Places I see (La Casa).

Arcana - [Cathar]--- Sometimes I see this, in the places my mind wanders.

But it's not Venice.

Sometimes I see filthy back alleys and shiny surfaced windows, with a clear blue sky and trash floating down empty streets. But it's not New York, or DC, or Philadeliphia.

Sometimes I hear the flat echo of a large empty room, bouncing off the walls of a crowded city, and I'm not afraid, and I'm not alone, and I'm not tresspassing, because how can you tresspass in your own home?

Sometimes I tresspass in the places that are supposed to be home, to remember what home is supposed to be.

It keeps me sane. Stable. Grounded.

Dreams: Constantine, Hastur, 06/06/06

Cranes - [Shining Road]--- I'm in this place that feels like spain, and Jon Constantine and I are kicking around in a bar, down the street from his apartment. The thing is, with John having given up Hard Magic, he's gotten kind of naive, and soft, and he knows it. He's gotten married to this girl he thought he loved, and they have a kid, and he's become everythign he hated and admired in Chas. We're drinking when, all of a sudden, we realise that something's going terribly wrong. There are empathy feeders everywhere, demons that steal the feeling from other, living things. The world has gone to shit, and we leg it back to his place, where we find his wife, trying to fight back a hoarde of demons with a broom or a rake.

She's trying to go out the window, after them, and we can tell she's gone mad. John asks her where their daughter is, and she says "They took her." Something breaks, in John. He climbs out the window, and we use the remnants of the wicker covering to haul ourselves up to the roof. He stands there and says to me "Everytime I want a bit of a break, a little rest, the world falls to shit, again. 'SAVE us John! HELP us John!' What about my saving? What about My Help?!" He looks at me and says "Help me. Help me get the magic back and burn it all down; we'll destroy this world, and everything in it." I smile at him, trying to form the spells, in my head, when my phone rings. It's mech_angel asking what's going on. I tell her about John's wife and kid, and I ask her if she's been keeping up with the comic. She says yeah, but that I should really come home, now. I wake up, the first time.

Cranes - [Are You Gone?]--- Which was the correct option? I mean, John Was grief-stricken, and not thinking properly... Ah well. Next.

I'm in the airport with someone who I think is Mandy, wandering down hallways, with a conceptual PSP, trying to think of the movies and games I'd get on one, if I had it, when I realise that I have to pee, quite badly. I run into the "Employees Only" bathroom, and hope that I'm out, before anyone comes in. I finish up, right as a pilot comes in, and starts washing his hands. He doesn't see me, yet, but I still have to wash my hands, and he's taking forever. Finally, I say fuck it, and go over to the sink. He just nods and says "hey," so I nod back, finish drying my hands, and leave. When I leave, the outside is

A hotel room or medium-sized apartment, in which there is the aftermath of an enormous party. We're all laying around, trying to recover, in that morning after, sludge-filled haze. I'm making breakfast, and, Somehow, it's my birthday party, the next day, even though the 06/06/06 Party hasn't happend yet. It seems to be intimated that the next day IS the 06/06/06 party, and that there will be presents for everyone. I hand mech_angel her presents early, and Martha, from Horizons, and some kid I don't know, take the credit for it, so as not to get me in trouble.

There's something here about a comic called "Thank You, Lucifer," which involves Mike Carey's Lucifer having helped this girl who is now in her early twenties, and her coming into her own power, and position.

This kid from school, Chris, is there, and he has a bunch of books to offer to me, and they look like they're My books, but they aren't. Not quite. Something goes wrong. Someone breaks, under the pressure, and, in the process, calls forth Hastur, to set things right. This he does, but, in the process, someone starts to ask him if he minds being used as a name for the 06/06/06 Party. I cut them off, with a "Shh! Shut up." Hastur turns to the person and says "You want this conversation to be one where you leave Alive." He turns away, to the balcony, walks out, and starts leaving at a 45 degree angle to the rest of reality. As he leaves he says, to me "See ya later, Princess of Darkness." I turn away while replying "Nighty night, Queen of the Damned." I wake up.

Cranes - [Paris and Rome]--- I've never read Mike Carey's "Lucifer" series, but mech_angel informs me that that story-line exists, within it, with a much younger girl. Hm.

I'm off to continue trying to figure out of whom this band reminds me, eat food, and watch "May".

Ta.

{EDIT: RazorBladeKisses - [No Strings Attached]--- It's these guys. I heard them first, then Cranes, I'm hearing a lot of that, in the child-like vocals, and xylophone. Mystery solved.}