Happy Birthday

To my Elven Sister
turelie!

A Call for Help

I wrote to Barry about this. I know I have in the past, but now it's urgent, especially since I'm actually composing the outline for The Blood Crown in preparation for NaNoWriMo. I hope he'll do this for me. I'm sure he'll provide some insight. I mean it's obvious that he takes full control of the audience on the Jungle of the Senses concert. And, even though you don't see the audience in the "Despite Dense Weed" performance, it's obvious the band are raising a cone of power right there on stage. You can feel the Chaotic energy. Anyway, here's what I wrote.

Hey B,

Like I did in 2005, I've decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month in November. I need your help with something. I may have mentioned it in the past. I need to know how it feels to be on stage and capture the Will of an audience. Here's the chapter I'll need this information for.

· Orphaeus and Cadmus make their way to Orphaeus’ musical theatre and part-time home in San Francisco so that Orphaeus can get his affairs in order. Cadmus finally meets Orphaeus’ Tribe: Genevieve, Hercules, Lolita, and the eternally strange Persephone. While there Orphaeus and Cadmus collaborate on a musical performance to see how well their psychic influence on others can be combined. This chapter will focus mainly on how the performer can pull the audience in and take over the Will of a group mentality.

So I was hoping you could conjure of the feeling of working with others on stage to pull in the audience to your 'way of the thinking.' If you could give me any idea at all of what this is like, especially on an energy level, I would be eternally grateful. You're already in my acknowledgments, but I'll add this lovely gift as yet another reason you're present in a very prominent spot.

Thanks in advance.

Hope you're well and happy, and all went well with Carlo. He's a lovely soul, than man.

Peace,

Tracy Angelina

The Joker Blogs

So now I continue with the rest of the outline and await the heart-stopping moment when I see his name in my inbox. After almost a decade, it still just makes my nerves wiggle to see a letter from B waiting to be clicked. And he's really a sweet soul. He's Tribe. He's like the Soul of Creativity in my world. He's the father to the dreadful beast that dwells within my head and bathes in the blood of his own kind. But, other than that, Barry is a fantastic, lovely person with an uncanny power about him. I'm rambling.

Dark Night of the Soul

One of my most beloved songs.

May, 1993 - Stratford ... have been reading through the poetry of 15th century Spain, and I find myself drawn to one by the mystic writer and visionary St. John of the Cross; the untitled work is an exquisite, richly metaphoric love poem between himself and his god. It could pass as a love poem between any two at any time ... His approach seems more akin to early Islamic or Judaic works in its more direct route to communication to his god ... I have gone over three different translations of the poem, and am struck by how much a translation can alter our interpretation. Am reminded that most holy scriptures come to us in translation, resulting in a diversity of views.

Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics by St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz), arr. and adapted by Loreena McKennitt
From: The mask and mirror (1994).

Loreena McKennitt - The Dark Night of the Soul

Upon a darkened night
the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest

Shrouded by the night
and by the secret stair I quickly fled
The veil concealed my eyes
while all within lay quiet as the dead

Chorus
Oh night thou was my guide
oh night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other

Upon that misty night
in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
Without a guide or light
than that which burned so deeply in my heart

That fire t'was led me on
and shone more bright than of the midday sun
To where he waited still
it was a place where no one else could come

Chorus

Within my pounding heart
which kept itself entirely for him
He fell into his sleep
beneath the cedars all my love I gave
And by the fortress walls
the wind would brush his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest hand
caressed my every sense it would allow

Chorus

I lost myself to him
and laid my face upon my lovers breast
And care and grief grew dim
as in the mornings mist became the light
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair

The Cliffs of Insanitweets

( random mutterings of the mentally unstable )

Oh God Help Me....

During their return to Jerusalem to receive further instruction from Kelat for their journey to Rome, Cadmus reveals to Orphaeus how he learned of the existence of the Blood Crown. He tells the story of young Faust, a hedonistic and naïve Vampire residing in New York City during the heady Disco days of the late 70s. An artist, actor, writer, and performance artist, he was a fixture at Studio 54 where he was exposed to a number of other Vampires who felt compelled to be around Faust and use him as a confessor of sorts, either before or after their sexual exploits. This made Faust an unofficial and unwitting steward of Vampiric knowledge, most of which he ignored, but held on to in the event he encountered the same Vampire. He never wanted to offend any repeat visitor to his territory by not remembering who she or he was.

But Cadmus had heard of Faust’s proclivity for being a font of secrets and took it upon himself to find out what he could about the Apostate while he could, perhaps for future use. What ensues when the seducer becomes seduced himself, and the confessor finds himself in a confessional from which there is no escape is one of the most horrific tales known in Vampire history.

Blood Crown Outline (so far)

THE BLOOD CROWN OUTLINE

BASIC OUTLINE OF THE PLOT OF THE

SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE VAMPIRE RELICS.

Basic plot: Cadmus Pariah and Orphaeus Cygnus grudgingly team up to take a Vampire Relic called the Blood Crown away from the Apostate, who is hidden in the catacombs beneath the Vatican. But they need the secrets of ancient Tarmian history and natural magick on their side in order to ever hope for success.

Prologue

· Sets the tone of the story

The Veiled Sanctuary

· Cadmus comes to visit his mother Kelat in her hidden home in Jerusalem. He tells her of a Vampire Relic called the Blood Crown and how he intends to reclaim it from the Apostate.

Mother of Memory

· Kelat joins minds with Cadmus to show him the Ancient Alien Elfin Days of Tarmian Earth and how the first warnings of a human student of the Tarmian Magickal Arts had gone rogue and was threatening everything the Tarmi had worked for with their human charges. The story of Pretani Kelat’Menan, Kelat’s mother is told.

The Dragon and the Swan

· Kelat reveals that Cadmus is to travel to Rome with his most despised Nemesis Orphaeus Cygnus. A battle of Wills ensues until Orphaeus arrives at the Veiled Sanctuary, where plans begin to unfold.

The Tale of Mary Magdalene

· Needing to get their personal affairs in order, Cadmus and Orphaeus first travel to the West Country of England to deal with Cadmus devotee and former band mate in Magnificat, Mary Magdalene. We learn about her history, how she came to be devoted to and fall in love with Cadmus, and what Cadmus does to rectify the situation.
(chapter driven by ‘Blood of Eden’ by Peter Gabriel)

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Character Meme

Passed on to me by gunslingaaahhh.

Name a fictional character I love or hate and I will tell you why I either love or hate them. (then post this in your blog so I can ask you the same question)