| Hooray, another weird dream! |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|01:46 am] |
So last night I had a dream based on the NBC show "Parks and Recreation". I was out fishing with Leslie, Anne, and Mark. Unfortunately, while fishing Leslie hooked something big... it turned out to be an otter! We didn't know what to do. The hooked otter was obviously in a lot of pain. Another fisherman showed up and offered to shoot the otter and put it out of its misery. (He had a pistol on him, which weirded me out until he showed me his concealed weapon permit.)
I really didn't want to give up on the poor otter without at least TRYING to save it. Luckily for us, Mark was a doctor and had a scalpel with him (wait a minute, isn't he an architect or something in the show?) and offered to cut the otter open and surgically remove the hook. Except that the otter had a giant zipper on its stomach, so we just used that. Once we got the hook out we made up a little bed for the otter in a cardboard box and left it on the porch of the cabin we were staying in. Later that night the otter's mate showed up, concerned about it.
It was a stressful dream in the middle, but I guess it all turned out okay! |
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| What. Just.. .what? |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|12:29 pm] |
This has got to be one of the weirdest dreams I've ever had. Not sure I'm getting all the parts in order, exactly.
I was playing an old PS2 game I had bought used. I can't remember the title, but it started with a W. The game had a very cutesy anime look -- very close to chibi, but not quite -- and lots of cutscenes, but was very short. Actually, I think the part I played was just one "chapter" or whatever. Anyway, it had Holmes and Watson in it (yes, as adorable chibis). I was playing an original character who was the main character in the game, but I guess I lived with them at Baker Street (except that "Baker Street" looked just like Southland Mall in Portage.) I don't remember the complete details, except that there was some kind of mystery at my old high school, and that I was kind of in love with Holmes, but so was Watson, so I sorta helped hook them up even though it made me feel a little sad. (Picture an anime-style chibi Watson in a bowler hat. Is that not the cutest thing ever? XD )
Then I dreamt I was playing World of Warcraft and was on this quest to destroy these orc warlords. Their names were Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. Even though they were both burly manly orcs. Wha? Anyway, I had to kill them and a bunch of their followers, destroy their fortresses, and then build playgrounds where the fortresses used to be.
Then, I was at work, and everyone was asking me if I was going to watch the new Willy Wonka TV movie that was airing that night. Apparently it had Bill Cosby in it. (I think he played Charlie's grandpa, haha.) I did watch it, but it sort of turned into Warcraft again and stopped being anything like Willy Wonka because the "Willy Wonka" character turned into a blood elf and me and some other people were helping him battle demons in front of an apartment complex. I think he'd somehow accidentally summoned the demons, and he was going to run away but ended up coming back to save my life.
Then, I found him riding a hawkstrider around a huge cavernous building on a lake. The lake contained a giant candy monster he had inadvertantly created, but that's not what he was going after: there was a giant chicken in the building. I somehow had a quest to help him defeat the chicken. So I did, and he was really grateful, and then suddenly he embraced me and the screen faded to black. (Implied sex in WoW! Crazy!) After the screen faded back in, I had some buffs that were basically like the Moodlet buffs from Sims 3. It was something about how I felt great
now. XD
The last thing I remember doing in the dream was getting slightly lost trying to walk back from the lake to the apartment complex where I lived. Except that I woke up around then, and then fell back asleep, and was dreaming about doing the Henry Fonda questline over again. |
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| First dream in the new place, does that have any significance? ...probably not. |
[Oct. 1st, 2009|12:09 pm] |
Michael Cera (or a kid played by Michael Cera, anyway) was hanging out with some friends when suddenly a pretty blonde girl came up to him. "You're the guy I knocked up, right?" she said, sounding hurried. He stammered that she must be mistaken but she insisted, saying, "Look, I'm sorry about everything, but I really need that ring back."
He had no idea what she was talking about, but they started hanging out. They went out for ice cream, and on some kind of Newlywed Game type game show. As the evening drew on, though, she thanked him for the wonderful time but insisted she had to leave.
