Service Bell

Hiiiiii.

I am listening to Service Bell compulsively. And I don't even have the track so I have to click play on Youtube every two minutes. It's so gorgeous. Here it is:

Actually since I heard the Dark was the Night compilation yesterday, I have been listening to little else when I am on the computer.

Metric when I am out. They are so addictive and Gimme Sympathy gets stuck in my head all the time. I heart Emily Haines, she is so pretty and stylish, and her voice is prettier. Studied with Angelia yesterday, we switched ipods and she was introduced to Metric while I acquainted myself with Dark was the Night. <3

Sleepless by The Decemberists. I am madly in love with this. It made my day (night) when I heard it yesterday, and it's so beautiful and makes me happy. Love Colin Meloy's voice. And the piano + strings + everything about the song. Except maybe the super repetitive chorus but I don't really mind listening to it a thousand times over.

Am being surprisingly generous today, must be the pretty music.

This cup of wine

Of salt and brine's made me sleepy

Sorrow sows

A field of tears that will never yield a single penny

That I don't owe

of Evan and Chan

We were on a tour bus of some sort. Don't know who we were, just some assortment of people I know. Parents included. Then one by one my band friends and percussion juniors started preparing for a sleepover. OH YES and my cousins and sister too. And I remember seeing Sherry and Ri Sheng and Celine but there were more people. Anyway they would go into this room (my dreams are never logical) and come out all packed up and bulging.

They left one by one for the sleepover. And I asked someone where it was held, and the answer was Queenstown. Which was apparently Celine's house (though I doubt this is true in RL). The last of them left together in a group. We were driving through a desert and I caught a glimpse of a horseman with a whip and everything, who was apparently bringing them back to civilation? the city? no idea. And I wasn't packed when they left even though I wanted to join them but there was no time and no one else to bring me back. So I had to continue on the bus.

We reached our destination. And um, there were pigs. Like as the bus was turning into the carpark thing, there were pigs everywhere. Big ugly pink ones and smaller cow ones (spotted like black and white cows, but fluffy and with bigger ears) and tiny little pink piglets. And I wanted to take a picture of one and a guy outside with the pigs held one up for me but the bus moved forward and I couldn't take the picture.

In a dream that might have been related if I remembered the missing parts, we were on a spaceship (different people, not anyone I know personally). And someone, I think me, went out to kill some things? But I was still on the ship, as a different person I think.

Anyway there was some crisis so we needed to evacuate. And there was this pod thing leading to the escape pod (my impression was that it was a plastic bag. ??) but it was broken and could only fit two but the four of us left (the others had already got in) just got in anyway and held on and we went upupup. And we got into the escape pod but I said 'Where is [me]??' because I thought it was unfair they were leaving [me] behind.

So four of us got out again, ran... somewhere but one of us turned out to be a traitor and the three (four??) of us scrambled back to the escape pod. (Do not question the screwy numbers, my subconsciousness does not appear to be able to count.) And we grabbed on to it just as it was leaving and the compund was going to explode. Or something. But someone got left behind and I let her because I was too busy trying to save my own life. Which sort of disturbs me.

And then we scrambled into the pod and it appeared over a city, this market-like place. I think it was 'our' world that got taken over or something. And my character (Not me, It might have been Claire. From Heroes.) was piloting it and trying not to get noticed because there were authority figures hunting us down. And it was a little bit scary, trying to get as high as possible. Because it was steered with my mind, and to go higher I had to concentrate. But it kept dropping back down.

So yes we were looking for some housing thingy?? I have no idea why. Only we had no idea where it was (aerial view of city) and the people after us knew what we wanted to find. We flew past various places trying to give them the slip. I remember hiding in a tree while plotting to fly past this heavily guarded (military?) facility to get to another section of the city and our hunters came by. So instead we flew past this research building that was um, emitting radiation. And we were all :o. And I started having a meltdown so someone else took over. Niki, from Heroes. Because I remember her face at the table at a cafe we stopped at. Only she started having a meltdown too.

Right before I woke up, I dreamt of three people in a classroom who were putting on gloves and something else from a pack of three. They was kind of Barbie doll sized in the packet but they fit them just fine. There was gold, silver and black and they were trading so that no one got gloves and the something else of the same colour.

