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freckles_and_doubtYow. Last night was not a good night. Went to bed around 11pm, woke up at 2am, could not get back to sleep again. Lay awake until 5.30, at which point I summoned the gumption to crawl out of bed and dose myself silly on muscle relaxants. Woke up with a hell of a jump at 9am, feeling obscurely guilty and very, very zoned. Managed to do DT today, but not much else.
Life's little ironies. My copy of Radiohead's OK Computer will not play in my computer CD ROM drive. I can't work out if this is an accidental irony or a deliberate statement on the part of the band.
Wolverine_nun, lovely lady, found me a copy of Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Shall read it when I've caught up on sleep.
Life's little ironies. My copy of Radiohead's OK Computer will not play in my computer CD ROM drive. I can't work out if this is an accidental irony or a deliberate statement on the part of the band.
Wolverine_nun, lovely lady, found me a copy of Murakami's Norwegian Wood. Shall read it when I've caught up on sleep.
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Not OK Computer
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 09:53 am (UTC)Your sleep patterns are ... disturbing. I mean, I just skip on sleep. That way, when I do crawl into bed, my pathetically grateful body just zonks out until the alarm wakes me again.
Re: Not OK Computer
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 11:38 am (UTC)Erm, yes, I have nice-quality mp3s of OK Computer, if you'd like them :)
I have just started reading Norwegian Wood. I'm finding it really beautiful, and very sad, which is mostly why it's so beautiful :)
vera
Re: Not OK Computer
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:23 pm (UTC)Hmmm. If Norwegian Wood is sad, I may put it off a bit. Still not sleeping properly, and lack of sleep makes me prone to depression anyway. For some reason, I spent most of last night on the run from the police. Long, involved dream entailing climbing down the outside of buildings (I diagnose too much King Rat) with a small bag containing my worldly possessions, and hiding out on Lake Malawi as a waitress in a hotel, while classic American buddy-cop-movie overweight policemen ineptly pursued me. Too exhausting.
Re: Not OK Computer
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:27 pm (UTC)My sleep patterns are disturbing because they have no pattern. I am a small fluffy bit of thing on the eternal shifting winds of wossname. *starts new religion*
several
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:25 pm (UTC)2) However, my dreams are not quite as dramatic. Last night all I remember is I found out (in my sleep) that the SA movie which won an Oscar nomination (of which I'd never heard until the Oscars were announced) was in fact a moving drama starring Brad&Jen and directed, bizarrely, by Frederic of Hollywood (having dropped the k). What exactly made it South African, I do not know.
3) Apropos of nothing except, possibly, making you jealous, yesterday I found beautiful new hardcover editions of James Thurber's "Life and Hard Times" and of the Snark, with Mervyn Peake illustrations. This made me very happy, and made me think of you.
drat!
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:25 pm (UTC)Robynn
Re: drat!
Date: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:21 pm (UTC)Did I ever get around to telling you that I found, in the second-hand bookstore in Obs Main Rd, a couple of Angela Carters which had belonged to you? I don't think I could afford to buy them all at the time, but my copy of Wise Children has your name in the front.
I think both our dreams were probably unduly Hollywood-influenced. Although quite a lot of mine involved becoming extremely irritated with the particularly useless, weak and wandering boyfriend I had in the dream-world, and eventually taking off without him, leaving him to be incarcerated by the police in a fourth-storey flat, out of the window of which I climbed with considerable cat-woman flair. I think his weak and wandering presence had something to do with my past romantic life, if only in negative, because I don't think I have had a relationship with anyone who could be called useless, weak and wandering, by any stretch of the imagination. You could apply a lot of very strong terms to a lot of them, but not weak and wandering.
Re: Not OK Computer
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 07:16 am (UTC)vera
Re: drat!
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:04 pm (UTC)Is most weird, I offloaded so much stuff at various points - last time I was in SA, I kept seeing my old furniture, clothes etc when visiting friends. It's nice that it's still around. But odd.
re: starts new religion
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:35 pm (UTC)Totally off-topic, but your comment reminded me so strongly of the above quote - from Gurps Transhuman Space(THS) - the best hard sci-fi post-cyberpunk rpg setting I've encountered - highly recommended :)
Hmm, Ok, it can be related to the topic, as THS has one of the main ideologies being Info-socialism, i.e. ripping MP3's isn't theft - "intellectual property is theft", and creative folk should be supported from the public purse. There is a cold war between the WTO copyrightist countries and the blockaded info-socialists. Very plausible I'd say.
A
Re: starts new religion
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:25 pm (UTC)Rules Of Thys Blogge: you don't have to be on topic. Topic, so done. Besides, randomness is an essential tenet of my new religion, didn't you notice...? :>