Mass marketing dream

Oh my goodness. Perhaps I shouldn't be wearing socks to bed! The new season must be slowly kicking in. I had another vivid dream although this time it involved a conversation and someone asked me what my favourite drinks were. I answered Coke, Coke and Coke.

Argh! I've drawn the line again and there is to be no more Coke in this body. I've had my fun with them (including those pissy little money orders/cheques I received from their drink machines being crap) and it's time to put my money towards a better cause. Lol!

Auntie Y, redemption is near!

Naked dream

Man, I haven't had a stuck outside being naked dream in ages. At least in this one I was wearing a shirt, which I remember I was trying to sort of pull down the corners of. I wonder if I was wearing shoes! lol

What made it a funny dream, and I was laughing at myself in the dream (from a 3rd person perspective), was that I was cruising through a souvenir store, casually trying to choose out some undies to wear on the way home in the train.

I'm laughing at myself right now! What a classic...

Guitar Hero - Mario Bros theme

For anyone who has played Guitar Hero and totally blown their mind. This one would be the ultimate, for nostalgia and RSI.

Death mask

I did have a thought when the National Treasures Exhibition was on tour and passed by here in Adelaide last year. I remarked at how queer it was to have a 'death mask', how utterly rock n roll it was, how macabre. Perhaps it was from the lack of picture evidence, to capture the cold killers face after it had been embraced by death, as if proving "this is the last you'll ever see of this man".... Check out the death mask of serial murderer Frederick Deeming, yet another killer who's fetish it was to bury bodies under the floor. Could have been from South Australia!

I also starting thinking how as a lasting tribute one might make a death mask with puckered lips, to be attached to a limber pose made of plaster, as a lasting water feature in the front garden of the family home. Awesome.

Check out the National Treasures of Australia.

'The Hobbit' graphic novel

The Hobbit

graphic novel (revised edition)

2006

This new edition of The Hobbit graphic novels includes more drawings and expanded text. I've been reading it in bed before going to sleep and finding that it's the best thing for me. If you're too tired to read, you can always just look at a picture for a few minutes and imagine...

The Hobbit is such a fantastic little tale and the perfect intro to Tolkien's larger body of works. I remember reading it for the first time (the novel) and noting how he wrote almost flippantly about fantastical events/people, whether they were small or epic. It is less bulky than Lord of the Rings, written for a much younger target audience (namely, his children), yet somehow captures a simplicity without being moralistic or much like a fable. I appreciate children's stories written 'just because', not to get across some underlying message.

I'm really looking forward to The Hobbit movie, whenever it comes out. There has been rumour of it being produced in the near future and fans/actors are starting to wonder whether Peter Jackson will direct or not. To tell you the truth, I don't even care. I loved Star Wars and Empire/Jedi weren't directed by Lucas and the hold my attention even more than the first. Here's hoping though it still captures that essence of Middle-Earth that Jackson and WETA were able to give us a glimpse of.