Slacker Monologue

I was just watching my Criterion copy of Dazed and Confused and it made me think of the opening monologue to Richard Linklater's first film Slacker. I didn't really like that movie but the opening monologue just kicks ass. I've tried to find the whole monologue but this is all I can find. I think it is mostly complete though.

Richard Linklater .... Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station

I just had the weirdest dream, back on the bus there... Do you ever have those dreams where they are just completely real? I mean they're so vivid, it's just like, completely real... And there's always something bizarre going on in those... I have one every two years or something.. I always remember 'em really good... Like there's always someone getting run over, or something really weird... One time I had lunch with Tolstoy. Another time I was a roadie for Frank Zappa... Anyway, so this dream I just had it was just like that except instead of anything bizarre going on, there was nothing going on at all... man.. it was like the omega man, there was just nobody around... I was just travelling around, staring out the windows and buses and trains and cars you know... when I was at home i was flipping through the TV stations endlessly... reading. I mean how many dreams do you have where you read in a dream? You know... wait. damn, there was this book i just read on the bus... you know, it was my dream so I guess I wrote it or something... but uh.. anyway it was bizarre... the premise for this whole book was that every thought you have create its own reality. its like every choice and decision you make the thing you choose not to do fractions off and becomes its own reality and it goes on from there...forever. in the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy meets the Scarecrow and they do that little dance at that crossroads and they think about going in all those directions and end up going that one direction? all those other directions just because they thought about it became separate realities.. they just went on from there and lived the rest of their lives, entire different movies but we'll never see it because we're trapped in this one reality restriction type of thing...

I thought the same think back in high school thinking that every choice I didn't make fractions off and becomes its own reality. I went one step further and thought what if these sepearate realities end up meeting up with one another further down the road.