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| from one extreem to the other |
| 06.29.05 (6:26 am) [edit] |
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Going from being in the world of Starwars to the medieval world...back on monday.. for those of you reading the Daughter of the Empire.... will start up again on Tuesday, I hope.... in the mean time.....    thanks to the SOE SWG game for letting me have a field day making screen shots have a good weekend y'all!!!! until then be excellent to each other! |
| It's hot I am sick here is something to keep your mind off things! | ||||||||
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| Ask Vader |
| 06.25.05 (8:32 am) [edit] |
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[url=] http://www.sithsense.com/flas... [/url] hilarious!!!!!! merlyn 2: Vader:1 |
| spit and hiss |
| 06.25.05 (7:30 am) [edit] |
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It is a saturday morning... the time of peace and tranquility...HAH! not when one wakes up to a thunderheadthat tries to spit at you ( can't call it a shower not enough rain) andthe neighbours who sound like they are trying to murder each other or at the very least destroy the house by slamming all the doors and screaming their heads off. 8am on a staurday. *sigh* it is sunny now again and HUMID! The air feels as though in some ways it is a giant hand flattening down on everything here, my arm is sticking to the desk..oook not much planned for today, relax get some scrolls done and consider merlyn's next move. Dunno, teh days go by and it's weird how fast time seems to fly. new couch and chair look excellent!!!!! Dunno.... it's early and the alarm wake up this morning wasn't the greatest. Too bad the neighbours don't come with volumne control. until laters be excellent to each other.... |
| Dance D'amour |
| 06.24.05 (6:28 am) [edit] |
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I have not had a summer like this in years, a summer wheer it was sultry and hot and humid enough to make you want to live in the shower all day. While I love the heat and the humidity for the most part doesn't bother me, the stillness at around 5 ish when the hosue has reached boiling point and there is no place to go to cool down is a bit hard to deal with for the sixth day in a row. I don't eat when it gets hot, food bleah....no food = crankies but who wants to cook anything???? salads are great when it is like this...it is doing wonders for my figure let me tell you! And we are keeping the spanish orange growers inbusiness.... I do go through liters of Orange juice and water. :) yum at night though it is a little glass of Pastise with ice, I love to watch it louche. This summer heat wave has been amazing for the garden everything is gorwing like wild, the mixed seeds that were just mystery greens have suddenly become a mass of poppies, and a whole bunch of other flowers I can't identify but that are clourful and beautiful and very attractive to bees :) The down side of the big heat is it is hard to sit still and work. With Nibelungen coming up there are three scrolls to be done. Nothing big but much to my shock the event is next week, EEK how did that happen? I know how it happened. I kow exactly how I managed to slip stream by thelast 4 weeks ..... It is as I told my friend Honor yesterday, the great and all powerful space time dimension warp thingy. I have just been living in another galaxy time and space for the last month or so. Fine with me. I must admit I have not felt this enthusiastic for writing or even art in a long time. The passions all stirred up so to speak and the creative muse buzzing around my head , or is that just the mosquitoes????? Summer a real summer does that to me. I never realised how much I missed a good warm sunny summer until we moved here. The writing is time consuming and it takes up head space in a big way, not just dealing with plot line and subplot lines and characters and stuff.....To play in the Lucas sandbox you need know what you are doing though. I say this because while a lot of fan fiction out there just plain ignores the canon or does some mighty creative things to get around it, if you want to do it right you need to know the time line and you need to get things right. Working in canon in a difficult thing, you need to really know what is what in the Star Wars world.... and that is really a big thing, I mean we have what 30 years give ot take of story to weave in and out of. There are people out there , more insane than I am, and one amazing individual in particular who has doccumented and catalogued the entire world in a cohesive time line... the ultimate star wars historical doccument. Nathan P. Butler..... I cannot thank this guy enough because without his historical doccument I would be struggling. ( Or spending a lot more time reading and dog earing ) you can see his site here and DL the time line via PDF it's massive. [url=] http://www.starwarsfanworks.c... [/url] In the mean time I am struggling to straddle two worlds the sci fi one and the medieval one and maintian my sanity.. ha haha fun. and it really is fun. Who says you can't multidimensionally multitask? which remindes me .... you shodl try chatting in msn with the font turned to Aurek-besh