The Land of Dreams and stuff

A pretty biased die-hard Beatles fan who talks about dreams, gives film reviews, give options and all that.

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Welcome to my blog!

This is just a small space where I document dreams that I had the night before, or dreams that I somehow remember from ages ago.

I also post some opinions I have, and I do film reviews on films that I've watched.

✌️Forever a biased Beatles fan (Ringo is my fave)🫰

Check out my side blog @thedreamgoose if you want to read about my OCs :)

Uhhhh I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing :)

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

50 posts!

Oh dang I've put up 50 posts on here- wowzers!

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Paul face timing Ringo because he saw the magical mystery tour bus!!! so friggin cute! 😭😭😭

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What are our thoughts on

The Ballad of John and Yoko

I effing love this song so effing much. What I love about it is that there's no hidden meaning to try and analyse or find, it's a very literal song and John Lennon (more than likely) intended it to be a literal song because it's literally telling everyone what he and Yoko did just so they could get married and go on their honeymoon.

Now every time I see or hear the words Gibraltar or Seine I instantly start singing this song! Hip hip hooray🎉

What's also very interesting is that George and Ringo had no involvement in this song whatsoever. I think George was either on holidays or trying to buy a house (something like that) and either Ringo was on holidays or he was filming The Magic Christian, which I think I'm right in saying.

Paul and John were the only two involved in the making of this song, John played guitar and Paul was on every other instrument, including drums (part of the reason Ringo left the band in 1968 actually).

I also love the harmony at the end, you can easily tell it's good ol' Macca harmonising with John. I also just love how it has such a funky tune to it, because before I listened to this song the song title put me off because I thought it was going to be like an actual gentle and kinda sad ballad.

But no, The Ballad of John and Yoko is not like any other ballad I've listened to. It really took me by surprise with its funky tune!

Who else agrees??

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I was in a new bookshop and the second I saw this board game I gasped so dramatically I was like "OH MY GOD THERE'S A BOARD GAME NAMED AFTER A BEATLES SONG!!!"

I didn't buy it though because I don't really play board games. Just thought I'd say this.

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First art since the hiatus, enjoying me a self-portrait from my travels

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Good to see you back again🫰

[thedreamgoose]

Late night fun fact/thought

I never said the reason as to why I create OCs. Well, the answer is this:

As a child I was always creating stories and apparently fanfiction without even realising it was even fanfiction, I didn't even know what fanfiction was until I was 13.

But I was always drawing something, and it was always various characters from movies or shows that I was deathly obsessed with, ones I can remember are Octonauts from when I was small, the Smurfs, My Little Pony Equestria Girls (which is actually why my drawing style is the way it is), just to name a few.

However after a friend of mine said I should design Tony the Mushroom Slayer on Gacha Club back in 2022, that's when it really clicked for me. I was using Gacha Club for a ton of character designs, but that was just about it.

My characters have changed a lot with me since I started creating OCs in 2022, and the reason for this is because a lot of them represent something from my own personality. I'm sure many other people here relate when it comes to OC making, maybe, maybe not?

South Park OC Priscilla Murgatroyd represents self-hatred.

Indigo represents protection.

Bethany represents emotional self-defense.

Clover Mary Sue Boyd represents both protection and emotional self-defense, as well as closed off.

Ozzie represents obsession.

Sawyer also represents obsession but she mainly represents giddiness and immaturity.

Laoise represents anger and a little bit of self-hatred.

Gwen represents moodiness.

Aubrey represents joy, immaturity and especially guilty pleasures.

Monsters at Work OC Maddie represents panic and stress.

Peggy represents freedom and expression.

All of them actually represent a bit of expression.

A lot of them also have musical elements to them.

Those that I didn't list may not possess any particular traits of my personality, but they contain characteristics of people, other characters or things that I really like and have helped shape my personality.

The point is that I find OCs a really great way of expressing myself and getting my feelings and personality down onto paper or at least separate it out and make those small chunks their own slightly dramatised person each, where they also somewhat help me to understand myself a little better.

Maybe some of you have the same experience when it comes to creating characters or maybe it's completely different compared to mine.

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Edit: I should say that Clover represents protection and insecurity.

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Tonight's film review: Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary (2026) is a science fiction film based on the 2021 novel with the same name. Starring Ryan Gosling, this film is about a middle school science teacher, Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma in a spaceship, Hail Mary, with amnesia. Throughout the film he slowly starts to remember who he is and why he was in space to begin with.

