Sound Of A Strong Fire Burning
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This dream was rather funny because the entire thing was presented in the format of some sort of retro Seventies video, set to music and everything. *LOL*
It started out with Dad and myself watching TV or something, though we also seemed to be involved in the action, although apart from it, mere spectators who went unnoticed. There was some talk about a couple of guys who called in to a radio talk show and the response to their call was controversial because of what they were doing. Apparently they were pretending to kiss and make out--like lovers--and I guess the host of the show and most of the listeners were a more conservative type who didn't take this well. All there was were kissing noises over the speaker or microphone, and it was just a long sustained "Smooooooooch" sound, not realistic at all, but the radio host (who was male) and his listeners were appalled.
The scene cut to the two guys who were making the prank call. I believe this is where the video began. They were both mustached and their hair and mustaches were dark brown or black, and shaggy, and their clothes and car were Seventies style too. This song started playing and the tune has faded from my memory but it was kind of slow, seemed to have strings in it (like violins), and the phrase "Sound of a strong fire burning" was repeated so I take it that was the song title. The "strong fire burning" was a reference to the love between these two men, so I guess they really were lovers, though the way the rest of the video played out it was a simple comedy because it was just so ludicrous. It was just this cheesy Seventies love song about two guys. *LMAO*
Anyway, while they were making these kissing noises on the radio and were supposed to be making out, they were in fact kissing OTHER objects, like one of the guys was kissing the car door or the window. One guy sat in the driver's seat and the other stood outside, the car door open; the car was a big land barge and was light in color. They were parked beside some sort of gas stop or something out in the middle of the country--everything was in orange and earth tones and such, very retro. It was sunny. One of the guys was just sloppily kissing away at the car door and it was so ridiculous. They were doing this to get a rise out of the conservative listeners on the radio show, I guess.
While they were engaged in this, it was made obvious that they really did love each other--either they did start kissing, or they stared lovingly into each other's eyes, I don't know, maybe they just kept kissing the car. But an older man with white styled hair, in a suit--looking a bit too well off to be in this place, so maybe he was a businessman passing through--hurried up to the car door, clasping a big plastic star in his hands. It was sort of three dimensional and shaped like a traditional five-point star, with faceted points, and had an iridescent glaze on it. Looked like something you might put atop a Christmas tree, though kind of big. Anyway, he held this star up, looking excited, and began pointing randomly at different areas on the star. A voiceover--or maybe Dad or I, though I think it was the former--cut into the song to exclaim, "He's counting their thoughts!" I guess the white-haired man was counting the "loving thoughts" that these two were having for each other, and pointing them out on the star. There was also something about tying some sort of golden wire into some sort of shape; this wire was either on or was the rearview mirror, and somebody--the older man or one of the gay men--tied it into a shape like a bow or a heart. All of these actions just symbolized their love for each other. It was SO remarkably cheesy.
When the older man was done counting the two guys' thoughts of love for each other, he then pulled out a sort of check or certificate, and the camera showed it as he presented it to the two men. It was $2000 for them to go to Hawaii on some sort of lovers' vacation. *LMAO* Only it wasn't $2000 American; it was something like "Indian," as in from India. I really didn't understand that bit. I did briefly wonder if $2000, much less $2000 not in American money, would be enough for two guys to go to Hawaii? Oh well, I didn't ponder it too much.
The singer of the song sang some sort of bit about how the two lovers would "be together sooner if they're apart" or something like that, so the one guy slammed the car door and started the engine, while the other guy turned and went off running. There was the one guy on foot and the other one speeding in the car. They headed off in kind of different directions at first, away from this gas stop. There was a crossroads there or something, and brown grassy fields all around, but small signs of civilization like powerlines or something--just this really icky retro scenery. Dad and I watched as the view panned around. I don't recall if it was the running man or the guy in the car, but one of them went out into one of the roads and there was this tiny group of people, maybe half a dozen or so, carrying signs and marching along in the same direction; when the guy ran/drove out in front of them they waved their signs excitedly. It turns out this was the guys' "fan club." The members were older adults and actually seemed like people who would have been listening to the radio show--rather conservative-looking types. I think I recall an older woman in a house dress, for example. Yet now they were waving their signs and encouraging the two lovers in their quest to be together.
The camera moved to show the man on foot go running past, then he was running along one of the roads, carrying this huge brownish sign or banner which read "CLOSED"--as in "Case closed," I took it, meaning that their troubles were going to be at an end and they would be together happily. He was just running along like mad, carrying this big sign. And I think the big old car driven by the other guy sped past as well. I was somewhat confused--should they be going in different directions, since they had to "be apart," or were they in fact getting ready to meet and "be together" at last? Oh well...none of it made a great deal of sense anyway, ha ha. Throughout this entire spectacle Dad and I just watched on, vaguely amused.
This was quite near if not the ending of the video, which was just as well, as my alarm went off right then and woke me up. What a weird dream. Let me know if you ever want to make a video out of it. *LOL*
