City of Legends

Today my sons, Dante and Elric, turn 15. I will be taking them to see The Dark Knight on the iMax screen at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian. They are pumped. As a combined present to them and their sister, Peri, their mother and I flew Peri in and surprised the boys yesterday. It is fun watching teenaged boys trying to act cool when they are surprised, taking all their low-key poses.

Today is the final day for submissions to the TVC2008 video contest (see above). If you haven’t started your project, you are probably too late. Next year, more lead time and bigger prizes, I promise. This has been mishandled by me. Thanks to those who have submitted and there will be an award on August 16th.

I have been pondering the logistics of the new version of williamfdevault.com. I was thinking of making it in two stages of 50-100 poems each, but have decided that is too complicated and grandiose and boring (to me). So, starting this Wednesday, July 23, you will start seeing slow, subtle changes on that site as the new works (and some old ones) and the art and photography begin to flow like vodka and Red Bull at an all-night disco. I want to thank the dozens of artists, photographers and models who have entertained the notion. I only received two rejections, and both were heart-breaking (it is a fragile thing, patched as it is) I found some amazing people who I trust will not only contribute to this effort, but will be my friends for many years to come.

I have much to do today, and it only gathers momentum as the days and weeks fly by. So, I am off to Ka Latil to do what I am expected to do.

The day between two events I often refer to as being in the horse latitudes, an old sailing phrase for being in the area of the oceans near the equator where the winds are not as dependable as most places and you can find yourself becalmed.

Not for me.  This morning I got up at 4 am and picked up my daughter at the airport for a week’s visit.  I finished (I swear) the final engineering on Evangelist (a re-envisioning of Eros V which I am calling Eros V2, making a little joke).  I cleaned up my vocals and added percussion.  I did not touch Selke’s backing vocals, as they are flawless.  And that strange instrument you hear that sounds like a piano and a guitar mixed together?  That’s exactly what that is, piano music shoved through filters to make it sound more like guitar music.  It is rather unusual, but it works.

In a few hours I have to go spend several hours prepping a proposal…tomorrow is the boys’ birthday (they turn 15) and we are going to a late showing of The Dark Knight.

I also picked up a few more models today!  Yay!  Next week I get to figure out who is doing what duty, but I can assure you that you will be blown away.  I even found a few who may end up replacing the original faces I used on the old version of williamfdevault.com.

Hey, that’s my option.  I have decided I need to do what’s best for those who are engaged in my life.