some time.... want to learn the Star Wars basic written script???? this is as good a way as any...hilarious. On the real life front ( oh yes there is the third dimension of the time space contiunuum, real life... we get our new and over the top expensive couch and chair set today, finally 8 weeks after the fact. Now we will finally have a livingroom. This is a bonus because it is a LOT cooler down there than up here in this room. Am looking forward to it greatly actually. Slowly, we begin to unfold our lives into this box and make it a home not just a house. It is taking forever though. I am hoping the heat wave breaks just a little and it coos down enough to slave over scrolls. All the while I am holding conversations in my head and out loud between various and sundry people who populate my on going tale of life behind the scenes in the Empire. It must be funny to the neighbours if the actually notice that despite all the chit chat there is only one person in the house. Must be funny to hear though. be even funnier if I actually could emmulate Darth Vader ho ho ho. I can't believe that pretty much six months have flown by. In another two weeks + - a few days we start out italian course, and a good thing too, yesterday someone phoned and when I told them i couldn't speak Italian she just kept speaking to me in this language I didn't know and eventually slammed the phone down in my ear. lovely. I had a few choice words for that I can tell you. Oh for the ability to just download an entire language into my brain and be done with it. matrix... here I come...This is starting to get tedious. If we move again it has to be to a country where we already know the language. anyway... since today is couch day, I need to get my ass in gear and get dressed early.... so Until then be excellent to each other.... enjoy the summer and the sun ( I am despite my three hours of wishing for coolness per day) and have fun. live long and prosper may the force be with you! |
| Tatooine |
| 06.21.05 (10:31 am) [edit] |
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is it hot enough fer ya? it is here loverly..... got up had coffee did an hour's worth of work out, ( I sweat better when it is warm) sat at computer chatted, browsed the boards, considered plot lines and entanglements, changed the bed sheets threw in the old ones to be washed since they will dry in an hour in this heat. It is gorgeous here rigt now cannot complain. Enough cool breeze coming off the mountains to make it feel like a summers caress on your skin, enough warmth in the air to have NO chill and the garden in mad bloom. gotta go find some lunch love to all until then be excellent to each other |
| phew |
| 06.20.05 (3:05 pm) [edit] |
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too hot to be creative. gonna do that lizard thing.... soak up the warmth and relax.... |
| seven crows and a magical green lizard |
| 06.18.05 (7:49 am) [edit] |
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Yesterday I saw the most amazing thing. While upstairs hanging laundry on the balcony I heard a real ruckus coming from crows. I studied crows quite seriously and spent several years photographing them so a ruckus peaks my interest. There in the sky were three piebald ( Carion) or nebel crows quite litterally rushing in towards the town and when I followed their flight I saw that they were coming to the aid of four other crows who were mobbing an eagle that was at least three times their size. All swoop and dive at this eagle who was making those phweee phweee sounds and trying to get away, turning and spiraling around. The eagle could have easily attacked the crows and done some serious damage.But some how they never seem to want to do this it is more about getting the heck away from these crows... So seven crows ( my magical number) went after this huge eagle ( I suspect was a steinadler) don't know the english name sorry. I watched it for about twenty minutes till the eagle had been drummed out of the crow territory and the three crows who had come in to help out had left the fight and flown back to where they had come from. Crows will mob larger birds of prey, usually if they are seen as a threat to the nests or the crows themselves...but it is also doccumented that juvenile crows will just go after Bigger birds, birds of prey etc.... no one knows why, although the experts think it is a way of practicing.... what ever the reason it is not something you see all that often. I wished I had had a camera handy, but sometimes you just get the gift of seeing and that's the memories. This morning ( it being HOT HOT HOT here) a tiny little emerald green lizard appeared on the balcony to visit. He got a bit of a fright, as I have three life size, bronze statues of crows hanging out by the geraniums ( left overs from art school) he was very cautious and slowly explored them and then he got brave and too a leap at one of them, I guess he figured that if the crow didn't attack then they were safe, it was very funny to watch...now he is sunning himself on the ledge. I love it here. |
| Just for Fun |
| 06.17.05 (6:43 am) [edit] |
