o dreams, o destinations
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yamamanamaI had a dream where Christine's band was playing and I thought they sounded familiar like maybe they played with Atlas Lab or something.
Also, there was a setup with these frictionless inner tubes and a frictionless surface set up and a lot of things to bump into and bounce off of. There were stairs but they were blocked by this filmy stuff that I felt really nervous about standing on.
A glass elevator would take us outside, to pine forests.
In the real world, it's cold but not unusually so. The worst part about it is that it has been constantly cold. Even when it's warmer than average, it's still cold. We've only had one nice day.
When I woke up, I realized "that was dæphne's Winona Ryder."
A few nights later, I had another vivid romantic dream. Similar setup to the one I dreamt in door slams in fourth world, or more aptly, the morning after I posted in the spring twilight: I was at an Atlas Lab concert in which I pre-emptively tell cut-rate Alex [surname removed] to shut his dickhole. This time, I was there with Gabriella and some asshole picked a fight with me so the three of us got kicked out, but they were at least apologetic about it, so we went to get something to eat and then we go home and Gabi tells me "will you look at that" and it's snowing. Somehow, she's way ahead of me and it's still over a mile to Lechmere Station.
When I woke up, it was still very dark. It was cold as balls. I'd have checked the time and maybe wrote down my dream, but I really couldn't be fucked to do that.
You know, I think I'd take that reality, even if there was late April snow in it.
***
Meanwhile, at the wildlife center:
Everything is back to normal.
I didn't bring this up in Echoes of the Past probably because I didn't think of it. Look, Emma introduced me to Alex, Sam, Emily, Emma, Hilary, Sahin, Alba, Becky, Jason, et al, and Gabriella introduced me to Anne, and I'd say something about how I introduced Emma and Gabriella and want to introduce Emma to Emma, Jacob, Jean, Nina, Courtney, Jack, Brody, Désirée, et al, but I'm hardly normal, and yet Miyomi told me "get your own friends" if I try to befriend any of hers.
Emma said she wants to meet her so she can say "hey, cool, we have the same name."
I told Emma about Arielle and checked to see if she had a nose ring. Spoilers: she doesn't, but she had some serpentine designs in purple and green scrawled on her forearm with Sharpie so she could get used to having something there. She has a shirt with a snake on it. Definitely a cobra, possibly a Caspian cobra. I didn't notice any darker ventral bands. She wore Jasmine as a belt.
If the internet worked at the wildlife center, I'd show her gurpgork, and by that, I mean when Cyril tried to draw a snake and it looked like bread with googly eyes. Thankfully, she knew exactly what I'm talking about.
Emma says the Fast Supper is awesome.
She sculpted a snake book out of clay. Two entwined snakes over a codex with snakes inscribed into it. Also, she made a Yoda face, and you can see brains and thought waves in the back. It was the first attempt at a human face she ever made.
She wanted to look through the stuff on my iPod.
She loves the song Minerva by Deftones. I really like their quieter and more introspective songs like Digital Bath and Teenager and Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event. She tried to listen to that one on my iPod speaker and I tried to have her listen to Popol Vuh and As The Sparrow.
I haven't listened to rock radio in over a decade and I don't think their playlists have changed since 2002. Wait, there's some glam rock in there.
Emma says the standard spelling is L-e-a-h. It's weird how I didn't think of anything but Lia.
Désirée noticed that I'm getting more confident with my sketches and developing a distinct style for quickie portraits. She saw the stuff in the first book back when I drew her portrait. The first few pages are really rough and really different.
Jacob knows what I'm talking about with regards to Thankskilling and Leprechaun in Space.
Emma prefers good good movies, not so bad they're good movies. The Shining, The Haunting, The Innocents, An American Werewolf in London, stuff like that.
I prefer nightmarish and atmospheric (Barker) but I don't mind a good body horror here and there. Finch, for instance.
I don't think I'll see Melissa or Hillary for a while. At least they got to enjoy Atlas Lab before they left. Boribory ny tany.
