Right some stuff.
I cooked some dinner, watched CSI: Miami and then headed out to the cinema. It was a nice 30 min ish walk to get there which was good and left me time for thinking.
Caught the 11pm showing of Dreamcatcher which wasn’t bad. It certainly wasn’t great but it was watchable. I have more hope for Thomas Jane as The Punisher after seeing it. There was nothing really riveting about it, the book captured the claustrophobia and the sheer terror so much better.
Just before it came on tho, was The Animatrix: Final Flight of the Osiris which wasn’t bad and had some damn good effects in it. Making me look forward to the real thing even more.
Walking home from the cinema was a much nicer walk. There was for the entire way back the ending of some sponsored run/walk/march of some sort. So for the entire 30 minute walk I was being passed by groups of women in their underwear. A quick google has shown it was the Playtex Moonwalk in aid of breast cancer research. Strangely enough no-one was collecting along the route, I guess it was too late at night to wander around asking for money.
I mentioned dreams earlier today and I was talking to a friend about them in general a few nights ago. Something that I have been getting quite a bit lately, well I say quite a bit but I just remember it happening 3 or 4 times in the space of a few weeks. It’s just one of those things that happens to me every now and again. Pretty typically it’s just after I go asleep and it’s never happened after a few hours sleep or early in the morning when I’m slowing coming around to walking up. I’ll be in a dream of some sort, this varies alot but at some stage I’ll be walking or running somewhere and in my dream I trip. I have this sudden feeling of fear and then I am wide awake and just for that split second I am falling. I know that I’m lying in my bed but I’m not really, I’m in free fall and my body reacts exactly as if I was falling. It’s a very strange feeling, after another couple of seconds I realise exactly what had just happened and the feeling of being ok is quite a good feeling. It also never throws me out of sleep like a nightmare might for example. I can always settle down pretty quickly after waking up. I guess it’s just the sheer relief.
So I was walking to the cinema and I was thinking. Strangely enough I was thinking about religion. It’s been a topic on and off my mind for a few weeks now. It’s not something I often give any thought to, in fact I tend to dismiss anything like it out of hand. But someone I know is being affected by it and so I’ve been..well honestly avoiding the issue alot but spurred on tonight by a random mention in a conversation earlier.
It must be nice having faith. It’s something that at least you can always turn to, if you have that belief/faith then it’s a comfort level. Hm, I think that pretty much covers it actually, I thought I’d get more mileage out of it. Guess not.
On the flip side, walking home after there were no more half naked women (darn) I was crossing Battersea bridge and listening to Us by Mull Historical Society. That reminded me that I had booked tickets to see R.E.M. in a couple of months and they were supported by MHS. The thought of gig just made me smile, and cheered me up instantly. This then tied into the thoughts on the way to the cinema, music is so much better than religion. There is nothing that music can’t make better. It can take your mind off everything and just force you to smile, which is by all means a good thing.
I’ve seen R.E.M. live before. It was in Lansdowne Road, Dublin in ’99. It was the first proper concert I ever went to. I had to borrow the money to get two tickets from my mom. It was also the first official date I had with someone who I then went out with for quite a while. That relationship ended quite badly, really fucking badly in fact. She was a strange girl, not saying I’m not strange but she was a strange girl. Heard from her a couple of times after we broke up (I did the dumping before you ask) but nothing much. Anyway the gig was great, and we didn’t have great seats for it at all. It was a big stadium gig and we were way at the back. So seeing them in a small venue which only holds a few thousand and having standing tickets is a very good thing and I look forward to it a lot.