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[Jun. 27th, 2009|06:11 pm] |
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holy lord, i mismanaged my mega-multiple media monitoring mechanics and posted about some dreams in the ether of facebooks. (Where, after approximately 12 hours, they will cease to appear on anyone's interest-o-meter)
and, so for sniffable posterity, here are some brief dream notes:
was just laying down for a mid-Alphaville nap (quite a movie! had to take a break. can only handle so much poetry in one sitting). Found myself daydreaming about robots arguing over who would be allowed to join the big nasty autobot gang. Their argument revolved around which had the parts necessary to stick their heads up their own asses. weird subconcious commentary on Transdeformers2? (an implication that inserting your head in your back cavity region is inherently part of the ability to transform? For some reason it does strike me as very important to the transforming process. Perhaps due to the meddlings of Michael Bay.)
vaguely remember a similar fever-dream-style day-dream (the kind you have while drifting in and out of a nap). This one from a couple days back, concerned The Wire - except the show was set in General Hospital. people were like "Shih, man, you done brought me this cortisol and pennicillins, but i be needing 50cc's of lydacaine - straight up." "Damn, doc, it's all jus' part of the Surg." Didn't go far beyond that. I like the sound of "surg" in my head. and the vision of various fucked up doctors in perfects whites and/or covered head to toe in blood. ... The Wire is a pretty good show. ... I wish i could nap away this endless headache. (two days now! ach! why!?) |
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| random |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
recent dream, all i remember is a guy that looks like a 1800s pilgrim, with a bright red axe. pounding on a door, demanding entry, because hundreds of black wolves are swarming , just a couple hundred yards behind him.
there were many other characters, but he was all i remembered after waking up. like van helsing, with an axe.
In other news, i was just struggling to sneak past this frantic black kitty in my roommate's basement. We call it "Shadow." It was all alone, in the dark. in it's usual spot behind the hanging blinds. staring out the sliding glass window at this feral cat, we call "The King." I think if The King ever got a chance, he'd tear Shadow to pieces.
but Shadow is far more terrified of me. I'd pet him nicely, if he gave me half a chance.
This led me to day dream a picture a traumatized kid, so afraid he runs from everyone and everything. His only human contact comes from this monstrous robot who can't reach him through the rubble of his prison. Why would a kid think this was a friend? Why would he feel safe? Not much of a story. But i can't stop thinking about it. I picture the kid learning a lot about life. A ton of catchy zingers. The robot showed a strange softer side, like a father figure. then he gets loose and immediately tears his protege to pieces. the end. |
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[May. 12th, 2009|08:33 am] |
many dreams last night.
i just remember now that in one of them i went back to Highlands Park, and discovered an area I'd never been to before (though it struck a chord of deja vu, so maybe I dreamt about it before). It was 'to the right, behind the other side's parking lot" (no such place).
and when you walked down its ivy covered hump of a trail, you could go left to the ivy covered tennis courts or right to the ponds. the ponds were like giant multilevel tide pools, but set in spongy brown earth, with many lily pads and ivy. hundreds of them, none smaller than 10 feet across.
somehow this image is burned into my mind as "very important"
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also, another dream had me in a part of Felton that doesn't exist, which resembled Italy. in a small perfect shop, we stopped our road trip to buy some fruit juice. An enormous woman with many children got in line behind us and her litter went wild crawling all over us and raising a racket. they pawed at out clothes, and carries caught one trying to wriggle away with her wallet. a lot of yelling ensued, more so at the stupid mother who pretended there was nothing wrong and it was all just very cute and adorable to her. her litter of thieves. and i wasn't sure if could punch children in the face in this situation. it was like a hiccup int he dream, where I'd break a little person's nose, and they'd look up at me with tears from the eyes and blood from the nose, and then it would be undone, jumping back a little bit in time to re-edit. weird.
