this morning, there was a leftover taste of dream in my mouth. dreams, in fact. that’s what happens when you sleep not so well. wake up, remember, doze. sleep, wake up, remember. look around and hope that this is the real reality.

one dream was me and a razor, trying to make my hair look better by making it shorter. what i like to call “the billy corgan complex.” but i have to write a double album first.

the other dream was me and tattoos. two of them. the one i can remember was a musical symbol. the most generic musical symbol ever. the other “tat” i can’t remember. probably a peace sign on my butt. after all, i am a dirty hippie.

this afternoon, we were walking around at the street fair and we walked by multiple tattoo parlors. i was reminded of my dream and it became the subject of our conversation. then ugly made the suggestion that we get tattoos on our inner arms. a “6″ on the right arm and a “4″ on the left. for the world to see. i thought it was a great idea and i was very tempted to do it. but lady friend disliked the idea and i don’t really have any money anyway. so it will have to wait until i get a job.

instead of going on a mexico weekend getaway, we get to doggysit. plans change and it’s ok. i’d rather be in mexico, but it’s fun having a fuzzy friend around.

although, i liked him better last time when he had a buzzcut and looked like a little lion. now, he’s full of hair and it’s not as much fun. i thought about grabbing our new hair clippers and going to work. i’d be doing his owners a favor.

he’ll just have to stay hot with his mounds of fur.

“God doesn’t know where we are, John. He can’t see this island any better than the rest of the world can.”

tonight, we get lost, and it’s going to be good. more of locke’s past is revealed and i need to know! how did he become paraplegic?

during the last episode, i had a thought. i was reminded of a story arc in the old x-men animated tv show. stay with me here, people. there was a secret island called “savage land” where professor x and magneto were taken after being kidnapped. the interesting part: professor x didn’t need his wheelchair and could walk just fine after waking up on this island.

according to the wiki page, the savage land is a tropical island hidden in antarctica. it was created as an evolution observatory by an alien race, but later abandoned.

“We’re not the only ones on this island, and we all know it!”

this seems like a bad idea. i don’t like sharing ten consecutive oddities about myself. but since i can’t sleep and i’m feeling a bit gassy, what the hell?

1. i’ve been “retired” for most of my life. living in a condo association, having part-time or no-time jobs, and then moving to arizona. the longest i’ve stayed at a job was two years. i’m hoping that by the time i’m retirement age, i’ll have found the perfect job and i can just work there until i’m dead.
2. horror movies are my favorite. i’ve seen most of the ones i really needed to see. i like mid-80s and early-90s horror the best. i once went through an italian horror movie marathon. i watched every dario argento, lamberto bava, and lucio fulci movie i could get my hands on. it got to the point where the stories and effects were so bad, i just was listening to the wonderful progressive rock soundtracks by the band called goblin.
3. i take extreme pleasure in finding ways to maximize my consumer experience. just being a general consumer is not good enough for me, and i don’t really have any money to buy a lot of stuff anyway. so what i do is wait for my opportunity to be a bitchy customer. like the time when i got a giant nut in a fruit cup. or the time when a hot pocket had no filling inside. and just recently, i got a rice krispies treat without the treat. a perfectly sealed wrapper with nothing but air inside. i’m still waiting to hear back from kellogg’s on that one.
4. at one point, i owned enough dvds to start a small rental store. in fact, many people came to me for their dvd fix. it was amazing. i found deals online where many of the dvds averaged $5-8 each. i was getting a box in the mail almost every day, sometimes two or three. it’s not something that makes me proud. when i decided to start selling them, i was able to sustain myself without working for several months.
5. you should stop reading right now, because, sometimes, i like to “weed-whack” my nether regions. everyone’s doing it! there’s nothing gay or wrong about it. but i will say this: it takes a strong individual to get anywhere near his/her jiblets with a cutting/razor device.
6. when i was young, i would lie awake at night looking into the darkness of my room. i would try to imagine where i came from before i was born and/or where i will be when i die. all i could see was a blackhole of nothingness, and it took my breath away every time.
7. i hate most food substances with a milky white look or mushy, creamy texture. ranch, mayo, potato salad, cole slaw, any goopy salad, casseroles, and so on. i don’t mind fettuccini alfredo, however.
8. i really prefer not to be noticed, which is funny since i’m always the tallest one wherever i go.
9. i don’t consider myself obsessive compulsive, but i do have ocd tendencies. i think of myself as a perfectionist. at school, when i’m taking a test, i’m usually the last one to finish. wait, maybe i’m just dumb.
10. i wish i could be closer to nature. i like going on hikes, sitting on rocks, and just listening to peace and quiet. no cars or loud machines, just the occasional bird song or wind whisper. i think technology is the enemy. i’m addicted to it and it must be stopped.

thank you, have a pleasant evening.

i was just reading about how you can pre-order the new nine inch nails album year zero on itunes and download the single survivalism right now. it got me thinking, why the wait?

doesn’t it seem strange to have a system in place where people can download instantly, yet they can’t download an album until a “release date.” is it because the industry is trying to hang on to cd sales? and if they made albums available for download earlier than the cd, no one would buy the cd (potentially).

i love 4.8-inch pieces of plastic as much as the next person, but do we really need them? i like album art, liner notes, and lyrics. it would be great if you could buy a digital download package that would include all that stuff as well. you could be listening to the songs in itunes and looking at the artwork at the same time.

i think they should try selling an album early online. put a release date out there for the cd, then put it up on itunes before anyone can get ahold of an illegal copy. i wonder how many more sales they would get from people who don’t want to wait for a free version to become available.

i would pay $9.99 right now to listen to the entire new nine inch nails album, not just the first single. i would download the album for free, if i could. whichever is made available first, will be the one i choose. i sincerely hope i don’t have to pay.

this game is about availability, and they don’t seem to understand. with the introduction of digital music and instantaneous delivery, you can’t make people wait. if people are going to wait, then they’ll just wait for the free version, which is usually available before the “release date” anyway.