just saw it in the theater, what a nostalgic moment . . . when Aliens came out in 1986 it was a cutting-edge action movie.  wow!  how realistic and gritty and dark and scary!  no one had ever seen anything like that.  i read about it in time magazine.  sigourney weaver was a serious actress who gave weight to the whole thing .  . . now we’ve had The Matrix and a bunch of other darker grittier movies and the whole genre has gone as far as it can go, just like American Popular Culture has gone as far as it can go.

but more importantly when i saw that movie as a teenager i still believed i could be an ordinary human being, before i started seeing the etheric plane and being haunted by ghosts . . . before i was plunged into the twilight zone of human consciousness not to emerge for another 20 years.  so to see it again reminds me of how far i’ve come, how much has changed and been lost and how much of what i thought was reality was only an illusion.  

but on the other hand what i thought was illusion then was actually reality.  i really am psychic and there really is an underground revolution taking place . . . what a trip!