Anywho. i also dimly recall the experience of forgetting one of the dreams. it was like swallowing a clam whole. or a random reflected light flitting across the room. i just knew it was a memory that wasn't coming back. (and seemed to have slithered down to somewhere behind my diaphragm). |
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| Dream : 24 |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|09:18 am] |
went to sleep lightly drunk last night. woke up maybe half an hour before my alarm went off (6 hours after last drink - from the converted sugar rush i believe). In the short nap that ensued (before alarm went off), I experienced a vivid stupid dream.
for some reason this has stuck with me for the 3 hours needed to get in front of a computer and actually type about it. the background here is : I've been watching a lot of the tv show "24" recently (not proud), currently in the middle of season 3. feeling some pressure to figure out the future of my current relationship. and yesterday i may have lost my mind a little bit will sitting around in lawn chairs with a group of friendly people, watching a single small child run around and play (sans conversation with the other adults).
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in the dream I was following Tony Almaeda's wife, Michelle (he is head of CTU in 24. she has been screwing up her job, and mistaking his shot-in-the-neck wounded state for incompetence - which turned out to be unfounded. i mean, she went over his head to complain he wasn't fit for duty, but was proved wrong. oops).
Tony is hunting Michelle in the dream, but I am following her.
She has kidnapped a small pale child wearing fluffy white clothes and is feeding from its neck while she hops around through the forest. (Reiko Aylesworth, the actress who plays michelle, has always struck me as somehow "wrong". like: she's pretty - but i bet in real life she smells weird and acts mean. she has very pale translucent skin, and melty face. I think this is why she becomes a vampire in my dream. and she cradles the child in the same way some of my friend's cradle their fluffy cats).
So the dream was mostly me following her and her clutched child to the edge of a cliff, where she was able to climb down a rusty ladder, while Tony gave chase. Eventually he shows up atop the cliff, but won't descened, so he just yells after her, and fires off rounds from his gun. Claiming he just wants to talk. I believe he was just tormented and confused (cliche "24" style), but not planning to killing her.
She ended up hidden away in a weird crumbling shack hidden behind bushes far down on the grassy/mossy cliff side (more like a very steep hill). In the safety of the shack, she talks to the child about how she wasn't going to kill it, but needed to siphon off small amounts of blood every now and then if they wanted to get out this. (maybe a menstrual thing?). She is asking the half conscious child/victim for permission.
that's all i remember. vividly, for some reason.
(some part of this surely relates to recent thoughts about the way we project human characteristics onto our pets, as if they were humans. and the way we raise children. and the way small children are like animals). |
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| randumb |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|12:31 am] |
from facebook town: I just read this in some friend-of-a-friend's photo album comment:
"I do believe that is me back there in that striped shirt. (She) and I used to put flavored chapstick on popcorn and eat it. Wow I haven't seen her in years. Good times."
For some reason, the idea of putting flavored chapstick on popcorn for better eatin's strikes me as the craziest (dorkiest?AWESOMENIEST?) detail OF ALL TIME. Many tried to taking a bite of the flavored wax, but I'd never head of someone going further. my god.
it's like : not only did we sniff glue, but we found a way to distill it into powdered form and would wipe it on our eyeballs.
or maybe it's not like that. ehhhh |
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| meh |
[Oct. 17th, 2008|02:37 pm] |
So, i'd planned to use LJ to document dreams (a few months back i made this decision). and I had planned to keep them private, as a true journal. but today i feel reckless and lonely, so i think public is better.
sadly, there are only two entries so far. Clearly a dream journal needs to be a pad of paper by my bed, not a website that requires a powered up computer. i just lose too much info while waiting for technology.
so there is today's dream (directly below. below an idea semi-inspired by the dream and some other things).
and the other dream was posted back on Jun. 29th, 2008|12:45 pm (i just made it publicly viewable). it was sort of delightful for me to read this old dream note/sketch. because i didn't really remember any of it at first. and it didn't seem in character with my recent dreams. crazy.
i still plan to focus my time on solidfuelstudios.com vidhero.com and the web strips at vidhero.com/strips/ (each of which has it's own little bloggy-ish space). but figured there was no reason to hide my dreams. anymore. sort of a "so be it" attitude. i guess. bleh. blah. |
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| weee |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|12:48 am] |
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things are startting bubble and boil over at www.vidHero.com! So much more coming soon. SO SOON! THE TASTE! THE TASTE IS IN MY MOUTH! AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! |
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| by the way |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:54 pm] |
I've been working a lot on Solid Fuel.
if you're keeping tabs on me, you can find other (more often updated) blogs here:
vidHero News - http://vidhero.wordpress.com/
(daily updates, in theory)
Rants and Insights on each aspect of the project(s). Currently all about the comic book, but soon to transition to the movie. I've been neglecting updates while i scramble to finish the comic book by friday.
