Last night's dream involved me build­ing a rocket-powered car out of Legos.  I wore my hel­met and gloves dur­ing test­ing, of course.

The night before that was a lit­tle strange.  The dream started with Kate and I fly­ing in a tiny two-person plane from here to LA, more or less fol­low­ing the free­ways.  Fly­ing south, to the left of us, was a large num­ber of older, small green prop-planes.  They had two water­mel­ons under each wing, only they were black, and exploded when they hit the ground.  They started bomb­ing the entire south­ern Cal­i­for­nia area.  We ended up turn­ing around, land­ing, and check­ing up on all our friends and fam­ily.  Every­thing ended up being okay.  The really freaky thing is that that morn­ing was the anniver­sary of Pearl Har­bor.  Of course, I did not (con­sciously) know it at the time.  I know that some­times when some­thing is on the radio, it creeps into my dreams dur­ing the time between when the radio clicks on and the alarm beeps.  This, though, was not the case (the clock radio was not set up, and we ended up falling asleep in the front room far away from the radio), but I did hap­pen to hear it on the radio after wak­ing up.

I fin­ished Rungu this morn­ing, the movie that The Ring was based on.  It was basi­cally a low-budget ver­sion of The Ring.  The effects were not as good (in fact, mostly miss­ing) and the sto­ry­line was not as good.  While The Ring had a very sus­pense­ful ele­ment to it, as you unravel the back story, that aspect was vir­tu­ally absent from Ringu.  Also, the tape itself was much more short and the imagery was not as mys­te­ri­ous.  All-in-all, not as good as the remake, in my opinion. 

Also, the indi­ca­tors that this is a bla­tant pirate copy are even stronger.  The qual­ity looked like some­one took the orig­i­nal video tape and dumped it to DVD using iMovie, cer­tainly not taken from a dig­i­tal mas­ter.  The sub­ti­tles were part of the video image, not a data track that could be turned on and off and switched to another lan­guage.  The DVD case had one of those video-store-style slip cov­ers into which was placed a color laser printed cover sheet.

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