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"Whate'er thou art, act well thy part."chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-57134419552083546752021-07-15T13:43:00.002-06:002022-06-07T15:29:43.536-06:00Scorpion's Nest: Jago, the Passion? Heart? Reckless? One<p> So, you've met <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2021/07/scorpions-nest-petra-brains.html" target="_blank">the Brains</a></p><p>And you've met<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2021/07/scorpions-nest-bellamy-erm-brawn.html" target="_blank"> the Brawn</a></p><p>Quite honestly, I don't know what the other crew member is, exactly. I mean, yes you have the Alpha, Female Alpha, Right Hand, Joker, Tech guy(thank you "Furious 7" for that list). </p><p>But that's if you have a big heist crew. </p><p>The Gutter Rats aren't a Big Heist Crew. </p><p>So I'm not sure what exactly Jago's "role in the crew" is. </p><p>But I do know he's reckless, and passionate, and the youngest, so I guess that makes him...the Heart? </p><p>Maybe?</p><p>Anyway....</p><p>Jago LeValle is the final member of the Gutter Rat crew. Like everyone else, he has an animal parallel(because everyone in the Sherwood Cycle does). It's a squirrel.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOapdQ16QzmYnhnrmbD-cHX2s1cUEJBt0kdNWrUrpFzlwmY4WZiOfYeDDtKnaT5Pj8_BY3JH8dPbIfi6aLVybm-TSoh0cL8haCjwhlH7uuZBpcpHZ7YFumJWCz9-O7kJsVEVDROcQKfg/s275/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOapdQ16QzmYnhnrmbD-cHX2s1cUEJBt0kdNWrUrpFzlwmY4WZiOfYeDDtKnaT5Pj8_BY3JH8dPbIfi6aLVybm-TSoh0cL8haCjwhlH7uuZBpcpHZ7YFumJWCz9-O7kJsVEVDROcQKfg/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div><br /> I know, I know, I've said before <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2018/07/quirky-monday-shake-your-bushy-tailand.html" target="_blank">how I feel about these bushy-tailed--things</a> but this particular animal fits Jago's persona. Squirrels are symbols of passion, preparedness, ambition, peace, joy, and lightheartedness). See? Perfect fit. <br /><p></p><p>And in my head he looks like this:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcT8l2vNYmwIjni4x_zX95wfUzCsGN1XkGL_8VhCd6U-Ek9Po_S0HP8i6plO5tHESaU7vpaJRREJJc7kRze824a09CQsoVmEqHXev6MVWp8Rutxs11tHYKiHMm897lCOKQTU0UfqR08wkTfzMnx4pSUYJnHszQp2jvx0M_yqizB5BA541Tv6A5fKUq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="204" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcT8l2vNYmwIjni4x_zX95wfUzCsGN1XkGL_8VhCd6U-Ek9Po_S0HP8i6plO5tHESaU7vpaJRREJJc7kRze824a09CQsoVmEqHXev6MVWp8Rutxs11tHYKiHMm897lCOKQTU0UfqR08wkTfzMnx4pSUYJnHszQp2jvx0M_yqizB5BA541Tv6A5fKUq" width="196" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>This is Hnery Golding, from "Crazy Rich Asians", "Last Christmas" and most recognizable currently as Snake Eyes in the "Snake Eyes" reboot (which BEAUTIFUL, by the way, I don't care what anyone says). Mostly it's the sound of his voice that I adore. There's something in his speech pattern and tone register that just seems to scream "Jago" at me. (Also, he's related to a certain person in the Sherwood Cycle, so that's cool)<p></p><p>Here's his soundtrack:</p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4d1d27a8-7fff-38e1-afdd-4b8aa0788b5f" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Push It, by Rick Ross</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4d1d27a8-7fff-38e1-afdd-4b8aa0788b5f" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kCeEN-VVSac" width="320" youtube-src-id="kCeEN-VVSac"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kingdom (feat. League of Legends), by JAXON GAMBLE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tfPRGha6rn8" width="320" youtube-src-id="tfPRGha6rn8"></iframe></div> <p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Starts Right Here (feat. Kenny Mason & Foreign Air), by League of Legends</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XUQ4ZI0h0-E" width="320" youtube-src-id="XUQ4ZI0h0-E"></iframe></div><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5219ff24-7fff-bc61-873c-a3de6b4cdbfd" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Caught in the Fire (feat. Sam Tinnesz), by Tommee Proffitt</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5219ff24-7fff-bc61-873c-a3de6b4cdbfd" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vwUiCWGzwDg" width="320" youtube-src-id="vwUiCWGzwDg"></iframe></div><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-41536280645174536032021-07-08T12:16:00.005-06:002021-07-12T00:42:44.561-06:00Scorpions Nest: Bellamy, the--erm--Brawn<p>I said <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2021/06/sherwood-cycle-scorpions-nest.html" target="_blank">Scorpion's Nest </a>was a Heist Play, right?</p><p>And in every Heist, there's a "crew"<br /></p><p>In every "crew", there's the Brains, and the Brawn. </p><p>The Brains comes up with the ideas and gives instructions on how those ideas are to be carried out.</p><p>The Brawn carries out those ideas. </p><p>The Brains is--usually--the one that everyone listens to. </p><p>The Brawn is--usually--the one who protects everyone, including the Brains, and--sometimes--has the loudest voice or most intimidating stance. </p><p>The Brains of the Gutter Rat Crew is <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2021/07/scorpions-nest-petra-brains.html" target="_blank">Petra</a></p><p>The Brawn of the Gutter Rat Crew is Bellamy. </p><p>Not because he's bigger or stronger than anyone else in the Gutter Rats (ok, fine, there's only three in the crew but still)</p><p>But because this is a man who has Intimidation down to an Art. </p><p>You know those characters in films and tv shows that just stand in a corner and the first time you see them you think "oh, crap, that is so <b><i>not</i></b> someone I ever want to screw with"?</p><p>Well, that's Bellamy. </p><p>To a T. </p><p>He's one of those people who when they say jump, they expect to hear "how high".</p><p>Except the Scorpion's Nest isn't ever among those people, so that's fun! <br /></p><p>For someone who's perfected the Art of Intimidation, Bellamy has an interesting animal parallel. It's--a rabbit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpGgtykzvEXVlowk-byrsCEW-qI8Uf8Xj8QIVr3lSaKd0SYOhoAkd7T7a-q9AWvxP8AybNiouTj-b6vrJ8iyhhbIUn_Qa9h6_vFV3yGhKd9eYkzfQn712Hk4Q2ADI15N1Y5qSnGqvKGo/s275/index.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpGgtykzvEXVlowk-byrsCEW-qI8Uf8Xj8QIVr3lSaKd0SYOhoAkd7T7a-q9AWvxP8AybNiouTj-b6vrJ8iyhhbIUn_Qa9h6_vFV3yGhKd9eYkzfQn712Hk4Q2ADI15N1Y5qSnGqvKGo/s0/index.jpg" /></a></div><p>Doesn't look very harmless, does it? But, if anyone has ever read or seen "Watership Down"(both the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq73sIty43k" target="_blank">BBC/Netflix miniseries</a> and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S26LA8Bk14" target="_blank">frankly terrifying 1970s animated film</a>) you'll know that rabbits can be downright deadly. They have vicious little claws that can slice their attackers like nobody's business and are certainly animals you don't want to piss off even if they do look all cute a fluffy. </p><p>Rabbits symbolize survival, divination, wit, psychic abilities, abundance and protection, which are all facets to Bellamy's personality. He might look totally harmless, but if you threaten the Gutter Rats, you're dead before you hit the floor(sometimes literally).</p><p>Bellamy's model is someone that I adore watching onscreen, whether he's running around in 16th-century leather armor, or disabling bombs in Iraq, or meekly helping a very creepy Ben Barnes carry out his plans to take over the world(I actually felt really bad watching him do this, poor guy).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHU-KmiP5e864FT7X0eTw9L228Tihk-Az_YBQaZe5xrzoJ8iQT-qlv6UP3tAHtXKjctbJqvNckCVvasPU6BlzqyJIyzzJ4Ip-EBEg-GFRw8_zE9pXIkf55Gjj5WCd14lnDDf24-ijh48Y/s225/index1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHU-KmiP5e864FT7X0eTw9L228Tihk-Az_YBQaZe5xrzoJ8iQT-qlv6UP3tAHtXKjctbJqvNckCVvasPU6BlzqyJIyzzJ4Ip-EBEg-GFRw8_zE9pXIkf55Gjj5WCd14lnDDf24-ijh48Y/s0/index1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>This is Luke Pasquilino from BBC's "Musketeers", Netflix's "Shadow and Bone", and BBC's "Our Girl"--among other things. Having seen and loved him in all of these roles(including the meek crony of Ben Barnes, see above) I would love to see him lock horns with the Scorpion's Nest.</p><p>Also because seeing "D'Artgnan" go head to head with <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/07/lure-of-fox-declan.html" target="_blank">Declan aka "Aladdin</a>", <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/07/nottinghams-legacy-enzo.html" target="_blank">Enzo aka "Benny/Dr. Dre/Eric Carter</a>" and <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/07/nottinghams-legacy-mei.html" target="_blank">Mai aka Awkwafina</a> would be MAGICAL and make my little fangirl heart so friggin happy.