Days earlier, at the Berlin premiere of Nymphomaniac, LaBeouf responded to questions about his sex scenes by quoting without attribution a surreal statement by Eric Cantona, in another reference to his plagiarism scandal.
The most puzzling thing about the increasingly surreal series of statements Weiner has made to the press is his insistence that he can't say with any "certitude" whether or not the infamous picture that appeared on his Twitter account over the weekend is of him.
It's hard to disagree with Mr. Alexander's characterization of Capitol Hill, but his statement makes for surreal reading nonetheless because the Congressman has voted to repeal health care reform 40 times.
To hear these kinds of statements after a U.S. election is surreal.
In a statement on Monday, Mr. Kerry called "surreal" the extent to which he had been followed by the F.B.I.
Director J.J. Abrams said in a statement, "It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again.
Listening to well-spoken barristers reading witness statements littered with colloquialisms and expletives is often surreal but this had an extra edge.
It was a surreal scene, the two avowed political rivals making virtually identical statements about their new purpose and radiating a joshing, chummy bonhomie at odds with the brutal tone of the election campaign.
"We have been approaching 67P for such a long time, it is almost surreal to now actually be there," says Holger Sierks of the Max Planck Institute in Germany in a statement.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf's memorable, often surreal, daily press briefings were all that proved to the world that the regime was still there.Mr Sahaf's English statements, while smooth and fluent, always seemed a little ludicrous.
