Somebody Killed Skytain Etiquette

Imagine a world where lines do not exist. A world where no one cares about you and everyone fends for themselves. A world where there are no rules. Imagine no longer. This is the skytrain. People will slide in front of you before you know what's up. They actually force you to be an asshole if you want to get on the train because if you were polite and waited for someone to let you on, you could be waiting until rush hour is over. I have seen things on the skytrain that I almost refused to believe because they were so blatantly assholish. I don't know what people are thinking, but I lose all respect for someone when they try to slip in front of me at the last second.

I'm not going to say that I'm really badass or anything, but I don't like to let people get away with that stuff so easily. If I'm with anyone else I will usually make a loud comment about how stupid and rude people are, with swears included. If I am at the front of the line I will take my bag off and forcibly block people trying to squeeze past me. I won't look at them, I will act like I don't even see them. They won't say anything. These people are actually cowards. If there is a man that I think has been rude in trying to get on the skytrain I will usually stand really close to them on the train, partly because I have to, partly to bother them. Again, I will not look at them or try to stare them down. I think it's more effective that way. I feel better when I do any of these things. I usually find it funny.

Another thing that I found funny today on the skytrain was this dude listening to music on his headphones. He was totally into it and moving his head around with his eyes closed like he was in a trance. This older woman was watching him and smiling. She must have thought it was nice to see the guy feeling the music so much and so openly. I think she had to be the talkative type because she leaned over to him and asked him what he was listening to. I don't know why she would ask because it seemed like she was too old to appreciate the kind of music this guy's age demographic would generally enjoy, he must have been late 20s, she was probably late 40s. The guy pulls down his headphones just for a second and answers her. In a really normal voice he just says 'The Sound of Children Dying" and then puts the headphones back on. I'm not sure if that is a band or not, but it didn't matter because the look on the woman's face was so funny. I don't know how to describe it. Maybe a mix between disguised shock and regret at having asked the question in the first place. I couldn't look at either of the two for the rest of the train ride because it was too funny.

I've already written a lot so I'm going to only write my favorite dream from last night. It was my brother's birthday, which is actually about 6 months away. My oma (grandma) had made a cake for him. It was weird cake though. It was just a small strip of cake, and it went up in small steps. Someone thought that it wasn't really enough cake. I had to explain that it was a bonus game cake, here's evidence I played too many video games last night. I picked up a pencil and began to demonstrate. With the eraser I tapped each step on the cake from the bottom to the top. When I hit the top step another set of steps rose up out of the plate and I continued tapping those steps. The cake began to grow as I quickly and effectively tapped all the right spots. At a certain point the cake stopped growing and peanut M&Ms started appearing on the top of the cake. I kept going until I realized my time was up and the bonus game was over. I then explained that I unlocked as much of the cake as I could. It is a really bizarre translation of video games in my opinion. My mom said I shouldn't eat any of the cake because I was getting too fat. I agreed, and I didn't care because I didn't really want any cake. I was pretty happy about getting fat though. I have never been able to gain weight and I guess putting on a few pounds was an achievement.

I had some other dreams that made no sense at all so I won't even try to explain them. I think in one I walked into a horror movie trailer by accident somehow and then had to save some little girl from the bad people. It was intense, but I don't think it made sense narratively so I'll leave it at that.

Lastly, my friend showed me the footage today that he got back for his film he shot. It looked really good. He was telling me how his instructor had said that the dailies, the quickly processed shots from the day's shoot are often the most rewarding part of making a film. By that logic we thought it would be cool to make a movie of just dailies. I also thought that it would be cool to shoot short 1 roll films every week and then put them online, without editing them at all. Film just looks good, I think it would be fun to see. The only thing I would be concerned about is the compression getting the videos up online taking away from the awesome film look. I guess they wouldn't have to go online, but the audience would be much smaller. It's just an idea I wanted to get down.

That's all for today, more than enough I think. Actually, I'm wondering if people will read all of this because it is so long and time consuming. Thoughts anyone?