::@:: Reality of Dreams ::@::

Wow… didn’t realise that its been nearly 3 weeks since I last updated this (if you exclude the update to Wordpress and uploading some stories). It being the festive season not much has happened, had a really good, if short, Christmas break with my parents. Came back to work for Wednesday and Thursday in-between Christmas and New Year and then managed to take the Friday 30^th to today off, which has been really good. I managed to relax and properly chill out, lying in most days and getting very little done. I’m still in the process of applying for this job, it seems to be going well and I’m still very hopeful that I will be accepted.

Lets see apart from that, its been really quiet. Bought a few albums but I haven’t listened enough to them to really get a grip as to if they are just ok or excellent. Got Soul Calibur 3 for the PS2, if you like “beat ‘em ups” then grab this one its fast and furious fun and it has quite a few nice new features.

Well, erm… afraid that’s about it really. Not a very exciting update I know, but it is a new year and there are, I am sure, many more interesting and thought provoking times ahead.

Laters

edit (#1) - http://www.weirdal.com/polka/angrywhiteboy.htm

Weird Al has a new CD (well, new to me, it came out in 2003) out and hence a new Polka mix, the above link is to a flash animation Daniel Rocha made for it and was linked to from Weird Al’s website… I found it funny, but I like Weird Al and I recognised almost all the tracks.

edit (#2) - I know two edits, terrible really but I just randomly (how unusal for me) felt liek sharing some lyrics from one of my favourite bands, Norma Jean:

Song: “Pretty Soon, I Don’t Know What, But Something Is Going To Happen”
Time can kill the greatest of men.
Even the strongest find themselves on the floor.
It Doesn’t have to be this way.
Time keeps moving on and on.
Fragile time can not waste again.
Fragile time can’t be laid to rest.
Fragile time can lead you to the grave or fragile time can start eternity.
It kills their walk, I watch them wash away.
Its all worth while.
Time goes on.
Song: “Disconnecktie: The Faithful Vampire”
It’s taken me 50,000 separate wrecks to get here,
And I’ve learned absolutely nothing.
As I’m standing here alone, upright and motionless,
I’m drowning in her sea.
The rising and sinking of every consciousness I’ve ever known.
Now detached and disconnected.
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment, endless hope and endless disappointment.
And I thought all I needed was just one breath to stay afloat.
For me it was like… like the breath, the last breath, the last breath that I never wanted.
Any of this.

I’m moving forward.
I never thought that this would capsize,
But this isn’t a boat, it’s a coffin!
And now I’m moving forward.

Into the sea… into the great sea.
So I begin with the end in mind.
The cycles of heaven, 20 centuries gone by, come home.

I’ve fallen three miles now… and I still can’t shake this dragon,
But the end is coming like a flood.
It is going to be a year for growing and the greatest amount of forgetting.
My sea is dying, but death is a doorway.
And at the very root of me I know this.
It’s the greatest reminder.
What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in, so I begin with the end in mind.