New series in development: EDGE TOWN

Danni Fitzpatrick was a police officer. Not a great one, not a bad one, just a cop and nothing more. She didn't do much, or talk much, and aside from a case that seemed tied into her coming out of the closet she didn't really contribute much to the cases. Then during an intense stand-off she wound up shot and killed.......well sort of.

The reason Danni didn't have much of a personality is that she was the 5th lead on a popular network cop show, was added during the 4th season, and was kept around to tackle "controversial" stories and make-out with some model for sweeps week. She also wasn't really dead though her "life in fiction" was over. Which is why she found herself on a steamship surrounded by characters both mundane and bizzare, and heading for the port of a city that looked as if Rio, Tokyo, 1800's Paris, and had Vincent Van Gogh's art all got smushed together.
The city was called Edge-Town and if you happened to be any fictional character, this is where you wound up either after getting killed, or at the end of the story you happened to be in. Everybody from the superhero who headlined the latest blockbuster movie, to the deli counter guy who appeared for one second in the film turned up in the city, which as a result dwarfed any real city on the face of the planet.

And Danni with only 500 "gils"(the money system of the city) in her pocket and not a single place to stay decided to take the first job she could find. That job being "bar-tender" which paid well enough for Danni to get herself an apartment(albeit in a run-down neighborhood), but which oddly enough oftentimes entails getting shot at by every single psychopath, mercenary, and mafioso And in a city where the largest ganglord happens to be an 8000 year old Sumerian death-goddess, you know there's some really dangerous chappies at there.

That's quite alright though because Danni's got some new friends, and life for once seemingly has meaning. The bar's janitor is an anicent Celtic hero, one of the customers is a junior enchantress, the owner is a hot Texas cowgirl, and Danni's new girlfriend is a mexican telenovela heroine who now moonlights as an assassin.

Hey at least it's interesting.


(Expect this new series not long after my first Skatara tale wraps up. And look for some bios on the blog for various characters who'll be popping up.)

Krautrockin' All New Year's Eve!

I think every one of my friends know that in addition to being kinky, and lazy, that I'm also something of a wannabe musician and kind of a failed artist. I've played drums(and a wee bit of guitar) off and on for a good deal of my life, and I do a little sculpting and modern art(yes the pretentious kind) on the side.

As a result of this combination my musical tastes aren't really for everybody and tend to run from rockabily to hardcore to hip-hop without a lot of care. But my big thing, and my favorite genre as a whole is krautrock.

Artisty, loud, avant-garde, cool, and wild. Krautrock's the type of stuff that moves the inner-performance artist inside of me. So I figured bands like Faust, Amon Duul II(Who's ultra-smokin' hot singer Renate Knaup graces the page) Can, Kraftwerk, Neu!, and Ashra will be burning up at my home come new years eve.

People may cover their ears if they wish.

P.S. If anybody's actually interested in the music itself? Take looksie at this badass BBC documentary done on it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B89-69icyc

Ways of Making me Talk

So I went and saw "Nine" today, and while it should be noted that I'm a fan of musicals(I paid for and enjoyed Dreamgirls) adore the works of Italian Cinema(Who loves Fellini? I love Fellini) and think Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors in the world, the movie left me utterly cold and I walked out kinda hating it. Oh except for the part where Penelope Cruz has a whole dance number in the outfit you see above.


Now I'm not one of these people who says "I'd chop my hand off if such-and-such would go out with me" but I'd probably cut off at least one body part for Cruz. She's one of those very few actresses right now that completely and utterly turns me into a puddle of Lauren-goo in any of her movies.(Salma Hayek is another one..which made certain scenes in Banditas suprisingly easy to sit through)


And if I might be honest? If I had any goverment information, all one would have to do is strip me down, tie me to a chair, and send her in to work magic, and I'd be talking without any torture whatsoever....hell I might just lie and sell out a few family members as well.

Espically if she speaks Spanish.....Spanish always breaks me.

A list of things this year

Seriously I think everybody can judge that from the lack of posts(I.E. once per month it seems) that really there's only two situations that could have happened.

1. I'm lazy, and the first thing I usually do when off of work is come home and reduce myself to a catatonic daze in front of the television.

2. I'm really dead, and my evil sister Elizabetha(she looks just like me, except for having an eye-patch and posessing talent) has taken over my indentity.

For now though we'll go with the first choice(or will we?) and just assume I've been pretty much useless the past few months, instead of finishing up my first Skatara story(which is coming I swear to god!) and starting work on a few other things that have been tickling my fancy the coming new year.

Among those things? Hopefully my noir story I've been kicking around, and a couple of delightful one-shots and random thoughts.


And this time I promise I'll get around to doing them! I swear!