Here's where things get fuzzy, because suddenly I was a part of the dream (I guess I'd been friends with Michael Cera) and I was trying to figure out how to rescue him. Apparently the girl had been part of some creepy vampire cult from a building called The Blue Tower, and Michael had (somehow) been turned into a swan by them. He lived in a fountain in the lobby of the building, which was the only part non-cultists were allowed in. Once when I was visiting him a friend of ours decided he was going to bust into the tower and free the girl, but I managed to talk him out of it. Somehow we heard that the girl had been turned into a duck and was in a pond somewhere in the tower. (Why was there a pond in the tower? I have no idea.) Hearing this Michael Cera the swan kind of lost it and decided he had to go save her. Somehow he got the ability to turn from swan to human and took off after her. Sure enough, there was a female mallard hanging out by a pond who somehow recognized him. She hopped on his back (?) and they flew away. (I really have no idea where I was during all of this.)
Well, things weren't quite over yet, because it turned out they really had had a baby, which was now somewhere in the tower being brainwashed and trained to be a loyal vampire minion of the cult leader. (I think the leader was Vladimir Von Helson from Gaia. This sounds like something he might do...)
I woke up as we were climbing into air ducts to infiltrate the tower. |
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| Pirates, car accidents, weddings, noodles, incubus hairdressers... wtf, brain. |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|03:35 pm] |
I had a really long, really convoluted, and really RANDOM dream last night. It was the first dream I remembered much of in a long time. (For the past couple of weeks I've been having disjointed dreams about murder mysteries. I blame that on reading both Holmes and lots of Detective Conan.)
Anyway, I don't actually remember the order of the dream-bits, but here they are as best I can remember them.
I was captain of a pirate ship, and we had just defeated another ship in a glorious battle. I'm not sure if they were Navy or rival pirates, but Sasarai from Suikoden III was apparently their captain and had run away sometime during the battle. What?! I thought this was very out of character and remarked on it in the dream. (In fact, I said "This movie sure changed Sasarai's character. I wonder why?" Apparently the events were in a movie... whatever.) Anyway, I was facing the captive enemy crew and deciding what to do with them. I know we killed a lot of them, but there was one guy I recognized as being a famous hairdresser with his own TV show, so I spared him and made him, uh, my pirate crew's private hairdresser...? Except it turned out he was actually an incubus. (What.) Much of the rival crew we simply tossed adrift in a small boat. The guy who was their acting leader was really pissed off and said something about how he was going to go found a kingdom in the sky. A bit later Hairdresser Incubus and I were looking off the side of the ship and a huge hot air balloon was visible off in the distance. "There's their kingdom," he pointed out.
"Huh," I said. "I bet the next movie in the series takes place there."
Then there was an unrelated part where my whole family was going to go out to dinner. I was in a car with my mom and I think my cousin. My dad was driving a different car with my grandma, aunt and uncle in it. We were following along behind them when suddenly the car my dad was driving skidded off the road, rolled down a hill, and landed in a lake o.O We stopped to go help them. Somehow the lake was really deep and I had to dive down to save my uncle, who hadn't gotten out in time. After this dramatic event... we went to Noodles & Company, totally unperturbed by the near-death experience.
The last part of the dream involved me at a clothing store trying on a bunch of clothes to wear to my cousin's wedding. (It was my cousin Jessi, who is not engaged or anything, so I have no idea why she was getting married in my dream.) I kept putting on different skirts and tops and stuff to see if they matched. |
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| It's never too late to join a 120-year-old fandom! |
[Aug. 29th, 2009|01:21 am] |
So I've been really into Sherlock Holmes lately for whatever reason (see my new default icon... which is from, of all things, a mid-90's yaoi manga. About Holmes and Watson. That I've only been able to find two chapters of. Anyway.)
So... I did what fangirls have done for years when obsessing over characters.
I made Sims!
( Cut for pics! ) |
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| Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert = D |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|03:36 pm] |
My friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) patches365 -- whom some of you know and some don't -- and I are planning on attending the Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert in Chicago on December 12. She'll probably be getting the cheapest available seats; the $19 seats might be gone before long but we should be able to get the $29 seats.