***
I'm kinda hoping someone sees this. I'm pretty sure Emma reads this and she's really active with the local music scene. Sovay or Urbpan, perhaps. Or maybe someone involved with the band will see this and be like "hey, someone's still interested in our stuff" and maybe contemplate getting a bandcamp or soundcloud. That would be nice.
Look, I found Rockets Burst From The Streetlamps eventually and Curious Ritual got a Bandcamp and Opium Den remastered an album and posted it on their soundcloud, so yeah.
Chelsea on Fire
someone said 7:11 was like Veruca Salt trying to be Rage Against The Machine.
Big Monster Fish Hook
Lisa's voice is more boyish than Emma's, and also clearer, but their voices both have this fey, almost childish quality to them.
Ashera's Essence of Life sounds like it's worth checking out. I like the idea of "jangly pop gem" and "languid mid-tempo ballad." If only.
***
And meanwhile, back in Greek Cyprus:
The thing about Cyprus is there aren't many internet cafes there and when there are internet cafes, they're too out of date to make posts. I know this is Emma's fault really and Emma needs to learn that when you sow the wind, you shall reap the Barry.
I don't know if Cyprus is a first world country that thinks it doesn't need internet cafes because everyone already has the internet in their home, which really doesn't make sense considering Cyprus is a hotspot for tourism, or if it's still a third world country despite being part of the European Union, which does make sense if they're only there as a middle finger to Turkey, but that doesn't make sense because half of the European Union has their own demons to deal with.
Well, it was third world in that it was neither part of NATO nor part of the Warsaw Pact, but you know what I mean. Which, now that I think about it, means that Greece is both third world and first world.
The right things to do would be to 'a' scan the notebooks and two, allow people to comment without using facebook, perhaps via something like Livejournal.
"Gentrificate" isn't a real word, by the way, at least not in English. I dunno, she threw away my phrasebook.
***
I think I already asked you people what I asked Emma about having an extinct animal as a pet.
Burning Question: how do you maintain a point of view that regards writing well as a flaw?
Also, there was a setup with these frictionless inner tubes and a frictionless surface set up and a lot of things to bump into and bounce off of. There were stairs but they were blocked by this filmy stuff that I felt really nervous about standing on.
A glass elevator would take us outside, to pine forests.
In the real world, it's cold but not unusually so. The worst part about it is that it has been constantly cold. Even when it's warmer than average, it's still cold. We've only had one nice day.
When I woke up, I realized "that was dæphne's Winona Ryder."
A few nights later, I had another vivid romantic dream. Similar setup to the one I dreamt in door slams in fourth world, or more aptly, the morning after I posted in the spring twilight: I was at an Atlas Lab concert in which I pre-emptively tell cut-rate Alex [surname removed] to shut his dickhole. This time, I was there with Gabriella and some asshole picked a fight with me so the three of us got kicked out, but they were at least apologetic about it, so we went to get something to eat and then we go home and Gabi tells me "will you look at that" and it's snowing. Somehow, she's way ahead of me and it's still over a mile to Lechmere Station.
When I woke up, it was still very dark. It was cold as balls. I'd have checked the time and maybe wrote down my dream, but I really couldn't be fucked to do that.
You know, I think I'd take that reality, even if there was late April snow in it.
***
Meanwhile, at the wildlife center:
Everything is back to normal.
I didn't bring this up in Echoes of the Past probably because I didn't think of it. Look, Emma introduced me to Alex, Sam, Emily, Emma, Hilary, Sahin, Alba, Becky, Jason, et al, and Gabriella introduced me to Anne, and I'd say something about how I introduced Emma and Gabriella and want to introduce Emma to Emma, Jacob, Jean, Nina, Courtney, Jack, Brody, Désirée, et al, but I'm hardly normal, and yet Miyomi told me "get your own friends" if I try to befriend any of hers.
Emma said she wants to meet her so she can say "hey, cool, we have the same name."