 Just to point out, this is a screen shot from the SWG game. Not a painting. Just love the image though. For those of you not fluent in Aurebesh it says "Daughter of the Empire." I kinda pictured this as a book cover template. It goes along with the daughter of the empire story on going see link on the side bar. something to keep me occupied and out of trouble. might post more "illustrations" from said book if I get around to making cool screen shots. |
| Enter the Bureaucrats |
| 06.17.05 (5:31 am) [edit] |
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So I paid approx 15 euro to send a scroll express post last Sat. It has to go from lugano to heidelberg. ( we can drive this is 6 hours if traffic is good) it gets held up at Customs in Speyer and it takes 7FNG days and misses the deliver window. WHY THE F**K DO THEY EVEN BOTHER WITH EXPRESS POST. 3 days hanging around at customs why???????? it is a piece of paper!!!!!!! some art work!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! so I cannot tell you how P.O'd I am right now. and there's nothing to be done about it. Next time we drive to Italy to post stuff to Germayn because there is no customs when it is all done via EU. *shakes head* this world is moronic. later dudes gotta go rethink my strategy for scroll posting. |
| melancholy sun |
| 06.16.05 (6:36 am) [edit] |
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The rain finally stopped and the sun came out. The garden is happy and the house needs cleaning, dust it seems multiplies by factor of ten per day. Laundry needs doing too. Someday no matter how good everything around you is just seem a bit off. I guess that is today or at leastthis morning, no particular reason, just blah. (that time o' the month don't help matters either) The late nights caused by flyingto Dantooine to do in some jedi padawan and retrieve a sith holocron don't help much. I woke up slow this morning and a bit on the cranky-pants side. It will pass, need a bath and a plan and get on the go. We set in motion the Italian course thingy, so if all goes well July 18th we will begin to learn the next language. Argh..... scarey. I feel as if am doing this language learning thing the way most people need to buy milk. I tried to get in touch with an old aquaintance over the past few weeks, via the weblog she writes but it seems from the large IGNORE that is going on, that she does not wish to reconnect with me. Maybe that's what set me off today, rejection at its ultimate cruelest, via internet cold and electronic. ho ho ho. In the end I have to learn to let go of the past. This weblog culture is strange. It lets you see the thoughst and feeling sof complete strangers, old friends and people that one might never speak to irl for what ever reason. The insights area bit screwy and it's a bit voyueristic...but never the less it is a BIG thing. so today we go shopping, it's thursday and the stores are actually open till like 8pm or something,we need to return the ST Voyager dvds as one of the dvds has a dirty great paint splodge on it. better take it back is all I can say. We also need printer ink and groceries. It's madness trying to get over to the Lugano sud mall and thurs-nights are always NUTSO. The further south you go the worse people drive and here indicator lights are a non existant feature in cars.... So that's it for today I guess, or at least right now. have to get some writing done, attempt to tidy and buck up a bit, I mean the summer is here and it's gorgeous, what more could a person ask for? until then be excellent to each other. |
| silencio |
| 06.15.05 (6:53 pm) [edit] |
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OMG he FNG fixed the fan My husband ROXX
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| breadbox starwars |
| 06.15.05 (8:52 am) [edit] |
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[url=] http://www.livejournal.com/us... [/url] some folk , and I am one of the, have far too much time on their hands. |
| Mirrormask |
| 06.15.05 (8:30 am) [edit] |
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[url=] http://movies.yahoo.com/featu... [/url] oh boy oh boy oh boy [url=] http://www.sonypictures.com/m... [/url] the official Mirrormask site [url=] http://www.sonypictures.com/p... [/url] direct link to another trailer |
| L33t |
| 06.15.05 (6:02 am) [edit] |
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every day I discover something new!!!! [url=] http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2... [/url] [url=] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [/url] all your base are belong to us! party on etc..... |
| wireless mouse |
| 06.13.05 (6:06 am) [edit] |
