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random snapshots from the past couple of days:

a man in a wheelchair with tree-ring wrinkles on his face showing every single thing that had ever happened to him. a face written in braille.

a man with lips permanently pursed as if constantly waiting to be kissed.

an old black woman with a face that looked like dissatisfaction.

a rain that turned into a downpour at my request.

InterMission. Good film.

i had a dream a couple nights ago that i was in the sears tower, and was determined to get to the top story. of course, everything stood in my way, inclusing people dressed as houses and some incredibly out-of-season easter bunny. after pushing my way through the crowd my papers were finally approved to go to the story i was requesting, and i took the elevator up. when i was on the 37th floor, I discovered it was an indoor self-sustained park. curious, i got out of the elevator and unsheathed my camera. the thing is, whenever i would try and take a shot, an old man or a child would get in the way. I became frustrated, until I looked more closely and discovered the old man was my paternal grandfather and the child was me at age five.

Odd, huh?

So. Uh. I feel really weird right now.

I had three dreams last night. They followed the pattern of dream, wake up into another dream, wake up into another dream. That happens a lot and wouldn't be a very big deal except for the fact that the first dream lasted for about thirty years. literally. I dreamed I was living my life- at normal speed, mind you- until I was around 53 or so. then I "woke up" into the body of a 22 year old. Imagine the culture shock on that one.

The other two were fairly normal, which is also weird. in the first one, JG and I were discussing L and how awesome she is, and this got into how the key to any truly romantic evening is a the perfect fire, which J posited that he knew how to make. He instructed me to go in and build one, and he'd show me what I was doing wrong. I sort of started, but then I got really tired and went to sleep, whereupon I woke into dreaming that I got a call from EP talking about JC for about a minute before I passed out. then I woke up again and that's where we are right now.

...I really hope I'm not dreaming about making a livejournal post.

I had basically the most awesome dream ever last night. I was visiting Mari in NYC. I'm not sure why she was living there, but whatever. Now that in and of itself would have been a cool dream, as we spent a couple days together, saw a show, went out clubbing, you know, cool. About a week passed. But here's the meat:

Her (gorgeous and undoubtedly expensive) apartment was right off of Central Park. It was early spring, and I'd decided to explore the city. I came to this gated enclosure, drawn by some awesome piano music. Turns out this musician was none other than Ben Folds, who I'm a huge fan of. Sucks that I couldn't get In, but somehow I'd wandered into some sort of erstatz backstage- by which I mean a trench and the chain-link-barbed-wired fence was the only thing separating me from the Foldster.

I stood there for a couple minutes before noticing something odd- someone was shimmying out under the fence. As it turned out, it was none other than the vaunted musician himself, uncharacteristically playing an electric guitar. I fell into this puddle of idol worship, which isn't something I usually do, but then again, I don't normally dream about musicians. He was playing this solo- by this time he was rocking out in the trench- and I hesitantly approached him. I was getting closer and I asked half-jokingly if I could touch him- to this I got a vigorous nod. I touched his knee and just got this amazing energy from him. That of course is when his head of security showed up to make sure he was okay. She saw it was just me, and she escorted him back to where he was, you know, supposed to be. We all parted ways amicably, and I was rushing back to Mari's to tell her the events that had just transpired when I woke up.

Now, if this dream comes true, that would be badass. Make it happen, universe!