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For the last few days i have been getting much better sleep than weeks before. It’s hardly a coincidence that I have been having dreams again.

Programmed to Terminate

The first was a re-enactment of the movie Terminator 3. I was mainly the audience this time around. The plot was focused on the future leader of the rebels against the machines, and his wife. They thought they were heading into a secret location from which the main computer operated. Instead, they were actually led into a secret bunker built in the 60s-70s for past presidents. The significance of all this is the very heavy fatalistic theme. For the past 20 or more years of the leader and his mother’ lives, they thought they had been fighting for a change of the future, instead the inevitable was only delayed but not avoided.

Now, I have no readily explanation for why I had this dream so long since I last saw it (at least 4 years ago). I just know it’s vivid enough that I remember it.

Short Story Worthy

I have always had dreams, of which I thought highly in terms of the narrative structure, or just content itself. I have written poems in my dreams which I’d remember after I’d woken up. They’d all seem to be worthy enough to be written down and edited after the initial morning slumber. Sadly, none of them ever turned out to be “that good” or decent when viewed sober. Fortunately, however, I think the dream I had last night is good enough to be worked on. It’s quite original, by my standards.. which involve no obvious reference or allusion to anything I can think of. I am just going to have to leave you with that. Hopefully, I will get to work on it and post it sometime.

I am always more appreciative of my iPod whenever I listen to it after days of muteness due to a dead battery. I am especially appreciative and amused when iPod randomly draws a series of songs from my library (of more than 5.5k songs) and they carry a certain theme/style/rhythm.

This morning on the bus, I started off with a very nice ambient, acoustic, instrumental, and vocal (nonlyrical) piece (Name’s Winston, Friends call me James) from Brokeback. Then it was smoothly transitioned into a more rhythmic but still instrumental electronic piece (People eat fruits) by Manitoba.

By then, I have gotten off the bus and now heading to get some pastries for breakfast. Next came Sonic Youth’s Little Troube Girl which brought the vocal, tho lyrical this time, and ambient elements back into the mix. I skipped a few tracks and it brought me to one of the tracks of the poignant score for Almodovar’s Talk to Her. It was composed Alberto Iglesias, very beautiful string music.

As I was waiting to get my daily dose of coffee, it managed to transition into a hiphop track ( Be (Intro) ) by Common, which has pure cello at the beginning of the track. I thoroughly enjoyed the track and paid close attention to the lyrics. These were the bits that jumped out to me-

I want to be as free as the spirits of those who left
I’m talking Malcom, Coltrane, my man Yusef
Through death through conception
New breath and resurrection

…

We got arms but won’t reach for the skies
Waiting for the Lord to rise
I look into my daughter’s eyes
And realize that I’ma learn through her
The Messiah, might even return through her
If I’ma do it, I gotta change the world through her

The song continued as I was waiting in line for the elevator at work. As I got in and out of the elevator with my huge gymbag so others could actually get off, Jurassic 5′s Hey came up. Then the elevator reached my floor and….

Now, if theres a party theres about to be
Then let me start queing up the frequency

Have gotten

quite tired from going out everyday in the last few weeks so today I stayed home and did this:

Up next, new episodes of Office, Heroes, 24, and Arsenal vs. Boro!

Can’t ask for a better Sat night by myself.

;-)

I got forwarded this from a friend and I think it’s good enough to be shared here!

Dear IT Support,

18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better.

I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks.

Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware.

I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and Cleanhouse2005. (more…)