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I had a weird, strong vision recently. I was looking over a field of people, and they were all depressed and weeping because the sky was dirty, polluted and unsightly I think there might even have been some kind of wound or tear in it, either way it was far removed from the blue idyll that currently hangs above us. Maybe we don't fully appreciate the beauty of the sky, and the way its temperance reassures us that the sun will rise tomorrow.
Sky-dreams seem quite common for me and they're often cataclysmic in theme. I dream of the moon, freakishly huge and visible in the daytime sky as if it's approaching, its orbit broke, to grind a country off the surface of the globe with the force of collision. I dream of the night-sky busy and full of life, a thousand planets and satellites and movements and flashing colours and spacecraft, fascinating to watch from my dream-bedroom window.
I dream of people I used to know... people physically identical yet changed beyond all recognition of their former selves until I can no longer say I know them, coming back to me, night after night.
I dream of people being in the same room twice. Two identikits of the same person. This used to really scare me but I take it in my stride now.
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So Friday was kind of fun, I went to Tony's new apartment and played XIII and House of the Dead III and watched Shaun of the Dead and Kill Bill II. I fell asleep just before Bill gives Beatrice the injection (See, no spoilers, for the raging f**ktards amongst you who haven't seen it yet). Saturday, we rode the trains for a long time- there are few things finer than watching the sunny countryside go past and playing some Nintendo Gameboy Advance on a rumbling, ratcheting train. Eventually ended up in Camberley where we looked around the shops and drank some tea.
I don't care for clothes. I've never had money for 'em, always spending money on CDs before I would waste it on clothes. Plus I have no sense of what to wear, what suits me or even what fits properly. Tony, on the other hand, LOVES tailors and smart suit shops and is always buying clothes. It's... quite abscondable, ramifying even, the way girls stare at him whilst trying their hardest not to make eye contact with me.
[[can you spot the use of fake words in the above paragraph?]]
~~I read entire books/comics in my dreams. Are they books I have memorised from real life? Am I creating a full-length novel as I dream? Am I 'reading' at all, in the usual sense of the word?~~
So the latest excitement in my life, such as it is, is the Nintendo Dual Screen. You may or may not know about this already. It's the new handheld games machine from Nintendo- and I love this company. I love it because you know that when you buy Nintendo, you buy quality. Their consoles are hard-wearing, durable and of highest quality. In my opinion Nintendo is a company devoted to it's equally devoted consumers, imaginative and forward-thinking, not afraid to take a risk and for the most part moral in it's business practices.
These traits are apparent with their latest foray into the handheld market; the DS is basically a gameboy with two screens. It's graphical capability is roughly equal to that of the N64 perhaps a bit higher~ I'm no technology whiz to work out the exact relation. The lower screen double as a touch screen, it has wireless connectivity and blah blah yes I think that's enough. Oh, here's a simple introduction to the DS and it's main competitor Sony's PSP.
http://www.dshandheld.com/index.php?article=25&p=0 details on page 3
Sky-dreams seem quite common for me and they're often cataclysmic in theme. I dream of the moon, freakishly huge and visible in the daytime sky as if it's approaching, its orbit broke, to grind a country off the surface of the globe with the force of collision. I dream of the night-sky busy and full of life, a thousand planets and satellites and movements and flashing colours and spacecraft, fascinating to watch from my dream-bedroom window.
I dream of people I used to know... people physically identical yet changed beyond all recognition of their former selves until I can no longer say I know them, coming back to me, night after night.
I dream of people being in the same room twice. Two identikits of the same person. This used to really scare me but I take it in my stride now.
~~~~~~~
So Friday was kind of fun, I went to Tony's new apartment and played XIII and House of the Dead III and watched Shaun of the Dead and Kill Bill II. I fell asleep just before Bill gives Beatrice the injection (See, no spoilers, for the raging f**ktards amongst you who haven't seen it yet). Saturday, we rode the trains for a long time- there are few things finer than watching the sunny countryside go past and playing some Nintendo Gameboy Advance on a rumbling, ratcheting train. Eventually ended up in Camberley where we looked around the shops and drank some tea.
I don't care for clothes. I've never had money for 'em, always spending money on CDs before I would waste it on clothes. Plus I have no sense of what to wear, what suits me or even what fits properly. Tony, on the other hand, LOVES tailors and smart suit shops and is always buying clothes. It's... quite abscondable, ramifying even, the way girls stare at him whilst trying their hardest not to make eye contact with me.
[[can you spot the use of fake words in the above paragraph?]]
~~I read entire books/comics in my dreams. Are they books I have memorised from real life? Am I creating a full-length novel as I dream? Am I 'reading' at all, in the usual sense of the word?~~
So the latest excitement in my life, such as it is, is the Nintendo Dual Screen. You may or may not know about this already. It's the new handheld games machine from Nintendo- and I love this company. I love it because you know that when you buy Nintendo, you buy quality. Their consoles are hard-wearing, durable and of highest quality. In my opinion Nintendo is a company devoted to it's equally devoted consumers, imaginative and forward-thinking, not afraid to take a risk and for the most part moral in it's business practices.
These traits are apparent with their latest foray into the handheld market; the DS is basically a gameboy with two screens. It's graphical capability is roughly equal to that of the N64 perhaps a bit higher~ I'm no technology whiz to work out the exact relation. The lower screen double as a touch screen, it has wireless connectivity and blah blah yes I think that's enough. Oh, here's a simple introduction to the DS and it's main competitor Sony's PSP.
http://www.dshandheld.com/index.php?article=25&p=0 details on page 3