</p><p><u><b>Bellamy's Soundtrack</b></u></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d4173485-7fff-8485-e8eb-d5808a913709" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a90e22a9-7fff-4d99-dfc9-9ced72c70a36" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Made For The Battle, by UNSECRET & GAITS</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a90e22a9-7fff-4d99-dfc9-9ced72c70a36" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(originally, this was just part of the soundtrack, but the more I listed to it, the more it sounded like Bellamy, so there you go)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d4173485-7fff-8485-e8eb-d5808a913709" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/czsWXIiQCw8" width="320" youtube-src-id="czsWXIiQCw8"></iframe></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /> </span><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d4173485-7fff-8485-e8eb-d5808a913709" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Won’t Go Down Easy, by JAXON GAMBLE</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d4173485-7fff-8485-e8eb-d5808a913709" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_kW6vw85NCI" width="320" youtube-src-id="_kW6vw85NCI"></iframe></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bad Boy For Life, by Black Rob, Mark Curry & P. Diddy</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GbJO59nWQRU" width="320" youtube-src-id="GbJO59nWQRU"></iframe></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Battle Scars, by Lupe Fiasco & Guy Sebastian</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bsnZHpS_ArU" width="320" youtube-src-id="bsnZHpS_ArU"></iframe></span></div><br />chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-30538991725983940142021-07-01T11:23:00.002-06:002021-07-08T12:03:30.538-06:00Scorpion's Nest: The Gutter Rats and Petra, The Brains<p> So remember when I said that "Scorpion's Nest" had a heist type plot?</p><p>Well, one of the things in a heist-type plot has to do with rivalry either between the heroes and the villains or with in the heist crew, or with another crew pulling the same job. </p><p>This particular plot deals with the latter. </p><p>The Scorpion's Nests is going head to head with the Gutter Rats. Which is kind of amazing. The particular crew is rougher around the edges than the Scorpion's Nest, but they're also a bit more polished in terms of how they work together(since this is Declan/Enzo/Mai pre "Nottingham's Legacy", and all). They even have their own theme tracks:</p><p><b>Reckless, by JAXON GAMBLE</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ITYMtPniQuY" width="320" youtube-src-id="ITYMtPniQuY"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Dangerous, by UNSECRET and Manafest</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D7SePtemPf8" width="320" youtube-src-id="D7SePtemPf8"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Remember the Name, by Fort Minor </b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VDvr08sCPOc" width="320" youtube-src-id="VDvr08sCPOc"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><br /><p></p><p>Every successful crew has to have a leader--the "Brains" as it were. In this particular instance, the "Brains" of the Gutter Rats is:</p><p>Petra.</p><p>I love this woman. </p><p>Ok, fine so I tend to "love" all of my women characters, so this isn't a new sentiment. I haven't written a female character yet that I despise(ok, some of the villainesses are kinds icky, but that doesn't mean they aren't fun to write).</p><p>Petra is shrewd and tenacious and level-headed and maybe just the tiniest bit self-sacrificing. She's protective of her fellow Gutter Rats and will do anything to keep them alive. </p><p>Literally anything. </p><p>In my head, she looks like this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3gbUjz3h5BKeV-b8CkW81PyXTMa_p6a9O2ZECpLlE3CRVgqglLIQGTDumf3sK9nOtekMaiORKJPkNZUMDoPh4_ipdQvG-aR-BGMgq5nAuwk1GjtOxPe7umD9hyphenhyphenMJT1rYgtjBwcCEAYM/s256/index.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3gbUjz3h5BKeV-b8CkW81PyXTMa_p6a9O2ZECpLlE3CRVgqglLIQGTDumf3sK9nOtekMaiORKJPkNZUMDoPh4_ipdQvG-aR-BGMgq5nAuwk1GjtOxPe7umD9hyphenhyphenMJT1rYgtjBwcCEAYM/s0/index.jpg" /></a></div><p>This is Anna Popplewell, known for the <i>Chronicles of Narnia</i> films, the television show <i>Reign</i>, and most recently as the narrator for <a href="https://ajpearce.com/" target="_blank">AJ Pearce's Emmy Lake Chronicles</a>(which--even though there's only one book so far unitl the second one comes in...August, I think?--are fantastic, by the way)</p><p>Petra's soundtrack is relatively short at the moment, but still pretty good. It gives a little insight to her personality:</p><p><b>Bad Girls, by M.I.A.</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2uYs0gJD-LE" width="320" youtube-src-id="2uYs0gJD-LE"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b> <br /><p></p><p><b>Wild Thing, by JAXON GAMBLE</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MRZj_c924lw" width="320" youtube-src-id="MRZj_c924lw"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>If I Die Young, by The Band Perry</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7NJqUN9TClM" width="320" youtube-src-id="7NJqUN9TClM"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Never Say Die, by CHVRCHES </b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ifr3O33UpWs" width="320" youtube-src-id="ifr3O33UpWs"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><br /><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-28348828537443378312021-06-22T11:46:00.002-06:002021-07-08T12:06:01.796-06:00Sherwood Cycle: Scorpion's Nest<p> Remember last year when I said that there was a <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/07/nottinghams-legacy-mini-detour.html" target="_blank">certain group of characters that wouldn't get out of my head and demanded their own Soundtrack Within The Soundtrack</a>?</p><p>Whelp. </p><p>They're back with more demands, because of course they are. </p><p><a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/07/lure-of-fox-declan.html" target="_blank">Declan </a>was introduced in first play in the Sherwood Cycle(which has gone from being titled "Lure of the Fox", to "Locke and Cage" and is now permanently called "Beyond Sherwood"); and <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/07/nottinghams-legacy-enzo.html" target="_blank">Enzo </a>and <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/07/nottinghams-legacy-mei.html" target="_blank">Mai </a>where introduced in the final Sherwood Cycle play(Nottingham's Legacy).</p><p>Now they get their own show. </p><p>And I'm not upset about it. </p><p>Because, you know, Dark Horses and all of that. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULl4DBXCTMDjz0Cajx6HpE9qEuUqnC4lNBBmiF3w0Os2WIq5Z-LDyl7FKwLeAoYwcLhKDEXq35OnZf02GxLGyi6FgKzl5k4BICNbsEJd2OOMxVDXuDVKSQrjeukFtjWyHLqseZs3gmzg/s271/index.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULl4DBXCTMDjz0Cajx6HpE9qEuUqnC4lNBBmiF3w0Os2WIq5Z-LDyl7FKwLeAoYwcLhKDEXq35OnZf02GxLGyi6FgKzl5k4BICNbsEJd2OOMxVDXuDVKSQrjeukFtjWyHLqseZs3gmzg/s0/index.jpg" /></a></div>Only this time, it's the Scorpion's Nest before they were actually "The Scorpion's Nest."<p></p><p>Yes, I know I've said before how much I loathe The Origin Story, but this is one I can actually get behind, since it doesn't deal with Well Established Characters or any of that. </p><p>Plus, the little devil in my head loves throwing people who have little to nothing in common into the same room and watching them hash it out. </p><p>Because of course I do. </p><p>Thanks to "Nottingham's Legacy" I have most of the Scorpion's Nest soundtrack figured out, but recently, there have been a couple of new additions which I love, such as</p><p><b>Here We Go, by Chris Classic</b> <br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OLTvV4cj5rw" width="320" youtube-src-id="OLTvV4cj5rw"></iframe> <br /></b></div><p></p><p><b>Who's Gonna Stop Me (feat. Yung Youth), by Tommee Proffitt </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yb6Y9I6vuyw" width="320" youtube-src-id="yb6Y9I6vuyw"></iframe></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>Animal I have Become, by Three Days Grace</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXDC89tZ4IQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="xXDC89tZ4IQ"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>La La Land, by Adam Jensen</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ukUwNF10-DU" width="320" youtube-src-id="ukUwNF10-DU"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Gladiator, by Zayde Wolf</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fT67ta4VrQQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="fT67ta4VrQQ"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Running For Your Life, by UNSECRET </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lR-diP48VTk" width="320" youtube-src-id="lR-diP48VTk"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>We Runnin (feat. Beacon Light), by Tommee Proffitt </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/06uVFFv_xBM" width="320" youtube-src-id="06uVFFv_xBM"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Eat Them Apples, by Zuzi Woo</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MMjoGhqWIsQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="MMjoGhqWIsQ"></iframe></b></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>THE BADDEST (feat. Bea Miller), by K/DA, (G)I-DLE, and Wolftyla</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RkID8_gnTxw" width="320" youtube-src-id="RkID8_gnTxw"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>Pain, by Adam Jensen <br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tiEI0H-Z3Jk" width="320" youtube-src-id="tiEI0H-Z3Jk"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Here I Am(feat. Brooke), by Tommee Proffitt</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KRcFUrNVGc0" width="320" youtube-src-id="KRcFUrNVGc0"></iframe></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Dangerous Game(feat. Sam Tinnesz), by UNSECRET</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IlQ2CGAxOaw" width="320" youtube-src-id="IlQ2CGAxOaw"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Lowlife, by Adam Jensen </b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iU63dK3e2N4" width="320" youtube-src-id="iU63dK3e2N4"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>I Am Legend(feat. Colton Dixon), by Tommee Proffitt</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BcqpllzJ_3g" width="320" youtube-src-id="BcqpllzJ_3g"></iframe></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Ain't