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[vovat]

Last night, bethje and I watched the HBO documentary Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story. It was pretty interesting. I'm somewhat surprised by how much the documentary makers were allowed to film. I get the impression that King Tone (former leader of the Kings, now incarcerated), especially, was arrogant enough to think he would actually come across well. I can't really understand the gang thing in general. Maybe it's because I'm a suburbanite.

I had a dream where I was washing the dishes and listening to They Might Be Giants. In the dream, I was half-asleep, and I kept hearing the wrong words to the songs. As usual, I can't remember what any of the alternate lyrics were. I DO remember that I was listening to the first disc of Then, and two of the songs I heard were "When It Rains It Snows" and "The Famous Polka." I really wish I could recall more of what comes up in my dreams, so I could see if it's any good under more conscious conditions. I remember I once dreamed of the phrase "5000 orchards and merry salt," which I think must have been derived from the title of the Ben Folds Five song "One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces." Just the title, though, as I don't think I'd actually heard the song itself at that point. Then there was the time I dreamed of a couplet something along the lines of:

I just jumped a total stranger
What did he do? Bathe in light/anarchy?

When I was researching Leonardo da Vinci back in my junior year of college, I came across a similar poem that Leonardo had dreamed up. I think my own dream-poem was from my senior year, so maybe I had Leonardo's on the mind. Who knows?

the Romantic Test finished!

you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR. "I am unique" Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive. How to Get Along with Me Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me. Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself. Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision. Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little. Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting! What I Like About Being a Four my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level my ability to establish warm connections with people admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor being unique and being seen as unique by others having aesthetic sensibilities being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me What's Hard About Being a Four experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved feeling guilty when I disappoint people feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me expecting too much from myself and life fearing being abandoned obsessing over resentments longing for what I don't have Fours as Children Often have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s are very sensitive feel that they don't fit in believe they are missing something that other people have attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc. become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce) Fours as Parents help their children become who they really are support their children's creativity and originality are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings are sometimes overly critical or overly protective are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele The Enneagram Made Easy Discover the 9 Types of People HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages You liked the test? so please RATE it :-) You are not completely happy with the result?! You chose BY Would you rather have chosen: AY (EIGHT) CY (SIX) BX (NINE) BZ (FIVE)

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 25% on ABC You scored higher than 51% on XYZ

Link: The Quick and Painless ENNEAGRAM Test written by felk on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I'd say most of that is fairly accurate, especially the part about not wanting to be told when I'm overreacting. Scratch the thing about being able to pick up other people's feelings, though. I'm horrible at that.

Comments

[loz]

"5000 orchards and merry salt"

Write the song. Write it. Write it now...

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I really wish I COULD write songs. I've occasionally jotted down ideas for lyrics, but I'd be too embarrassed to actually show them to anyone and ask if they're any good. They're mostly nonsensical, stream-of-consciousness type stuff. And I'm pretty much musically illiterate. Still, maybe I'll try it at some point.