Today’s Rhapsody is the Forest Rhapsody by Taiwanese Ocarina player You Xue-Zhi. Performed by Cris Gale on Standard Tenor and Soprano Ocarinas.
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Fedya turned to walk away from the loft’s office nook, still checking his pockets. He was certain that Dielle was grinning. It must have been the March weather, he thought. With the temperature going back and fourth between warm and cold there was no way of knowing what he would be wearing one day or the other but still, how could he have forgotten to put a pack in his donkey jacket?
Casually he walked towards the far corner of the loft where the Circle Band did most of it’s practicing. He brushed his hand behind one of his speakers and..
“Oh, I did a little bit of house cleaning the other day. You wouldn’t believe what you guys leave lying around.”
Fedya grimaced. . The goddamn, he somehow managed to suppress the first few words to describe Dielle that occurred to him, person! She was enjoying this! Housecleaning? She knew damn well Mr. Lu came in to sweep twice a week and HE knew what not to throw away… most notably anything taped to the back of a speaker.
“It is good you is tidy person, my friend, he said, with gritted teeth.
Dielle returned his half smile, looking suspiciously smug.
Fedya looked around, trying hard to not look frantic. It was bad enough Dielle forced him to smoke on the street, now she was taking his emergency stash. Wait. Maybe she hadn’t thrown them away! Maybe she had…. Fedya glanced over at the office area where Dielle had gone back to doing paperwork. He would not give her the satisfaction by asking he would check the desk drawer when she…. but he needed a smoke NOW!
He could tell he was getting irritable already. The argument between Kevin and that punk Amazon guitarist, what was her name, Bian was beginning to get on his nerves. To be fair it wasn’t much of an argument it was Bian yelling and Kevin was just standing there and…. that was it!
“Ah, Bian, my friend! I am sorry to interrupt, but I am needing to borrow your boyfriend for short while”, he said with his best smile.
Bian paused and turned to look at him scowling. “He’s not my boyfriend,” she growled.
“That is good,” Fedya said putting a hand on Kevin’s shoulder. “Then you not mind me taking him for little talk then, no?”
Bian said nothing.
Fedya paused as he led Kevin away, “So… if you not find one… you look for good replacement, yes?
Bian glared at him but, as Fedya noticed with a wry grin, did not say no.
He turned back to Kevin who hadn’t moved from where he had moved him. “Ah Kevin, my friend, I have something very important to ask you.”
Kevin blinked and turned to stare behind Fedya . “How important?” He asked.
Fedya followed Kevin’s gaze but all he could see was a small plush koala bear seated on the other speaker. He shrugged. “Is nothing big. You just still have my spare smokes, yes?
Kevin blinked again and started patting his plaid shirt until he finally got to the breast pocket; the shirt’s only pocket Fedya noticed annoyed, pulled out a crumpled packet and passed it to Kevin. Fedya snatched them, no longer caring if he looked desperate. The packet was crumpled. Two cigarettes were crushed beyond repair but that was okay. He had rolling paper One looked wet, possible moldy and nibbled by something. The other three looked fine and…. Fedya let that last thought sink in. “This no good.” He said slowly.
“Sorry.” Said Kevin.
This not good. This not enough to last until gig… this barely enough to get… He grabbed Kevin by the shoulder. “Come, we must get to my place. We need to get supply.
“But what will Dielle and Michelle say when…”
“They understand. This Emergency.”
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Just a quick congratulations to J and Aron who have just completed their Kickstarter campaign, Prospero’s Price. A fusion of Lovecraft and Shakespeare, at a whopping 7253 Dollars! It’s been a rocky ride with the campaign being suspended by someone who thought he was being plagiarized without even looking at the details beyond the words “Tempest” and H.P. Lovecraft. It was a pain and short sighted but in a silver lining sort of way gave the project free publicity once the the kerfuffle ended. And once that was settled they finished the campaign with over twice their targeted amount.
Way to go, guys!
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Good news everybody! After much drama J and Aron’s Kickstarter campaign, the Shakespeare/H.P. Lovecraft extravaganza Prospero’s Price, has gone over it’s final stretch hurdle of 5000 dollars! Now with less than 23 hours to go let’s see how much we can get them in the final sprint! Once again you can click here! or click on the banner add to contribute your ten cents (or hopefully a whole lot more). So let’s make this count for them!
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Today’s Sketch are a batch I did at a drawing meet up over at the Olympic Sculpture Park.
I won’t say I’m really a fan of any of the pieces their, but it’s a nice place to chill and there’s a nice view of the Olympic Peninsula.
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This weeks selection I’d put off seeing since a friend of mine recommended them to me as a double feature. And it was a while before they were in at the same time.
Of course when I say “Recommend” what I mean is he thought that these were one of those “this is a creator’s mind on drugs“ kind of film that you may like if you are in a very strange sort of mood.
And both of these films American Astronaut and Stingray Sam are very, very weird filling a very small genre of “Cowboy Science Fiction Musicals”… done on a very small budget.
I confess when American Astronaut was first recommended to me I got it mixed up with th
e horror film “Astronaut’s Wife” though pretty much the name is the only thing these two films have in common. American Astronaut takes place in an unspecified future where space is a run down frontier, astronauts are pretty much just space truckers and women are so scarce that a mining baron is able to control his workers by having “The Boy who saw a Woman’s Breasts” tell them stories about his experience: “They were round and soft, get back to work.”
From there we have the Astronaut trying to get rich with a string of deals involving the aforementioned boy, while being chased by a mass murdering psychopath.
This is all done in black and white in the style of an old 1930s film serial only with a smaller budget. Special effects consist of models on strings and off screen sound effects. Sets consist of ordinary barns and dive bars and the Astronauts space ship consists of a single room set with a steering wheel in the front. Still lots of fun if you are in the right mood.
Stingray Sam is pretty much more of the same only in this case the title character has been conscripted to help save the “Carpenter’s Daughter” (an adorable six year old wearing a pink tutu over a lumberjack costume.) The budget of this one is slightly more than American Astronaut. This one uses paintings for sets and a small moving doll that the characters can be beamed into for easy carry and sneakiness (don’t ask) but other wise more of the same.
Still kind of fun if you are in a very specific kind of mood.