About You(feat. Kiiara), by Wonho</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lqKXq-_32z8" width="320" youtube-src-id="lqKXq-_32z8"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>Chills, by Why Don't We</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wTdZbbx53uk" width="320" youtube-src-id="wTdZbbx53uk"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Rescue(feat. Raine Wilder & Svcerina), by Tommee Proffitt </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BWQ_hm9HWmo" width="320" youtube-src-id="BWQ_hm9HWmo"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><b> </b><p></p><p><b>Cocaine Shame, by Adam Jensen</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/89nXU1vHVgE" width="320" youtube-src-id="89nXU1vHVgE"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b><b> </b></b></p><p><b>Better Together(feat. Sam Tinnesz), by UNSECRET </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zvmJK52Inrc" width="320" youtube-src-id="zvmJK52Inrc"></iframe></div><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Undefeated(feat. Beacon Lights), by Tommee Proffitt</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4-1d1zvwHk4" width="320" youtube-src-id="4-1d1zvwHk4"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Wolves, by Coasts</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yyW0UUuEjpg" width="320" youtube-src-id="yyW0UUuEjpg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><b> </b><br /><p></p><p>Ok, fine, so apparently there have been quite few additions to the soundtrack and I'm not upset about that either 😜</p><p>So what is "Scorpion's Nest" going to be about?</p>It's a Heist Play<p>Which is fun. </p><p>And they go head to head with another group of outcasts(more on them later)</p><p>Which is fun. </p><p>Oh, and <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/08/nottinghams-legacy-malakai.html" target="_blank">Malakai</a> is in the play too</p><p>Also fun. </p><p>I guess the thing I'm most excited about, though, is that I love these three so much I'm over the moon that I can write a play that focuses on just them. </p><p>So for the next little bit I get to share little tidbits with y'all and this little playwright is <i><b>very excited </b></i>about that!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLnhz0ooJAm2m1d_qrYul8YSOuoD52DEU8JMsb5RO5AE_vHIeCskloT4y8fJanfFjQ2MDJ0xUu0oNECMi3W8amQOtaQ0ltKUjgntBQrKhKidgONfO_dYV4_e1uchJwY5yWUP5pHrXG9Y/s259/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLnhz0ooJAm2m1d_qrYul8YSOuoD52DEU8JMsb5RO5AE_vHIeCskloT4y8fJanfFjQ2MDJ0xUu0oNECMi3W8amQOtaQ0ltKUjgntBQrKhKidgONfO_dYV4_e1uchJwY5yWUP5pHrXG9Y/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-64385683476718959722021-03-11T12:22:00.002-07:002021-03-11T12:22:47.345-07:00Robbing Hoods: Beltane<p> It's been a while, hasn't it?</p><p>Blame the Revision Cave and crazy Day Job(because apparently, the beginning of the year means it time for Massive Project Overhaul because of course it does). </p><p>One thing I've noticed as I've been writing this Sherwood Cycle, is that they all take place at specific times of the year--in different seasons, which is cool. Observe:</p><p><b>Wolves of Sherwood: </b>Midsummer</p><p><b>Beyond Sherwood(previously entitled "Locke and Cage"): </b>Late autumn[November]</p><p><b>Nottingham's Legacy: </b>late Winter[actually around Candlemas/Groundhog's Day]</p><p>And, my current project: <br /></p><p><b>Robbing Hoods/Out of Nottingham(can't decide which title actually fits, so right not it's both--thank you ADD): </b>Early spring[Beltane]</p><p>Even before I knew what it was, I loved that word: Beltane--so fun to say! I first got an inkling of what it was when I saw the mini-series "The Mists of Avalon"(based on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Mists-of-Avalon-audiobook/dp/B008CM40B8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=325BKIIX61GKX&dchild=1&keywords=the+mists+of+avalon&qid=1615487715&sprefix=the+mists+o%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Marion Zimmer Bradley's <b>brilliant<i> </i></b>book of the same name</a>, shot and released in 2001, but which I didn't see until 2012 or thereabouts.). Without spoilers, the festival of Beltane revolves around two significant events in the novel/mini-series and that's only one of the things that facinated me. </p><p>The interesting thing about Beltane is that it's been confused with Midsummer--they're actually two different days. Beltane comes before Midsummer, and marks the beginning of the season, while Midsummer marks--well, the middle of the summer. <br /></p><p>Beltane is usually held on or around May Day, as a significant celebration between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It's also referred to as The Great Marriage, and this made it a popular time for weddings and handfastings, which involve the exchange of vows and rings.When a couple was handfast, it meant that they were together of their own free will(sound familiar Robin Hood fans? ok, fine, it happens in Outlander too, but that's not what this post is about)<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkeOFGPuIpfrZGSGjATAOrKYARIN23Vk8JBNCN3rmB6r3yOPC0C78QIlthhXqBJ6cZSOB7l8G0TGIE-blaaHi202EHN_S_0WRRwCqHOZZ1qrBnCfqtn-l5cPiNd1j11S5foZHwkx0b-Q/s225/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkeOFGPuIpfrZGSGjATAOrKYARIN23Vk8JBNCN3rmB6r3yOPC0C78QIlthhXqBJ6cZSOB7l8G0TGIE-blaaHi202EHN_S_0WRRwCqHOZZ1qrBnCfqtn-l5cPiNd1j11S5foZHwkx0b-Q/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div>The fires are very sacred during Beltane. All other lights are doused when the bonfire is lit. It's believed that the fires of Beltane can destroy harmful influences. Sometimes people jump over the flames or the embers and after it has died down, they rub ashes on themselves or sprinkle it over their crops or livestock to increase protection. <p>Another part of the fire ceremony to ward off harm involves the May Queen and the Green Man. The May Queen is represented by a girl or a woman dressed in white to symbolize the stillness of nature as well as purity, strength, fertility and the potential for growth (now who does that sound like?)<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_0J4hzPrLcBn82yngsXT5LLTilzoTucvTlwnyi1ScP2NZat7QONZWXhEVQhXoexQaHgoHoSdmZtHXenGLlwBHcaBz4HHcAcrjFTABauGeIPWw-uSgpI81h0ptseIheTFYXs2v4TqTRU/s251/index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_0J4hzPrLcBn82yngsXT5LLTilzoTucvTlwnyi1ScP2NZat7QONZWXhEVQhXoexQaHgoHoSdmZtHXenGLlwBHcaBz4HHcAcrjFTABauGeIPWw-uSgpI81h0ptseIheTFYXs2v4TqTRU/s0/index.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p>The Green Man--yes, it's almost always a man--is usually a sculpture, usually of a face, surrounded by leaves or vegetation sprouting from it's head. Sometimes he's called "the keeper of forests and woods"(who does that kinda sound like?). And yes, he's green.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcm6eiZwpU2RnYaJBaHx-zlT1LabLfU9LRDLEuZ_VI5mVMFKYZVygi_In1v7LkIdnwElizy6GTN9g0oiGb7S_tA_88FUHwF9sPcXIosIJwz7YPSaAQh4d6u06EN8UqHKvB6mcVZjvEtQM/s220/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcm6eiZwpU2RnYaJBaHx-zlT1LabLfU9LRDLEuZ_VI5mVMFKYZVygi_In1v7LkIdnwElizy6GTN9g0oiGb7S_tA_88FUHwF9sPcXIosIJwz7YPSaAQh4d6u06EN8UqHKvB6mcVZjvEtQM/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div><p>Both the Green Man and the May Queen are symbols of rebirth, both are asked to give up part of themselves in order to enter the human realm and start the growing season. <br /></p><p>Other traditions of Beltane are May Games, Maypoles and May bushes. These were usually branches of a rowan or hawthorn tree that were decorated with flowers, ribbons, etc, and sometimes the May Bushes were burned in the bonfires. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYepgYPvJEIAby35ne1oEhKUwg9aidH6CSvmuhoOqNWS0XNrmgZbmxMz-2VVgTQejqY9hAM0mgYUZZg3bGZ9JTduen_SWNZw3-4Fp7pNzx5akSNdT6xXJPim56hqTPrrPPyRxFIor7hpQ/s260/220px-Hawthorn_in_flower_on_Smeardon_Down.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYepgYPvJEIAby35ne1oEhKUwg9aidH6CSvmuhoOqNWS0XNrmgZbmxMz-2VVgTQejqY9hAM0mgYUZZg3bGZ9JTduen_SWNZw3-4Fp7pNzx5akSNdT6xXJPim56hqTPrrPPyRxFIor7hpQ/s0/220px-Hawthorn_in_flower_on_Smeardon_Down.jpg" /></a></div><p>There are still Beltane festivals in Scotland and Ireland today. The Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival is one of Scotland's major tourist attractions and it's very difficult to get into it unless you move fast and early. </p><p>Doesn't that totally sound like something Robin Hood and Company would be in to? <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtA190w9mpubUDUbzQuyvK6b-1TuM0_yCxW-2lWOraWIl4zPSt987Scm6GV0W2EsXkJIkZxhNxsoNxC6bDp3ZsW833Tbmq7PoEo7_PW5u71U0TZ1UMhjteNqKidZxb9DDwiY_-mad8rs/s0/images.jpg" /></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-37659733866141760222021-01-27T16:09:00.006-07:002021-01-27T16:09:46.260-07:00Sherwood Cycle: What's In A Title<p> One of the things I occasionally do is clean out my "Writer's Closet". </p><p>Except it's now more of a room than a closet. I always have a writing wall, where I write things about the project I'm working on--characters, scene outlines, music, bits of dialogue, etc--and that wall gets more and more full until I finish the initial draft of the project, when I pull all the 3x5 cards off the wall and start with a "clean slate", as it were.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAqqEKuG2ibXinZaEfZs4J14Q_rHRKio5C0yavaeLAZIFUuIJIuDazQImQDkjHEVuABBW7OL_nCQq63hAc2SFWjJbahsI04Z6iJR50h4JmV4bxptELYHVcnREd0lBeG2kY2ZKl6iEYOjo/s568/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAqqEKuG2ibXinZaEfZs4J14Q_rHRKio5C0yavaeLAZIFUuIJIuDazQImQDkjHEVuABBW7OL_nCQq63hAc2SFWjJbahsI04Z6iJR50h4JmV4bxptELYHVcnREd0lBeG2kY2ZKl6iEYOjo/s320/Capture.