I don't get it.

I had some wierd "brick" (the movie) style noir dream last night where I got strong armed and thrown into a black van and ended up getting the shit beat out of me and on top of some tall flat complex style roof where some guy I went to highschool with who is actually alot like me but I'm pretty sure doesn't like me because I was trying to talk to his current gf (but didn't know they had a thing goin on) while I guess he was tryin to do the same thing first.

I felt completely powerless and scared (I get this alot when I dream I think its because I'm afraid of being afraid) while the whole time I was watching myself outside of my body and wondering WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?!?! and was angry at myself for not fighting back. He had a gun pointed at me and then he either threw me off of the rooftop or shot me and I fell off. Then I woke up out of a coma in the hospital and found out that someone had shot and killed my brother while I was asleep and I was angry at myself for being weak and trying to find out who did it so I could kill them.

thats all I can remember though.

Sometimes I have violent dreams but not really like that and I usually don't dream very often because I smoke alot and I'm pretty sure that prevents dreams.

One of the scariest dreams I had though ever and only a couple months ago (because I thought it was real). Was while I was standing watch on the bridge of a smaller vessel than my ship (like a large tugboat) watching the seas from the window towards the bow. On a ship when you're running through rough weather just like a boat it lists (rocks) from side to side and fore and aft too sometimes. Well I dreamed that the seas were really really rough. The roughest I've ever been in and water kept bashing against the bow and we were listing fore and aft unusually heavily. And from the window I could see the bow go up and then down into the waves, take on water and then up and down again. Then it went up really really high and down and I saw this huge fucking rogue wave the size of a tsunami towering over everything and then the bow shot straight down beneath it and all I saw was blue.

Thats the only dream I ever woke up in and actually yelled "what the fuck!" because we were in pretty rough weather then and while I was sleeping my body was listing in bed too just like the dream (which is prolly why I dreamed it).

i had a dream last night where i lay motionless and seemingly stuck on a couch looking up at a ceiling, and on the ceiling were a ton of large and grotesque bugs and i was watching them squirm and move and i spent the whole time just thinking "i hope they don't come down here"


catas your dream was fucking cool/scary, very artsy...

As much as I love Mark Twain, I always thought that particular quote was kind of dumb.

Like, the only other option for use in arguments I can't think of are anecdotes, which are Largely emotional and illogical to base beliefs on. Statistics on the other hand, are not emotional. They don't give a fuck about you, they will display truth whether or not you like it, because, statistics are hard numbers. The numbers can be used and abused in certain ways and can be made up of course. And hell, they can be misinterpreted, but so can anything used in any argument or statement.

nah, statistics are often used to represent things that aren't true. I guess infographics are kinda like statistics and my post probably sounds like someone preaching against stats, tho the oldtimers were probably only doing so to screw over poor people or something

actually most infographics are probably fine since they tend to be about fun or positive stuff or stuff that won't negatively impact people if it turns out not to be totally correct

I've been having some weird dreams lately probably because I've been listening to my own ragnarmusic before falling asleep. Most of them the general couple of towns nearby are all reconfigured, I'm at college but it's different in some way or another/is partially a hotel for some reason. Last night I dreamt in this tiny space where in real life it fits a Dairy Queen there was like 5 stores and this underground boiler room thing and below that some weird garbage dump thing with lots of cool stuff in there for no reason. Lots of the dreams had me going into these employees only areas and stuff and encountering weird things

also made an entire EP today

Edit: http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=83167.0

I want to find some of my old dreams I posted here, some of them were really good. like the one where my gay friend peed on my blue dad-jeans in the bathroom lined with urinals, or the one where everyone was trying to get in my lockless stall while I was having diarrhea and I had to kick the door shut, then one middle-aged man in a sweater vest managed to sneak in but he only wanted to help me out. everyone remember to back up your dreams on googledocs.


this one's not that good (don't read), but I like it because it sounds like it makes a point:

I get a lot of dreams that are continuations of dreams I had years before. the dream I had the other night I was revisiting what I can best describe as real-world castlevania cathedral-like building, with many high-ceilinged rooms filled with shiny hardwood staircases, fancy red carpets, and walls made of stone and lined with neat wooden bookcases. I repeatedly had to travel to the cathedral nave, each time taking the same route jumping across bookcases and swinging cages. this had something ambiguous to do with saving my imprisoned sister. I worried about her, but I'd also forget about her a lot and I usually felt pretty good.

in the nave, which was furnished with fancy upholstered hardwood chairs rather than pews, I listened to sermons about something alongside several hundred old men in gowns. I was the youngest member of some religious group following a pope-like man called stephen "the grey", who looked like Stephen Fry in a grey gown and cap. I was essentially his disciple or protégé but I sat in the audience with the rest of the congregation. stephen was the one giving the sermons, and after he was done we all sang songs about him and his accomplishments. grey was a holy color, and the rest of congregation and I wore grey hearts on our chests (made of construction paper and scotch-taped). after several platforming trips to the nave I found out I was going to be awarded some high-ranking position, which would help secure my sister's safety. but it was uncovered that I had previously written (years ago in the previous dream) a harsh critique of stephen's leadership and its negative effects on the community, so I was excommunicated and exiled to an island similar to the Dominican Republic/tropico for the rest of the dream.

there was this highly complex and rational religious/legal doctrine behind the exile, as well as everything else that had happened in the dream up to that point. I was well-versed in the grey doctrine and could only think in grey doctrine gibberish. in my exile I formulated huge gibberish arguments against my excommunication and my sister's imprisonment.

where did you go? oh japan....
 