Vitreous Humor - http://www.vidHero.com/strips/
(updated on mondays and Fridays)
Abstract humor and movie/visual news commentary. attempt. This is reliably updated with a new strip semiweekly, and I try to toss insights as a comment on each one, because they're usually pretty dense.
Solid Fuel News - http://www.solidfuelstudios.com/
(Updates weekly, in theory)
Planning to put much more ranting up about how to start your own small business (in the form of mini articles on each aspect). Also plan to promote other people's work. Currently on hold until i finish the comic book.
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there is a good chance these three spaces will fill the personal exhibition needs that this live journal has filled for so long. please snoop and comment! |
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| lady film |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|12:06 pm] |
apparantly there's this whole slice of humanity called "women" and they're throwing a film fest next month, May 15-18.
http://www.powfest.com/
looks cool.
will probably go.
just wanted to share. |
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| copyright law : about to be fucked? |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|03:09 pm] |
I've been snooping into something, and getting more and more disturbed.
Trying to boil this down into a simple email to blast to all art friends. but decided i needed to take a break and get back to work.
basically, morons are preparing to push through a bill next month that will further fuck up copyright law, but pretend to be helping.
the short is : everything will be fair game unless registered with private companies. Which will lead to small timers not able to keep up with big money. (your work could be registered by someone else, if you make the mistake of releasing it anywhere before paying to have it registered with multiple private listings). the idea is that slapping a copyright notice on your work will no longer mean anything, unless you pay to back it up. even then, you'll need lawyers to win court cases (and you'll need to prove that theiving entities didn't do enough research).
it's hefty legal insanity, so it's hard to find a dispassionate short summary. but:
- here is a lengthy (but good) audio interview:
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
- here is a lengthy rant (filled with some annoying repetitions):
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605&page=1#
(both seemed worth it to me)
thoughts? worth getting riled up over? |
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| imagine |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|07:24 pm] |
spent most of the morning obsessing over the (*stupid?) idea of : a giant smurf cop.
that beats the SHIT out of shady crooks.
primarily as a video game. i was discussing GTA4 with case.
but just imagine. a bunch of sleazy "hip" crooks in GTA, running around with their little dreadlocks, and their little stubble, and their little "not washed but sexy" looks. and then this giant happy smurf bounds along and beats them to death, with a badge on his hip. perhaps two smurfs do this, and perform a fruity high five afterwards.
EVERYBODY WINS.
teesn who think crime is cool would love to kill cartoony cops, and would enjoy their seemingly sinister realism. while aging assholes like me would enjoy mocking the whole game by crapping on their seemingly real malarkey with a giant french cartoon character. weee!
i don't think i'm conveying how cool this would be. damnit.
i don't have the mind grammar skillz. |
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| game idea |
[Mar. 26th, 2008|10:30 am] |
School Bus Terrorist: the video game
imagine the joy of taking over, and then trying to keep control of, a school bus full of screaming children. fire your ak at those foolish enough to try and pass while your machine is resting at a complete stop.
picture the poster: "Do No Pass : Terror Zone" |
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| global warming: still bullshit |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|02:29 pm] |
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
yep.
global climate is complicated, and people are out of their minds.
hellllooooo.
“The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."
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"Well, the head of the IPCC has suggested natural factors are compensating for the increasing carbon dioxide levels and I guess, to some extent, that's what sceptics have been saying for some time: that, yes, carbon dioxide will give you some warming but there are a whole lot of other factors that may compensate or that may augment the warming from elevated levels of carbon dioxide." |
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