I wonder if I’m unrecognizable, or am I too familiar? In the last week I’ve had three separate ask me if they’ve met me before, or where they know me from. In each case they were complete strangers. It leads me to wonder if I just look that “vague” or “normal.” I like to think I stand out on occasion, or at least if you meet me my personality stands out and doesn’t fade into the background. But apparently I look like other people, or at least they look like me. So as ‘me’ I’m unrecognizable, because when strangers look at me they don’t see me the individual, they see the person they want to see, or that they think they know. Little bizarre.
Category: Daily Life
These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
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- The Metaphysical Club
- Blade Runner
- Fight Club
- Alice in Wonderland
- Through the Looking Glass
- Lamb
- The Stranger
- Inferno
- Into the Wild
- American Gods
- How to Build a Time Machine
- Watchmen
- The Fabric of the Cosmos
- The Godfather
Distraught
I had this dream last night where I was a horrible person. Like sadistic, cruel and just plain mean. I woke up and was distraught. I managed to get back to sleep, but had dreams about how bothered the I was by the previous dream. By the time 6 am rolled around I had forgot the specifics of said dream, but I do remember it bothered me, and that’s kind of strange.
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-The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys
– Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
– Shelia Divine – New Parade
– Pulp – Hardcore
– The Clash – Sandinista
– Radiohead – Amnesiac
– Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
– Wussy – Left for Dead
– The Get Up Kids – On A Wire
– the Pixies – Doolittle
– The Real Tuesday Weld – I, Lucifer
– Spiritualized – Royal Albert Hall October 10, 1997
– Beck – The Information
-Hyperbola – Long Dub Mini Goove
– Sky Larkin – Kaliede
King of the Castle 7
There is this guy who goes to many of the small shows out here in Cleveland. He has one of those little flip camcorders. He sets it up in the middle of the floor on a stand and records the whole show. He then grabs a set list from the bands and throws it up on Youtube for free under then name King of the Castle 7. Its a pretty sweet way to revisit shows I’ve been too.
I mention this because last night he posted up the Blood Red Shoes. Go ahead. Go catch the concert I was at. And I have become a huge Sky Larkin fan in the last few days. I bought two CD’s at the concert and another Sky Larkin CD on iTunes. Its a bad habit, that when I find a band I like I go and pick up their whole catalogue. But whatever, they are up there with the Blood Red Shoes. Check them out.
VP
I had a dream I was President Obama’s Vice President. He had just been reelected, except it was a giant inauguration like when he first got elected. While we are sitting in front of the Capitol Building the First Lady is rushed off stage and down a tunnel. A few seconds later Obama decides he should go too, and I stay to see what’s going on.
Everyone is either ducking behind a small stone wall or running away. I don’t hear any gunshots but it seems like people are hiding from a sniper. I’m looking around but can see anything. I start crawling around behind some small siderails and all sorts of politicians are screaming and hiding. I see Secret Service men running by in a large group. They see me crouched down behind a wall and I hear one say “There’s the VP. What a joke. I wonder why he was chosen to be Vice President.”
I took that moment to think about it myself. Was it for the youth vote? I didn’t know. I thought, in my dream, that like most jobs in the world, I wasn’t bad at it. I actually was stepping up to the responsibility I was going to have as Vice President. I wouldn’t be a bad Vice President, I’d be good at it. At the same time I wondered if everyone thought that, and wondered why I was really picked. Despite being ready and knowing I’d be good at it, I felt inadequate and like I was a joke.