This is funny. I've actually been staring at the screen for a whole five minutes. There are random strings of words blinking in my head but I don't know how to bring them down to some sort of sensible sentence. So maybe I'll talk about imagination.

That's right. The cliched topic, "imagination". But I'm not going to get into the whole "Imagination is a wonderful gift us human beings have been given. Oh the beauty of it! It lets us release our creativity-!" All that is crap. I mean sure, imagination! Yay! And all that jazz but what I was wondering today was exactly how do we picture things in our head? Even with my eyes open, right now I can imagine a cow with a basket of flowers, prancing in a green meadow. It's like a picture in front of me: detailed, precise. But it's like there's a transparent sheet and I can still see the computer screen. I thought we see with our eyes. So how do we manage this? I'm sure there's a whole load of science behind it.

Ah, now it's raining in the meadow. The poor cow. She's cowering under her pink umbrella now. She? I'm not sure. I don't want to freak her out by looking down there. She's already not too happy at the moment.

And there's another thing to this whole "picturing it in your head": We all picture it differently. That makes sense. Sense without proper reason, but still, sense.

Reason. There always has to be "reason" in the world. It gets annoying after a point. Why do we really need reason? No I won't get into that. There'll be a lot of psychological factors to it. Or will there? Reasoning makes things precise. Or am I blabbering here? I think I'm getting a little confused.

[Voices in my head: a LITTLE?
Me : Yeah ok. Shut up. You're not even supposed to be there.
Voices in my head: Is that our fault?
Me : *sigh*]

I don't get people who come online and keep their status as "busy" but are still always online. I mean, if you're so busy why even come online in the first place? It's alright being busy for like half an hour maybe. But for a long stretch of hours? And the same people, when appearing as busy, will still talk to you online. Unless it has something to do with the fact that if you're "busy" then the annoying doorbell kind of sound doesn't come every time someone says something. Well, whatever. Each to his/her own.

I just love the whole "do I look like a guy with a plan?" dialogue in The Dark Knight. The script is so well done.

"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a...a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it, you know? I just...do things. The mob has plans, cops have plans. Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers...schemers trying to control their little worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So, when i say tha- come here, when I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know that I'm telling the truth... It's the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans and, uh, look where that got you.

I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and it turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hm? You know what- you know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan". Even if the plan is horrifying! If tomorrow I told the press that like a gangbanger will get shot or a... truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics...because it's all a part of the plan. But when I say one little old mayor will die? Well then everybody loses their minds!! Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. Oh and you know the thing about chaos?... It's fair."

Pumpkins

"7 simple rules for a life in hiding:

1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat...
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love. Both are temporary and quick to sway.
3) When asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep in the eyes of he who asks. He will not ask you again.
4) Never give your real name.
5) If ever told to look at yourself...never look.
6) Never say or do anything the person in front of you can not understand.
7) Never create anything. It will be misinterpreted. It will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life."

- From the movie, "I'm Not There"

Life in hiding must be fun for a little while. There'll be a quietness of your preference. No need to pretend you care about certain things. No need to pick up phone calls. No need to keep up with your social circles. You have your space and time with things.

And I guess you begin to appreciate certain things. Like having people around you at times. Like actually wanting phone calls...even or especially in the middle of the night. Sometimes it feels good being wanted. Sometimes you want to keep up with your social circles. Sometimes it gets lonely brooding in your own imagination. Sometimes not having your own space is what keeps you alive.

I suppose ultimately it all depends on the person. You could be the complete version of an anti-social. But I'm sure even the most anti-social people need company at times. The point of this post? Who knows! I just haven't written in a while.

Speaking of anti-socials, there's the category who aren't actually anti-social but are pretty social and outgoing and are at every party but then in a sudden instant of time, they're sitting in the corner of a room, dwelling in their darkness or whatever you want to call it. This breed of anti-social/social people? They can be divided into the genuine and the wannabe. Just like the actual human race. Now there are sub-divisions. It's the wannabe who need to realise just how pathetic their attempts are.

"...pathetic their attempts are"... I've been watching Dark Knight way too many times. ["I show the schemers just how pathetic their attempts to control things really are" - The Joker]

Speaking of Dark Knight (I know this is way of topic...was there even a topic?): I think the one word that defines it is: revolutionary. No one has said they haven't liked it. At least, as far as I know. I'm not going to give a movie review or anything because I know that whatever I say, people would have already thought of. And it's not like people really care about my opinion. God knows why I wrote a review-type-thing for "I'm Not There".

Well, alright, I've lost the will to write anymore. This has been a strange-ish post but it's easier being pointless. Ta!