A story inspired by a dream

A dream I had

It's an involved story about a group of young adults - their futures, relationships, society vs man, betrayal, and murder. Not an easy dream for me to recount coherently, to untangle, nor to understand.

Untangling the story

Summary

I'll try to highlight some of the key observations made in my 1 hr 40 min recollection about my dream, because needless to say, no one (perhaps least of all me) wants to listen to that whole recording. Time stamps in the descriptions below refer (roughly) to the section of the recording that explains it.

The cast of major characters:

Green.
 an average guy with zeal for integrity.

The Bachelor (a.k.a Smart Guy)
  a young man with bright future prospects. somewhat naive. he is the focal point of other character's interests in partnership, and his decisions with whom to partner creates turbulence and tension among his peers.

Anne
  a young woman with equally, or perhaps even more, bright prospects as the Bachelor. a calculating and manipulative talent with an insatiable desire to advance, come out on top, and control the political landscape.

Jealous
 a slighted and forgotten lover who formerly had a homosexual relationship with the Bachelor. murders the Victim.

Braids
 an air-headed girl with a loud voice who spreads gossip and influences her protegee younger sister.

The Victim
 starts a riotous protest at Graduation, during a disbursement of Social Benefits. is murdered by Jealous during the disorder. there's a very likely possibility that the Victim is the same person as Green.

Poetry Night

Reading poems by W.H. Auden

A Day of Music

These music posts are getting boring. I find posting them boring. But I do enjoy being able to play the recordings back to myself.

If you want to listen, I highly recommend the 'In an underpass' recording. The acoustics under a bridge make everything sound nice.

A Musical Hike

Today I took a hike in pursuit of interesting places to play flute. I carried my sitting box under one arm, and humped my flute across my back.

First, I climbed up Pulpit Rock to play on the mountain. A persistent wind forced my retreat.

On the mountain

Wind is a formidable adversary.

Then I came down from the mountain and played in an underpass between the University to the shopping center. A lack of warmth and of sunlight prodded me along.

In an underpass

The acoustics are amazing!

For the remainder of my day, I followed signs leading from the shopping area to a recreational trail. I set in search of sunlight, but ended up walking for miles out of curiosity for what I might discover. The sun was nearly below the horizon when I stopped at a soccer field on which to spit out a few more tunes (unrecorded).

I mistakenly thought the trail was a scam, nothing more than a glorified sidewalk around the shopping center. But it turned out to be much more. The wide paved tract wound up a hill, sprinted past homes, stretched across a frozen lake, and curled around bike and skate parks.

Bike park (left) with dirt ramps. Skate park (right) with posers and tweens

On my way back, I created an original theme song (probably by plagiarizing bits and pieces of music I had played during the day).

Walking theme song

Greenway Trail

From the looks of the map, there seems to be a recreational trail that connects northern city of Monument to the southern city of Fountain, a distance of about 35 miles. The Greenway trail is the section of this trail system that runs through Colorado Springs.

Greenway panorama at the University Village Center in Colorado Springs.

Two roads diverged by a yellow fort

A straight path was stitched across 180 degrees.

Greenway panorama along a reservoir near the Garden of the Gods

I heard a cacophony of barking coming from across the reservoir. There's a building on the far side of the ice marked with a sign that reads "Lucky Dog". I think that's where they make 'Red Tick Beer'.

*Tastes* Hmm, needs more dog.

Extreme Tricycling

Came across this l'il guy doing extreme riding at a bike park. He's on a trike. I find that hilarious.

When that little kid grows up, he needs one of these.

Saw a guy doing laps on this l'il red devil at the university parking lot.

The bike's father proudly told me about the incremental souping up he did on the engine. The top speed purportedly does 50 mph, tested by his buddy on a dirt path near his house.

It reminded me of that TV show Home Improvement, where Tim 'the Tool Man' Taylor's philosophy of 'MORE POWER' applied to everything!

Ulix

what a cutie

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Balanced Rock 

 

This was from Garden of the Gods a week ago.
Big Google Brother automatically made an animation from my pics.

frands: "how'd you get up ther??"

cool girl: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

A sign on the rock said, 'Please do not climb up'. -____-

Pian'er

Banged on the piano today. Got both hands together on this Chopin waltz. I question whether to post the recording. My playing ain't great. But that hasn't stopped me before!

Chopin Op.69 no. 2

A couple of real musicians started recording in the next room. Violinist and guitarist. A library employee came to tell me to stop playing. But he invited me to see the musicians, they were good he said.

His word was the truth. They were good. Mighty fun playing together too. I sat in the studio mixing booth watching them warm up and improvise the musical score. The violinist let loose some sass and flair into her fiddling. The guitarist strummed along and added notes here and there to his music.

Their sound technician adjusted and set up and re-adjusted and configured various microphones, levels, and other acoustics I could not tell the difference. They'd been setting up for an hour and a half. Another hour before they would start recording. The tech was an elderly gentleman who reminded me of my Dad setting up a photo shoot in the way he fastidiously made endless adjustments. We would get tired and worn out, having lost interest in having our pictures taken, by the time his camera was ready.

I saw the musicians rehearsing endlessly and hoped they would not likewise get worn out by the time the recording was ready for them. The librarian tech joked, they would be here till 2 pm, and in fact he was right! When I came back to check on the studio at 2:40 pm, the musicians had left but the gentleman making the recording was still there, pondering over his instruments. I asked the evening shift librarian what time did the musicians leave, and he estimated around 2pm.

I danced and bobbed my head to the duo's jiving and country rhythms. The violinist even brought a huge bag of food to the studio (to make a good impression on the staff). It was just one guy with the library staff, I wasn't even an employee, but I helped myself to one of three sandwiches in the bag. The librarian requested knives when he saw me eating the big ol' sandwich. He asked me rhetorically with bulging eyes, 'I wasn't going to eat the whole thing was I?'

Their music is probably copyright. and this is probably not good to have my private recording. but i honestly think their music at beginning (unrecorded) sounded better. and i was recording myself but left the recording on unintentionally after i walked away from the piano. i didn't know that it was still recording until afterwards, and they'll probably never know... hehe.

Real musicians recording