June 28, 2005
this is where cheerful reports happen!
yesterday i had the most pleasant dream of a bounty of hotel-room samples, bath stuff, and little vials of tea, then some people were looking for me while i was just revelling in treasure and hiding.
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October 19, 2004
other people’s dreams
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September 6, 2004
surely the world is full of ghosts
When I can’t fall asleep my mind always play the same trick, a rooten habit from I don’t remember when that has since become a reflex – when I want to find sleep, I always picture a book that I’m closing. Some people advised me to picture a grain of rice, getting smaller and smaller, then backwards. A wiser friend told me to not go to sleep unless I am tired. Yet this isn’t always practical, nor what I want really.
Another thing I used to do is make imaginary music videos. Or imagine myself leading educational sequences, documenting random little things. This similar technique was mainly done not at bedtime, but in moments of boredom, mainly in the bus, or waiting for someone or something to start. Anyway, it might just be described as dreaming awake.
I have no doubt that within my lifetime, brain monitoring technology will be advanced enough to map out in images the brain activity during sleep, and perhaps even to graphically recreate the memories of an awake subject. I find this much more exciting than any promises of weekend trips to the moon, or personal jetpacks.
Well, I don’t know why I went on this tangent..! My holiday weekend was quite relaxing and warm, and though I didn’t spent Labour Day in New York, I went to see another great show by Electrelane, finished reading a book, and digitalized old family Super-8 movies to make music videos in iMovie. They are a pain to edit on my old G3, but I keep thinking of new ones I want to make or songs to use. I made small web versions of my first two, here and here if anyone wants to look, but they don’t seem to work very well unless you have Quicktime 6, and even then. But if it does work, please stay tuned. Next on iMovie theatre, a dynamic bioepic of Chomi the cat!
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June 8, 2004
cities and the signs
Around 3am last night, I could tell something was going on. I awoke suddenly, the air was very still. My cat was pacing back and forth in the bathtub. This is it, I thought, tomorrow we will reach 30 degrees. It turned out to be indeed the first day of summer, which made some of us sit down and listen, and some others stand up and shout, in an abundance of signs, construction fever, and carrousels appearing overnight on the street. (I posted some pictures here).
My favourite signs are the ones that have been hung up next to electoral signs and these signs say : “Qui a VOLÉ l’argent des Chomeurs” which obviously means “Who STOLE the money of the people of Chom?” Haha. Then there is the ever enthusiastic neighbour who wants a sovereign Canada — Tuesday funnies from your correspondant up North. Perhaps I can post some more over the summer, as the mercury rises, and more signs keep creeping up… What are the words from your city?