That is all that my brain gave me before I woke up at 9.30am, extremely sleep deprived.

This is the Dream

Patrick Wolf > Perez Hilton

Transatlanticism

The Atlantic was born today and I'll tell you how
The clouds above opened up and let it out

I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere
When the water filled every hole
And thousands upon thousands made an ocean,
Making islands where no island should go
Oh no

Those people were overjoyed, they took to their boats
I thought it less like a lake, and more like a moat

The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door
Have been silenced forever more
The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
It seems farther than ever before
Oh no

I need you so much closer

I need you so much closer
So come on, come on

In the deepest ocean,

MATT HALES IS <3!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Yes I am sorry but I just needed to get that out. He is adorable. No kidding. His blog(?) posts always make me all melty and smiley. And after reading his latest I kind of imploded and went AWWWWWWWWWW and I really needed to get it out so yes here I am typing this.

Strange and beautiful, he is.

Saw a cat on the way back. Was clean and cute and I Interacted with it. A little.

Watched Terminator Salvation which was actually pretty good (I am really not a movie person) but umm really sometimes I think they just throw the romance in for the fun of it.

Skynet (okay I can't remember the name now) reminds me of Mordor!! Everytime they had scenes with the outskirts of Skynet I would just be all Frodo!Mordor!MountDOom! Hee, LotR geek I am.

Oh and after the movie ended Jamie leaned across to talk to me and the first thing she said was 'Christian Bale is very good looking!'

Had buffet lunch and okay I realised why everyone looked at me weird when I said I was going home for dinner. I'm still full, and I haven't eaten dinner. (Just watermelon and some chips and Twisties. Hah.)

I got tons of new songs from everyone's favourite Hamster and they make me so happy. Rachael Yamagata made me want to listen to her whole album which is rare because I get bored so easily.

And Feist. So brilliant.

P.S- It is cold (cool?) for the first time in forever!!!!1 Which is awesome but I am wearing a jacket even though I like the cold but it really is kind of cold.

This is how my heart behaves

At the bottom of the sea

Okay so since I didn't go for Math lecture this morning I was intending to do some Math until I had to go for the Bio lecture... Only I got kind of distracted, so um.

Lookie, it's Ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Hee. I am going to watch the Thumbs Down and Scotch Mist webcasts when I get home later.

Edit: I forgot to say, that song is awesome'. :D

Your eyes,

Helloz.

I just read an article about Twitter in the paper and the only reason I bothered to read it was because Owen Pallett tweets. Prior to my discovery of his Twitter page, I couldn't care less. Oh well.

My knees acheeeeeeeee. I feel old. On the bus today my hips were aching. Srzly. I have no idea how that happened.

Had my Econs paper today, which was all very well for... the first half hour or so. And after that I was just randomly throwing stray half formed notions of impacts and policies in.

After that, there was lunch and boring SGC briefing which made me laugh at first because it could also stand for Stargate Command.

And then to town to use my Kino vouchers. And I bought a copy of The Time Traveler's Wife! Am happy.

Btw, books are expensive. (Hardcover of Trudi Canavan's new book was like $40, which is very very sad.)

Borders layout nicer than Kino's. But no more Swordspoint sequel. However, just got another discount coupon in the mail. Which will be used for Kushiel's Mercy (and to fund mine and Pam's future library). <- I just retyped that thing in brackets about five times and I know it's still wrong but I honestly have no idea how it's supposed to be. English = fail.

HMV has nice CDs. Must remember not to go there often, staff will remember me as weird random person who spends an hour staring at CDs but not buying anything.

Their only Final Fantasy album is gone!

Oh yeah, and for some reason most of the pretty music that I want happens to be imported and costs like $30 an album. :/ (So if anyone happens to be going overseas, please let me know...)

I want vinyls! So pretty and classic, though I have nothing to play them on. (I went to look up vinyls on Wikipedia, and I kind of want to be an audiophile. Only, too much techobabble so I can't be bothered.)

Now that my next exams are three weeks away and I am not in immediate danger of failing, slacking does not seem to be as attractive. It's my default state anyway, but I do not feel the urge to start stalking people on the internet or whatever.

It is past nine, I can go look for food without being too much of a pig!

Cheers.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

(I think I might like The Beatles!)