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> But because a wall has only a certain amount of space, I have to create files on my laptop and in various notebooks that are then stuck in my filing cabinet or my cloud drive or whatever because I'm the type of writer that keeps <b><i>everything</i></b>. <p></p><p>And one of the things I keep is a list of possible titles for my project. </p><p>I can count the number of times the first title for a project stuck on the finger of one hand.</p><p>That's one finger on one hand.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDYwEXxlnCVz3IJrqKF5bFhx__jlF0C9hs856Lkl30uJm-OJa0l71lbRrPbmZypUFK4pk0i4GN0hQ_rxrpc4SXUpNRH4lYOD0vlc1dXAL_Rz6s-r2auGToo2F6LEyAMBwB1EDg4ORo-E/s480/giphy.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJDYwEXxlnCVz3IJrqKF5bFhx__jlF0C9hs856Lkl30uJm-OJa0l71lbRrPbmZypUFK4pk0i4GN0hQ_rxrpc4SXUpNRH4lYOD0vlc1dXAL_Rz6s-r2auGToo2F6LEyAMBwB1EDg4ORo-E/s320/giphy.gif" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p> One of my favorite authors <a href="https://laurenwillig.com/2009/02/02/novella-title-finalists/" target="_blank">once held a title contest for one of her novellas</a> on her website(which was a really fun read), and another one made me feel even better when she<a href="https://www.deannaraybourn.com/blog/things-i-know-that-work-for-me/" target="_blank"> gave some advice</a> to her blog readers about writing any type of fiction. </p><p>With the Sherwood Cycle, every single of the scripts has gone through at least three title changes, and not just because I can never make up my mind about anything(thank you ADD).</p><p>Recently I came across a little post-it note I scribbled on while
writing "Wolves of Sherwood", and there wasn't one title one it. There
were four. </p><p>Four different titles crammed onto this tiny piece of paper. </p><p>I really used to bother me when a thing like this happened, but not so much anymore. <br /></p><p>Sometimes, my gut tells me the title doesn't work. </p><p>Sometimes, my characters tell me the title doesn't work, and why(yes, I'm on speaking terms with all of them, it's an author thing, just go with it)</p><p>And sometimes it's just a Place Holder Title because you have to call it something other than that-one-project-i'm-working-on-but-can't-explain-cause-it's-complicated.</p><p>(Yes, I have called a few projects this before. Also a thing) <br /></p><p>Another thing that I've learned over the past couple of years is that a title doesn't just have to work for you--sometimes it also has to give some kind of clue on how to market your project.</p><p>Don't believe me?</p><p>One of the greatest movies ever made, "The Princess Bride" was a box office flop for that reason--<a href="https://virtualmarketadvantage.com/the-princess-bride/" target="_blank">no one had any idea how to market it--even the trailer was a mess</a>. </p><p>Result?</p><p>Box office sales plummet, cast and crew suffers, and the film either "comes back via word of mouth/DVD(or in the case of "The Princess Bride", VHS" or disappears from existence except as an article on Google or whatever. <br /></p><p>Because I'm the type of weird person who cares about that kind of thing, and I like to make things easier for all parties concerned, when I'm in the revision process one of the things I look at and constantly tweak and re-write is the title. </p><p>Not even kidding. <br /></p><p>And I'm glad that <a href="https://www.theawl.com/2011/06/four-writers-tell-all-about-titles/" target="_blank">I'm not the only one</a>. </p><p>All part of the revision
process.</p><p>Here's the next chunk of my current project's soundtrack, while I'm at it. </p><p>Incidentally, it's not called "Robbing Hoods" anymore. </p><p>Now it's "Out of Nottingham". </p><p>Much better, in my opinion. </p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Agony(Aurora Version), by Breaking Benjamin & Lacey Sturm</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x9hZFyoqp7Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="x9hZFyoqp7Q"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vivid, by Lemonade</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YihLw9itvO4" width="320" youtube-src-id="YihLw9itvO4"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carry You (feat. Fleurie), by Ruelle<br /><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-rKwPblSdQA" width="320" youtube-src-id="-rKwPblSdQA"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are You Even Real?, by James Blake</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gt5KBaHtQV4" width="320" youtube-src-id="gt5KBaHtQV4"></iframe></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />Pull Me Down, by Mat Vansen</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LnwVepJxuwI" width="320" youtube-src-id="LnwVepJxuwI"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Far Away, by Breaking Benjamin & Scooter Ward</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AZb69irensI" width="320" youtube-src-id="AZb69irensI"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Never Too Late, by Three Days Grace</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lL2ZwXj1tXM" width="320" youtube-src-id="lL2ZwXj1tXM"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Game Face (feat. Sam Tinnesz), by UNSECRET</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xbiKixNiEjs" width="320" youtube-src-id="xbiKixNiEjs"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White Flag, by Bishop Briggs</span></span></span></p><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/syhBqULC99I" width="320" youtube-src-id="syhBqULC99I"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-72827942918181571962021-01-12T10:39:00.009-07:002021-01-13T16:14:24.412-07:00"Writing Closet": My Process<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-bc089fa3-7fff-86c3-14e4-3574c2daaf69" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Over the weekend I had a reading of "Smoke and Mirrors", by a theatre company based in New York. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">As I've made it a personal goal to host/attend as many readings as possible</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(currently over Zoom, but hopefully soon I'll get to do some in person, too) this was really cool.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I've said multiple times how awesome it is for any artist to see his/her/their work come to life </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so I won't go into that here. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">But it was AWESOME!!!!!</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One of the questions that was asked during the feedback session was about my writing process. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Since this is the second time I've been asked this, and it probably won't be the last,</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I've decided to elaborate a little bit on this little blog. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Because I can. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And why not? </span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh77IkcU9CI_P2DlHLaNadUoebTGhTqMl7K5AdkftAMru-mYklLEZln-3s-R7EARILkUE0N7hoECc4Q4WJrxCqM62or6HHP5eLsw7wOcXjSSOzZiu5Avo92sxcqm_hFaIJA5E_PVfZqp3s/s640/3e65fffb1db7b349f689ad1153b3cf0f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh77IkcU9CI_P2DlHLaNadUoebTGhTqMl7K5AdkftAMru-mYklLEZln-3s-R7EARILkUE0N7hoECc4Q4WJrxCqM62or6HHP5eLsw7wOcXjSSOzZiu5Avo92sxcqm_hFaIJA5E_PVfZqp3s/s320/3e65fffb1db7b349f689ad1153b3cf0f.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 11pt; margin-right: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 11pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Every writer has his/her/their process. </span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When "Wolves of Sherwood" premiered at Brelby Theatre Company in Arizona,</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> the Artistic Director asked me this same question, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and I went into detail about some of the specifics of my writing process(detailed</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">)</span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If you've followed me for awhile, you already know that I use playlists for my projects, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and I have celebrity and "real life" models for my characters---because of course I do. </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The scripts I write always start with a "what-if" scenario(like "</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Wolves of Sherwood</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">"); </span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or an image or idea that won't get out of my head</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(like someone throwing someone else out a window/front door--the opening scene in "</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Angel's Alley</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">");</span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> or a part of my person belief system or something else I want to talk about but can't in any other way, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">because for some reason I can be more articulate in my writing rather than vocally,</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I don’t know why("</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">B/V</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">" and “</span><a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/01/script-tidbits-smoke-and-mirrors.