April 29, 2007
As good as gold...
Who was it that first decided that gold was valuable. I mean when you look at the stuff, its largely useless in any sense. Its too heavy... its too soft... its not particularly attactive (at least to me)... the purer it is the weaker it gets. I mean, what braniac picked this yellow crap off the ground and said THIS is what we are going to base the monetary economy of the realm upon. At least a diamond is hard enough to be used on drills or as focals for lasers and such. But this sickly yellow rock... I'm going to kill a race of south american natives over. Yeah, makes sense... (sarcasm added)
Posted by Ravennacht at 01:44 AM
February 23, 2007
Predator/Prey
Sometimes I think that what humanity needs is a natural predator. (no, not a sexual predator, those get fed to the sharks first) We mess up the planet and spread with wild abandon like mice without a cat. A community festering as it grows, distracted by meaningless things... just wanting more for the sake of having it. Ruining more, consuming more, and wasting more for the shit and giggles of it. Where is the balance to it. Where's the big arse land shark to cull the herd. The rabid super sized house cat on a rampage for its owner with a side of kibble and bits. We cease to evolve because we have no genetic need to. Technology is our false evolution. We are carried on the back of our technology. Sustainability and time. There is a limit to all things.
Posted by Ravennacht at 11:37 PM
February 15, 2007
Dream - There Can Be Only One
This one was about Highlander. You know, the movie about cutting off the other immortals' head and saying "There can be only one." Me and my friend, Lin, were both immortals. She had caught another in one of my rentals and had got into a fight. Called me about it being a trap and how she was injured and to bring my sword. I go over and find nothing, no sign of anything. Was wearing the requisite long trenchcoat, a neat steel gauntlet that could be used to break a sword if I was lucky enough to grab the opponent's blade... and a decent double edge. Maybe this dream is to be continued.
Posted by Ravennacht at 09:04 AM
February 14, 2007
Dream - Heroes
I had a dream that I was in the Heroes world. That I was attacked by one that could adopt the features of the person they touched. They adopt your features and appearance, you are stuck with theirs. Then this person stole a large amount of money and I (being the one that appeared to have stolen it) was blamed for it.
Posted by Ravennacht at 11:46 AM
February 11, 2007
Dream - Niagara
Dreamt that we lived in a house looking over Niagara Falls. Right on the precipice overlooking it with the mist coming up out of the falls. For some reason the house ends up empty, with a people walking thru it looking at it with a realtor. I can't find my vehicle to leave, nor my money or anything to get me somewhere else, so I decide to walk. I find Sierra loose outside and get upset cause I can't find a carrier to carry her in or a leash to walk her with. I watch a grizzly bear swim across Niagara and not go down the falls.
Posted by Ravennacht at 10:22 AM
February 09, 2007
Dream - Satan's Kitten
For some reason I had a dream that one of my high school friends, Julie, was downstairs in the living room having a long conversation with Ian. When I come in I find Cricket in Ian's lap, worn out and exhausted and one of Satan's children (my name for the trio of wild cats that live outside - a younger litter sibling of Cricket's) lieing next to her. It's dark striped with an undercoat layer of pumpkin orange color (more dark than orange though.) This is the kitten that is somewhat developmentally stunted... a runt as it were. The thing is nearly a munchkin (wouldn't that be a money maker.)
I freak out and go into a tirade about how that animal has no shots and claws and likely fleas and lord knows what other parasites. The thing gets up and promptly digs its claws into my leg, getting attached and raking deep... drawing all manner of blood. Which naturally makes me scream and try to pull it off, but it just digs in more. Julie starts yelling at me not to hurt the thing, while Ian in slow motion gets to the porch door to open it, like I have been screaming at him to do to throw this cat out. Cricket keeps coming over and checking it out. I throw the cat outside and it promptly tries to get right back in. Scratching at the patio door repeatedly as I slam the door.
Posted by Ravennacht at 09:07 AM
February 05, 2007
Dream - Dogs
Had a weird dream last night. Revolved around the fact that a family friend had gone out and gotten us a dog. A blue-tick hound. And I was extremely upset about it... not wanting it.
Now, considering the fact that we currently have no dogs. And the devastating nature in which we lost them. I can understand my trepidation in not wanting another or not being ready for another one right now. What is somewhat puzzling to me is why it was that friend that was the source of the dog... and why it was that kind of dog.
Posted by Ravennacht at 01:26 PM
December 17, 2006
Charisma
Source: www.dictionary.comCharisma:
1. A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm.
2. Personal magnetism or charm
Charisma is something that dumbfounds me. Its like a bright beacon that draws others to the person that has it, shadowing everything and everyone around them. What kind of mentality exists in the mind of a person with such charisma... is it self assuredness, self-centeredness, extrovertism, a love of being the center of attention?
Being the opposite, the introvert, the person that wants to drift to the back, away from the center... I find myself observing those that exhibit this infectious characteristic upon the masses. What powers the intensity. What powers the drive. I just don't really get it. I am certain I don't have much of it.
Posted by Ravennacht at 10:30 AM
October 01, 2006
Open Letter - Kafi's Challenge (Hollywood Movies)
Dear Hollywood Moguls, Cheesy Actors, Sycophants, Wine Swilling Writers, and Money Chasing Couch Directors:
Given that falling weekly ratings, weak ticket sales and poor tie-in sales are not breaking through the smog fugued basal ganglia that you call a collective hive mentality... allow us to translate. YOUR AUDIENCE IS BORED.
