Have you heard any good music lately? Last night Alex and I went to see the Triplets of Belleville with Cathaleen and Richard. Got to his house on time for pick up. He was eating topless. Not ready. Erg! Typical and amusing that even when he tries, it still happens. Late. Called Leen to tell her and she laughed! She laughed! She laughed because she's always the late one and this time, finally, she'd won. 2 ladies were trying to push their car out of the traffic circle. It was slightly uphill and proving impossible. Pulled over and Alex saved the day. Late, but never too late to help a fellow human bean. Parked and ran to the theatre into the welcoming grin of an old friend. Weird movie. I liked the style but didn’t really enjoy the story that much. There were parts, well, pieces, that were conceptually and visually fabulous! Bruno the dog is such a great character with tons of depth. He barks at the subway every 15 minutes when it rips by. He then dreams he is the subway train staring into his own house at the passengers and he rips by. We went to Flavours and had coffee. Leen and I shared cheesecake. The plate was surrounded with raspberry and chocolate syrup. We both smeared our fingers in the Raspberry and didn't touch the Chocolate. She stopped eating long before I did and insisted I finish it to save her. I did. And loved it. Had flashbacks during the feast of when she and I ate a whole one. Flashback to sobbing, drunk on tequila, on her bathroom floor while dyeing her hair… crazy. How often does a friend come along that you have a heart to heart with on the bathroom floor? The album Talkie Walkie by AIR was playing which I recognized yet couldn’t place. Richard tried to convince me that it was my subconscious thinking I knew it because it perfectly expressed my mood and cold easily act as the background, elevator music if you will, for my mind. Intriguing idea. But, I actually own the album and have listened to it only a few times, mainly before falling asleep. I'm sure it is deeply engrained in my subconscious thought. Maybe it plays in the elevator but I picture a garden even though there is no where for speakers in any kind of garden I'd grow. We talked about dreams and all promised to remember the light trick the next time we weren’t sure we were dreaming. I said, “Well, what if you wanted the lights to flicker in your dreams. What if it was part of it? It would disprove the whole light theory because they would turn off and on even though you were definately dreaming." We thought on that awhile and decided to try to try it anyways. I once had I dream that Cathaleen and I were running all over an island that we rowed out to in a tiny boat. Then we went back to the shore because she was saying she had to get back to Richard. We swam out to the boat but Richard wasn’t in it. I asked her where he was and she told me that Richard was the boat. What’s the meaning behind dreaming Richard is actually a boat? Richard keeps her afloat? That’s a beautiful thought. I was exhausted by the time I got home but the coffee kept me up and attempting to stare at a ceiling too far away to see in the dark. I could only imagine it's texture and spent some time doing so. What else can you do when you desperately want to fall asleep? I can't count sheep. I have trouble visualizing them as I've only seen the cartoon kind in any sort of detail. I dreamt that I was up all night. I dreamt I was awake for a full 24 hrs and then had to get out of bed to go to school. When my alarm went off I had no way of knowing if I had actually slept. I should have tried the lights. In the conversation of AIR Richard told me to download some AT THE DRIVE-IN. I have. They sound familiar. They suit my soundtrack perfectly.

in basements we will hide
amnesia in our alibis

they kept a close eye
on your get well incentive

-At The Drive In