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Smoke and Mirrors</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">”--also, see image above)</span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Every initial draft of a script I write ends up being about twice as long as the final draft because:</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1) My characters love to hear themselves talk, and more often then not will talk too much</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2) I have this ridiculous need to please my inner critic before everyone else, and</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3) Exposition bogs me down. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Don't know if y'all have noticed, but I have a tendency to write scripts with massive casts. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And part of a playwright’s job is to establish initial relationships between the characters.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Easy if you have a two to four person script, right?</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Not so easy when the cast size is 10-15(</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/search/label/SherwoodCycle" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sherwood Cycle</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, I’m looking at you).</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Don’t even get me started on the number of scenes that either disappear with each draft </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">or I talk myself in and out of keeping. (I have a folder labeled “Scenes For My Eyes Only” </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that serves as a Scene Graveyard, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and I already know there’s at least ten pages of “</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/search/label/RobbingHoods" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Robbing Hoods</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">” that already need to be either excised</span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">completely or cut down, but I haven’t even written “End Of Play” on that one yet, soooooo)</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">After I write the initial draft, I get to the Fun Part.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Revision. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When I first started playwriting, I would procrastinate like nobody's business</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">when I got to the “revision” process(see “inner critic” on list above). </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My roommates and good friends would always know that I was in the revision process </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">because I’d usually act like Ross Geller on “Friends” for days, as I’ve never liked killing my darlings.</span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGWpIt5Ph5eJp5fvfUnl8CMk6SgdEMz1gsRF3uuOq9v3QzbvViBvJDSzBYMX4KzuWWIXf5NQ78_XetpKHXYMansi3lc9ZCKDfLNYNlIPrVSqPW3EGc7vDjZ6MEyxAMoA2AN09LPz_9vM/s500/tenor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGWpIt5Ph5eJp5fvfUnl8CMk6SgdEMz1gsRF3uuOq9v3QzbvViBvJDSzBYMX4KzuWWIXf5NQ78_XetpKHXYMansi3lc9ZCKDfLNYNlIPrVSqPW3EGc7vDjZ6MEyxAMoA2AN09LPz_9vM/s320/tenor.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Or my characters. </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One of my friends came home to me bawling like a two year old after I killed off one of my characters </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and she thought something truly bad had happened but I told her</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2gfYux6foe-DvqtHge-u2PapQJpl_xF24lXibQ4xP-gIMmrAn5TiaEulI44i7Wx9r-GRQNy6sURhcost28d0neVgu2_sXehWt_d7ZqNFXptsbvualC2DRM4OPhaG0j-jQvTjsZ0lg0xk/s250/tenor1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="250" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2gfYux6foe-DvqtHge-u2PapQJpl_xF24lXibQ4xP-gIMmrAn5TiaEulI44i7Wx9r-GRQNy6sURhcost28d0neVgu2_sXehWt_d7ZqNFXptsbvualC2DRM4OPhaG0j-jQvTjsZ0lg0xk/w428-h322/tenor1.gif" width="428" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And she said she believed me </span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and then got me chocolate and sat me down in front of “Princess Mononoke” to calm me down😛</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(have I told y’all this story before? If I have, then it’s worth a repeat, so there you go)</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My inner critic didn’t help much either.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">That is, until I figured out a way to turn the inner critic off. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One of the apartment complexes I moved into in my early twenties had a cable subscription to TCM</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(Turner Classic Movies, for those not in The Know)</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> and, being a cinephile, I binged this channel multiple weekends while not working or studying</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(ok, fine, sometimes I would forgo studying to binge TCM); and after awhile I started to notice things:</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1) James Cagney, Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Cummings, George Brent, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and John Garfield were </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gorgeous </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(and if you know who any of those men are, kudos! </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">If not--look them up because--well, they’re 😍😍😍 !)</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2) I wanted to look like a combination of Anne Sheridan/Audrey Hepburn/Lucille Ball/</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Katherine Hepburn/Joan Blondell/Margaret Lindsay/Barbara Stanwick when I “grew up”</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(see parenthesis above and substitute “women” for “men”)</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3)The majority of the films I watched(usually filmed between 1930-45) were tight, clever, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had snappy dialogue I really wanted to imitate(and did) and plots that I adored </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">even if they tended toward the “formulaic”(The Gangster and Noir Films were my favorites)</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4) I could watch a film and do something else at the same time--</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not just baking or folding laundry or things like that(I’ve been doing that since I was little),</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> but also while I was writing.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUu-03baobONwdjKIKs3uGHyz5wErkx3m8KZBLdZE8vROAko3wcm_e4880DKlBq2H6pacrGdYDkXbTEY4J9nWybf52WNWKlnu0r-mKowT1JNse1A9s1GUnyRphXQ-Q7VQaB3ftbf8lnE/s245/352bb27ff8a4cbd2bf1a888b1555bada.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUu-03baobONwdjKIKs3uGHyz5wErkx3m8KZBLdZE8vROAko3wcm_e4880DKlBq2H6pacrGdYDkXbTEY4J9nWybf52WNWKlnu0r-mKowT1JNse1A9s1GUnyRphXQ-Q7VQaB3ftbf8lnE/s0/352bb27ff8a4cbd2bf1a888b1555bada.gif" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Which means that now I can pull out the latest draft of whatever script I happen to be revising</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(in this case, “</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/search/label/Nottingham%27s%20Legacy" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Nottingham’s Legacy</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">”) and proceed to slice out chunks of dialogue and scenes </span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with one part of my brain, and paying attention to something on the tv screen with the other. </span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Usually throughout my writing process, I’m “theme watching” so there’s been a lot of </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Robin Hood” adaptations that I’ve either bought or rented in the past two years.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> But sometimes I need something that isn’t related to the project I’m working on, </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so I’ve been switching between “Gossip Girl”, “The OC”, and “Call the Midwife”</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">--because that’s about a far away form swashbuckling outlaws as you can get. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Also, for some reason, I can spot a typo while the tv is on, not so much when the tv is off. Weird. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Once the initial revision/editing process is done(usually depends on how many characters I have), </span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">then I get to do the readings and post reading revisions and pitching for performances and all that stuff. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Which is the Other Fun Part 😛</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><br />chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-74016139296289167622020-12-30T14:55:00.005-07:002020-12-30T14:55:49.297-07:00Thespian Musings: Recap 2020<p>New Year's Resolution.</p><p>I hate that term.