furtive explorations

Last night I had a great nightmare about watching TV on a giant screen or small movie screen. Then this zombie like thing comes tearing through the screen on the left, long claw like fingers tearing the screen at the edge, pushing it sideways and climbing through the hole. Its face is black with white rings around the black and red eyes. The hair is gray and black, a cross between extreme dreads and matted filth. In many cases that might be redundant Right as it bursts through the screen and leaps at me, I wake up.

The other thing that is really bugging me, dream-wise is that I've now had like 4 or 5 falling dreams where I hit ground and have to deal with it. In one, I have superhuman flight capability that I discover after falling off a mile high version of the Seattle Space Needle. Unfortunately, I crash into the bleachers in a sports stadium before quite getting the powers under control so I wind up hovering above the sparcely laden stands, broken and bleeding from having smacked into the chairs hard enough to bust the floor out into the lower tier of stands. Ouch, Ouch, Ouch. I wish I could get the exact picture I imagined of the looks on the people's faces. That would almost make up for the two hours of non-sleep that followed.

And here I am staying up too late again and screwing up my schedule. Oh well, off to bed, perchance to dream of cool Matrix-like forest-fu, where I brush arrows aimed square at my heart away in slo-mo while marching inexorably to the villian's doom. Or maybe I'll dream of the awesome Wacom tablet that didn't fucking make it here for my birthday. How about a new logo for hostile here? I got a great idea that is waiting on that tablet. No, definitely the forest-fu one, yeah. =)

She's been a CNN Headline correspondent in Japan, a game show hostess, and has acted in a single film opposite the most amazing stunt man of this century...Jackie Chan (in Jackie's oddball secret-agent film Who Am I?).

Definitely a figure of authority I wouldn't mind having looking down on me...Michelle Ferre is an incredibly beautiful woman.

In fact, we watched three episodes of Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gachaman, the original, un-cut, KICK-ASS animation that was later raped, pillaged, plundered, and bled until you got the American Battle Of The Planets.

Sure, we all grew up LOVING BotP, but it does not hold a candle to the original Gachaman (the full name translates as "Science Ninja Team Gachaman"). Sure, we all grew up with the heroic stylings of Mark, Jason, Princess, Key-Op, and Tiny. But now it is time to experience the true power of Owashi no Ken, Condor no Joe, Shiratori no Jun, Tsubakuro no Jinpei, and Mimizuku no Ryu.

BotP is kids stuff, edited, watered-down, with its internal continuity destroyed and filled with insipid characters such as 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1. Grow up everyone, import the Japanese DVD's of Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gachaman, and revel in what was one of the most incredible animations of its day, that has spawned countless imitations.

Links that belonged in that post yesterday since I'm up =(:

• Battle of the Planets, actually we watched the G-Force variant, I think. At the very least it was mercifully the one without the fucking robot dog.
• Safety Alerts for all your nightmarish drug related death fears.
• TavistD The brand seems to be owned by Novartis but I dare you to find a single mention of "TavistD" or "clemastine fumarate" on their page.
• WinAMP rocks. They need to fix the AVS so that it will switch on the fly from effect to effect. Until then we have Albedo, Space, WhiteCap, G-Force, Climax, Geiss, and good old Cthugha!
• Hard-Core Rap has never been better than MCHawking!
• Peter Gunn. Henry Mancini was a musical genius of the first order in much the same manner that Blake Edwards is with comedy. S.O.B. may not be his finest but I sure love it. Others seem to like Breakfast at Tiffanys or The Pink Panther or even 10 more. Everyone pretends Operation Petticoat wasn't his. =) Nah, really, it is fucking funny too, you caught the bit where I made him out as a genius, right?

At least I got nothing done over the holidays, thank goodness for that. One last Holiday to get through and then we are in the clear till February. Well, if you count Epiphany as a holiday, I do since it is also my birthday. =) I'm going to be 2 to the 5th power this year. For the math illiterate, that is all your fingers, all your toes, all of somebody else's fingers and both your heads. Hopefully, any appendage irregularities will even out statistically. Thus if you have 6 toes on each foot, you should pick as your partner someone who lost a couple of fingers in a wheat thresher or playing with blasting caps or something. If you have 6 toes and your partner still has the normal amount of fingers, feel free to not count your heads...

For me, the big downer of the party was when this cute litte elfin-looking chick, almost adorable even, speaking to me for the first time all night when I hadn't asked her a question, leaned over to me, giggled and said "Heehee, that sounds like music from a porno movie, hehehe." The Peter Gunn Theme was playing. I love that tune. I was able to repress homicidal urges by leaving quickly, hopefully, with that excuse, DFA will forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye.

Normally I would link up a post like this but I'm late for dinner as it is so I may do it later. =P

Ooh the fever is making me woozy. That bit is cool anyway...