Initially, I was reluctant to watch it because I'm not a big sci-fi fan whatsoever and I thought it wasn't going to be my type of movie. However after two of my good friends watched it, I thought "I may as well check it out to see what the hype is all about, it's been on my watchlist for a little while now."

HOLY EFFING MOLY ABSOLUTE CINEMA✋

Ryan Gosling, you did not fail to impress me one bit.

The graphics were just breathtaking, and ROCKY MY SHAYLA!!! Too precious for this world!

Also, I need to say this as a Beatles fan, but Two of Us was NOT on my bingo card for this film!!

I'll tell you this, the second I saw Ringo's name flash up on the screen I actually jumped and pointed at the TV and I blurted out "RINGO!!" And then when Two of Us started playing, I basically turned into an ape. That's right, I went ape crazy during the first few seconds of the song and then I calmed down quickly.

I rate this film an 11 out of 10. Maybe higher because OH MY GOD I'M GENUINELY LOST FOR WORDS THIS IS PROBABLY THE HARDEST FILM REVIEW I'VE WRITTEN OUT SO FAR!!

Would I recommend this film? FUCK YES!!

My final thoughts would be, this film is actually the best one I've watched this year. Like I said before in my Sheep Detectives film review is that we tend to forget that there are still good films being pumped out because we're so focused on pointing out the poorly made films that may or may not have used AI, but that makes sense since AI is all the talk, and not for the better especially in the artistic industry.

So would I watch it again? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING YES!!

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Question/thought of the day:

Ringo Starr is left-handed, correct?

In The Magic Christian, the scene where Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) and Youngman (Ringo) sign the adoption papers at around 7:26 minutes into the film?

Why the hell is Ringo signing it with his right hand? Was Ringo instructed to use his right hand just for this film, or is Ringo secretly ambidextrous? Or did the times his grandmother try to slap the right-handedness into him finally possess him?

It's actually a question that will probably never be answered because it's that niche of a film, not even Google can answer it😥

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ADVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HAVING A GOOD DAY:

wait until it gets dark and make tea or coffee or hot chocolate, or if it’s too hot outside make yourself a healthy smoothie with your favorite things in it at any point during the day

put on your favorite underwear, it helps, trust me, it’s an old family secret (i’m not kidding)

if you have a pet, play the “how many things can i stick on you until you move or get mad” game (bonus points if they fall asleep, extra bonus points if a family member sees you and tells you to quit it, extra double ultra points if they join in)

rip a peice of paper into as many little pieces as you can

go to animeseason.com and click “random anime” until you see one that looks completely ridiculous (or actually good) and watch the first episode. repeat if it sucked or if you get bored halfway through

spend at least an hour making a music playlist for how you feel right now and save it for now or when you feel a bad mood rise again

curl up in bed and cover yourself with blankets and pillows and put in music and just lay there for a while (sleeping is also good)

eat everything

drink lots of water

it’s okay bad moods don’t last forever!!!!!! i promise!!! you will be yourself soon and there are people who love you very much, don’t be afraid to reach out to them

you are lovely

eat lots of bananas

[asoftgoblin]

here are some more friends

i bet there is still a box of crayons in your house somewhere (if not you can get them cheap during back-to-school sales); find them and use them (maybe while watching ridiculous anime)

sunshine if you can manage it or just a sun lamp trust me it matters more than you think especially in winter

hugs even if they are stuffed animals or your pet or your pillow whatever is on hand

if you’ve got a favorite lotion/soap/thing that is scented use it liberally

cry if you need, if it doesn’t start by itself or if you don’t want to attract attention put on a sad movie so you have an excuse

write this down to pull out on future bad days:

it is okay to have a day where you don’t get things done

it is okay not to have a reason for feeling bad

taking care of yourself is a worthwhile use of time

if you still don’t feel better it is not your fault (and it is okay to ask for help)

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

And now another film review:

Priscilla (2023)

WARNING: Kind of spoiliers??

This film tells the story of how Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley came to be and how their relationship collapsed in the mid to late 60s.

I must say, it was actually fairly accurate (I said after doing some research so I knew what I was talking about), but that's because Priscilla Presley herself was involved in making the film and it was based on her memoir from 1985, "Elvis and Me".

The film did a really good job in representing Elvis's behaviour behind the curtain of his fame, and how Priscilla saw him as well.

