For some reason I'm in LA, with many of my closest friends, looking at a vacation house development. This one is designed to appeal to people who wouldn't normally buy a house in a development. All the houses are small cabins, the place is supposed to be a 100% eco-friendly, sustainable environment. It's on a hillside some place that looks like Laurel Canyon. The houses are made of wood and stone-- or seem to be.
I'm with a bunch of people, including the developers, who have just about convinced us all to buy. My partner, Dave, finds a pile of unrecycled waste, including a bunch of broken furnaces (in LA?). He starts picking through them and isn't pleased by what he sees. The sun starts to set, and next thing I know, he's disappeared into the woods and there are helicoptors overhead. Starsky and Hutch arrive. They're hunting for Dave, because he's a fugitive.
Next thing I know my friends Danny and Julia disappear too. It seems that someone has forced Danny to kidnap Julia. Starsky and Hutch are looking for them too.
It's night when the hunt really gets going. It spans the whole of LA--the hills, the streets, etc. It takes place in bushes and in alleys. It lasts a long time, but eventually, Starsky and Hutch start to realize that Dave is the good guy and the developers are evil. He had uncovered their plot to sell houses made of cardboard, outfitted to be eco-friendly stone and wood strcutures, to a bunch of unsuspecting would be environmentalists.
Eventually, Starsky and Hutch find Dave in the underbrush in the woods. Starsky carries him down the hill. They find Julia and Danny in the parking lot of donut shop. The developers go to jail. But Julia can't quite forgive Danny. In fact, none of us can really figur out why he kidnapped her.
Comments (5)
Isn't Fox turning this plot into a TV movie?
Posted by John A. Dreams | April 16, 2007 8:24 PM
Posted on April 16, 2007 20:24
To John A. Dreams: All I can say is I hope so and I hope I get royalties.
Posted by Lydgate | April 16, 2007 11:35 PM
Posted on April 16, 2007 23:35
Hilarious. When I was about 10 years old the Friday night treat for my younger sister (about 6 years old) was - if we got ready for bed first, (pjs on, teeth brushed) we were allowed to stay up until the late hour of 10pm to watch Starsky and Hutch.
The red car with the white sripe! David Soul's album (yes that is what they were called then!) was the first album I ever got. I doubt if he can even sing but I was hooked and I even remember the title - it was..."Playing to an Audience of One" !! Luckily I can freely admit to this because these blogs are totally anonymous... :)
Posted by silent partner | April 17, 2007 1:39 AM
Posted on April 17, 2007 01:39
Oops.. stripe not 'sripe' ?!
Posted by silent partner | April 17, 2007 1:41 AM
Posted on April 17, 2007 01:41
For some reason, when I read this dream, I kept thinking about Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" (even though two of this dream's central characters are the un-Shakespeare Starsky and Hutch). I think it's the fact that almost everyone disappears "into the woods"; also, this dream (like the play) seems very hectic at certain points.
Posted by vitaminc | April 18, 2007 6:52 AM
Posted on April 18, 2007 06:52