Dreams can link to actual sensations, such as the incorporation of environmental sounds into dreams such as hearing a phone ringing in a dream while it is ringing in reality, or dreaming of urination while wetting the bed. Except in the case of lucid dreaming, people dream without being aware that they are doing so. Some philosophers have concluded that what we think as the "real world" could be or is an illusion (an idea known as the skeptical hypothesis about ontology). The first recorded mention of the idea was by Zhuangzi, and was also discussed in Hinduism; Buddhism makes extensive use of the argument in its writings.^[49] It was formally introduced to western philosophy by Descartes in the 17th century in his Meditations on First Philosophy.

Ever wish that you would just "wake up"?

Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.

How do you say goodbye to a childhood companion?

You don’t say goodbye... you say... "I’ll see you again."

I’ll see you again baby girl... somewhere else, maybe.

Maybe we’ll look the same, and you’ll still get that cute little smell you get when you first wake up from your puppy naps. I hope you still growl when I blow on your belly, and I hope you will run and jump into my arms like you did when you were just a little girl. I hope you still have a dirty face from burrying it in your food bowl... and I hope you still burp for me when I pick you up and pat you like a baby. I’ll always remember those mornings when you would come and lick my face and wake me up... I hated it so much then. Now I won’t ever forget that feeling.

I love you my baby girl.

I’ll see you again... And I’ll still be your boy.

So lately I have felt like Cornish has been kicking me while I'm down... Certain members of the faculty haven't been very understanding of the fact that I (unlike some of the spoiled little rich kids) have to work alot more to survive to go to a $25,000 a year school. My parents bust thier asses to help as much as possible, but the politics of private school are VERY annoying but anyway...the point of this WHOLE blog was...

Today I got my end of semester evaluation for my modern class and it was AWESOME! Michelle Miller really said some nice things about me and my dancing abilities.. She just talked about how much effort I have been putting in these last 7 weeks and how hard I have been working. It made me feel so good... and then me and Amanda showed our Choreography 2 final project and got some really good feed back and reviews... everyone loved it. Today made me feel like an artist. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME!

Wesley Anderson

01/22/82 - 11/21/07

You will be so missed.

I was drunk... lol. Me and Maria are LAME. I love us.

Ok... So last year at Steven's going away party some boy ended up putting his hands on one of my female friends and i wasn't down with that so I threw his ass literally out of the party and my love Maria just happened to catch it on film... watch me talk shit to this bitch as he RUNS away up the stairs behind a bunch of girls. Lame.

After a four-year sabbatical, Britney Spears has returned to the music scene—fresh from the courthouse—with her new album "Blackout."

Originally set to hit store shelves and the Internet on Nov. 13, the release date was bumped up to Tuesday, thanks to Hollywood insider Perez Hilton who inundated the Internet with stolen tracks.

Even without the illegal downloads, Brit's appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards in September allowed listeners to become familiar with her new single "Gimme More." This "Toxic" regurgitation is front running an album that fuses old sounds with new words.

Evidently concerned her reputation as a nymphomaniac is in jeopardy, she forces herself onto the listener in "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)" with lascivious lines like, "My body is calling out for you bad boy… get naked take it off." The lyrical salaciousness continues in her ode to promiscuity, "The Perfect Lover," with "Baby I'm just hot for the taking, don't you want to see my body naked, and I bet you like the way I shake it."

Spears then changes gears for a moment and delves into her public personal life addressing ex-hubby K-Fed personally: "I sent you to Vegas with a pocket roll of paper, no ultimatums, I thought what could separate us but it just seemed to break us" in "Why Should I Be Sad?"

Britney also mentions her struggles as a working mother in "A Piece of Me." "Another day another drama," she cries. "Guess I can't see no harm in being a working mama and with a kid on my arm, I'm still the exception." These songs begin to demonstrate a softer side of Brit, suggesting that she may have learned from past mistakes and now deserves sympathy as a single mother and regular member of the working class.

Unfortunately that illusion quickly evaporates, replaced with more sexual innuendo thanks to songs like "Ooh Ooh Baby" and "Break the Ice."

So as Spears dusts off the mic and scandalous attire, and regains her title as the Queen of Pop, two mainstays of the Britney Philosophy once again become apparent: 1) sex sells and 2) old dogs can't learn new tricks.

"Blackout" stays too close to hits of yesteryear and leaves the listener thinking the ex-Mrs. Federline needs to take a page out of Madonna's Kabbalah handbook and reinvent her tired act. But still, millions of Brit-adoring teeny boppers of all ages will flock the local record store or Wal-Mart to purchase these songs and learn the latest dance moves in a form of devotion to their queen.

 

 

UPDATE:

Britney Spears looks to have a clear path to top The Billboard 200.

First-day sales from the eight chains that report to Nielsen SoundScan's Building Charts put Spears' Jive/Zomba release "Blackout" at 124,000 on the report released today (Oct. 31).

That is more than double the number of units posted by Carrie Underwood's chart-topping "Carnival Ride," which rounded up 49,000 sales from the start of the tracking week through close of business yesterday. That album is currently in the runner-up position.

Zomba estimates "Blackout" will open in the range of 330,000-350,000, a ballpark that falls in line with her Building Chart total.