242sumner wrote:

rayj wrote:
She was a smart, multitalented, musician/linguist/punkrocker/arty/writer type. A little crazy.

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Would you introduce me to this person?

The more I would describe her, the more you would like it. She ended up marrying some dude...we would try things out every year or so, until about 8 or 9 years ago. Unfortunately the 'crazy' mixed with my loser status prevented anything cool from coming of it. Last I heard she was translating Tibetian texts for some university, while I drank whiskey, did drugs, and started several halfassed bands. Oh well.

Edit: Oh, and by 'a little crazy', I mean chasing me down the street with a very real sword when I was late picking her up one night (I didn't have a car at the time).

sack of smashed assholes wrote:I also have been abducted by aliens numerous times in my nightmares as kid, bright lights, numbness, paralyzed. they dragged me by my feet down long hallways. I'd always wake up sweating. I'm pretty sure those were dreams... I hope.

some theorize it's a sleep disorder. i'm sure if you searched you could find some information about that angle.

i can't remember, if not a disorder waking during a certain part of your sleep...something like that.

re: snuff movies...

snopes says there are no reported cases of a murderer actually taping the act of murder.

two german cannibals who agreed that one would murder the other, armin menschenfresser and bernd juergen (spelling might be off), taped their actions. i don't think they taped the moment of bernd's death because he apparently went off to a bathtub to bleed to death while armin went and watched a disney movie (?!?). did they tape the fatal wounding? don't know. they apparently taped some prior mutilations.


to go way off topic, i noticed that the snopes page ends up going on about various serial killers and i was sickened by the fact that the victims are always women or children (i think dahmer's victims qualify as children. minority too!). it's always men killing women, or if they're gay, men (who are usually younger). seems like it's always about a finding a physically weaker and more disenfranchised person to dominate for sexual reasons. why can't some woman go around killing rich, beefy men? i think technology makes this possible.

i guess my point is that it's never revenge or table-turning. it's reinforcing the status quo. i think that makes serial killers lose some points in the transgression department.

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trilonaut wrote:re: snuff movies...

snopes says there are no reported cases of a murderer actually taping the act of murder.

two german cannibals who agreed that one would murder the other, armin menschenfresser and bernd juergen (spelling might be off), taped their actions. i don't think they taped the moment of bernd's death because he apparently went off to a bathtub to bleed to death while armin went and watched a disney movie (?!?). did they tape the fatal wounding? don't know. they apparently taped some prior mutilations.


to go way off topic, i noticed that the snopes page ends up going on about various serial killers and i was sickened by the fact that the victims are always women or children (i think dahmer's victims qualify as children. minority too!). it's always men killing women, or if they're gay, men (who are usually younger). seems like it's always about a finding a physically weaker and more disenfranchised person to dominate for sexual reasons. why can't some woman go around killing rich, beefy men? i think technology makes this possible.

i guess my point is that it's never revenge or table-turning. it's reinforcing the status quo. i think that makes serial killers lose some points in the transgression department.

I'm pretty sure there are actual 'snuff' films somewhere...most likely in FBI crime labs. It's too hard-wired into the human condition...Hell, if you want to see people killing each other, you can rent tapes of it in most places. It isn't ALL faked...

trilonaut wrote:why can't some woman go around killing rich, beefy men?

Well, Aileen Wuornos came close.

Florida executed her in 2002. This seems incredibly cruel since it is clear that Wuornos was mentally incompetent. Case in point:

"Wuornos had requested that Natalie Merchant's song 'Carnival' be played at her funeral."

If someone plays Natalie Merchant's Tigerlily at my funeral, I will haunt that person's ass forever in a serious and violent poltergeist style. Red eyes looking out from the window and shit.

Confidential to trilonaut: What do you have against rich, beefy men?

i have a pretty weird story but am too tired to type it out right now. it's about a bunch of weird shit that happened one afternoon when i was coming home from high school.


in the meantime, my aunt married this dude who claimed to be a 'professional psychic' about 10 years ago, and apparently i guess he's as close to a legitimate 'psychic' as you can get (ie numerous people have told me that he has been consulted by the police in lynchburg VA where they live. whether these people are lying or not i don't know). anyway i certainly don't believe in psychics but a few weird things have happened. about 6 years ago my grandfather moved to VA from europe and the whole family was over there while he was getting settled in. about three separate times in one week my grandfather and i would drive around in the mountains in his convertible. during this whole week my aunt & the psychic weren't around at all. each time my grandfather and i went out driving, we got lost after about an hour. all three times, within 5 minutes of one of us saying 'i think we're lost', the psychic uncle called on the car phone and said "hey, i get the feeling you're lost - where are you?"

i checked with the rest of the family to see if he had been calling any of them asking if they were lost, but he hadn't. it was just those three times.

also this psychic uncle claims that there is a spirit in his house, and that around 3 in the morning in the guest bedroom you'll usually wake up to the animals (they all sleep in there - 3 cats & 2 dogs) waking up and exiting the room, and then you'll feel this weight on the edge of your bed like someone has just sat down. my mom slept in the guest bedroom the first night and the next morning swore up and down that she felt the weight, etc etc etc and she wouldn't sleep there anymore. so i traded with her. my mom's kind of impressionable at times so i wrote it off.

anyway the night i slept there i definitely woke up at 2:59 exactly, which is weird because there wasn't any reason for it. all the animals were still asleep, but at like 3:01 on the dot one of the dogs woke up and walked around, and within about a minute all the animals left the room. i was definitely really on edge. i wasn't making a sound and i had little tingly feelings even though i knew i was being stupid. i waited until about 3:15 and i kind-of-sort-of had the impression at one point that the end of the bed was depressed. but i am sure my imagination exaggerated it and i am not at all prepared to say i felt someone sit down. but i did wake up at 2:59 on the dot and i did witness that dog wake up almost silently and leave. i feel like that first dog could have been the reason all the other animals got up, but i don't know why they all left. anyway it was a little weird.

I work in a fairly old hotel (opened in 1914) and people are always talking about ghosts that haunt the place. Personally, I don't believe any of it, but there was a recent complaint of a ghost attack that I will share with y'all:

"At 11:00 PM, Ms. XXXXXX came to the desk. Ms. XXXXXX appeared to be terrified and knew nothing where to begin her experiences in Rm 1103. She said there is no way , she could go back to her Room. According to her, there is a ghost in her room, constantly attacking her. She was feeling the evil spirit all along since the day she checked in into 1103. Beddding wrestling, someone appeared to banging the walls and doors. Some sort of freaky aerial movements around her body, hearing someone changing the bed sheet, pillow cases, then walking around the room, sitting on the bed while she is trying to sleep. All theses started when she checked in on 10/9. Once after the bell man left, she felt that there is something in that room bothering her. Ms XXXXXX spoke to Manager Y earlier on 10-11 afternoon about the scenario."

You know what? Ouija boards freak me out. I am able to distance myself from the idea of the supernatural, but those things... I'm not gonna even open the box. Yeah, it's silly... but we've all got our deals, right?