Randomness to end the year

I was able to sleep, eventually, last night, but as I feared, I was plagued with odd dreams.

It seemed like on continuous dream but in it my uncle was back in the hospital because someone fed him a nice meal that happened to disagree with him, and as I was talking with my mother and brother, I ate a piece of chocolate with the metal wrapper still on it. I went looking for a place to spit this out, and I ended up in a conference room. After I had cleared my mouth of the refuse, I spied a large monitor on the wall and decided to watch porn on it. After a little bit of time, a group of people walked in and started talking about various people. It turned out that this was a search committee for a job, and I had interacted with the candidates. I recommended "Chantelle" and then had to leave.

As I said, it was odd.

Yesterday, as TEA and I were discussing Narnia, he brought up reincarnation as well as the possibility of preternatural existence. I was at a loss to point out the flaws in his argument and that disturbed me a little. If these are things he wants to believe in, that's okay, but I still have trouble understanding. It did prompt a conversation about karma and such and I was able to use my standard line regarding this. The universe doesn't care.

But...

It did get this song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.



Which isn't a bad song to end one year and start another.

I have made a couple of resolutions for the upcoming year and the one that I am going to share here is that in my home, I will be a dietary vegan, which isn't that hard to do and I will try to maintain a vegetarian lifestyle out of the home. I will make mistakes, and I won't be a zealot but...I just feel better when I am not consuming animal flesh and that is what is about.

And then there is this from someecards.com...

Follow-up on the products I knew nothing about...

A few days ago, I mentioned that there were products being advertised that I knew nothing about.

Now, I am putzing around the house (and I won't go back to sleep, I have learned my lesson after last week) and I saw the commercial for the Pos-T-Vac but this time, I paid attention to the music playing in the background (well, it was what made me concentrate on the commercial in the first place, as I had my focus elsewhere).

Guess what it was, folks?

What clichéd song do you think was being used for this product?

Yep, you guessed it...



"Whatever gets you through the night"

Now, when choosing this song, do you think the commercial director took into account the lyric "You don't need a sword to cut through flowers"?

Just askin' is all.

For the record, I used the Anthology version because I posted the album version a couple of weeks ago and I hate the repetition.

Good morning , Wednesday

1) More awful terrible no good dreams last night.

Why would I be smuggling heroin and why in little baggies in my stomach and colon?

2) I don't understand QC today. Could it be that I am too old?

3) Could this be the most awesome combination ever? I think so.

4) Continuing after last nights' Strange Days Indeed post, the listening to of John Lennon increased.

I give you:

Strange Days Indeed

I am not a fan of the Beatles (no, I do not hate them, though this is a good guide to hating them) but (and this is largely because of my mom) I am a huge John Lennon fan, and I think one of the reasons I don't like the Beatles as much as I should is because Paul's tracks are so much better produced and it makes me believe that the Paul, George and Ringo were being "mean" to John.

I was thinking about this the other day when some blog (and I can't find the damned article now) was writing about the now iconic Lennon NYC t-shirt photograph from 1974 and the conditions under which it was taken. (Damn, I wish I knew where the link was.)

I remember when Lennon was shot. I remember my parents reaction. I remember it well.

I have hated Catcher in the Rye since I first read it when I was eleven or so. It hasn't gotten better as I have gotten older. In fact, I find adults who consider this novel to be their favorite or an example of great literature to be vapid and ultimately dismiss all their opinions.

Maybe it is because the book is a piece of trash, or maybe it has to do with Mark David Champman but that is off topic. I just hate the book, and there could be underlying reasons why.

Anyway, my mom and I were talking about John Lennon and his role after one of the insipid Beatles/iTunes advertisements came on during The Chris Matthews Show and she believed that John Lennon mattered because he had transcended his role as a pop star and had become a political leader, a proto-Bono if you wish, and the was a real reason that the FBI was always following him.

He would be 70 now, and tomorrow is the anniversary of his murder, and I wonder what he would think of the world he helped create. Would he love Julian's art? What would he have thought of Cibo Matto?

Would he have an iPhone?

Strange days indeed.