I had another strange dream last night. I dreamt I was sent back to Kunsan AB in Kunsan, Korea. I served there from 94-95. In 1994 the base had been scheduled for closure by the BRAC, but then came along the revelation that North Korea was close to building their first nuclear weapon. President Clinton immediately removed the base from the closure list. When I got there the base was on a constant wartime footing and living on the base was almost like living on an outpost. Anyway, I was with some young female airmen who found out that I had been there before. They were asking me all sorts of questions about the base. The strangest part was, when we got there, I didn't recognize any of it. It seemed like it had gone from a US military base to a town-square shopping center. I wasn't sure what to make of it. The girls were complaining about being there, but I had told them that 14 years ago none of this was here. Then all but one lady went off exploring, and the one who was left gave me a kiss and said "Thank you, you helped put this into perspective for me" and that was the end of the dream.
That wasn't the first dream I've ever had about being sent back to Korea and it probably won't be the last. I just hope that my dreams don't involve actual war... that would definitely suck.
I'm listening to Bruce Dickinson sing an even more operatic version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" with the Montsserrat Caballe. It is definitely interesting. "Mantronic" by WASP is coming up next in the playlist, so that should help get me back on a metal footing.
I must say I was very pleasantly surprised by 2 more of the Metal Blade releases. The first one I listened to last night was by a band called Barn Burner. They have a stoner type sound with a metal sensibility. I also listened to "Graveyard Classics 3" by Six Feet Under. This is much better than "Graveyard Classics 2", which covered AC/DC's "Back in Black" in its entirety. While I can appreciate the gimmick, AC/DC songs do not lend themselves to pitch-shifted vocals. I was really impressed with their cover of Metallica's "The Frayed Ends of Sanity". Chris Barnes and company took a classic thrash song and turned it into a death metal frenzy.
Funny story about "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" - we were nearing the end of one our Operational Readiness Exercises (in preparation for an Operational Readiness Inspection, which is overseen by the USAF Inspector General) when the duty forecaster started doing the "oh ee oh" sounds at the beginning of the song. I joined in with him and the duty officer joined in right after I did. The funniest thing happened - I started singing the lyrics to "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" and the forecaster was banging his head... the duty officer started singing the lyrics from the "Wizard of Oz" song that has the same sounds. He stopped and looked at both of us like we were the craziest people on the planet. What can I say, fake combat fatigue will bring out the foolishness.
I must say my chicken tacos turned out pretty good. Tonight was also my first stab at Mexican style rice... maybe someday I'll graduate to paella, but probably not anytime soon.
At this point I must bid you all good night as I am sore and pretty freaking tired.
Tell me my dogs aren't spoiled
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