So! If you're interested in going, post here. The sooner we know who's going the sooner we can get tickets! |
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| Vampire dream... weird |
[Aug. 3rd, 2009|12:23 pm] |
Last night I dreamt I was a vampire. A male one, heh. I was kind of adorable -- really small, with short dark hair and really pale skin. I was hanging out with some girls who were werewolves. I wish I remembered the plot more. In the beginning of it we were in some kind of old castle, and then we left to wander around a city. There was a building that was supposed to be some kind of secret safehouse for creatures like us, but when we got there, it was closed off and under construction. The girls were upset but I was especially nervous because the sun was going to rise soon and I didn't know where else to go. At some point another vampire showed up who was apparently my sire. He was a jerk, and I knew he was a jerk, but I was completely in love with him and was clinging to him a lot. He decided that the two of us should go explore the place and figure out what was up, since the random consctruction seemed really suspicious. I guess most of the building was underground so we figured we wouldn't die from the sun or anything. (I don't think the sunlight instantly vaporized us or anything, and we could hide in shadows with no repurcussions.)
We got into the building really easily because we could walk through glass. We could also walk through walls, but this was a lot harder to do because we had to be able to visualize clearly what was on the other side. My sire was actually pretty good at it but I had to stick to the glass. The few times I tried the walls I just bounced off.
I don't really remember anything about what we found in that building, except that at one point my sire killed a cat and it really upset me. |
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| Happy Birthday to me! |
[Jul. 26th, 2009|02:40 am] |
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So my birthday is next Sunday (August 2), and I have the day off work... I was thinking about going to the Detroit Zoo. Anyone who reads this, consider yourself invited = ) Get in touch with me and we can figure out where and when to meet up. |
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| Not surprising: a pre-Otakon stupid dream! |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|06:56 pm] |
So last night I had an Otakon dream. In it we were all at Otakon, and decided to go over to the food court and get dinner before the game show qualification quiz. When we got there, there were hardly any people there, and I got all excited because the place is usually super-packed and I was really happy that we should be able to get in and out fast with no problems. However, then I couldn't decide what I wanted to eat. I wandered all over that place repeatedly before finally deciding to eat at Subway. The Subway had some weird Asian vegetables I hadn't seen before. I can't remember what they were called (something similar to Bok Choy, but not), but they sort of looked like a cross between a cucumber and an eggplant. One was a lightish green and one a very dark green. I ordered the dark green one on my sandwich and the Subway worker was all surprised that I was so eager to try a random veggie, heh.
I ate my Subway while sitting at a table with George Clooney, for some reason. Apparently he'd come to Otakon with us. Then, suddenly... I realized that I had pretty much run out of time and was in danger of missing the quiz. So I had to find Brandon and get back to the convention center. This part was pretty much a big blur of hurrying all over the place through crowded hallways, and I woke up all wound up and nervous, haha.
Can't wait for the actual con though <3 Maybe I should call up George and ask if he wants to stay in our hotel room XD |
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[Feb. 13th, 2009|01:55 am] |
My mom: I love you, Markie.
My dad: Of course you do, because I'm awesome. |
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| Otakon 2009 |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|01:45 pm] |
Preregistration is up and I grabbed a room at the Sheraton City Center (which I'm fairly sure used to be the Wyndham -- it's about 2.5 blocks from the convention center). We can cram a lot of people into that room, so think about it if you're interested... the con isn't until mid-July though = )
I also applied to run two panels -- Name That Tune, and a "Lost In Translation" panel that'd go over some things I've run into in anime that just doesn't translate well because of language differences. I don't know when I'll find out if I actually get to do them, heh. Last night I dreamt I was running Name That Tune and kept Rickrolling people. Sigh. |
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| Writer's Block: Open Arms |
[Jan. 22nd, 2009|12:56 am] |
I've gone to anime cons many times. Unsolicited hugs are, unfortunately, commonplace, and I am very against them :sweat:
I don't mind hugging friends and relatives, but random strangers? Not so much. (If I'm in costume and they ask first, that's one thing... but one time I was dressed as Emishi from GetBackers at Otakon and I literally turned a corner and found a Himiko cosplayer glomping me. It startled me quite a bit, whereas if she'd said "Hey can I hug you?" I wouldn't have really minded.) |
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| Hatsuyume |
[Jan. 4th, 2009|11:59 pm] |
In Japanese tradition, the dream on the night of January 1 is known as hatsuyume, the first dream. It's supposed to give you an idea as to your luck in the upcoming year. This was mine, as near as I can remember it.
