was a lot of song, but there was certainly music.\u00a0 How it went, I have no idea, but it was something to where there was dancing to be performed to it.\u00a0 And it wasn’t people doing it, but animals.\u00a0 Lots of animals.\u00a0 Domestic pets, dogs and cats.\u00a0 Amidst these animals were animals that were somehow familiar to me, but I couldn’t tell you which ones they were to save my life, save for one.\u00a0 In unison, on their hind legs, awkwardly balanced, they danced, in an entertaining, YouTube-million-hits-like way.\u00a0 Within my dream, I couldn’t shake this apprehensive feeling, as if I were aware that I were in the ironic musical, and that something bad was going to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next thing I know, I hear “just the canines<\/em>,” and before I know it, it’s only the dogs left on stage, continuing to dance.\u00a0 Wobbly legged, moving around on stage.\u00a0 Suddenly, the voice calls out for “the old ones<\/em>” and suddenly, it’s the Nik up on stage, by himself.\u00a0 With his last ounces of energy, he tippy-toes around the stage, trying his hardest to keep balance, and do a spin.\u00a0 It’s clear he wants to do it one more time, but he just can’t.\u00a0 Age has caught up to him, in spite of his efforts, and the rest was just a blur, but I knew that he was gone.\u00a0 This was a song and dance for his passing, that I’d rather have never seen.<\/span><\/p>\n

I woke up at 3 in the morning, quietly, and not to like any ridiculous cold sweats.\u00a0 I just opened my eyes, glanced at the alarm console on the wall, and then the clock.\u00a0 I had never wanted to cry more than that moment in my entire life, or so it feels like.<\/span><\/p>\n

Typically, Wednesdays are trivia nights.\u00a0 When recollection of the dream came back to me earlier today, I decided to forgo trivia, and come straight home and sit around with the Nik instead.\u00a0 Reality dictates that the Nik won’t live forever, and when the fateful day comes, if this is any indication, I’m going to be a fucking trainwreck for weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Typically, most prime-time dramas ultimately get to a point where they have a musical episode.\u00a0\u00a0House, M.D.,\u00a0and\u00a0Nip \/ Tuck\u00a0come to mind as series that have, in later seasons featured at least one episode where there are song and dance scores.\u00a0 Such episodes are the oddest ones, because typically song and dance have positive connotations, and we’re … Continue reading The ironic musical episode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,134,69],"class_list":["post-28597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dreams","tag-og","tag-pets","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28598,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions\/28598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}