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A Mech Game and the Visitors Who Shredded Your House.

I went into a nail salon and met a guy who was really into a mech based shooter game and we were talking about his pc and how well he could run it on his machine and i ended up letting him know that a friend of mine was into it as well. The game allowed you to pilot a mech and shoot tons of waves of enemies in very fast and active combat and you could end up having them drop weapons and power ups but also “clues” and those clues would allow you to find places to drop below the map and learn lore about the pilot, the mechs, the future you were in and you could piece together stuff about various countries and the way they built and utilized their mechs and armies and military. The game didn’t require it but it was how you got a storyline out of it. The rest was ultimately a time attack mode or high score or survival.  I told The guy i was speaking to that my friend was really into it as well. I ended up calling my friend and we went over his house and we went into a back room, ki...

The City, Reconciliation.

I was living in a city, probably New York City, and it felt a little bit like a Gene Hackman 70s movie, maybe even modern like Heaven Knows What. I was dating someone different, someone new who I had never met before in real life. This girl I was dating had blue hair. And I was walking in the street, out of some bar or restaurant and I caught Beetle ‘spying’ on me or stalking me. And at first, I thought ‘How long has she been watching me?’ but then shortly after rationalized that it seemed that she just saw me through a window or enter the restaurant and hung around this one time. I was currently alone, and ‘confronted’ her by going up to her and she also had blue hair and I was smirking and she knew that it was a totally ridiculous situation where she was thinking something along the lines of ‘oh great, I know he’s going to say something about this…’ and I did, of course. I said, “oh yeah? Blue Is the Warmest Color, huh?” And she said laughing, “shut up!” When we were talking, she s...

The Inventory.

Had a dream I was in an inventory at a Gamestop and a bunch of us were scanning. There was a point where I think I fell asleep while I was scanning but I don’t know whether or not people saw me fall asleep. I couldn’t find my scanner. I also found some candy and was eating it. It was little chocolate fun size bars. I was singing a song that, in my mind, was very obscure, something that wasn’t weird or strange but a song that I don't believe anyone else would know. Over time I started to realize that Chelsea was also singing it. And then found that she wasn’t the only one singing it, that it was coming out of speakers in a store next door. So I made an excuse that I had to scan something in the Hot Topic/Clair’s next door. I went over and the song is playing and it turns out that this song is a very popular song, similar to singing a Coldplay song or a U2 song and it altered my perspective of what I thought ‘obscure’ was. I was in that store (and apparently had been scanning) i...

Flood of Consumers.

In a darkened store at 9am, barely able to see. Preparing the store to open, deep metal music playing in the background. Customers continuously manipulating situations to get into the store. Picking the lock, coming out from under gates, holding the door open for other people. And the room is dark, so all i can see is dark silhouettes of people for the most part. I continue to say we open at 10. We open at 10, man. And then ignoring the people and the store gets more and more crowded. Asking me questions, waiting in a line that builds and lengthens and i continue to tell them “We open at 10.” My voice keeps getting deeper and more aggravated. My employees start coming in and clocking in before they are scheduled, and i “know” they will leave in 8 hours so there will be no one able to close the store. 

A Haunted Room. The Exclusive Illusion Factory.

There was a haunted room in Rahul’s house. They were daring me to sleep there and it was the guest room and I’d slept there for months when I lived there. I was telling them that the dare wasn’t worth the time because I’d sleep there no problem. Rahul tried to describe the situation when he was left in there alone and tried to draw the face of the man who appeared before him while he was there but couldn’t. Kim also tried to explain how distraught Rahul was when he was scared but she was skeptical. Rahul stood on the back of the couch and was leaning against the wall. The ghost/man wore a beanie similar to Steve Zissou. I was sitting on a mattress under a desk in the room and a little girl came in and she was scared about something as well and came to me to be consoled.  I had this huge bag packed, like a military duffle bag and was running on an air strip to catch a plane or a bus. Only people who made it on a seat would be able to go and take this job, and apparently there were...

Earth Children.

I walked freely after the dream, as if everything sensual had the volume turned down. There was a new life to be coated in, an arborium to tend to. The soil smelled of roots and wood in its infancy. And while the actions we shaped our umbral bodies into were vulgar and banal, the ancient call through each other’s being was deeper than language, deeper than symbolism. We were all that survived when gods named new law.

Job Abandonment. A Lowly Considered Joke.

It was my inventory at Gamestop and I was working all day waiting for the other managers to show up and the district manager as well to begin prep but they never came. I was working ringing people up the entire day and had no chance to prep the scan at all. No one showed up until we were closed. I let them know I wasn’t able to prep because no one came to help etc. It was a new DM, a woman who I’d never met before and she understand. Rachel Gadomski also came and they were sort of frazzled that I hadn’t done some kind of scan and I told them it’s cool, we just scanned my inventory only a couple of weeks ago. The DM said I could go get something to eat. Wandered into a pub, probably in Britain? I had to pee very badly. As soon as I walk into the deli, I hear someone talking about how something that John Billings did was so incredible and had perfect timing. Somehow they were talking about Tottenham Hotspur. I walk into the lavatory and there’s a load of shit in the toilet with balled ...