I spent the entire dream as Togusa from Ghost in the Shell. In the beginning I was trudging through somewhat deep snow with a few other people (I'm not sure just who). It was night; the moonlight shone on the snow. A group of deer ran past us and I turned to watch them. When I turned back I saw a group of small cloaked figures with crossbows coming toward us. "Don't worry," one of the other people I was with said. "They're chasing those who hunt the deer. They won't hurt you." The figures had a pack of wolves with them, and one of the wolves came close to me, brushing against my legs and sniffing at me.
"I don't want to hurt them," I told it. "I'm just watching." Satisfied, it turned and left me alone.
I don't really remember any bridge between scenes, but next thing I recall I was in a sewer under a city. A reclusive group of super-humans lived there, and I didn't trust them; I was looking for Claire Bennet from Heroes, who had either gone to join them or been kidnapped by them -- I'm not clear on which.
A man kept appearing before me to help guide me. He was dressed in white and had long, flowing light brown hair. I didn't trust him at first. Eventually, though, he revealed a secret -- he was my father. (I was still Togusa by the way...) I didn't believe him at first, but then he showed me a photo of himself holding a toddler version of me, and I suddenly knew he was telling the truth. He abruptly vanished, and I forgot about Claire for a moment, running through the sewers trying to find him again. But it was useless. He hadn't been real in the first place -- he was just a holographic recording. The real man had died years before.
And that's all I remember. |
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| 151 to Frankfurt |
[Nov. 26th, 2008|12:27 pm] |
I was at an anime convention and went to a panel where the panelist (a voice actress, I think) spontaneously decided to just take us all on a tour of the convention. We wandered into a large room with a photo studio set up at one end and the guy running the photography asked if he could take a group picture of all of us. We all sat down on some bleachers that were suddenly there, and then for some reason someone said we should all since a song from Oliver -- the one that goes "Consider yourself at home, consider yourself part of the family..." I didn't know any lyrics beyond that, though, and was a little annoyed that I was expected to, so I decided to sing "Tomorrow" from "Annie" instead... but instead of the actual lyrics to "Tomorrow" I started belting "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, and it's shining at the end of every day...", which is actually the song that goes along with the Carousel of Progress at walt Disney World.
After this I sort of remember hanging around and chatting with people, and then there was something about aliens invading, but I was talking to a police officer who was assuring me that the aliens had all been driven off. I don't really remember this part.
Then there was a very long sequence where I was watching a movie called "151 to Frankfurt". The movie starred Jodie Foster supposedly playing a grown-up version of her character from "Taxi Driver", except that everyone called her "Clarice". I was mixing Jodie Foster roles apparently. Anyway. Clarice lived in a small motel room in the middle of nowhere. She didn't really have any friends, unless you counted the guys who worked at the convenience store nearby where she always bought food. She was in hiding, apparently, from a guy played by Al Pacino who was some kind of crime syndicate boss, and his subordinate, played by Zachary Quinto. But one day they showed up at her motel room door as if they'd always known she was there, and she wasn't all that surprised to see them.
I really don't know what they wanted with her since all I can remember after that is that she and the Zachary Quinto character -- his name was Karl; I know because in the dream I looked it up on the IMDB -- had apparently had a relationship and she'd had his son. The son had been given up for adoption and they both went to find him; when they did he was playing in a field with a big black dog and three or four other kids. I got the impression that Jodie Foster's character didn't know she'd had a son, though I have no idea how that would be possible.
And that's all I remember. |
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| Writer's Block: When the Boss is Away… |
[Nov. 12th, 2008|11:48 pm] |
Well, I work in a clothing department, wandering around folding clothes/hanging stuff up. I can't exactly goof off on the computer. What I CAN do is write dirty porn stories in my head. And I do. Often.
(I write other things in my head too, but that's the most common.) |
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[Nov. 5th, 2008|12:51 am] |
Wow. I spent all day with this terrible knot of nervousness in my stomach. Partly from school, but mostly... well, you can guess XD
The really weird part is that I was actually fairly wishy-washy about Obama. I voted for him because I liked him all right and I really didn't like McCain or Palin. But when I watched him give his acceptance speech a little while ago, I think I fell in love a little bit.
