Song Interpretation Gifts

George Gershwin, Psychiatrist

I'm not saying I'm not a hound dog. I'm saying I'm not nothing but a hound dog.

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

Dog Nightmares

"That dream catcher may be working a little too well."

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

Madame ZuZu. Dream Interpretation. Tarot. Palms. She says the dream where I'm taking a test naked means I barely made it through school.

"Who is 'coming around the mountain,' John? Could it be your mother?"

"Those are the lyrics? How embarrassing—I've been singing it wrong this whole time."

Yesterday I had an argument with the janitor of my building, and then last night I dreamed that he was chasing me with a large ball-peen hammer

Wish upon a star (well it's worth a try).

"I'm so sorry that I screamed...I had a terrible dream: the kids had to leave college and live with us again...Oh, Ed, it was horrible!"

"Last night I dreamed I caught my tail."

A dream of consequence

"I have a recurring nightmare where the paradigm keeps shifting without me."

"Imagine There's No Heaven. It's Easy If You Try..."

Tonight's Lecture: Eastern Mystical Approaches to Dream Interpretation. Yin-Yang Jung.

Orator translates in many languages.

"I dreamed last night that I had a job within walking distance."

"Last night, I had the weirdest dream sequence."

"I dreamed last night that I was furious at you for charging me for missing last week's session. What do you think it means?"

"Please, no! Not the pit of people endlessly describing their dreams in great detail!"

'Have a couple of dreams, and call me in the morning.'

Interpreter for the hard-to-believe-what-they're-hearing.

"How long have you had this nightmare of being shot down by a beagle on a flying doghouse, Herr Von Richthofen?"

Last night I dreamed I was lying on a beach with Sandra Dee, and a big lifeguard asked to see my beach tag. I didn

If Peter had only interpreted Jesus' words literally...

"Then there was the dream where I woke up in a pool of melted butter."

"Poetry would be way more accessible if they just said what they meant."

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

Fast Track

'...if you look at it in the right way it begins to make sense.'

"Just once I would like to laugh or to frown."

'There are bankers under my bed.'

When I was in jail, I passed the time by writing my autobiography. I took certain liberties with some of the characters. For instance, you appear in the later chapters