The next time you say "forever," I'll punch you in the face

[vovat]

Let's see here. I slept pretty much all morning, except for when I was taking bethje to work. I had some weird dreams, but I can't remember most of the details. Trying to return home after some event was a major recurring theme, though. It was at least the second time I was trying to get multiple cars back home from somewhere, which really doesn't make too much sense unless I'm actually buying cars at faraway locations. There was another dream that involved wandering around a mall, which happens in a lot of them, and I can't say I really know why. Malls and schools are constantly recurring dream settings for me. The dream I remember the most involved some festival (I think it was supposed to be Mardi Gras, although none of the events really had anything to do with it), and there was a show by artists including Corn Mo and Frank Black. Frank was singing one of his songs that I don't know so well (I think it might have been "I Need Peace") and trying to get everyone to sing along, but few people knew the lyrics.

On the subject of music, the new Neko Case album, Middle Cyclone, is quite good. I haven't picked a favorite song yet, but the one that get lodged in my head the most often are "This Tornado Loves You" and "People Got a Lotta Nerve." I'm not sure why she chose to end the album with "Marais La Nuit," a thirty-minute recording of crickets chirping, but I guess I can safely skip it from now on. Still, I don't really like to skip anything when I listen to an entire album, which is also a problem with records like John Linnell's State Songs and the 6ths' Hyacinths and Thistles.

The other day, I picked up the fourth issue of Marvel's Wonderful Wizard of Oz adaptation. I haven't read the whole thing yet (not that it will take me long when I do), but I have to say that the Wizard's beast form and Jellia Jamb's retro-futuristic wave hairstyle are standouts for me as far as the art is concerned.

Comments

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Malls and schools are recurring settings in my dreams too-- in fact I had some mall-time happening in my dreams last night too come to think. Schools make sense from an interpretive standpoint in that they usually have something to do with you learning or trying to learn something in real life at the time, or you're stuck on some old emotional thing that is similar to something you used to feel back in school. Malls I can't figure out as well. Maybe it represents The World in general-- they're self-contained, everything you might need or want is available at some store or another... but you have to pay for it. That sounds like life. But not necessarily much like my Mall dreams... I don't think I'm ever buying anything in a mall dream, I'm just sort of wandering around meeting people or trying to get to events by a certain time in them.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Most of my school dreams seem to be about my childhood anxieties, and often about tests and assignments for which I'm not prepared. With the mall dreams, I usually either can't find anything I want, or I come across something cool that I can't fully check out before waking up. But I think a lot of both my school and mall dreams are because they're compound buildings, and can be found all over.

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

They show the Wizard's beast form? Awesome! There's never enough depictions of the beast-Wizard. Maybe it's just me, but I think the disguises of the Wizard were misplaced; I would have rather read about disguises that challenge the party rather than ones they don't understand. So, Dorothy still gets the head, the Scarecrow gets the fire, the Tin Woodman gets the winged lady, and the Lion gets the beast.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

They show the Wizard's beast form?

Yes, they show all four forms.

I believe it's Annotated Wizard that mentions that the Scarecrow could have appealed to the head for brains, the Tin Woodman to the lady for a heart, and the Lion to the beast for courage. Dorothy seeing the ball of fire wouldn't make much sense, though.

[poisonyoulove.livejournal.com]

Even I skip the song Nevada about 95% of the time. ;)

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed that they cut the actual song part so it was even shorter (and less interesting) than in the demo.

[poisonyoulove.livejournal.com]

Yes. I know they hate when we prefer the demos, but sometimes I really wonder what they were thinking.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hey, if they didn't want us to sometimes prefer the demos, they wouldn't make them so easy to hear. {g}

[poisonyoulove.livejournal.com]

They seem to have stoppedletting us hear them, though. Unless I'm just more out of the loop than I realize.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, Dial-A-Song no longer works, so that probably has something to do with the lack of demos in recent years.