Gonna be real, this film really changed my view on Elvis, and not in a good way. While I was never a die-hard fan for Elvis, I liked a few of his songs (I still do, actually), but to be fair, I never saw him in any particular light, but I definitely didn't see him in THIS light until I watched this film! I mean, I was fairly certain he was under the influence of drugs because the entire planet was on drugs back in those days.

But the thing is, ELVIS Was A P3DO LIKE wtf-?! WHY THE HELL WAS HE ATTRACTED TO A 14 YEAR OLD LIKE-

I'll give it to him because he didn't want to make love to her until they were married. But still!!!

I'm not saying you should dislike Elvis because of this, I'm not saying that at all! But I'm just saying that I'm not his biggest fan.

You might be thinking "oh but you're a die-hard Beatles fan, the Beatles weren't always good people either, they were on drugs all the time and they were wife-beaters!" Maybe, yes! I'm not excusing their actions, they've done bad things but they tried to become better especially after the band's breakup, and Ringo and Paul are still doing well as of today! But this is not about the Beatles. Sorry.

Would I recommend Priscilla? Yes. Absolutely.

Did I like it? Honestly, no. I just didn't really like it. It in itself was a really good film but it just wasn't my cup of tea. Just because a film is good doesn't mean I have to like it!

Would I watch it again? I mean... Not willingly. Like if it was on, I'd watch it.

Overall, I'd give it a 9 out of 10. It only loses one mark because I'm that harsh of a critic and I'm biased. However, the one good thing I will point out is that the acting was really good (whoever was in charge of casting deserves a massive congrats).

Yeah I really don't have a lot to say about this film. That's my review, take it or leave it.

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Guys. I just had the craziest dream last night

First it started with me being at my cousin's house, and we were in the front garden playing in a caravan, and we were pretending that we were living in a zombie apocalypse. We then entered into the next door neighbor's house and they were really chill with us being there. I remember my cousin and I ended up going against each other for some reason because one of us possessed an incomplete antidote (for which we used a water bottle as our prop).

Then I remember that I was watching YouTube vids from the mid 2010s and I was watching a Miranda Sings vid (I do NOT support her) and Ringo made an appearance, but he looked how he did in 1965-1966.

After, I was at the cinema to see a movie, I actually don't remember what it was but at the end, Ringo and his now-ex wife Maureen (may she rest in Heavenly peace) were doing a meet and greet at the back of the cinema. I kept looking back to see how long the queue was and it was growing by the second so I managed to get in line, but because Ringo was talking to someone else I was met with Maureen and she was super lovely, asking me a couple of questions (I don't remember what they were). No interaction with Ringo but you know what I'll take what I can get🙂

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Happy birthday to this fab drummer🥳

Forever a Ringo fan🫰

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Here's an interesting theory I have on a very shitty niche 60s film

For anyone who has watched Candy 1968 (or read my review on it but mainly watched the film), you may remember how it opens with Candy coming down to Earth from space, and then the film ends with her going back to space. The film still doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

But if you were to see it from a different angle, what if Candy really isn't a human at all?

What if she's some kind of celestial being or angel sent on some kind of mission, or took it upon herself, to find the meaning of life and/or to find her father down on Earth? What if the whole movie is that, and she ends up in the desert all in white, and what if the Candy everyone sees in class is really an uninhabited vessel (or a mindless one), and the Candy that we see arriving on Earth is a spirit who inhabits the girl's body so that she can interact with people on Earth? Following on that, what if the body the spirit is using still has her mind somewhat intact? For example, the spirit probably wouldn't know Emmanuel the Mexican gardener, Ringo's character, but the girl herself would.

Maybe she, the spirit, unsure of the father part of her mission because he's standing in front of her alive and well, so she sticks with the "meaning of life" part for the time being, which leads her to the boozing poet McPhisto, who fails to actually help her find the meaning of life (despite his poetry giving one "answer", "give yourself") all in hopes of trying to seduce her.