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our whole existance is now and has been for a while, wireless in terms of the online thing. We have a router inone rom and 3 desktops and two notes book in teh other ( the note books travel) that all pick up the internet via the air. Pretty impressive really. On a daily basis when not doing otehr things like house work, scrolls or generally mucking about in the garden, working out with Cindy Crawford or watching some Brazillian period soap opera in Italian ( no I don't understand it) I spend around 8 hours a day at the comeputer. It has been more rather than less as of late due to writing a fairly intense story and playing a fairly intense game. The story is trotting along nicely and the game is just plain fun. Last night I logged onto the SW Galaxy game and hungout in the medlab with Marcus ( who was also hangingout with me in the same room) and Akami who is somewhere else in the world. We sat on the floor and chatted face to virtual face so to speak. Since I met my husband online and we spent the first three month s of our relationship not knowing how the other sounded or felt to touch or even smelled like, i don't have a big problem with the online friends thing. It is a natural extension of the whole penpal experience and I did that too. I woudl like to think that in a few years we will don cool hand gear of some sort and wear eye augmentation in the form of nifty glasses or some sort of neurostim gadget and BE in the virtual world as opposed to just seeing an avatar have all the fun. You play yourself in third person almost and it is a little weird. Marcus brought back a tiny wireless mouse from Dubai.It is perfect for the tiny note book I have, even the colours match. So now I can sit on teh couch across from my desktop , with the laptop and write while watching me in the game and a tv show on the entertainment computer. Multitasking at its best. I love this tech-geek world. I don't know how I would manage now without it. Now if we could just get something done about the cpu fan on this desktop of mine before the tech I love so much makes me go deaf. Until then be excellent to each other. |
| wow |
| 06.10.05 (9:52 am) [edit] |
| [url=] http://www.jegem.com/1/Single... [/url] |
| Galaxies |
| 06.10.05 (7:13 am) [edit] |
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[url=]http://reek.swg-faces.com/The...[/url] Reek's Sith Code. how the good go bad. [url=]http://vnfiles.ign.com/starwa... [/url] 'Fett's 'Vett a music video about Boba fett and finally lego..... revenge of the brick [url=] http://www.lego.com/starwars/... [/url] |
| Friday's Muse |
| 06.10.05 (6:58 am) [edit] |
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Many thing have happened in the last two weeks, I feel as though I am waking up from a long sleep, anmd the passion I thought had sort of faded away came back to bit eme on the nose. Writing was one of my first loves, playing with words, developing characters and so on, I lived for that when I was younger, I lived in my own head in a world of long time ago and very far away. Spinning tales of magic and mystery, love and wild things. I could see the characters i created as plainly as I could see my self in the mirror. But for the last five years or so that fire has been dull and the desire to write negligable, I wanted to but couldn't. Too many other things on the go. It isn't that I am a one trick pony, but writing, like most of the other art forms I tend to dwell in, leaves little room for other things. One thing at a time. I had forgotten how wonderful it was when the words come, and the characters sudenly have a life of their own and do things or say things that are completely unexpected. As an author you sometimes have to let a bit of control go and allow the story to tell itself. and sometimes it is real work like pulling teeth. Yesterday was time warp day. Every time I looked at the clock it was at least an hour later than the least time I checked. I finished my scroll, not the very best I have ever done, but as Marcus so aptly said...not every one can be a master piece. It is fine and looks good but I know I felt rushed doing it and there are things i woud not do again given the chance. But live and learn. I am burnt out with the scroll thing right now, i concentrated so hard on it for the last 6 months and produced many many scrolls, the last five of which not one person depsite there being name, email and snailmail address on the back bothered to say thankyou and that inc. a Laurel. It was sort of the straw that busted the camel I suppose. I had several frantic emails from someone representing someone else who wanted a scroll that was backlogged done asap ( leaving the kingdom) and inspite of the already heavy work load I did this scroll so that said person would have it in time. Do I even get wow thankyou so much for the effort? nope nothing, not a peep..... and it was after that I thought why the fuck am I doing this? It's serious art work, takes serious time effort and money and people cannot even be bothered to send a quick little email to say, hey thanks. I guess I am kinda disgusted actually and after this last event and go around, my WTF and who cares factor has shot up through the roof. That along with the switch in prioroties ( from medieval clubs to Star Wars) my lust for sitting at my drafting table for 8-10 hours straight to produce a one of a kind work of art for some ungrateful person has vanished. Would rather sit at my computer and write for the couple of readers who actually say, hey well done, nice job and when can I read more. Or produce more from the RE-cycled series and get another showing. I don't mind doing stuff pro bono actually I believe in it greatly, but there is a point at which you need to say, you know.... the line is here. Yep gratification, even the most stoic of artists needs a pat on the back every now and then. I go on about it here because there is no place else to take it. Have discussed