pete yorn - lose you

to start out. for the first time ever, one of my movie-sequence dreams actually completed itself.
the story was about this girl who has the shining (influence for this dream is pretty clear.) her parents know about it. apparently, she had this horrific vision of something that would happen someday to her. so her room and entire house is full of these weird platforms and hooks that she's not supposed to touch, until the day that she has to. most of the dream was with her on a trip of some kind, without her parents. i'm thinking a school trip, because there were other kids with her. and she's talking to this old lady who's worried about her, and there were all these other occurances that i don't clearly remember, but it was like a saga. at one point she was inside the white river ampitheater, which was completely empty except some vague black shape in the corner of her eye that was chasing her (who can guess where that came from??) eventually she ends back at her house, but shit has hit the fan this time. there's this raging storm outside, and she finds herself being compelled to use the platforms and hooks to get along the outside walls of their house, and onto the roof. on the roof, there's this tall, thin, crazy old guy with a huge set up of a mini-city. and he's about to destroy it with gasoline (again, very clear where the influence is coming from.) and she panics, because this is very bad. she runs at the guy and tackles him and he flings her over the edge of the house, and she's barely hanging on. down below in the backyard there's some more crazy shit going on, before the guy smacks her over the head and she blacks out, falling to the ground below. when she wakes up again, she's back at the white river ampitheater, and there's a few of the characters from her earlier adventures sitting with her. she's dead, and so are they, but they reassure her by saying that she'd delayed the crazy old guy, and it had given the other people enough time to come and stop him for good. voila. not a very exciting story, but then again, i woke up about 4 hours ago, and it's been fading since.
anyway, to know about the burning city influence, it's because of a comment jon or devon made last night. or maybe it was one of the other people. but they were talking about this guy who'd made a little fake toy city and doused it in gasoline and made a gas trail away from it. he lit the trail and ran for the city, and when he got there it was already burning away.
why was i with jon and devon and some other guys, and why were we talking about burning things? oh, man, you should've been there. it was amazingly awesome. around 11 i got really bored and told jon to get up, we were going to alki. we got devon to come too, and we drove to seattle. none of us had been to alki beach before, so we really had no idea what we were looking for. we just kept driving, and eventually stopped to ask some people at a bus stop where we should go. it was around midnight, and these people were crazy nuts, it was hilarious. but they gave us directions, and we found the beach, and got these guys that were walking around to take our picture with the statue of liberty. then later, we found some live coals burning in a fire pit! so of course we started it back up again. eventually it was burning pretty good, and we invited the three guys walking around to "warm their hands." so for the next four hours or so we were collecting drift wood and stealing wood from the construction site and just generally shooting the shit and having a good time. the fire got insanely huge, especially after devon and jon took the phone books from the pay phones. eventually the three people left, and so did the couple that came and joined us for an hour or so. so we left too, leaving the fire burning merrily away for the next cool people to find and play with.
and lastly i just got back from my crew interest meeting and i am completely psyched for when it starts!!