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I had a nightmare last night. In it, I am sitting at a table with a little boy about 2 or 3 years old and a woman who is sitting across from him. The boy has his head down on the table because he is sleeping. All of a sudden he lifts his head, grabs a pencil, and starts writing furiously. At first he draws circles and spirals. Then he starts drawing fragments of words and faces and stick figures. His eyes are closed but otherwise he seems awake. It is similar to automatic writing or spirit writing.

Next scene I am playing with the boy who is still in his trance. The table and woman are gone. I’m throwing him up in the air and catching him. His eyes are closed, but I think he can see me through his eyelids because he is smiling right at me.

Suddenly, what I’m doing feels very, very wrong. I realize that the boy is sleeping, but some other kid who isn’t supposed to be playing (dead?) is controlling him. I panic and try to put him down and run, but I’m frozen with my arms up looking at the smiling boy with his eyes closed.

I woke myself up yelling. I’m a little scared just from writing this. My senses are heightened right now.

Off the top of my head I can think of at least five plausible interpretations of this dream. The most plausible is the least symbolic: that I was thinking about the Dawn Of The Dead preview I saw Friday night. (Any shrink readers feel free to interpret this dream.)

While Japanned in Japan was out, we made our traditional trip to Tower Records. I must have spent more than I earned there by now even though I worked there twice. So I always have JiJ pick out some new music for me to buy. (You can tell I’m over 35 because I actually pay for music.) Music radio (as opposed to talk radio) is so shitty here, that I have to rely on friends who don’t live in the Bay Area to turn me on to good music. (Aside: Why doesn’t the music industry realize that the recent consolidation in the radio industry is a huge factor in reducing sales.)

Anyway, here are the CDs that I bought:

The Best of Simon & Garfunkel (I picked this one out, actually.)

Simple Things

In Search of

The Black Light

Marcus Garvey

A Lo Cubano

Gorillaz

So far my favorite one is Calexico. It makes me want to grow 100 beards. They don’t even sing until the third song, and when they do you suddenly realize that the right way to do things is to not sing until the third song. I’ve only listened to it once, mind.

I bought JiJ this great book, which is the greatest book ever written using red ink and office clip art:

David Rees: Get Your War On

Judging it by its cover, I bought a copy of Read magazine and am mighty glad I did. It is really funny and clever. The best parts are the interviews where they ask the most insane and insulting questions like “Are you required to listen to Rush by your contract?” and “Besides yours, which band do you think should break up?” and “I had sex with your mother. That’s not so much a question as a statement of fact.” It’s crazy. Some bands roll with it, and some flip out. Here is one of the editor’s New Year’s Resolutions: Interview and hang out with Bruce Campbell, Jeff Goldblum, and Rush

Speaking of humorous zines, what is going on with Pigdog? It hasn’t been updated since last August. A friend forwarded me a link to Leonard Nimoy singing some song about Bilbo Baggins, and there are no bigger Leonard Nimoy fans than the Pigdog guys. I know because I worked on a magazine with Tjames and drank beers a few times with the early Pigdog guys. I vaguely remember logging into a BBS called The Polyspock Project that was run by these guys. The BBS had a forum, lots of pornographic images and ascii art of Leonard Nimoy. It’s really hard to write like they do, but Tjames is the master of it.

Anyway, I went there to alert them and I find that the site hasn’t been updated. Then I went to their feedback page and saw source code to their feedback page instead of the actual feedback page. Bad, bad, bad. I hope they can get it back together.

Oh yeah, I changed my Friendster picture to the Face on Mars.

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