it with others in the Kingdom and there is no real solution. You simply cannot bash good manners into people no matter how hard you'd like to. Chivalry is not just for the list field, it is the very daily acts of remembering that other people work hard to help you out. On a totally different note, in the Star Wars Galaxies online game, néxt week we get a live event visit from Darth Vader, if all goes according to plan. I am really hyped about this, which is downright weird, it is after all JUST a game. There have been some fantastic things to come out of this game and peopel areerally craetive in the things they do. *sigh* escapism at its very best. Will find the links later and post them. at the moment things are pretty good, we had a friend stay the night and spent most of it chatting, way cool! The summer sun shines and the weather is just spectacular, cannot complain about it at all. we need to sort out our basement so that we can start sewing and projects but time.... as usual is of the essence. ... it runs through the gaps like water ( to quote) so it is time I get my day on the go, curse my screamingly loud CFU fan, play music I love to hide said fan and remember sometimes in between to eat, do some house work and shower. Until then be excellent to each other! |
| The dance - William Carlos Williams |
| 06.10.05 (6:20 am) [edit] |
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The Dance When the snow falls the flakes Spin upon the long axis That concerns them most intimately Two and two make a dance. The mind dances with itself, Taking you by the hand, Your lover follows There are always two. Yourself and the other, The point of your shoe setting the pace, if you break and run The dance is over. Breahtlessly you will take another partner Better or worse who will keep At your side, At your stops. Whirls and glides until he too leaves off On his way down as if There were another direction. Gayer, more carefree Spinning face to face but always down With each others secure Only in each other's arms. But only the dance is sure! Make it your own. Who can tell What is to come of it? In the woods of your Own nature whatever Twig interposes, and bare twigs Have an actuality of their own. This flurry of the storm That holds us, plays with us and discards us Dancing, dancing as may be credible. |
| We call to stillness, as we kiss the water king's hand.... |
| 06.08.05 (7:36 am) [edit] |
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There is this song called Cascade by Peter Murphy, yep that's right, the one of bauhaus fame. I adore this song because it reminds me of sailing on the atlantic ocean, don't ask me why, it just does. Yesterday we watched a clip from someone who was at the Star wars galaxy con in California, they showed the next step, you can actually go on board an ISD and meet Darth Vader then go after the corellian corvete.... people were cheering, and so were we, each year it seems we get one step closer to the virtual worlds imagined by Gibson and many others. It is very exciting. in the mean time life here goes on, discussions on various forums keep me busy, finishing a scroll, and writing my alter ego's life story. Somehow time goes by, faster than expected. The summer days are filled with brilliance and warmth, it is enjoyable to live here. but today is busy day, yesterday was annoyance day. A bad wind day, a Nor 'easter full of gusts and violence swept down from the mountains and bugged the hell out of me. Today it is calmer outside. I am missing thunderstorms though.... until then, be excellent to each other. |
| how fitting.....:? |
| 06.07.05 (2:55 pm) [edit] |
 how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen |
| sundays |
| 06.06.05 (7:29 am) [edit] |
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was a good day yesterday, got to chat with my mum and my sister was very,very nice. Got my rewrite done, yay hung out with Titus and Alithia online and mostly did the finishing off stuff I needed to do. Today is scroll day :( work work work. I don't know why this one is fighting me so much but soon over then shipped off then not my problem any more :) I know dull blog, sorry folks. more later.... until then, be excellent to each other! |
| This Big Hush |
| 06.03.05 (8:33 am) [edit] |
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------ I love this song, you should try and find the cd and buy it or at least listen to it.....It describes exactly how I feel right now... don't you love it whenthat happens? ------------------------- -------------------- This Big Hush - shriekback... Is there a fire in the sky, is there a moon up there Is there anything alive now this darkness is what I hear This is a breathless silence, a moment out of time I see your face in the shadows the tell tale signs are in your eyes More than I can hold in my hands running through the gaps like water Aching with a passion inside deep as a river... [chorus] [i]All desire the ashes and the fire Turning the night inside and the light from you[/i] Is there a flame in the dark is there a bright hard star These creatures look the same now We freeze wherever we are We wake alone in blackness We sleep wherever we fall One dream all around us this big hush infects us all Holding up on animal fear, soaking up the waves underwater Tuned to music no one can hear Forever in this half lit light [i]All desire the ashes and the fire Turning the night inside and the light from you[/i] |
