Ridiculous Thoughts

I woke up this morning feeling like I was hungover. Which was strange considering I haven’t had a sip of alcohol in… ummm.. I can’t even remember the last time I drank anything alcoholic.

Anyway so I woke up feeling like my head weighed a ton, it was throbbing and my nose was stuffed up. First thought was that I caught cold. I don’t know where I’m going with this so I’ll shut up by saying I needed caffeine and to just wake up a little more 🙂 I’m fine now. But man I hate waking up feeling like shite.

I found a new program I kind of dig: Most Haunted on the travel channel. Cheesy as hell but even watching it at 9am on a Saturday, I got a little creeped out. I love ghost stories and tales of haunted old homes. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the creep factor or the slightest possibility that cold spots or light anomolies might be the desperate imprints left by poor people wo wer brutally murdered and they want to rest in peace but can’t until their murder is solved.

I dunno. I just like it.

What else is up… I had my first year performance review yesterday. Went very well. I got so lucky to wind up with another boss who’s great after the ones I had at the hospital. I guess they think I’m doing all right and I can stick around 🙂 My job’s even shuffled a bit and I’m now a Web Editor which means I get to carry on working with the News guys and building on and improving theindependent.com. I’m really happy about that actually. I enjoy that a lot. It doesn’t mean I change much of what I was already doing. I’ll still be doing real estates, and auto photos and ad banners and commercial sites etc. It’s just the the boss is going to shuffle what I do and what the third person she needs to hire will do. The newbie will, depending on graphic/web experience also work on commercial sites and ad banners, aswell as work on the more complex coding that is way over my head.

Anyway I’m chuffed.

Ohhhh big news on the sister front btw – she and her boyfriend have decided to move in together. Oh my it’s serious 🙂 Congrats kiddo even though I know you never read this or blog in your own blog that I’ve set up for you (twice btw.) Yes I’m nagging you and congratulating you at the same time. Pretty slick eh?

And congrats also to a couple of TCZ knuckleheads who just got engaged last night. Fire (Adam) and Trinity (Christine) are going to get hitched. I head Adam was kind of shaky when he proposed. I would have paid good money to see him all shaky and nervous 🙂 Good luck kids.

The “Piano Man” turned out to be a hoax worthy of Snopes. Fecking git. I’m so disappointed. not that I wanted the guy to be mentally ill and helpless – or maybe I did because that somehow akes the whole thing more interesting. Which is pretty pathetic of me. I should be glad he’s healthy. But damnit I was so intrigued. Now I feel used.

Anyway there aren’t many details, just that he decided to start talking last week and told the nurses her was a German and couldn’t really play the piano. he just drew that piano because it was the first thing that came to mind. There are reports that he had worked with the mentally ill in the past and emulated some of their symptoms in order to fool the doctors.

Now he’s been sent back to Germany where I expect he’ll have to you know, get a job and stuff.

Grrr.

It’s been a weekend full of movies. Again. Not that that’s a bad thing of course 🙂 Thursday night we caught the last half of The Matrix on telly and Shannon was really taken with it. So because I’d never seen the sequels, I thought it would be fun to rent the trilogy and watch them altogether.

I also picked up Sin City while I was at Blockbuster.

Well we finished the trilogy this morning, and I have to say this: “Huh?” What a convoluted mess intersparsed with brilliant cinematography and fantastic fight sequences. I’m talking about the sequels now, and not the original Matrix which is really quite good. But I was disappointed with the sequels and so as Shan. Ah well.

We also popped over to the mall and caught a second viewing of Willy Wonka in a near-empty theatre which was nice. It’s still fun the second time around. We were discussing it afterwards and the subject of the original came up. I mentioned that from what I’ve heard and read, there really is no happy medium between Chocolate Factory friends. You either love Wilder’s and hate Depp’s or you Love Depp’s and and hate Wilder’s. Surely it’s possible people to enjoy both? I mean really now. They’re both approached in completely different ways and I’ve enjoyed both versions.

Anyway, so we’ve watcheed a lot of viddies tis weekend. I’m just waiting for dinner to finished up in the micro and then I’m going to watch Sin City. I’m lookin forward to it even though I’m inexcusably uninformed about anything Frank Miller. I just thought the trailers looked awesome.

Lots going on this week. Get to see Jo again (yay!) even though the circumstances could be different. That part of my family’s going through some rough right now and I feel bad for them.

Work’s going well, I think. Busy. Still plugging away on the entertainment site and I hope to have time this week to wrap it up. We’re launching soon and I don’t think I have any fingernails left for all the biting.

Ahh micro’s done. Off to enjoy some sin 🙂

I’ve just had the most vivid dream and I want to get it down before I forget.

