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Movies seen: Reign of Fire (Midnight show, Regal Stonecrest At Piper Glen 22. It has dragons. They burn lots of stuff, but in the end, the humans win. Dragons are obviously CG, but still pretty cool looking. Acting, as expected, is pretty mediocre (the dragons are better actors than some of the human cast). Worth a bargain show (or student price, in my case (yep, I still have my UofC ID in my wallet))).

Stories Read: Tourtellotte, Shane. "The Return of Spring." Novelette. Published in Analog 11/2001.

A Dream

So the combination of archel's log entry about mice (and the recent killing of 2 mice by Sadie) and seeing Reign of Fire resulted in an odd dream last night. Some mice were entering the tunnels beneath my house (apparently there's a secret door in the basement that leads to an underground system of tunnels) through a portal from a hell dimension. All was well if Sadie could sneak up on them and catch them while they were mice, but if frightened, they turned into pterodactyls (the dragons in Reign of Fire look a lot like pterodactyls) and were tearing to shreds the people (government agents, I think) who were going in after them. So a nameless NPC henchman, Sadie, and I were now taking things into our own hands and slowly moving through the tunnels, killing the mouse/pterodactlys as we went (I had a flamethrower, you see), attempting to reach the portal where we would do something to end the threat (I'm not sure what, though I think it involved sending Sadie through to eat them, because they couldn't change from being mice on the other side). And then I woke up.

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Sleep: Woke up at 12:34pm.

Brunch: Cocoa Pebbles.
Dinner: Houlihan's (Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Pasta and their yummy Chocolate Cappucino Cake).

TV Watched: Farscape, Odyssey 5 (7/5 episode), Jeremiah (7/5 episode).

Please excuse the lack of linkage in the books and CDs received, but there are way too many items for me to scrounge up meaningful links for everything tonight.

Books Received: Order received from Shocklines:

• Di Filippo, Paul. A Year in the Linear City. Paperback, signed. PS Publishing, 1-902880-36-6.
• Erikson, Steven. Blood Follows. Paperback, signed. PS Publishing, 1-902880-34-X.
• Whitman, David. Deadfellas. Chapbook. DarkTales Publications, 1-930997-07-8.
• Newman, J. Holy Rollers. Chapbook. DarkTales Publications, 1-930997-05-1.
• Ochse, Weston. Natural Selection. Chapbook. DarkTales Publications, 1-930997-06-X.
• Houarner, Gerard & Gak, eds. Dead Cats Bouncing. Hardback, signed. Bedlam Press, 1-889186-26-0.
• Ketchum, Jack. Right to Life. Paperback. Gauntlet Publications, 1-887368-56-6.

CDs Received: An exciting order from my favorite source in Uxbridge, Ontario, Verge Music Distribution:

• Feldman: Violin and String Quartet. Christina Fong, Violin. Rangzen Quartet. OgreOgress Productions. 2 CDs.
• Guy Klucevsek: Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse. XI Records XI104.
• Ellen Fullman: Body Music. XI Records XI109.
• Jackson Mac Low: Open Secrets. XI Records XI110.
• Daniel Goode: Clarinet Songs. XI Records XI113.
• Richard Lainhart: Ten Thousand Shades of Blue. XI Reocrds XI115.
• Elaine Radigue: Trilogie de la Mort. XI Records XI119. 3 CDs.
• Paul Panhuysen: Partitas for Long Strings. XI Records XI122.
• Tom Johnson: The Chord Catalogue: All the 8178 Chords Possible in One Octave. XI Records XI123.
• Rudis/Custodio/Diaz-Infante: Crashing the Russian Renaissance. Pax Recordings PR90253.
• Evelyn Ficarra: Frantic Mid-Atlantic. Sargasso SCD 28026.
• Roger Reynolds: All Known All White. Pogus Productions P21025-2.
• Adams/Cox/Fink/Fox. Marty Walker, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet. Cold Blue Music CB0009.
• Jean Derome, Joane Hétu: Nous perçons les oreilles. Ambiances Magnétiques AM054.
• Robert Marcel Lepage: Tout Autour du Front. Ambiances Magnétiques AM090.
• Lee Pui Ming: Who's Playing. Ambiances Magnétiques AM098.

Translations of French titles welcome, as Ambiances Magnétiques does not believe in Quebecois bilinguilism, at least not when it comes to providing English translations.