I guess the same idea goes for:

-The gardener, who was actually the only one to have true feelings for her, bless you Ringo even though what you did was still disgusting. Since he was studying to be a priest, what if he could tell that she was a celestial being, not an angel? Although maybe he could've mistaken her for an angel? I doubt it because someone studying to be a priest wouldn't have sexual feelings for an angel. Right? Right? Maybe he's someone who has been studying celestial beings all along but was forced to study to be a priest. Sure it would be a way to communicate with spiritual beings but maybe it wouldn't be the same way he'd wish to do it. When McPhisto spouts out a poem drunkenly, Emmanuel freaks out and thinks it's "devil talk" and Candy reassures him that it's simply a poem about giving oneself to others. McPhisto's drunk screaming "LA REVOLUTION" unlocks something small inside of Emmanuel, attempting to set him free from some kind of chokehold but not for very long because his sisters find out what happened. Anyway, what if maybe he secretly knew all along that she wasn't a human, and because he was under the control of his vengeful sisters the pressure got to him and he's longed to do something spontaneous and fun and daring? Well, making out with a celestial being is one way of being spontaneous I guess? Now, as a biased Ringo fan, the only reason I said "he knew from the very start" is because I jokingly believe that Ringo is from the future and the "Ringo is everyone" theory, there has to be a "Ringo knew everything from the start" theory, I mean, he probably knew the Beatles were doomed from the start.

-The general, who really only did it for his own pleasure but thankfully failed to actually make love to her. At this point in the film, her father now has brain damage so they have to take him to the hospital.

-The surgeon, who acted like everything he did was right even though it really wasn't. By now, the surgeon has completely fucked up the father with whatever he's done, and Candy is informed by the bitchy nurse that he's gone missing. What if whoever sent Candy on the mission to Earth knew from the start that her father was in danger? Maybe that's why she was sent to Earth from her home in space!

-The camera fella in the bar, who kept invading her personal space. To be fair, he actually didn't need to be included in the film in my personal opinion because even if Candy being a celestial being was the case, he literally didn't do anything related to "failing to help this girl find the meaning of life", or giving her answers related to her father's whereabouts. You could say the camera fella was a predatory influencer that travelled back in time from the 2010s to the 1960s extremely obsessed with what he was doing.

-The hunchback, who has kind of the same story as the general, "pleasure is all that matters and shit", except he actually went with it- yeah he's definitely my least favourite. As well as that he could've been scrapped from the film as well because he didn't do anything to "fail in helping Candy find the meaning of life or whatever at this point", nor did he do anything to help her find her father. However I can see why he was added because he was one of the characters who appeared in the novel.

The guru, he's actually an interesting one to talk about. Here, maybe Candy really does believe that maybe he could help her find the meaning of life, or at least some kind of meaning. He strongly believes that the way the world is with wanting stuff you don't even need is just weighing one down and keeping them from finding their true selves or their true spirits. Yes, I know, just like every other man, he's a little fraud only using whatever "knowledge" he has as an excuse to seduce Candy. But what if he really does know something that Candy might have found useful in her mission? Or what if it wasn't fate that led Candy to the guru? What if the guru was waiting for her but he didn't know who he was exactly waiting for?

At the end when she finds the sacred temple that the guru was on about, what if the temple really was the place for her to find some kind of an answer? Well, she got one answer, the whereabouts of her father. Not a very pleasant way of answering that but sure.

The end scene where she's walking through a field, genuinely speaking I'll still never get it, I don't think anyone will. But if you were to see it from the angle I'm trying to see it from, we know that this scene is her walking by all the characters she met throughout the film celebrating some kind of festival. Notice how Candy doesn't stop to acknowledge what's going on around her, it's like she's in some kind of a trance, walking in one direction as if something or someone is (spiritually) calling her name. This could confirm that back at the temple she had left the girl's body and who we actually see is the mythical spirit walking through the field, maybe that's why no one sees her nor can she interact with her. It also kinda proves my "theory" that Ringo's character Emmanuel knew she was a celestial being all along, and since he's the only one that can see her, that's why he's the only one who acknowledges her presence and tries to get her to notice him. What if Emmanuel was in love with the spirit, not the girl herself? That's why he was so drawn to her, because she was completely different, and someone that would allow him to break free from whatever restraints his sisters have him under.

Also notice how each time the camera cuts back to her, she's acquired more and more red flowers on her long white dress, as well as a flower head piece. Maybe the flowers symbolise something important but right now I'm not sure what (if you have an idea what the flowers symbolise please say it!!)

Anyway, she keeps walking until she ascends from Earth back into space, returning to her real home in the stars.

While it's a pretty niche film, Candy is pretty "infamous" for being gross with having a young girl being seduced by men everywhere she goes, but note that she doesn't seem madly affected by it, like she's a mythical being unsure of what it was but allowed it to happen anyway.

That doesn't make it okay, though, that's still very vile!