| Oh desire, the Passion and the Fire.... |
| 06.03.05 (8:12 am) [edit] |
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It is Friday. How do I know this? I know this because today Marcus comes home and the alternate ‘verse I have been living in will shift back to the normal one. It is an amazing thing to be able to shift from one head space to another. This week has been completely surreal and I have sent 90% of it in front of the computer writing. Headphones on and a selection of specific mood giving songs playing over and over again. Obsession in music I suppose but the music helps me get past the blocks of my right brain. When the writing works it is like nothing else exists, I see what I am writing the way you see a movie, images in colour with a pretty awesome sound track. I have not written like this in a long time. When I was much younger I was always making up stories and when I was 13, after reading Lord of the Rings, Like so many others, I knew that I too wanted to create worlds and fictional characters so real they seemed to leap off the page into my life. In my life so far I have written three complete manuscripts. They are not that great, but they are finished and they are stories I wanted to read but couldn’t find any where. When I go back now and re read them I see who I was emulating and I know why I wrote them and I tell myself that one day I will edit and fix up and then I tuck the manuscript away and leave it alone. In the last ten years I stopped telling stories and writing them down. I don’t know why this is exactly except that I have been busy doing other things, I suspect that the death of my father had a lot to do with it and the need to find myself. I vanished for a while, ran away to sea in the most literal way possible. Then when I came home I found my mate, we eventually got married and I have moved my life lock stock and barrel not just once but twice and not just from town to town but country to country over the ocean and immersed in another language. I guess you could say it has been a busy time, too busy for fantastic voyages into other worlds especially when I was actually living my own adventure. Now we have settled a bit and I have time once again to ply my trade so to speak. I like writing. In fact it’s not even a like it’s a must. Sometimes, like the art work, like the dance, like the dressing up and the play it has to come out. I feel as though something will burst through my whole being if I don’t get the words out. Think alien with lowercase letters. What I find hard about this is the need to immerse in the story I am trying to get out of me is intense. These characters eat sleep and breathe in my head, they sometimes take over. Laundry gets left, dust bunnies are allowed to grow into monsters and I wake up one morning to realize that an entire week has gone by and I never noticed because, in this case, I had spent the entire week either on a planet called Tatooine or running around on an ISD. The amount of empty and half empty cups of tea and coffee lying about the place attest that a week has indeed gone by. I don’t even know if I remembered to eat. It is intense. A passion that burns with a cold brilliant fire. I had forgotten this passion. It has a dark side and a light side, like most passions it is a fire that can consume if one is not careful. Marcus is my balance. I can sit for hours when I write, not so when I am doing scrolls. Although he would argue that point I guess. When I am painting the RE-Cycled series I lose myself. Is this part of being an artist? I know that my father would go into his studio and that was that, he would put on music and he would paint and it was his own world. I guess I have inherited this passion. This morning I must clean up the house a little, the madness of last week needs to go back into its box for a bit and I need to catch my breath. This story that is pouring out of my fingers will be written, I have no doubt and I love what I am doing. Maybe someone else besides Marcus will read it and enjoy it, who knows, in the end I don’t write for other people I write for me, it’s a side effect when someone else likes it, falls in love with the characters the way I do and steps into this alternative universe even for a little while. In the mean time, …. The house work calls…. Back to this earth , this ‘verse, with a bump. If anyone is interested here is the current playlist. [i]Faith and the Muse – The Burning season Moby – lift me up ( album version) Qntal – Blac Shriekback – The Underwater boys Shriekback – This big Hush Sting – A thousand Years[/i] This is the short play list, there are three others depending on what I am writing about. They are much longer. Until then, be excellent to each other. |
| what goes around comes around.... |
| 06.03.05 (7:46 am) [edit] |
