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  • July 3, 2009 at 4:57 pm #4012
    Ben Paddon
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    I’ve come down with a bit of a nasty bug at the moment. There’s a vindictive, irrational part of my brain that says that as the last ill person I met was John that it must therefore be his fault, so I’m feeling quite unnecessarily pissy when I read his posts here at the moment. It’s rather like that episode of Friends where Phoebe is angry as Ross for something that happened in a dream. Not that I watch Friends or anything.

    I had an ex who was into it.

    Shut up.

    Anyway, I was laying awake last night thinking about a number of things. And, for some reason, Madonna popped into my head. There’s no logical reason for that saggy, wrinkly, mummified, passe pop sensation, but there she was. Specifically the song “Beautiful Stranger” started looping in my head – probably the song of hers from the 90s that I find the least objectionable.

    Then it occurred to me that, as far as I’m aware, Madonna is the only singer to sing the title song for both a James Bond film and an Austin Powers film (although this morning I realise that isn’t technically accurate, as Madonna only contributed “Beautiful Stranger” to the Austin Powers soundtrack, I don’t believe it was written specifically for the film). I felt pretty smart knowing that, and wondered if it had popped up on Wikipedia yet.

    The next thing I know my alarm is going off. Well, I say “alarm”. It’s actually an alarm clock program I have installed on my PC. It played the illegal Donkey Kong remix from episode ten of Boy Friends.

    I felt that was worth sharing, although I’ve forgotten why.

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  • July 3, 2009 at 5:18 pm #100726
    JamesTC
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    If you start shaking your head without realising you need to get sleep, I had insomnia a few weeks back and I hadn’t slept a while, I was playing Forza 2 and I started shaking my head back and forth, after a while I realised I was shaking my head and stopped, in the time I had realised I was shaking my head and had stopped my car had crashed at a corner and I was in last place, I have never been so messed up.

    July 3, 2009 at 5:22 pm #100727
    Ben Paddon
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    I tend to nod a lot when I’m sleep-deprived.

    July 3, 2009 at 6:46 pm #100730
    Stabbim the Skutter
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    Oooh, another Donkey Kong Country fan. I honestly think the bramble music is the best piece of videogame music ever written. :D

    July 3, 2009 at 10:18 pm #100735
    Blisschick
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    Argh, the insomnia monster visited me last night. I’ve been up 29 hours straight at this point, and just got out of freeway traffic. I don’t remember most of the drive home. If I hear about carnage and destruction along that path tomorrow, it’s probably my fault.

    July 3, 2009 at 11:24 pm #100738
    Ben Paddon
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    I should tell you the dream I had the other night.

    A full series of Red Dwarf had been commissioned, and I’d been cast in a minor role as a Psychiatrist. I arrived at the studio, picked up my copy of the script from a table in an empty studio space, and then we all boarded a bus/coach/thing bound for the coast for a location shoot.

    Yes, I’m aware that’s not how it usually works when you do a location shoot. This is a dream, after all.

    The remainder of the dream, which to my memory lasted about half an hour, involved sitting on the bus/coach/thing opposite Chris Barrie (in full BTE Rimmer costume) who was deeply engrossed in reading his lines. I dithered between reading my lines and looking out at the coast as we drove by.

    Then I woke up.

    July 4, 2009 at 12:10 am #100740
    pfm
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    > Then I woke up.

    Or maybe you didn’t; this post could still be part of the same dream.

    Surely most dreams are just too embarrassing to tell people about. And, for me, that’s not because of any sexual element to them or anything, because that’s not usually what the most vivid ones are about, it’s more along the lines of not wanting to admit that such things, like a Quidditch laserquest showdown involving all the people I work with vs the staff of the cafe opposite, enter my brain at all.

    July 4, 2009 at 12:17 am #100741
    Pete Part Three
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    Perhaps you could read this thread to help you sleep.

    Joke. Deadpan mode.

    July 4, 2009 at 12:29 am #100744
    pfm
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    Now that you’ve posted in it that’s enough cue for anyone to get some shuteye.

    July 4, 2009 at 12:35 am #100746
    JamesTC
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    Who needs sleep when they have INSOMNIA!!!

    July 5, 2009 at 9:07 am #100777
    Tanya Jones
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    If it makes you feel any better, John came down with a bad chest infection after the illness he had when you visited. It seems to be very easy to become serially ill, so be careful!

    July 5, 2009 at 10:34 am #100781
    Ben Paddon
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    I guess when your body is in a weakened state from being ill, it’s easier for another illness to try and get its foot in the door.

    July 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm #100785
    Carlito
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    Reminds me of when I was on a seemingly infinite loop of flu – chest infection – bronchitis for about a year… not fun.

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