I told Emma about Arielle and checked to see if she had a nose ring. Spoilers: she doesn't, but she had some serpentine designs in purple and green scrawled on her forearm with Sharpie so she could get used to having something there. She has a shirt with a snake on it. Definitely a cobra, possibly a Caspian cobra. I didn't notice any darker ventral bands. She wore Jasmine as a belt.
If the internet worked at the wildlife center, I'd show her gurpgork, and by that, I mean when Cyril tried to draw a snake and it looked like bread with googly eyes. Thankfully, she knew exactly what I'm talking about.
Emma says the Fast Supper is awesome.
She sculpted a snake book out of clay. Two entwined snakes over a codex with snakes inscribed into it. Also, she made a Yoda face, and you can see brains and thought waves in the back. It was the first attempt at a human face she ever made.
She wanted to look through the stuff on my iPod.
She loves the song Minerva by Deftones. I really like their quieter and more introspective songs like Digital Bath and Teenager and Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event. She tried to listen to that one on my iPod speaker and I tried to have her listen to Popol Vuh and As The Sparrow.
I haven't listened to rock radio in over a decade and I don't think their playlists have changed since 2002. Wait, there's some glam rock in there.
Emma says the standard spelling is L-e-a-h. It's weird how I didn't think of anything but Lia.
Désirée noticed that I'm getting more confident with my sketches and developing a distinct style for quickie portraits. She saw the stuff in the first book back when I drew her portrait. The first few pages are really rough and really different.
Jacob knows what I'm talking about with regards to Thankskilling and Leprechaun in Space.
Emma prefers good good movies, not so bad they're good movies. The Shining, The Haunting, The Innocents, An American Werewolf in London, stuff like that.
I prefer nightmarish and atmospheric (Barker) but I don't mind a good body horror here and there. Finch, for instance.
I don't think I'll see Melissa or Hillary for a while. At least they got to enjoy Atlas Lab before they left. Boribory ny tany.
***
I'm kinda hoping someone sees this. I'm pretty sure Emma reads this and she's really active with the local music scene. Sovay or Urbpan, perhaps. Or maybe someone involved with the band will see this and be like "hey, someone's still interested in our stuff" and maybe contemplate getting a bandcamp or soundcloud. That would be nice.
Look, I found Rockets Burst From The Streetlamps eventually and Curious Ritual got a Bandcamp and Opium Den remastered an album and posted it on their soundcloud, so yeah.
Chelsea on Fire
someone said 7:11 was like Veruca Salt trying to be Rage Against The Machine.
Big Monster Fish Hook
Lisa's voice is more boyish than Emma's, and also clearer, but their voices both have this fey, almost childish quality to them.
Ashera's Essence of Life sounds like it's worth checking out. I like the idea of "jangly pop gem" and "languid mid-tempo ballad." If only.
***
And meanwhile, back in Greek Cyprus:
The thing about Cyprus is there aren't many internet cafes there and when there are internet cafes, they're too out of date to make posts. I know this is Emma's fault really and Emma needs to learn that when you sow the wind, you shall reap the Barry.
I don't know if Cyprus is a first world country that thinks it doesn't need internet cafes because everyone already has the internet in their home, which really doesn't make sense considering Cyprus is a hotspot for tourism, or if it's still a third world country despite being part of the European Union, which does make sense if they're only there as a middle finger to Turkey, but that doesn't make sense because half of the European Union has their own demons to deal with.
Well, it was third world in that it was neither part of NATO nor part of the Warsaw Pact, but you know what I mean. Which, now that I think about it, means that Greece is both third world and first world.
The right things to do would be to 'a' scan the notebooks and two, allow people to comment without using facebook, perhaps via something like Livejournal.
"Gentrificate" isn't a real word, by the way, at least not in English. I dunno, she threw away my phrasebook.
***
I think I already asked you people what I asked Emma about having an extinct animal as a pet.
Burning Question: how do you maintain a point of view that regards writing well as a flaw?