Why you ask? Quite simply, you have failed to deliver anything that is mildly original to entertain us in movies or television.
Instead of striving to deliver anything that is new on the screen each season, you continue to cookie cut shows from the same vein, this isn't double-mint fun ala Wrigleys. Take for example the multitude of Law and Order spinoffs and CSI clones. How many versions of the same story type can we stomach. Have you not seen what happens when something is copied over and over... it fades to obscurity, oft damaging even the brilliance of the original. Sin no more... fling not the sacred cow original upon thy fires of greed for the sake of a few weak suckling calves you call spinoffs. We don't want to watch them.
Allow not your jealousy of a productive idea by a competitor to lead you down the lane of shameless replication. Again, you think we cannot notice when there is more than one nanny show or wife swap theme... but it just happens to be on a different channel? Come on now. Next time you even think of copying a theme from another network, do us all a favor and just slam your head into the refrigerator door repeatedly until you forget.
Finally, let us delve into the greatest sin of all. The perpetuation of remakes. If you are so desperate for a decent story, do not think that you can delve DEEP into the past to resurrect mild television and movies for a market that you believe never saw the original. How many POSEIDON ADVENTURE ripoffs can we handle... the boat flips over, people try to get out... not a great difference there. Some should never even be made (BEWITCHED). Use some common sense here... slamming a decent actress into a bad movie... still leaves you with a bad movie.
In closing, attempt to consider why cable has seen a rise in viewership, whilst network television continues to take the flume ride down the flusher... why so many people wait for movies to come out on DvD for rental rather than paying to see the theatrical release. Stretch the envelope on ideas, don't use something already done.
Signed,
Apathetic Viewers
Posted by Ravennacht at 10:17 PM
August 22, 2005
Premarital Mathematics
A synopsis of a recent conversation with my grandfather which I found amusing. Witnessed by Heather and Kyle. Amazing the discussions you can get into when you can outrun a cane thwacking.
ME: Grandfather, we've been doing some math involving some dates and we came upon a connundrum.
GRANDFATHER: What would that be?
ME: Well... when you subtract my mother's birthdate from your wedding date to grandmother... it just doesn't seem to add up to 9 months.
GRANDFATHER: That's cause she was premature.
ME: She was a pretty heavy baby for being premature.
GRANDFATHER: (peers intently over dark glasses) Fine, she wasn't premature.
Conversation continues over a stack of photo albums, until he thrusts a finger at a picture of a funeral home he worked at when grandmother was pregnant.
GRANDFATHER: Your grandmother and I lived here when she was pregnant with your mother.
ME: So what you are telling me is that you were getting busy in a funeral home, on top of being not married before you got busy?
GRANDFATHER: *peers about for cane*
Sinner
Posted by Ravennacht at 01:48 AM
August 19, 2005
Brady Matriarch
Given: Carol Brady had three daughters prior to second marriage.
Given: Carol Brady did not seem to work at any noticeable job during second marriage to architect, Mike.
Given: Carol Brady has live-in maid Alice do all cleaning and cooking.
Connundrum: What exactly DOES Carol Brady do all day long while the kids are at school and Mike is at work? Do you see shopping bags? Do you see clandestine meetings with other men? Do you see jogs through the park with Tiger? Are there puzzles lieing about, canvases to be filled with paint? I am confuzzled. Maybe she was the real Unibomber.
Posted by Ravennacht at 12:00 AM
July 14, 2005
To Sleep or Not... or Not... or Not
How is it that you end up falling asleep when you aren't tired and don't want to sleep.
Yet, when you want to sleep, when you haven't slept forever, when you are bone weary blah blah blah insensible... you can't get a single wink. This is some ironic comedy right here.
Posted by Ravennacht at 04:36 AM
July 05, 2005
Ecosystem jumps.
How did I become a flippery fish in the ecosystem so fast! I didn't even get to enjoy mollusk status! I just joined the thing two days ago... I be a microbe, now a fish! I feel gyped.
Posted by Ravennacht at 11:56 AM
May 10, 2005
Sleep Rituals
In order to sleep, I MUST have a fan on (even in the winter) OR have one of those waterfall sound machines on. The sound is what allows me to go to sleep and stay asleep. HOWEVER... If I hear a light switch, or a door latch, I wake up immediately.
The room has to be absolutely dark. If the least bit of light hits me (whether from the window, or a light) I wake up.
Have to have two pillows under my head. Sometimes have to have one pillow under my knees to keep me from flopping around all night, plus it serves to alleviate back issues.
Tend to wake up every hour too.
Posted by Ravennacht at 02:17 PM
April 17, 2005
Laundry
I am this person. A person who makes sure dirty laundry goes into the clothes basket, not linger upon the floor of my room. Carries ALL the clothes baskets from about the house to the laundry hamper. Spends hours every day doing laundry for the house. Sorting, washing, drying, and folding.
and yet... he never seems motivated to PUT HIS CLEAN CLOTHES AWAY.
Yes... they all seem to linger in stacks on my recliner (til I want to use it).
Figure that one out.
Posted by Ravennacht at 01:11 AM