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Dead Cat Dream

Suddenly awakened. Was in the kitchen with Lynae, heard a sick cat’s wail from behind me. There on the doorway threshold was… I guess I expected it to be a sick Aloysius, but maybe it was Katie back from the dead. That sound, though… sounded a lot like Ginger, now that I think of it. Such a realistic sound, I thought something in the house has woken me up.

Visions afterwards were colorful distortions of living beings, like a 60s flashback warning film passed through a pastel oil bubble.

Then there’s that painting in the hallway… Dead Cat Dance.

Dead Cat Dance

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Slept Till Afternoon, Giving Up On School

I’m sitting between Lauren and Mickey in Ms. Fitzgerald’s class (although the room is Ms. Snowden’s).

A test she gives has two sides, one a question on how to make a single page layout in WordPress without access to the file system. I can’t be motivated to write out the answers to these boring questions, and I know it. Still I receive a decent grade, perhaps because the instructor is passing on.

There’s a broken red light sitting in bowl above the dishwasher. Electricity comes on. I notice the bulb is still broken, and I replace it with a pink bulb taken from another light cord.

Snippet of conversation:
“how many in our peloton (pel-o-THON)?”
“¿What is this, Barthelona?”

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Night After First Time 𓂀

In a forest and see a deep fryer by side of a dirt road. Like a barbecue grill, but red, with what looks like a red gas container connected to the side. My mom and I decide we don’t need to take it. We go over a small tree-lined ridge and down a steep hill. We pause to lie down and take a break, on our way to what looks like a rundown railyard below. Mom is large, maybe six times my size, like when I was young and much smaller. (This dream took much effort to remember.)

During 𓂀 I had a feeling I last felt when I was in my first bedroom, in Santa Rosa, maybe 1-4 years old. Flowing through the bars of a crib perhaps. The trainman clock on the wall, the one from Germany. Indoor lighting, not sunshine, nighttime. The wooden ‘Robert’ blocks, the ones with the rainbow letters. Some of these recollections were seen, others felt.

In a later dream, inside an abandoned train car, the side has a painted-over sign reading ‘FREE AIR’. A couple passes by the end of the narrow hall and I jokingly call out “Ah! Other people! Ah!” Another train car painted orange and green has an ad for a neighborhood Irish radio station/bar, 9.53 FM — I think it’s really 95.3, but the misplaced decimal point is for charm (and to throw off lazy authorities).

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A (Brief) Dream About Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders is 87 years old.

(I really gotta stop staying up until 6 in the morning. And I gotta stop then being woken up almost immediately with lots of stuff to do.)

(There’s just not a lot of detail in a dream like this. Honestly, it’s a silly thing to save. I just honestly don’t know what meaning/value anyone — including but especially me — could hope to derive from such information.)

(Except to say that keeping a dream journal is important. Somehow. Maybe I’ll find out?)

Until then: Bernie Sanders is 87 years old.

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Nature Danger

Corey Matthews (from Boy Meets World) won’t shut up in class because his questions are too existentially important. I’m playing a drum made from a record album, a tiny gap between the drumhead and the frame. The rhythms are extra cool.


Controversy in Trump’s military as a small Navy ship, The Ensign, is ordered to the front of a convoy despite being a fairly weak ship in rough seas. It’s never seen again. Recordings of radio chatter have the ship asking for confirmation of the order, but proceeding anyways per protocol. Barely audible, a radio operater for the convoy can be heard saying “we’re not even going to announce anything?”


Coming round a riverbend, I spot one — no, a pair of huge herons, twice as tall as a man. Nature danger: a bit like being in Area X, or another Vandermeer world. Despite knowing how strange this place is, my companion (Jennifer? Who’s Jennifer?) runs chasing an allurement through a long series of doors. I chase after, but she’s gone, disappeared by mysterious menace.

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Lakeside Hot Tub Boat

Fancy hotel on a lake’s edge. I’m walking along a narrow cement wall just at the level of the water. In a lakeside dip rests a sunken boat made into a hot tub, snooty-fancy (yet friendly) folks hanging out in it. Boat actually crashed there ages ago and has been worked into the design.


Going into small men’s locker room a half hour before closing, while no one else is there. Can’t find my own locker because there aren’t enough graffiti scratches on it.

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Mixtapes

Avantgarde Japan: The 80s

Songs from the renaissance of innovation felt in 1980s Japan. Featuring musical experiments by Haruomi Hosono, Midori Takada, Yasuaki Shimizu, World Standard, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, and many more.

  1. Yasuaki Shimizu – Tachikawa-Seiko 1-Shiseido-Honda (medley)
  2. Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth – Non-Standard Mixture
  3. Miharu Koshi – Parallelisme
  4. Inoyama Land – Glass Chaim
  5. World Standard – My Low-Chuned Banjo
  6. Mariah – Hana Ga Saitara
  7. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Primordial Germination
  8. Haruomi Hosono & Yellow Magic Band – Fuyiyama Mama
  9. Midori Takada & Masahiko Satoh – Nahm
  10. Mariah – Shinzo No Tobira
  11. World Standard – El Sur (South)
  12. Miharu Koshi – Capricious Salad
  13. Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth – Alternative 3
  14. Yasuaki Shimizu – RICOH 2
  15. Midori Takada – Catastrope Σ
  16. OOIOO – Oizumio
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Need More Outlets

An electrical outlet has been disconnected. I’m charged (har har) with digging around in the wall and rigging a new line together, maybe with more outlets. Wait, was that a dream or my wakeup protocol of fantasy and interpretation? It’s far from morning as I now write this.

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Dream notes: June 14, 2018

  • Behind the back fence of my middle school, there’s a big sandy area with plenty of hiding spots in the tall bushes.
  • I pick up fussy a fussy young girl, my neighbor’s kid Daria, or perhaps Molly O’Brian from Deep Space 9.
  • There’s a big house, a computer and TV setup, a green window that looks like mirror
  • Collecting fish for a new fishery
  • Dating Robin, a girl I knew in person very briefly, and who once publicly defended me when no one else chose to
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We Go To France

Was headed to France with Lynae and trying to make our flight. Packed too much stuff, including motorcycle helmets. Found space in a lot for the truck and entered the terminal, only to find that we’d missed some narrow window and the flight was delayed… perhaps by a matter of days! To compound that, the space between the terminals was huge (which I complained was designed poorly on purpose to prevent walking across). We drove the car to another terminal where we could wait and still catch our flight, only to find there wasn’t long-term parking, just a vast grassy field.

At some point we had trouble getting into the airport itself and went down a side entrance — unfortunately, it was in fact a side exit — for Disneyland. Yeah, I know. But I’d been in that area before and recognized the log ride, the wood-post fence, and the terraced tropical villa on a further hilltop.