He's got a lot riding on him though. Let's hope he can fulfill his potential. |
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| I need to stop dreaming about shows I've only seen twice and know nothing about. |
[Oct. 23rd, 2008|12:28 pm] |
I was in love with Dr. House. Even in the dream I knew that this was probably not a great idea. I worked at the hospital with him, though I don't know what exactly it was that I did, and honestly it didn't look at all like a hospital. I never saw any patients, just a lot of offices that I wandered back and forth into a lot. House, of course, had no interest in me at all, but was still very hung up on Wilson (ha).
Somehow I found out that this guy who was some kind of hospital administrator was blackmailing House into sleeping with him. I really don't know how I knew that. Later on, House met some young guy who dressed in Jane Austen-era clothing and claimed to be some kind of lord. (...did this come from my subconscious remembering that Hugh Laurie was in "Sense and Sensibility"? I do not know.) Anyway, he fell for the lord, quit the hospital, and moved into the guy's estate, even though none of us at the hospital trusted the guy at all and thought House was making a huge mistake. I tried my best to get over him, but one day there was an article in the newspaper about the lord dying in a mass murder at his estate. The receptionist lady who discovered the article and I were both horrified, wanting to know if House was involved, but the article was written in an old-fashioned 18th-century-esque style and took us a little while to decipher. We finally realized that House had not been involved and was completely okay, which was a relief.
He ended up coming back to the hospital, and everywhere he went he dragged after him a little cat-carrier-looking cage-thing on wheels. Everyone seemed to be mildly disgusted about his pet, but I could never see into the carrier to figure out exactly what it WAS. But then, randomly, I found out it was a ferret, and I was ecstatic, because I love ferrets and find them adorable. I found House and started gushing at him about how great ferrets are, and he brightened up and was so happy to have found someone else that liked his ferret that we ended up talking about ferrets for ages. I was on air. I had finally found a way to connect with him!
...but then for some reason the dream ended on a scene where I was at a party and pretending to be Russian so I could trick some spy into giving me some information. It had nothing to do with anything that had come previously in the dream. |
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| I wish I remembered more of this dream. |
[Oct. 15th, 2008|11:30 am] |
I recall bits and pieces of the early parts. I remember my dad reading some kind of ultra-summarized version of the last Harry Potter book because he wanted to know what happened, heh. And I remember being at work and trying to find an open locker and being unable to. The break room, for some reason, was full of books, games and DVDs that employees could check out, just like a library. But the only really clear part of the dream came after that.
I was out with my roommate and we were looking at a huge display of dolls in a store. There were two different dolls that caught my eye. The first was a female doll with long brown hair that came in a sleek gold dress and held an umbrella. She came in a few different varieties and had a huge number of extra dresses you could buy. The second doll only came in one variant. It was a blond man wearing an aqua-colored vest over a white shirt with poofy sleeves. The female doll came with so many extras, and had a yellow umbrella just like mine, that initially I picked her. But then suddenly I realized that the male doll was modeled on a famous composer, and I abruptly picked him instead.
And then I WAS him.
I lived in a dirty, polluted city with no greenery. (It actually looked like a slightly lower-tech version of Midgar from Final Fantasy VII.) I had a small room with a piano in the corner and made a small living off my compositions, and would occasionally play in a bar for some extra cash. However, I usually quickly lost all my money at the racetrack. I had two close friends. One was a completely generic guy whose face I don't remember at all, and one was Kazuki from GetBackers. Kazuki was in a relationship with Juubei in the dream, but I never actually saw Juubei. I was happy for Kazuki but also a little bit jealous because he was so happy and I was so lonely. I was in love with Generic Guy (GG from now on) but he thought I loved Kazuki.
The one scene I clearly remember involved a scandalous tabloid article asserting that I had previously been married but my wife had left me after she caught me having an affair with another man. GG came to my room and showed me the article, and I was horrified. I wondered who had told the tabloid the story and why. GG couldn't believe that it was actually true. He was appalled that I would marry someone and then live a lie behind her back. "I needed money," I said.
This just made him even more angry. "It's still adultery!" he shouted. "Selling your body is still adultery!"
"That isn't what happened!" I said, but he stormed off, leaving the paper behind. I sat there alone in my tiny, messy apartment, staring at the article and remembering the truth behind the incident in question.
Except that I don't actually really remember the truth behind the incident, because around then one of the cats decided that he REALLY wanted to get up on my dresser and see what was behind my Fushigi Yuugi wallscroll and maybe knock some action figures over while he was at it, so I woke up. |
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