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» The original ending to Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back, before it was changed: A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke’s hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there’s nowhere to go but straight down. Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him! Darth Vader: No… I am your father! Luke: No, it’s not true! That’s impossible! Darth Vader: Search your feelings… you know it to be true… Luke: NO! Darth Vader: Yes, it is true.. and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours? Luke: Threepio? Darth Vader: Yes… Threepio… I built him… when I was 7 years old… Luke: No… Darth Vader: Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn’t even levitate your own ship out of the swamp… Luke: I destroyed your precious Death Star! Darth Vader: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship! Luke: Well, it’s not my fault… Darth Vader: Oh, here we go… “Poor me… my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday… boo hoo, my daddy’s the Dark Lord of the Sith… waahhh wahhh!” Luke: Shut up… Darth Vader: You’re a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi knights! Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar’s Canyon! Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor… 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open… Only human to ever fly a pod racer… right here, baby! Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it. Darth Vader: I was wrong… You’re not my kid… I don’t know whose you are, but you sure ain’t mine… Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft. Darth Vader looks after him. Darth Vader: And get a haircut, you look like a girl! swiped from Mi's blog.... author unknown |
| What day is it again? |
| 06.02.05 (7:27 am) [edit] |
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So Holland said no and France said no and the whole world seems to be predicting gloom and doom for the EU. I don't see it that way, I see it as a chance to get it right the second time. The people speak - the politicians SHOULD listen. Building Empires is easy, building a collective is not. ( unless you are Borg) Will be interesting, I suppose to see where this goes. No one said it was gonna be easy to get the EU's collective shit together, did they? But come on folks a little optimism would not go astray. Give it time, Rome was not built in a day, neither will the EU be, but a little good faith goes a long way. In the mean time, I am still trying to figure out what day itis, Wed? Thurs? dunno do I care? not really. It happens when marcus isn't around and I am knee deep in projects painting, writing ...what ever. The writing bit is especially hard on my own personal time space continuum because I am mentally ( not mental as the newfoundlanders say) living in another world that has its own rules of time and space. My sleep routine is all messed up and I spend more time in my head than I do in reality. super string theory's multidimensions at its sci-fi best. I like the process of words on paper ( or in my case) words on a screen. Bringing fictional persons to life, although once you have done that Frankenstein thing these wonderful characters have a nasty tendancy to do their own thing while you watch helplessly. When the story seems to write itself, you usually have some time to go 'oh oh' and hope you can keep up with it all. Of course it plays havoc with one's own sense of reality. No wonder artists and writers go mad. On the home front it is cool today and cloudy which means I have to leave the alternate 'verse for a while and get the scrolls finished for Coronation. That is if my gesso decides to complay with the prime directive of scribing and be one with the paper and the gold. *sigh* It is a process of building :) so with grey skies above and cooling winds to sooth, I am off to get my day started.... until then, be excellent to each other. |
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| 06.01.05 (7:09 pm) [edit] |
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:shock: I hate this new posting format, it ate my post which was a bitch session about humidity and gesso! Not helping my work at all! So I will go back to watching Star Wars for the billionth time today...just doing research kiddies not going insane ...yet! |
| as you can see I am avoiding work |
| 06.01.05 (11:11 am) [edit] |
 You Are The Wayfarer Guide "I'll show you the way." Your deep insight and quick wisdom never ceases to amaze those around you. You are the guiding light for many of those you know and are not afraid to help anyone else who asks. Not very many acknowledge your tremendous help and effort, but you do not mind that so much. You've seen what is in store for them, and will be there should they need your help. You enjoy people in general, but are very selective of who you let see the real you. Others see you as an enigma of sorts, a mystery that is seemingly ever changing. brought to you by Quizilla |
| out of the mouths of babes |
| 06.01.05 (9:45 am) [edit] |
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"are you serious about your age?.. wow." lost malice from the zmr board I like my age. I am 39 I will also like my age next year too I will be 40 age is irrelevant beauty is fleeting wisdom rules, revenge is sweet and the force is with us. and the beauty of it is some day this little girlie will also be 39... if she is lucky. :) *shakes head* |
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