No Fish For Old Bruce

So my adventure in search of lucid dreams continues. I still haven’t had one, although I’ve been having dreams every night since I decided I wanted to control one, for example, last night, one of my dreams had something to do with Scrubs. You may notice I’m still not too hot on the details and the remembering thereof with regards to my dreams. I’m working on it, chill out. I fully intend to try again tonight, although I’ve been struck by a deepening case of man-flu and can’t help wondering if that will have a negative impact on my ability to dream.
DAMN THE MAN-FLU!

Elsewhere, once again, my movie poster mash-up didn’t make it into the final selection over at Empire. Picky bastards, I thought that was funny! Bruce Fillet? The Last Boy Trout?! That’s pure gold! OK, I’m not that self-deluded, it was an easy pun and many people twigged to that fact. This weeks subject is sports, and I’ve got a killer idea for it, it’ll involve a little more work and depends upon me finding the right images, but it’ll be good if I can pull it off, so watch this space.

The viral game for The International had an event this past Thursday, which involved some GPS co-ordinates that pointed to a location in Soho Square, not two minutes away from where I work. Obviously I was first on the scene, obviously it wasn’t where it said it would be and obviously I once again didn’t succeed in my mission. Luckily for me, Agent Lex from the unforums was a little more patient than me, and scoped the park to find it was attached to a bench a little way away from where it should’ve been. I say luckily for me because Agent Lex is a goddamn legend, and a chivalrous one to boot, having seen that I was in the area but unsuccessful, he promised to split the take with me. Which he did. I just hope that I manage to find the second drop next week so I can return the favour.

Anyway, the dreamscape beckons, and I’ve got a bone to pick with it, so I must take my leave.

Peace out!

Getting My Dream On

So I was watching an episode of Ed yesterday (if you don’t know what that is, shame on you, for it is awesome) and, in it, Ed discovers the phenomenon of lucid dreaming and winds up having an adventure that is both hilarious and insightful.

Now me, I’m impressionable but slightly skeptical, I sat watching it thinking “This is hilarious, but there’s no way it’s for real.” only to then go research the concept to find out for sure.

Turns out it’s legit! Found this entry on Wikipedia, and then these videos on YouTube which basically tell you how to “train” yourself and your brain so that you can consciously decide to have one of these lucid dreams, the whole point being that once you’re in it you can influence events i.e. you can control your dream! I started last night, got my dream journal all prepped and within arms reach of my bed, told myself I was going to remember my dreams, then fell asleep, had a few dreams, woke up after each one, only to stumble there because I was too tired to actually write in the journal before I A: fell asleep again or B: forgot the dream by the time I was able to write in it.

The only thing I managed to remember was that Taye Diggs was in the dream and that was definitely because he also popped up randomly in Ed’s lucid dream too.

Told you I was impressionable.

Anyway, gonna try it again tonight. Oh! The International game kicks off again tomorrow, there’s a dead drop I’m hoping to grab, I’ll let you know how it goes.

I Am Fail

So… went to the live drop for the Stop The International game, totally screwed up where I was supposed to be and missed out on the whole thing.

Nightmare.

Turns out Agent Lex over on unforum managed to succeed where I spectacularly failed, so all was not lost.

In other news, I finally got around to buying my PS3! Means I have almost no money for a couple of weeks, but at least I’ll have that to keep me warm and entertained through these winter months. Resistance 2 online, here I come!

Stop The International

The unforum guys picked up another game trailhead a little while back, this time for the new Clive Owen movie, The International (trailer at the bottom of this post). I’ve been keeping tabs on these kinda games since the first Lost Experience a couple of years ago, and last year managed to grab a few goodies from campaigns for both The Dark Knight and Hellboy 2.

I’m a little sketchy as to how the game started exactly, but it involves people running around in Berlin, LA and New York so far – going to www.stoptheinternational.com brings up a world map with key locations. The London drop is the last one on the list, hitting in a little under 24 hours now. The other guys playing this game are WAY quicker than me at cracking any codes or whatever, so it feels kinda good that apparently only me and one other guy are gonna be at the drop (if I’m going off the basis that the game is only really being followed at unforums – probably a naive assumption), since it means I get to contribute. The movie isn’t out until February, so hopefully there’s more to come in this game too.

Anyway, here’s the trailer, and I’ll post tomorrow with a report on the drop.