I was an unwilling accomplice to a gruesome murder in some kind of old victorian type house. Very brutal and I think it was the home’s caretaker. Suddenly I found myself holding a black sweater and standing in a line with very unsavoury types in an outdoor place surrounded by disgusting, stinking swampy water. At the head of the line was a sort of ‘processor’ to whom the people/things in line had to answer to for their crimes. The processor was a weird beast of some kind sitting at a table and they didn’t seem to know all the details of your crime, just that you were involved with one.

So what I gathered as I stood bewildered in line was that you had to convince the processor that you had nothing to do with it. If you successfully snowed him/it, you were given a white sweater and sent back to wherever you were.

Evidently I snowed him/it so I got my white sweater and was sent back along this weird, tiled and long hallway. Tile was a mix of weird green and yellow, smallish tiles. Anyway back in the house the evidence of the crime was still there. The caretaker was stuffed in pieces in a large sink and I was trying to stuff him down the drain to hide the evidence. I was really upset, I hadn’t killed the man but for some reason I was made to cover up the crime scene. There was dirt involved but the dream’s getting fuzzy now.

Before I forget it all, the final bit before I woke up was that I suddenly misplaced my white sweater and ran back along that tiled hallway to find it. Only I ended up back in that weird swamp holding the black sweater and the processors were more menacing this time and nothing I said was convincing them that I didn’t kill the caretaker. If you didn’t convince them something terrible happened to you but I’m not sure what – I want to say that you were “sentenced” to an even more disgusting area of this bizarre ‘world.’ Maybe it was supposed to represent hell or something. I don’t know. It was about this time that I woke up.

Sounds nightmareish eh? Well You would think. But I didn’t wake up freaked out. I woke thinking this would make a great story if I could stretch it out. So here I am blogging at 6:45am and now I’m going to be late for work.

Finally a few mentions of the mysterious Piano Man in England have popped up. An article on the 8th of this month says that most of the 200-odd leads they’ve had on the man have turned out to be dead ends, and his caregivers are losing hope of him ever being identified.

They also say that initially he’d been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but they have since revised the diagnosis and now think he might be an autistic savant. They say that the missing labels in his clothes can be a sign of that.

Anyway, click here for the full article.

Oi I need a day off. A day to myself, to do nothing. No computer *gasp*, no phones, no television – nada. I would like to just stare at the wall for the day and think about nothing.

My brain’s in overdrive right now and I can’t quiet it down. It’s exhausting. So many worries and things coming up and things on my To Do list, and tasks I need to get done at work, and those niggling little worries that nip at the back of your mind. I can’t get to sleep. I can’t concentrate. I just feel like I have so much to do it’s overwhelming you know? I don’t know where to start.

It sucks.

It’s been a quiet weekend. I checked out a couple of movies I’d been wanting to see. Been ages since I’ve been to the video store. Anyway, I watched ‘Alexander’ and ‘Constantine’ and of the two, I liked Constantine more.

Not that Alexander was bad mind you. It was all right. Good acting, big fights etc. I think my problem with it was just that I’m not familiar enough with that part of history and mythology to understand some of the references. A downfall of mine as I do like that sort of thing. I’ve just never made much of an effort to educate myself on it. And so the movie had little meaning for me and I found myself looking at the clock now and then (it’s fairly long.) I think I would have enjoyed it more, ironically, if Stone had focused on A’s bisexuality a little more instead of the same old battle scenes we see in all of these ‘epics.’ I say that’s ironic because I’ve read that he released this director’s cut that didn’t include much of the bisexuality angle due to pressure from ummm. small-minded people. I guess. Something like that anyway.

Constantine though was good. A very cool concept of an embattled and semi-bitter demon hunter trying to get back in God’s good graces by ridding the world of these demons only to find that he’s going to die of cancer soon and will be sent to hell to be amongst the very demons he sent there.

Yes Keanu is the star, and I think he gets unfairly stuck even now with his Bill & Ted past, but he can be good when he wants to be. Speed was good. Much Ado About Nothing was good. And so was this.

So Constantine – good. Alexander – Okay.

The rest of the weekend was spent watching some Firefly to gear up for the release of ‘Serenity’ on September 30th. CanNOT wait for that. Saw a trailer for another movie I’d like to see called ‘Hooligans’ (or I think it’s been renamed to ‘Green Street’ or something. I’m not sure.) Elijah Wood’s in it as a yank who goes to Engerland and gets caught up in football hooliganism.

But I bet it’s a damn Indie film and will never show up in this town 🙁

And now I’m watching Deep Impact on telly which is silly because I have the movie and could enjoy it sans commercials. I do that a lot though. Find some movie on and just let it run in the background while I do other things. Has to do with my weird need to have some noise going all the time. I don’t like the quiet.

Aaaand I’m just rambling now. Always a sign to shutup 🙂