Not sure if it was overload of what was going on in the news or pre-thankgivings angst.
I hardly ever have dreams but last week had the weirdest dream.

Fade in:

I’m on my way to a meeting (somewhere) and walking down a long hallway.
I bump into Vice President Dick Cheney, who makes a comment about how good I smell.
(This summer I started using AXE body spray deodorant, comes in six fragrances)

, I usually wear Essence, which is described as:

“Essence brings out the sweet, polite, jewelry-buying, “aw, shucks” side of you that girls want. Along with the racy, adventurous, expert knot-tying, “saddle up” side that girls need. It’s good. It’s bad. It’s exactly what she’s looking for.”

So the VP is telling me how great I smell and he will give me a whole case of soda if I give him a whole case of my AXE deodorant.

He then produces a wooden crate case with plain bottles of soda with white labels which I notice has the coke-cola formula typed on it in small letters.

I then go into a room, where my a friend of mine is and a cousin who i havent seen since he went to MIT.
I ask them both if I should do the trade?

They say we have to go to a meeting and don’t have time.

We exit the room and Dick Cheney is still standing in the hall waiting with his case of sodas with a secret service guy we walk right pass them.

Fade out. Dream ends.

Anyone care to interpret this?

Back to the grind, I didn’t sync my Treo before headed to the 3 inches of snow that fell on Massachusetts on Thursday.
I thought tonight was the WORLD premiere of my man
Rich Williams’ film, “No Problema” @ the African Diaspora Film Festival but its TOMORROW.

I’ll definitely be in the house for the support, plus the film features music by yours truly under my Vice.Lounge moniker.

Went to a 2 screenings yesterday.
The first was “Syriana”,

It stars George Clooney and Jefferey Wright and is THE best political thriller of OUR time, since the subject matter involves EVERYTHING thats in the news RIGHT now.

Stephen Gaghan was there for a Q & A and waxed poetic about the process of making the movie, made me reconsider Leo Tolstoy.

Good thing there is a searchable online index of “War and Peace”

Later on was “The Chronicles of Narnia:”
“The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobee” by C.S. Lewis.

I have to admit I was a bit hesitant since I loved the books when I was a kid.
It turnedout to be one of the best childrens movies in a long time and definitely on par with the “Harry Potter” series.

I stuck around for the Q & A to find out the director was the same guy behind the SHREK films.
No wonder it was good….lol

This Ad was placed in Billboard in 1998 by Producer Rick Rubin with the caption:
“American Recordings and Johnny Cash would like to acknowledge the Nashville music establishment and country radio for your support.”
I attended the screening of “Walk the Line” tonight.
I wanted to like it MORE, but that still fram at the end gave me that “after-school special” feeling. Good performances though.

How fitting, I was playing “American IV: The Man Comes Around”
last week, my brother called asked what I was listening to and made a comment that it seemed we skipped out on a lot of the “real” stuff when we were YOUNGER and understand and appreciate it more the OLDER we get.

On this album Johnny Cash does cover songs of , Depeche Mode, the Beatles and the Nine Inch Nails tune “Hurt” which has been in rortation on my mp3 player and is also featured in the next season promos for “The Shield”.

Wait until you hear Mr. Cash sing Roberta Flack’s
“First Time Ever I Saw your Face”

“There is nothing either fundamentally good, nor anything fundamentally evil; everything is relative, relative to our point of view. This point once established, it is extremely possible that something, perfectly indifferent in itself, may be indeed distasteful in your eyes, but may be most delicious in mine; and immediately I find it pleasing, immediately I find it amusing, regardless of our inability to agree in assigning a character to it, should I not be a fool to deprive myself of it merely because you condemn it?”
–Marquis de Sade

Paris is BURNING..literally!

and I’m not talking about the 1990 documentary about ‘drag nights’ among New York’s underclass

Over 900 cars have been set on fire: an average of 80 cars a night!
They even arrested 2 bloggers for suspicion of encouraging people to take part in the Paris riots.
Who would of thought…in ole gay Parrie
Mike Bloomberg won the election and is still the Mayor of NYC.
Senator John Corzine (KOHR’-zyn) is the new Governer of New Jersey.
He is replacing Governer McGreevey who resigned for coming out the closet.

The New York Knicks haven’t won ONE game since the season started.

See how everything in the blog is kinda related?

This weekend I got a schooling on how Quaker Weddings are performed. Very Interesting stuff.

I’m going to one next year its seems cool and makes total sense as opposed to the regular pomp and circumstance we all grew up on and are accustomed to.

There still may be the need for the standard issue diamond anniversary rings

While looking forward to the days of buying a home and getting a good deal on Mortgage Rates

I had some “legal” issues over the summer and ny lawyers helped me, hopefully they can help you (IF you happen to live in the NY area)

NEXT Quarter (Q1/06) I’m poised to get my feet wet or DIVE into the clothing/fashion business with a few projects I’ve been working on.
(stayed tuned)

In the meantime check out this offering from Psychotherapy T-Shirts

Attended a screening of JarHead last night with a Q&A from the director Sam Mendes
(American Beauty, Road to Perdition).
Some people and critics are saying this is the next “Full Metal Jacket”
it’s NOT. The trailers are very misleading.

Not a war film, more like an anti-war film.
A period piece set in the other war in Iraq circa 1991 with the OTHER President Bush.
How ironic that it comes out now.

Good performances though and features good music from the early 90′s, Naughty by Nature and Nirvana.

George W. Bush announced a $7.1 billion strategy on Tuesday to cope with a possible influenza pandemic, whether caused by the much-feared bird flu, which has killed some 60 people in Southeast Asia, or some other strain not yet detected.

Just what I needed to hear.

I hate being sick. I have had a cold, hopefully not the flu the past few days

At this point I guess I’m recovering but I’m still NOT 100%…
…more like 65% on top of that my harddrive crashed and it’s been a pain recovering the backups which are about 35%…so between myself and my computer I guess things are good.

After I write this I’m going to make a cup of Lindsey Gardens Gourmet French Vanilla Tea that I bought at the .99 cent store which I’m sure will make me feel like a few pink diamond rings in a
precious metal market