</p><p>Ok, fine, "hate" is a strong word, I know. "Dislike with a fiery passion" is a better one. </p><p>And I "dislike with a fiery passion" the term New Years Resolution because I <i style="font-weight: bold;">never</i> fulfill them. Even as a kid I made goals and they always fizzled out for one reason or another. </p><p>Back in January I wrote about <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/01/thespian-musings-playwright-goals-new.html" target="_blank">what I wanted to accomplish as a playwright</a> this year. As this is the second to last day of 2020 I'm going to beg your indulgence because this year I ACTUALLY DID IT!!!!</p><p>Yes, I know that makes me sound a little bit like an egomaniac, but I feel like celebrating. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1NHhYxI9o2_0jE1C8l124eWYe7wr8b1GDKm5CQPrBzWhLml-oton78LXq9OmpNQlLoJhY8P4810j_2U9k2y7AgEH1jTYhMSQV9K3smVnqt4j_QFOMSMn3uG64sS2wOFtLTP0vCk8jok8/s320/OIP.jpg" width="320" /></div><br /><p>Because, believe it or not, we all need a little something to celebrate:</p><p>Due to the pandemic, theatres have been closed, rehearsals discouraged, all that awesome stuff (if you didn't notice you've been living under a rock) artists like myself had to figure out how to still make art.</p><p>It was hard, but not impossible. </p><p>This year has been spent not on stage, but still seeing/reading/writing plays. </p><p>Last year, 2019, I wrote one play.</p><p>It was a great play, and I was really proud of it, but it was only one. </p><p>This year, I wrote six plays. </p><p>SIX.</p><p>Ok, fine, three of them were ten minuters, but still. </p><p>I mean, if I can't perform in them, I might as well spend my time writing, and revising and using my artistic time to the fullest, right?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9W3XTUgUhEd2gE6fi3QrFYob6fzrmVi3aA1jNR55_qsrRxzm9iEJGc00HZDTF348jA0UXJIzGnd6FiM-uYvC9Za8joxGlUqW2UNcsbvEVpu1fP4Itfl9jM57soTFDLXmWfp6mUSIvAU/s557/for+blog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9W3XTUgUhEd2gE6fi3QrFYob6fzrmVi3aA1jNR55_qsrRxzm9iEJGc00HZDTF348jA0UXJIzGnd6FiM-uYvC9Za8joxGlUqW2UNcsbvEVpu1fP4Itfl9jM57soTFDLXmWfp6mUSIvAU/s320/for+blog.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Three</p><p>Full </p><p>Length</p><p>Plays</p><p>In </p><p>One </p><p>Year</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIBTlW1Zjute5VloFnspu4LQ9uumlvdVFHi_0KKfSW5TFqtBOVWcgAoEsQqtSx51cWk-EUmZpsFvMH1KowdjP8_eAJ6-ElKh17QS4TT9Is2Ey1gmeeH9fb-03Fiz1exL0U6P-WztBBtw/s320/Stephen-colbert-celebration-gif.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIBTlW1Zjute5VloFnspu4LQ9uumlvdVFHi_0KKfSW5TFqtBOVWcgAoEsQqtSx51cWk-EUmZpsFvMH1KowdjP8_eAJ6-ElKh17QS4TT9Is2Ey1gmeeH9fb-03Fiz1exL0U6P-WztBBtw/s0/Stephen-colbert-celebration-gif.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Yes. Yes, I'm really excited about this and nothing is going to change that. <div><br /></div><div>Also, I joined an amazing play reading group. They get together every week and read plays over Zoom. Granted, due to the holidays and day job I haven't been able to participate as much as a wanted to, but it's amazing to see a group of artists come together to read new work. </div><div><br /></div><div>Which would also be impossible without Zoom. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have been able to connect with other artists in other places in the country that I never would have met otherwise. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have learned so much about myself as an artist and a woman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Having the opportunity to figure out ways to be productive in a day is something I needed, and something I think I wouldn't have been able to figure out otherwise. </div><div><br /></div><div>I mean, I would have eventually, but not as quickly as I did this year.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've learned what it's like to be a friend. </div><div><br /></div><div>A real friend, I mean, not the type of tiered-aquaintence-you-say-hi-to-because-you're-a-nice-person-and-will-probably-forget-about-as-soon-as-he/she/they-is/are-no-longer-in-your-line-of-vision. But somebody who really truly cares about the people around them and will always be there no matter what. </div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, I know, it sounds corny, but it's true. </div><div><br /></div><div>2020 has been hard. We've heard that all year. </div><div><br /></div><div>But you know what? There have been really good things too, and I for one am going to celebrate them and I encourage y'all to do the same. </div><div><br /></div><div>That is all.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-89555716685983973172020-12-23T11:21:00.003-07:002021-01-27T15:12:34.397-07:00Robbing Hoods: Kenna<p> Christmas is FRIDAY, Y'ALL!!!!!</p><p>I've spent the past couple weeks prepping, which includes last minute present check and delivery, annual holiday audiobook listening, "Lion in Winter" and "A Christmas Carol" viewing (because DUH!!!!), and past family home videos. And there is nothing quite so amusing as watching your baby brother running down a beach while holding the back of his swimsuit so that it won't slide down his stick of a body to make your holiday.</p><p>But I digress.</p><p>It's time your you, dear readers, to meet the new characters in the Sherwood Cycle. Starting with Kenna.</p><p>Kenna is Declan's twin, and about as opposite to Declan as she can possibly be. She's as fiery and snarky as the rest of the Sherwood Wolf Pack and it's so much fun to pit her against Declan because I'm a sucker for sibling rivalry. It's almost like Braelyn/Jean-Luc, but not quite. Twins have a different dynamic.</p><p>Whenever I see Kenna in my head, I see this gorgeous woman.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNeB4E2h30i5OFVwbAgHhs21KNtabMR81-etQNmY7Ti1VD3gQEYHwKltmhQJjxlSELFUAgbFwyQJ_O-DghTjhrSIdtnvsRlYzqUJ57SnNKEh_U9KrMzjh_oHmcd9jiPEqjTdr2dYm1fs/s182/OIP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="136" data-original-width="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNeB4E2h30i5OFVwbAgHhs21KNtabMR81-etQNmY7Ti1VD3gQEYHwKltmhQJjxlSELFUAgbFwyQJ_O-DghTjhrSIdtnvsRlYzqUJ57SnNKEh_U9KrMzjh_oHmcd9jiPEqjTdr2dYm1fs/s0/OIP.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is Thalissa Teixeira, from "The Musketeers", "Millionaire Ransom", and "National Theatre Live: Yerma." Fierce and fiery with the ability to hold her own, any time I see her on the screen I'm riveted. Plus, I'd love to see her and <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/07/lure-of-fox-declan.html" target="_blank">Declan's model</a> onscreen together. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As always, here's more of the writing soundtrack, starting with Act II:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between the Wars, by Allman Brown</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YYizUhWVo8k" width="320" youtube-src-id="YYizUhWVo8k"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pain, by Three Days Grace</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ud4HuAzHEUc" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ud4HuAzHEUc"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without You, by Breaking Benjamin</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kb7zhunYGik" width="320" youtube-src-id="Kb7zhunYGik"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">No Mercy(Feat. isotope), by UNSECRET</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mrXzf3glemc" width="320" youtube-src-id="mrXzf3glemc"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Younger, by French Wives</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MPAmeDCQvDI" width="320" youtube-src-id="MPAmeDCQvDI"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Failure(Aurora Version), by Breaking Benjamin & Red</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QCUIA2Bc3W4" width="320" youtube-src-id="QCUIA2Bc3W4"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cold Blooded (feat. Sam Tinnesz & Hulvey), by UNSECRET</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">(you'll have to Spotify this one)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Animal I Have Become, by Three Days Grace</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXDC89tZ4IQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="xXDC89tZ4IQ"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Never Surrender, by David Chappell</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hWy-oqURpYE" width="320" youtube-src-id="hWy-oqURpYE"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />Sometimes Love, by UNSECRET & Chuck Adams </span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/txllRRz7z-8" width="320" youtube-src-id="txllRRz7z-8"></iframe></div><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-9634635410872519662020-12-16T17:06:00.005-07:002021-01-27T15:12:25.037-07:00Robbing Hoods: The Minis<p> You know the awesome thing about writing "Robbing Hoods"?</p><p>Ok, fine, one of the <b><i>many</i></b> awesome things?</p><p>Mini versions of characters pop up.</p><p>Which is fantastic!</p><p>I know in Hollywood-land it's possible for celebrities to play roles that are considerably younger than their actual ages, but sometimes that just isn't possible(see <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/locksley-of-sherwood-allies-and-enemies.html" target="_blank">who dances around in my head for DeClaire in Wolves </a>to see what I mean). </p><p>So this means that I get new pictures in my head of all the "mini" versions of Jean-Luc, Cassian and...DeClaire.</p><p>I know--shocker to me, too. Apparently, no one wanted to be left out. </p><p>Which is fine.</p><p><b>Mini Jean-Luc: Aidan Gallagher</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroKfKI5SkJIMTKkkliRuUJAXAyCSCtWlrpVug3VFZS1cvTrz7zBGyLf-Sh9G7ACHqJPx4Nn3ZCQsTD1idpiVfMDyjU5bDGOgc3BgT_XNASJlAKzMOJ929_gGFtdGmWtC0pOakv7vNFX8/s1091/AidanGallagher-GWA2019.