City of Legends

I have been directed to a link on YouTube for a live performance, on May 16, 2009, of "Pegasus" (featuring my vocals) at Nightmare Outdoor at Hellendoorn by Ophidian. Nunc dimittis!

Maniacal laughter.

I spent some serious time last night and this morning, working on the big show-stopper for the Evangelist CD, Aubergine. I had to select the works to be contained within, decide tone and texture and begin the engineering/orchestrations (yes, orchestration, I said I was going over the top).

I’m looking at probably a 9 to 10 minute build with six poems, capped most likely by More than Gods Can Comprehend. This is going to be interesting, maddening and cathartic. More than the Topanga Run, less than PanthEon, in its own way. I look to have it wrapped this weekend and will not leak this one. I may throw some people or my general readership a bone with a few pieces, but this one will be a surprise.

Speaking of surprise, I was puttering around on YouTube yesterday, trying to see if a particular scene from "The Stunt Man" was available (it wasn’t) when I ran across a sketch by British satirical puppet troupe Spitting Image, featuring Peter O’Toole waking up after a wild night of drinking to find he has lost a leg in a bar bet, had a sex change operation and is now pregnant by Oliver Reed. And people wonder why I don’t drink. Enjoy.

They also had a very funny sketch about South Africans, but I think I’ll avoid that one, as…well, no use burning any more bridges while I am standing on them, eh?

Having already seen my own lame attempts at videos for Right Set of Lips, Darfur (Jesus Wept) and The Unicorns, I have been much happier with other people’s interpretations of The Panther on the Beach (who knew this one would end up so high on my legacy list?) and Darfur (Jesus Wept). Of course there may be a few out there I am unaware of…

But what recordings would I most like to see as entries in the contest? Hmm. I said Hmmph.

• Strange But Beautiful: Let’s face it, you know you want it. You’ll have to rip it off the CD or get it at MySpace or by slicing it from a podcast, I don;t think I mounted the single anywhere.
• TRIUMPH: I would love to see what visions would haunt this one.
• Bragi to Freya: Go find it yourself, must I do everything for you?
• NQ (The Nosferatu’s Quandry): If you have heard it, you understand.
• I Will Dream of You Till Morning: Catch it this week during the weekend-long Evangelist CD release virtual party.
• anything from The Morgantown Suite Poems. Just to see how many people "get it"

There are others, of course, but these (and a couple of the long form piece like Eros V, Wordslinger and The Gods of Love Live at Kyrienar) would catch my attention a trace more (I may have bias, but I am admitting it).

Note (as I am uncertain of private channels); Centaur, while a recent musical comp, uses lyrics from The Goldenheart Cycles, from 12 years ago,

Love.