Anyway, because she's possibly a celestial being maybe that explains why she's so naive and has an angelic innocence to her because she was never really a human to begin with.

To summarise everything I have said in this post because I'm a serious yapper, I believe that Candy is a celestial being whose home is located in space, but she was sent down to Earth on a mission to find both the meaning of life and to try and find her father whom she was told may be in danger. Her journey through Earth involves men manipulating her into making her think that they have some kind of an answer (first focusing on the meaning of life) but it's really just to seduce her, even though she really doesn't seem badly affected by it. Her naivety and innocence contrasts severely with the men who enter her life, which hints that she really could be a celestial or mythical being. After finding both the sacred temple and her father, that's why she ends up in the field with every other character she met throughout the film, because it's symbolising the journey she experienced in order to find "some" meaning of life and to "somewhat" save her father, who may I add is still pretty much brain damaged. Afterwards, she goes back to her home in space, and the film ends there.

To wrap this up, this is basically my way of seeing Candy 1968. Does it change my opinion on the film? Not really, the themes in it are still gross and it doesn't change the fact that the film is plain disgusting.

However after jotting this down, it really does change my view on it to a certain level, despite the grossness of it.

What do you guys think? Is my theory/thought completely ludicrous or do you agree?

[alwaysbeenadreamer]

Tonight's film review:

The Sheep Detectives (2026)

This film revolves around a shepherd George Hardy, portrayed by Hugh Jackman, who lives in a meadow somewhere in the UK and looks after a really adorable flock of sheep with very silly names, and every night he reads them a mystery novel before going to sleep, pretending that they can really understand him. Regardless he still treats them really well. However, when George is found dead, our titular sheep, Lily and Mopple, are eager to find out what happened to their shepherd.

I didn't add a spoiler warning this time round because it's just one of those films you'd actually have to watch for yourself.

Would I recommend this film? Hell yes 🔥 Probably the best film to ever come out of 2026 so far, the fam and I thought it was pretty funny.

Like literally so many people complain about films nowadays that either look AI generated or seem like they were (HORRIBLY) written by AI, and everyone completely forgets that there still are really good movies and shows being pumped out.

Anyway, would I watch this film again? HELL YES!!!

Personally I'd rate The Sheep Detectives a 10/10. I thought the cast was brilliant, it was actually written pretty well, it's a great film to watch with friends and family, it's just a very fun film. As well as that, it really felt like watching a film from the mid 2000s or 2010s, in a lot of ways you couldn't even tell it was made in 2026!

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I know people joke about them getting head in this picture but what the fuck is the actual context for the picture

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A film review that I've been meaning to do

SPOILIER WARNING!!!

Today's review is on The Magic Christian, a satirical farce black comedy film starring Peter Sellers (Guy Grand) and Ringo Starr (Youngman Grand), adapted from the 1959 comic novel The Magic Christian written by Terry Southern (who also wrote the novel Candy). And yes, this is another very niche 60s film I watched only because Ringo was in it.

Ringo plays a homeless man, Peter plays a rich man who adopts Ringo and the whole film is basically them bribing people with large sums of money for them to perform elaborate practical jokes.

My favourite one would be where they pay one of the actors in a production of Hamlet to strip while casually saying his monologue, I know not many people like that scene (or the movie in general, many think it's extremely weird), but I thought it was funny.

There's not much daring conflict to it, but I can't think of any 60s films that had daring conflict that really raised the stakes. Well, maybe aside from the fact that the cruise ship was put in danger. But with that being said, this film was definitely better than Candy in a few ways, for one, it's actually funnier for the right reasons rather than sexual reasons.

I saw a really interesting post here on Tumblr pointing out how Peter Sellers was so into Ringo and how in The Magic Christian people say their relationship is very "sugar daddy" like uhhhh I mean you're not wrong when you watch it again and when you watch their interaction in Get Back THEY WERE SO INTO EACH OTHER!

Like why was everyone into Ringo? Peter Sellers, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, I mean I don't blame them, why wouldn't you be into Ringo?

Point being, there really isn't a whole lot else to say about this film, I guess I can kind of see why it's not very well known.

Would I recommend this film? Yes. Yes I would.

Was it a good film? Eeehhhh.... Not really, but it wasn't a bad watch either :)

Would I watch it a second time? Yes. Yes I would.

I'd give it a 7 out of 10. It was an easier watch than Candy, I will say.