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1091" data-original-width="1023" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroKfKI5SkJIMTKkkliRuUJAXAyCSCtWlrpVug3VFZS1cvTrz7zBGyLf-Sh9G7ACHqJPx4Nn3ZCQsTD1idpiVfMDyjU5bDGOgc3BgT_XNASJlAKzMOJ929_gGFtdGmWtC0pOakv7vNFX8/s320/AidanGallagher-GWA2019.webp" /></a></div>aka "Number Five" from "Umbrella Academy". Great with the snark!<br /><p></p><p><b>Mini Cassian: Joel Dawson</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2BsUfCvC2IoNcRg4cb08RXEfTWedfVPGdLhT3bMyTiXX1iUGjzeJQ5f1snh1KsZpjXbUNrcVLMeIBjPkU8nLZxB_USTQm9BuyuaOPEjyPELQKalMCU3433TB5xS12RKqZDrSSBPNvH0/s1200/MV5BM2M5N2QzODYtZDk2Ni00Njk5LTk1ZTktNDBiYThmNDRiMThjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjQwMDg0Ng%2540%2540._V1_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2BsUfCvC2IoNcRg4cb08RXEfTWedfVPGdLhT3bMyTiXX1iUGjzeJQ5f1snh1KsZpjXbUNrcVLMeIBjPkU8nLZxB_USTQm9BuyuaOPEjyPELQKalMCU3433TB5xS12RKqZDrSSBPNvH0/s320/MV5BM2M5N2QzODYtZDk2Ni00Njk5LTk1ZTktNDBiYThmNDRiMThjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjQwMDg0Ng%2540%2540._V1_.jpg" /></a></b></div><p>aka "Georgie" from "Mary Poppins Returns"--isn't he adorable?!?!?!</p><p><b>Mini Mei: Thaddea Graham</b></p><p><b><img alt="Thaddea Graham - IMDb" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" 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style="height: 275px; margin: 0px; width: 183px;" /> </b></p><p>From Netflix's "A Letter for the King", BBC's "Us" and the upcoming "The Irregulars"(like, Sherlock Holms' "Baker Street Irregulars"!!!!!!!!!) The characters this girl plays are feisty and can kick A$$!!!<b> </b><br /><b> </b><br /><b> Mini DeClaire: Andrew Mattarazzo</b></p><p></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJtfg3VckUL8Ie6W5ZzhLMOOnigmwd3Pdfmwzxnsl1JftKSUbuQSpsZFCDv-4zxSec4qT1rC45XODA3HVTlD1RniFuQbAkCbdEF-W0bnBWoU6qcK-HOmovLdrFeiH_FK0iDfpVWCyvvsM/s253/index.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJtfg3VckUL8Ie6W5ZzhLMOOnigmwd3Pdfmwzxnsl1JftKSUbuQSpsZFCDv-4zxSec4qT1rC45XODA3HVTlD1RniFuQbAkCbdEF-W0bnBWoU6qcK-HOmovLdrFeiH_FK0iDfpVWCyvvsM/s0/index.jpg" /></a></b></div>aka "Gabe" from the second half of the sixth season of "Teen Wolf". Because I think he totally looks like a mini version of Toby Kebbell. <p></p><p>And, as always, here's more soundtrack bits:</p><p><b></b><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Ghost, by Halsey<b> <br /></b></b></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iQFKgPBtYdc" width="320" youtube-src-id="iQFKgPBtYdc"></iframe></div><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Gonna Be a Legend, by The Phantoms</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GMjjtdqiTJ8" width="320" youtube-src-id="GMjjtdqiTJ8"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Le monde est a rende, by Louis Delort</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YPLfbjfVuJM" width="320" youtube-src-id="YPLfbjfVuJM"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>At My Best (feat. Hailee Steinfeld), by Machine Gun Kelly</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1CAudvVfGwc" width="320" youtube-src-id="1CAudvVfGwc"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Don't Wanna Fall, by Seven Lions, Last Heroes, and HALIENE</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEoirqW37DM" width="320" youtube-src-id="CEoirqW37DM"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Hypnotic, by Zella Day</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pySSdwwx204" width="320" youtube-src-id="pySSdwwx204"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>How Can I Forget, by MKTO</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CQVNGp0qrLg" width="320" youtube-src-id="CQVNGp0qrLg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>With You, by Tyler Shaw</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wm_QAEQUs9A" width="320" youtube-src-id="wm_QAEQUs9A"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Fires, by Allman Brown</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M62dgRxqMLE" width="320" youtube-src-id="M62dgRxqMLE"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Un monde a changer, by Nyco Lulliu</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yLxAnqjkzcg" width="320" youtube-src-id="yLxAnqjkzcg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Desert Rose, by Sting</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C3lWwBslWqg" width="320" youtube-src-id="C3lWwBslWqg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>The Campfire, by Peter Crowley</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s8ZStQ_YSfs" width="320" youtube-src-id="s8ZStQ_YSfs"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>The Archer, by Taylor Swift</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8KpKc3C9V3w" width="320" youtube-src-id="8KpKc3C9V3w"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Technicolor Beat, by Oh Wonder</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j9FfYWp_d5w" width="320" youtube-src-id="j9FfYWp_d5w"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Arms Around Me, by Starley</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v1y9RV6BuNw" width="320" youtube-src-id="v1y9RV6BuNw"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>The Reckoning, by UNSECRET</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6S07MaAy6oY" width="320" youtube-src-id="6S07MaAy6oY"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Blood and Glory, by Audiomachine</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HyE44docaWk" width="320" youtube-src-id="HyE44docaWk"></iframe></b></div><p><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-712ba83e-7fff-e1e4-a32a-528a547c8035" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tell Her I Wasn’t Scared, by Dan Thiessen & Epic Music World</span></span></span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-712ba83e-7fff-e1e4-a32a-528a547c8035" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T17Bl1R0OZk" width="320" youtube-src-id="T17Bl1R0OZk"></iframe></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span> <br /></b><p></p><p></p><p> And that's the end of Act I.</p><p>You're Welcome 😛<b></b><br /><b></b></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-32538628813134898182020-12-10T10:47:00.003-07:002021-01-27T15:12:08.908-07:00Robbing Hoods: Beginnings<p><br /></p><p>I've said <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/08/nottinghams-legacy-endings.html" target="_blank">I hate endings</a>. <br /></p><p>I also hate beginnings. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhav-ZPDjGCJT3XFJ1hje7z8fwbaG-440W3J8Y_KKPtSAlCk-4oF85boaSI_BQQUJZGGzgfSQkqfOBRKuEgF2rfdhSVONqi1AAhybqoGCb6Z83KvO6L7BNrb-XYuci4qDvRoUOlOuWpy5A/s576/cover_2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhav-ZPDjGCJT3XFJ1hje7z8fwbaG-440W3J8Y_KKPtSAlCk-4oF85boaSI_BQQUJZGGzgfSQkqfOBRKuEgF2rfdhSVONqi1AAhybqoGCb6Z83KvO6L7BNrb-XYuci4qDvRoUOlOuWpy5A/s320/cover_2.jpeg" /></a></div><br /> <p>Like a freaking lot. <br /></p><p> I started this whole Sherwood Cycle because of how<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/name-of-game-new-pet-project.html" target="_blank"> annoyed I was that all the Robin Hood retellings seemed to be Origin Stories</a></p><p>Except now I've back and the beginning (since <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/10/lure-of-fox-writing-backwards.html" target="_blank">I write things backwards</a>, remember?) and now I "get" to write my own version of the Origin Story. </p><p>Yay. </p><p>Now,
I love a good origin story, don't get me wrong, but so far as mythic
heroes like Robin Hood are concerned, it kind of feels like the first
season of a new tv series--it'll either become a Critics Darling And
Soar To New Heights or Crash And Burn.</p><p>Obviously, I want the former to happen, rather than the latter. </p><p>The good news is that since I know how everyone ends up, I don't have to work so hard to eek exposition out of new characters. </p><p>What
I get to do instead is turn the clock back far enough so that the
lessons already learned and the relationships already formed are nil. </p><p>And ohmigosh that's hard. </p><p>But also, ohmigosh it's fun!</p><p>Like, characters that end up as hardened veterans and mature adults are in their pre-teen years(<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/locksley-of-sherwood-extended-family.html" target="_blank">Jean-Luc</a> and <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/locksley-of-sherwood-family-portrait.html" target="_blank">Cassian</a>)</p><p>And
I get to find out how things that are significant later in the cycle
(like the wolf howling thing) actually started(which is one of cutest
bits of dialogue I've written so far)</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmDYln6U3kOHIEnw8yGoEWdESULuPL43fPF_McuwS-TDmmpm0lp5vmMFIr0Tjh3zvwVO6VEZQuihZ9wDcP8wCOfCdZ7Y0v8MWBrMkoZA0GC1ZmZ8rgVJF7cJn08genKl80MKHXOOdRq4/s1800/29CLI-WOLVES1-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmDYln6U3kOHIEnw8yGoEWdESULuPL43fPF_McuwS-TDmmpm0lp5vmMFIr0Tjh3zvwVO6VEZQuihZ9wDcP8wCOfCdZ7Y0v8MWBrMkoZA0GC1ZmZ8rgVJF7cJn08genKl80MKHXOOdRq4/s320/29CLI-WOLVES1-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>And I get explore the creation of relationships that already existed later in the cycle( like <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/locksley-of-sherwood-extended-family.html" target="_blank">Will and Elodie's</a>, which has been...interesting.) </p><p>So
long as everything goes according to plan(unlikely, since my characters
seem to have a penchant for taking over the story rather than nicely
play out what I planned for them--which I am not complaining about...too
