Friday, February 25, 2000

Dream: Free Cash and the Drug Dealer

So, I'm somewhere. While I am there, I find two thousand bucks cash. This is good. But, for some reason, there was a drug dealer there who (this particular drug dealer was played by Michael Wright reprising his role from The Principal) somehow helped me find the cash so deserved half. I was getting nervous because i didn't want to be standing around with 2 grand cash in my pocket. I explained this to the drug dealer who was getting edgy because I was saying I was going home instead of giving him his split. So I head home and get my bicycle, because of course I'll be perfectly safe from robbers if I am on my bike. I then in the spirit of fairness, ride off to give the drug dealer his half of the cash. When I find him again, he is standing with some others. I ride up, and reach down into my pocket to get the cash to give him his half. He gives me a look that says, "Not now damn it" and I stop. Ah, I notice that his parents are standing here too and if I hand him the cash now his parents will think he is dealing drugs. So I nod and ride off.
posted by Jeff Gatlin 2/25/00 11:41:57 AM

Tuesday, February 22, 2000

Dream: FBI vs. Air Conditioning

Trouble is brewing. My air conditioning in my car is broken. My mom and I head over to the family mechanic's house. When we get there, things have changed. Instead of just the old man that worked on cars, it's now a half setup shop with someone waiting at a desk. We go up to the guy at the desk and I ask if I can get my air conditioning fixed. My mom asks if they want any cheeseburgers. He says two would be good, so she gets a couple of cheeseburgers and hands them to him. He seems to be ignoring my question so I ask again. He says maybe he can look at it later. We leave and I am left wondering why he doesn't want to fix my air conditioning. Maybe because it is February.

Meanwhile, Muldar is worried because Scully was recently possessed by aliens. We are moving through buildings looking for something. Scully is elusive and hard to keep track of. Muldar is still with me though. We come to a room that has two little marbles or something on the ground. Muldar says, "Oh look, my testicles." and picks them up. Apparently, Muldar had recently been abducted and his testicles are replaced with alien implants. I wonder what this surgery must be like. By this time, the rocket that Scully is piloting begins to take off and we have to grab hold os something to keep from falling. The rocket launches and we are happy at the successfull mission. That's all.
posted by Jeff Gatlin 2/22/00 8:00:29 AM

Sunday, February 20, 2000

Dream: The Airport to Nowhere

Myself and several friends head to the airport on a trip. We get to the terminal and enter. The terminal appears to be a big round plane with everyone inside. Things don't feel right. Ah ha, it turns out this is not the right terminal, this is the terminal main node! The real terminal is a long way away so we head out to the street to try and grab some taxis. There are a heck of alot of us so we really need something like two buses. The last cab takes off before we get out there. So we wait... and we wait... and we wait... This is an awful lot of waiting for a dream, but we wait anyway. Then a guy comes up selling plastic trash cans. He has two models, a regular trash basket for 17 dollars and the same trash can with antlers attached to it for 274 dollars. I say, "What a ripoff! This guy is some kind of con artist." Eventually, some airport officials notice the large crowds waiting for taxis and say they will take care of us. They guide us into a terminal door just a bit further down from the last one. Inside they have us get into conveyer belts that hauls us away to somewhere unknown. That's all I remember.
posted by Jeff Gatlin 2/20/00 8:25:17 PM

Wednesday, February 16, 2000

Journal: Java Boy is Born!

Witness the devestating power that a single java class can have on an ordinary musician! Be afraid!

Who knew it could be like this! MuhaHaAhAhaHa!!!! -Jg
posted by Jeff Gatlin 2/16/00 8:23:37 PM

Saturday, February 12, 2000

Dream: The Magic Traveler

I find myself in need of visiting my homeland of Texas. So, without a second thought, I hop a plane and head over there. During this flight there are many people and some with guns. The ones with guns need to get through the aisles and try brandishing them but a lot of the people don’t move out of the way. I grab a gun and start shooting in the air and running down the aisle. That gets em out of the way.

Later I am at my Texas home and in bed. I think I should get up and actually force myself to wake up. The awake Jeff realizes he’s not in Texas, but in Missouri. This was interesting so I go back to sleep.

At my Texas home, I realize that I am running out of time so need to get on with my business. So I hop a plane and fly to Oklahoma. There I meet up with friends who I used to work with, now working at this other place in Oklahoma. I see that many are gathering in my grandmother’s house to start working. Apparently this other place they work at is in my grandmother’s house. I find inside that a gathering is occurring and the head of this company is about to announce the new project that they will lead. I see one of my friends sitting nearby and wonder where another is so I can give him good pop in the nose. The announcement begins. The head honcho says we are going to build a gaming center off the coast of Italy near the war. He is quite proud of this idea. My friend nearby says ‘We are doomed, it will cost more to rebuild it after they blow it up.’ I decide that time is running short and consider hopping another plane.

Before I can do this, I find myself in a bed again feeling sleepy with the need to wake up. A sorceress appears before me. She demands that I tell her the secret to seeing the future and things far away. I explain to her that there is no secret… you just do it. Just think about what you want and do it. I say “Do, or do not!” A symbol of a crimson bird’s eye in a gold circle appears above me. I jump up and make an L shape with my arms in some sort of Tai Chi move. The sorceress is gone. I begin to run. There are things, people or creatures, that try to stop me but I simply think at them and they are torn apart or pushed away.

I then realize I have no need to run and think myself home back to my bed in Missouri. I then demand to myself that I wake up, and I wake up. Dream over.
posted by Jeff Gatlin 2/12/00 1:19:48 PM

Wednesday, February 09, 2000

Dream: The Composer's Show

A fellow composer was at my place wanting to hear my latest stuff. As it happened, I had a demo of my intro music to the Babylon 5 game, which was recently cancelled. *Side note: I have not written music for the B5 game, it's a dream. :) * So I fire up the demo. The 3d video is quite impressive. The music is good too, but it is evident that I wrote the music before seeing the video because the timing of the musical accents don't match the video hits. Still, it is what I have to show. The visiting composer and his wife nod their heads politely and start name tossing, throwing out the name of someone I recognize but can't remember. I defensively toss out the name of a composer friend who got me the job, who apparently lives in... somewhere... I can't remember the name of the city... then I remember, it's somewhere in Hurst, Euless, Bedford.

Later, I have to go to Elonka's office to get a coke. Once there my nose starts running so I grab a T-shirt and start using it to wipe up the ton of snot that has been gifted to me. Elonka comes in and says I should take some anti-biotics and that Tracy has some in a skin patch form. I prefer to wait for the doctor and examine my snot covered T-shirt, wondering who's shirt it is. Fortunately, I remember little else.
posted by Jeff Gatlin 2/9/00 11:57:14 AM