April 26, 2012, 1:10 pm in playlists (if player doesn’t load, please install/update flash)
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Earlier this year, partially due to extended illness, I became deeply entrenched in the game Alice: Madness Returns, which is the sequel to American McGee’s Alice. It’s the first game I’ve really sunk my teeth into in a decade, and once I did that, I thrashed it around in my mouth like a rabid bulldog for weeks.
 I found myself relating to the visuals, storyline and music in the sequal even more than I had the original, and in ways I can’t summarize quickly. There were even pieces of my original songs that stuck out in this soundtrack. The feel and movement of the audio in the game has, but especially had then, a sinisterly heavenly feel to it. It overtook me, gave me nightmares, personified my own flavor of festering pain I’d refluxed up at the time, and extended its hand to me.
In a word, it was fucking beautiful.
I don’t recall how I stumbled across wickedslicks1003‘s game extensions on youtube, but I did, and I’m glad for it. I still try to fall asleep to this stuff sometimes, but because I still have really fucked up dreams when I do that, I mostly listen to it as background and sing with it. I imagine at some point soon I will make good on my priority to learn how to play some of it, and I won’t be surprised if some of this music makes its way into Obsidian next year.
Here are my favorite of these musical pieces, extended into ~10 minute long tracks.
Enjoy.
February 23, 2012, 5:18 pm in updates Swapped out nightmares for time travel and spelunking dreams. I guess my definition of nightmare really falls into how I feel waking from the dream and what atmospheric elements stick with me throughout the day. And even then, it takes a lot for me to label a dream nightmarish. It didn’t even occur to me that’s what I’ve been having until Scott called them that yesterday.
There was some kind of annual skeleton throwdown where they warred and killed each other. But they mostly left me alone, and did it on the surface, which is part of the reason I was underground. For some reason the few that wandered into the caves just wanted to wail like banshees, and generally asked me if I’d mind before they did.
1913 was one of the years I was in, at a train station that looked more like a boat dock (all wood). They disliked my yoga pants. The dream ended when I went back to the future and had shifted events in such a way that the broody, dark, gothic metrosexual I met in the 30′s was flamboyant, blond and colorful when I returned.
There was also a country themed picnic type setting, probably in the 40′s, which coincided with my upcoming music show in Spokane. I was trying to practice outdoors, on a piano that slanted sideways and wouldn’t stay in one place. There were a few barn cats in the dream that somehow didn’t get eaten by the tremors-like creatures that woke up to feed at night, even though they told me I couldn’t bring CJ.
Sold.
January 25, 2012, 8:09 am in updates I just remembered part of a dream I had last night, which consisted of an amazing band that had invented and built their own beautiful, strangely shaped string instruments. That glowed. And sounded amazing. I love benedryl coupled with Pandora.
January 4, 2012, 11:45 am in public Unbelievably detailed cinematic sci-fi part android mostly soul crushed human slave bot dream complete with romance, corporate uprising, a ~10 minute escape scene with wavey white escalators, dueling father figures, and a tender nervous breakdown.
January 2, 2012, 1:39 am in public I dreamed last night that I had ornate, itchy quills growing out of the instep of my right foot and the crook of my left elbow, and I couldn’t keep track of my surgery dates.
August 17, 2010, 11:04 am in updates Woke up from strange sex dreams in a night sweat and covered in blood. This is a raw steak kind of day.
February 28, 2010, 9:16 pm in updates Hurray for action packed BATMAN DREAMS!
March 15, 2007, 5:07 pm in public We’re into muscles now. This part of the program has been touted as one of the most difficult by the staff and senior students since day 1.
The other night I had a dream that we were at the school, which was more like a warehouse headquarters. It was the middle of the night and most people were sleeping, with a few of us including me and Brain roaming around on lookout, mostly socializing with each other. A lot of people were gone on assignment, as well.
Something happened with a team out in the field, I don’t remember what now, but there was a request to assist – a test of sorts. Those kinds of calls are a first come first serve type thing, so when it came in, everyone scrambled to get out first, and a lot of people got a head start on me because Brian and I were having a conversation about the new silks routine I’d practiced for him.
I remember being confused, running through possible scenarios in my head of how I could possibly catch up and still make it in time to participate. As I wandered almost aimlessly people were jumping into their cars (which, in the dream as well as in reality, I didn’t have one of) and peeling out around me.
It soon became clear that enough people had left before me that there was pretty much no way I could make it before the cutoff. I gave up, knowing that whoever needed help was in capable hands, and went back up to the lookout area to finish my conversation with Brian, who never goes out on these things anymore cause he’s got his eager proteges to do it for him.
Yup. Pretty much sums it up. I feel connected socially and energetically, but when push comes to shove, I feel totally disadvantaged and unprepared.
How many attachments on the Extensor Carpi Radialis Brevis and Longus, you ask? Fuck if I know. Where are they? Fuck if I know that, either. But I’d better know, cause in less than two weeks, I take my first exam, and I need to know the Names, Attachments (by origin and insertion as well as the difference between them and how they can change), Fiber directions, Actions, Antagonist muscles, Synergist muscles of over 70 muscles, and there are tons more to come.
*sigh*
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