I'm up late because I've been having nightmares lately and would rather not have another tonight...

very scary dream early this morning...scary because while the content was scary i didn't flinch at all and what does that say about me? in the dream I was in a room with two metal boxes of organs (all the organs and innards of the human body) that were probably from two different humans and I was supposed to shift through everything...it was extremely slimy and there was someone to the right of me (I don't know who) when all of the sudden a newspaper article (which I couldn't read) and a cat appeared next to me (the cat was my childhood cat Boots, I think)...the cat started purring and said, "See what happens when you fall in love with humans." or maybe it was: "see what happens when humans fall in love."

awfullll except that the cat wanted me to pick him up and hug him, which I did...there were other dreams before that, but I don't remember them...

I think I had the dream because I'd seen a Francis Bacon painting the night before and his stuff always creeps me out:

(be warned: this link will show you one of the creepiest pictures ever!!)

http://www.sai.msu.su/wm/paint/auth/bacon/painting.jpg

In the Air (88 Remix)In the Air (88 Remix)

I've been looking for the infamous (or maybe not so infamous since how infamous can Phil Collins music really be?!!) 1988 remix of "In the Air Tonight" and just now I see this online (see above link) $52.90??...is this the only way to get it? I've been looking for a while now 'cause I used to love the remix (and the amazing piano intro), but, man, 52 bucks??? Really?? And that's the USED price...to buy it new is over 200 bucks...wow!!

Anyone know of a cheaper (still legal!) way to find the MP3?

It looks like the most recent review on Amazon (April 3rd of last year) shows this CD is the only way to locate it right now...darn!

I guess for now, at least, I'll just continue to listen to it through grooveshark:

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Favoriteforgottensongs/572698

...cool website that lead to a cool package in the mail!...

Maybe it's the digital age or just that I bypass the mail room on my way into my apartment...for some reason I wait for days to check my mail. Tonight I went downstairs to get the mail and I had a 'surprise' package from this company I'd completely forgotten I'd contacted.

The site (fakechapter.com or musicisfake.com) will send you (FREE!) brand new cds of quirky music groups and singers you probably have never have heard of but who have a lot to offer. The site doesn't even charge you for postage...so neat!!

Tomorrow I'll be back to write about Green To Think's "Liar Like Me." Sleep well!:)

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Green to Think is okay and certainly mellow enough for the kind of music I like late at night, but I think maybe they're TOO mellow...hmmm.

"The Palm Sampler" is a pretty neat album full of eclectic sounds and it's free through Amazon MP3's music store...shameless plug, I know, but the music is SO good, especially "Last Good Day of the Year" by Cousteau:)

Also good and also free is the solemnly pretty song "With of All You Here by My Side":



And "I Wonder Whatever Became of You" is yet another wonderful free song (and one that may hit a little too close to home for anyone whose heart was ever touched by someone--long ago--who now fleets across our minds from time to time):



...been listening to more Korgis' music...love their gentle, ethereal sounds so much and looked up more about them on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Korgis

There is so much good stuff that the Korgis put out...wish I had enough money to buy it all.

for more of their sounds:

http://www.amazon.com/Korgis/e/B000AP74GS/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1264312896&sr=1-2-ent

I don't know what to make of this book. When it showed up on our "new" non-fiction shelf the other day at work I didn't realize at first it was specifically related to Natalie Wood's death. I was thrilled at the thought of a new and possibly better (than previous ones) biography on the "Splendor in the Grass" actress.

Once I flipped the book open, though, and saw it was really nothing more than a speculative take on what may or may not have happened on that horrible night back in November of 1981, I lost interest. I want to know more about what her life was like on the set of her films, what her interests were, how she interacted with people. Her death was so very sad and truly shocking, but people always seem to want to focus on the scandalous possibilities whenever it's mentioned, not really open to the theory that it COULD have been an accident.

I meant to take it back with me to work to today and return it, but a few minutes ago I saw that I had left it on my kitchen table.

The PR for the book mentions that it's a non-sensationalistic look at her very tragic death ("never salacious or exploitive," the back blurb states with what I believe is true sincerity but somehow doesn't ring true once you start reading.)

I think there's a very good reason that this book came as a surprise (and with little to no fanfare) to Natalie Wood fans and it has nothing to do with the fact that the publisher is a small press one I've never heard of before. (Small presses can often be wonderful!)

What's more likely is that it has no new information to add after almost thirty years. What's even more of a turn-off is the awkward recreation of dialogue from that fateful night that no one (not even someone with a photographic memory) could possibly recall unless they had a tape recorder with them that night.

The author Marti Rulli states that Natalie Wood deserves justice and that she wrote this book to help get her some...I don't doubt that the author DOES have good intentions, even if it's slightly creepy just HOW much she wants that justice and how connected she feels to someone she never even met.

Whether it's JFK, Elvis, Marilyn or (in this case) Natalie Wood there are always going to be endless theories on events we will never know the cause of, particularly when the person in the center of it all is not around to tell us.

Maybe it's just me...but I think your time would be better spent watching one of Natalie's many movies...whether it's the delightful guilty pleasure "Sex and the Single Girl" or the gut-wrenching and amazing "Splendor in the Grass."

...just my two cents...