I've never seen the part your at but those are the parts of japan I wanted to see, the places with some culture. If you end up near tokyo a good place to go is the hard rock cafe and if you get to yokohama theres this bar downtown called "captains".
 
I used to go there all the time with my buddy and ship-mates. Its kind of a seaman's bar but its nice, the girls are pretty cute and the owner is some cool ass african dude from ghana. If you find it or see it go there and ask for the strongest drink they have. It some incredibly high proof russian vodka that is illegal in most places. Also they sell a saki in yokohama that has a baby pit viper in the bottle and it makes your body numb. I tried to find some but didn't have enough time. Also there is this cool ass market near the yokohama train station that you can walk down and they have all kinds of different things for sale and little bars/clubs.

also in yokohama they have one of the world's largest ferris wheels, I wanted to go on it but my bud's a chicken shit and wouldn't get on it. You can see it from pretty much anywhere around yokohama. Pretty much all of the yokohama/namika(sp?)/tokyo areas you can get to and from by the subway system and its pretty easy once you figure it out.

thats the problem I had though not knowing where the fuck I was going and not having enough time to figure it out. You can get on the military base there too I think if you can play off like you're american and buy shit for way cheaper, I don't think we ever needed an ID. Also the port I worked at is in/near yokohama across the water from the ferris wheel.

My old ship might be there it looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Victorious_(T-AGOS-19)

it was built by the same company I work for now the year I was born. Which is pretty wierd I didn't know that till I got on.
 
 
JAPAN FAQS #1: If you're gonna eat japanese cuisine be careful what you eat because they like beef tongues/brains and wierd shit like that. But there is a badass thai resturaunt in yokohama that is one of the best places I ever ate at (cooked by real thai people).
 
JAPAN FAQS #2: Japanese people really like golf-driving. They don't actually play golf (I never saw a golfing range) but they just like driving. Theres this place outside yokohama where there are hundreds of them just hitting golf balls into nets. Its pretty hilarious I think, the attraction to it.
 
JAPAN FAQS #3: Japanese young people really like hip-hop culture and clothing. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw a thugged out japanese kid (there are a bunch). You'll prolly see what I'm talking about soon if you haven't already.
 
JAPAN FAQS #4: You do not have to worry about getting robbed or mugged in japan. Or atleast the places I went through.
 
I only went to White Beach/Okinawa/Yokohama and up towards tokyo but not actual tokyo
 

you a freak dawg
 
Which parts are you going to? I'm guessing you're gonna atleast go to tokyo it wouldn't make since going over there and not going to tokyo. But I didn't really like all of that recycled western capitalist/consumerism marketing garbage and they really take that shit to a new level. IE: starbucks on every corner and japanese kentucky fried chicken... Plus Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelena Jolie ect.. selling ipods and make-up.
 
They got an underground mall in yokohama with a cool fish/seafood market. And then theres Mount Fuji: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fuji
 
which you can see from all over that area, it gets pretty hard though with the smog sometimes and the highrise buildings/skyscrapers. That part pissed me off alot. Not being able to get a good picture of it or being able to see it. Kind of a waste. I wanted to go to it but A) I didn't know how to get there and B) didn't have enough time.
 
Do you know any Japanese? In the tokyo/yokohama area they speak english pretty well but if you go further south towards okinawa they don't speak english and don't like outsiders as much (or atleast americans(I don't really blame them)). I had to ask for a taxi and I had to play sherades with the girl at the counter (who had to get someone to help her) for like ten minutes before they figured it out.
 
JAPAN FAQs #5: You can tell when a japanese person is drunk because they wear this big shit eating grin and their faces turn red. I used to sit in the subway and count out how many of them have been drinking because its so easy to tell.
 
JAPAN FAQs #6: Japanese people love black people. Or are really interested in them. They stare alot and try to make more of an effort to talk to them because there aren't many of them over there and its unusual/oddity to them. (A black guy told me that)
 
JAPAN FAQs #7: Their cops are badasses; Japanese police are required to train in either judo or kendo. And they use these baton/boa boa things to take people down that run from them. I saw them on the street and I thought they were like traffic guides or something. They just stand on street corners completely still, kind of like the british gate-guards do.
 
Ok, i'm done ranting about japan. I might remember more if theres an interest but I'm just trying to point out some stuff I noticed, got to see, missed out on incase you don't already have your schedule full up and happen to come across these things.

those pictures are incredible

@Hero Bash: What part of "Terror" combined with "Tarantula" gave you even the slightest hint of impression that the person choosing this moniker was even remotely girl-like?

I'm trying to follow the logic, but it's got me genuinely baffled.