I’m reading in the bath. It’s steamy and the water is up to my neck. I notice that the phone is getting pretty steamed up and try to dry it off with a towel. The more I try to dry it the wetter it gets. I notice a splashing sound.
It’s full of water.
I shake the phone and water splashes about inside. I can’t get the water out though. I realise that the phone is still on and frantically try to turn it off. It won’t turn off. It sounds like I’m shaking a half full bottle of water.
Home
Is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
Talking Heads’ This Must be the Place (my alarm ringtone) wakes me and ends the terror.
This was my second dream of iPhone destruction of the week. The other was simpler. I just knocked it to the floor and smashed the screen. Good thing I don’t believe that dreams mean anything or I’d be worried, but I don’t, so I’m not, and if you see me checking out waterproof cases in Yodobashi Camera this weekend it has nothing to do with this dream. It’s just something I’ve been meaning to look into for a while. Really.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 No comments
Although I really, really liked Battlestar Galactica. I didn’t like new BSG movie: The Plan. I wish I’d never seen it, that it had never been made.
Some of the dialogue was good. Dean Stockwell’s performance was great. The basic concept, telling the story of the cylon attack and its aftermath from the cylon’s point of view, is an interesting one.
However, instead of telling a new story (as they did in Razor) they weave this one in with the story we have already seen.The new material doesn’t enrich that story, it dilutes and lessens it. I’m pretty good at suspending disbelief but I just couldn’t do it while watching this. I couldn’t convince myself that in the story I had already seen, Cavil and the other cylons were lurking, undiscovered, just outside of camera range. I don’t believe that the things we see happen here actually happened.
I hope that rumours of plans to make more BSG movies turn out to false. If not, I hope their stories only intersect the one we already know and avoid trying to run in parallel with it.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 No comments