much), I'll get over my aversion to Origin Stories by writing this
one. </p><p>Or I might just decide that Origin Stories will always exist and I need to deal(the far more likely scenario).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiit911oOZJClAgmBW8McS8i-HTxRB7x91lBfbacer2t2IAZ7c8Ikkn3yXj7uzTzNrTUiqx6SlZHTWojT9fwLyoGaLvdMi5H_p3rNOxZmORTgfoCBSoq8XwTN_ScogMZMDiTuPhB_w-gqA/s1200/3000.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiit911oOZJClAgmBW8McS8i-HTxRB7x91lBfbacer2t2IAZ7c8Ikkn3yXj7uzTzNrTUiqx6SlZHTWojT9fwLyoGaLvdMi5H_p3rNOxZmORTgfoCBSoq8XwTN_ScogMZMDiTuPhB_w-gqA/s320/3000.webp" /></a></div><p>For now, I'll be happy that I get to go back to Nottingham and Sherwood
as depicted in the classic tellings of the tale (so far, still early
days yet.)</p><p>While I'm at it, here's some more soundtrack samples:</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Thief, by Ansel Elgort</b></div></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/biStYEbnyBM" width="320" youtube-src-id="biStYEbnyBM"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p><b>Like a Man, by Louis Delort</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_0MZqf2f_Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="3_0MZqf2f_Q"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Kingdom, by Young Tribe</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SS11qCA6XWI" width="320" youtube-src-id="SS11qCA6XWI"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>Fight for My Survival, by The Phantoms</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g4j3yv5kh7Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="g4j3yv5kh7Y"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Wanted Dead or Alive, by Chris Cagle</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rL8MKk4EtMg" width="320" youtube-src-id="rL8MKk4EtMg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Ain't No Rest for the Wicked, by Cage the Elephant</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSCOYAJd2PE" width="320" youtube-src-id="zSCOYAJd2PE"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Do I Make You Wanna, by Billy Currington</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RqogSep6lwA" width="320" youtube-src-id="RqogSep6lwA"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Warrior's Song, by Audiomachine</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1hQZuzEGDlU" width="320" youtube-src-id="1hQZuzEGDlU"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>The Great Divide, by Breaking Benjamin</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OCq3JKzFjgQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="OCq3JKzFjgQ"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Ghost of a Rose, by Blackamore's Night</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kPk9c0UK0Fg" width="320" youtube-src-id="kPk9c0UK0Fg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Warrior, by The Phantoms</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n5TUxQfkCtk" width="320" youtube-src-id="n5TUxQfkCtk"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Watch Me, by The Phantoms</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QZ_v2wkBt3k" width="320" youtube-src-id="QZ_v2wkBt3k"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Bloodstream, by Ed Sheeran</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XIJHg1XWR7o" width="320" youtube-src-id="XIJHg1XWR7o"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Shadow of the Moon, by Blackamore's Night </b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bgjHDL3t8uQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="bgjHDL3t8uQ"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Fantasy, by Sofi Tukker</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TIjK17v9vj4" width="320" youtube-src-id="TIjK17v9vj4"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p><b>Dibs, by Kelsea Ballerini</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e3lCzEOy5xs" width="320" youtube-src-id="e3lCzEOy5xs"></iframe></b></div><b><br /> </b><br /><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-8240815265037233102020-12-01T12:03:00.005-07:002021-01-27T15:11:45.902-07:00Robbing Hoods: The Beginning of the Sherwood Cycle<p> You know what's really hard about revising tow plays at the same time?</p><p>The blog doesn't get updated for two months. </p><p>But that's being remedied now. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="1000" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMffdjHJja1DCf7VSJoD1UvS-nfTZTGpc3b-LSRfaCW1REqwgU42oGXlOsxSJ8AFgrkkE6xwhogDDvrxWH24lmPce2H5YffFBSRhFfB5GbWjnnCTD8UHbG9vswpLFQtR262LL0BW6Sw8/w521-h177/_25.jpg" width="521" /></div></div><p></p><p>Remember when I said <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/name-of-game-new-pet-project.html" target="_blank">all the Robin Hood stories out there were "origin stories"? </a></p><p>Well, there's about to be another one. </p><p>I'm finally writing the first play in my "Sherwood Cycle"--my own adaption of "how Robin Hood became Robin Hood".</p><p>Except it's not. </p><p>There is no "man transforming into outlaw and then hero" montage.</p><p>There is no "steal taxes off with his head" screaming sheriff(ok, fine, there kind of is, but not in the usual way).</p><p>But there <b><i>is</i></b> a lot of combat and derring-do and snarky asides(because of course there is).</p><p>And I'm loving it. </p><p>Because Locksey's in this one. </p><p>And Will</p><p>And Elodie</p><p>And Marion and Gisbourne</p><p>And Malbete </p><p>And Declan and Enzo and Mei </p><p>And Jean-Luc and Cassian. <br /></p><p>Which means there's not very many character tidbits I can share that you haven't heard before. </p><p>And that's fine.</p><p>All that means is that I can share other spoilers instead. </p><p>And the soundtrack of course, because there's always one of those. Starting with the Themes of all the Characters(most of which you already know, but still worth a re-listen, right?)</p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c0f18cc0-7fff-5941-ab5b-4b185cbdbd44" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wolves, by Rag ‘N’ Bone Man[Main Theme]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c0f18cc0-7fff-5941-ab5b-4b185cbdbd44" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live Forever(feat. Cheat Codes), by Liam Payne[Main Theme]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nM35X5hdzEs" width="320" youtube-src-id="nM35X5hdzEs"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outlaw, by The Phantoms[Will]</span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j0fzKI462m8" width="320" youtube-src-id="j0fzKI462m8"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Born This Way, by Bear and a Banjo[Will]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OUGXg8hLgpE" width="320" youtube-src-id="OUGXg8hLgpE"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Pretty Waste, by BONES UK[Elodie]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9uGvX3q9zfY" width="320" youtube-src-id="9uGvX3q9zfY"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plain Gold Ring(Live), by Kimbra [Elodie]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6i1mr9amqeg" width="320" youtube-src-id="6i1mr9amqeg"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gallows, by Kate Garfield [Malbete]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/awLOwNTtvW8" width="320" youtube-src-id="awLOwNTtvW8"></iframe></b></div><p><b><br /> </b></p><p><b>Bad Things, by The Phantoms [Nazaire] </b></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/279Yz80aYn8" width="320" youtube-src-id="279Yz80aYn8"></iframe></b></p><b> </b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Warrior Concerto, by The Glitch Mob[Locksley]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-lszdEZ0-74" width="320" youtube-src-id="-lszdEZ0-74"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horns, by Bryce Fox [Marion]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0kTd-orXaLw" width="320" youtube-src-id="0kTd-orXaLw"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let It Bleed, by Adam Jensen [Declan]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rpUd8ljUNWk" width="320" youtube-src-id="rpUd8ljUNWk"></iframe></b></div><b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking for Trouble (feat. Anna Mae), by UNSECRET [Mei]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5pjAAF5wWA" width="320" youtube-src-id="w5pjAAF5wWA"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arsonist's Lullabye, by Hoosier [Enzo]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-eJbxI-jZbA" width="320" youtube-src-id="-eJbxI-jZbA"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stronger(feat. Black Violin), by The Phantoms [Kenna/Cassian]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d_HCXJBqhWY" width="320" youtube-src-id="d_HCXJBqhWY"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hunter, by Adam Jensen [Jean-Luc]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-DYzYD2-23g" width="320" youtube-src-id="-DYzYD2-23g"></iframe><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></b></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Chain, by Fleetwood Mac [Gisbourne]</span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JDG2m5hN1vo" width="320" youtube-src-id="JDG2m5hN1vo"></iframe></b></div><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-71428807576731342032020-10-28T10:23:00.000-06:002020-10-28T10:23:01.943-06:00Chocolate is Salad, and Here's Why<p> So there are three days in the year that are my favorite: Christmas, my birthday, and today. </p><p>Why today?</p><p>Because today is National Chocolate day!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillA7XSNQRdo9so2BzI8vbU7yKo-ye520wtchVBiLDhvPlX_MQiZwnrKttE8RcAZQGsYLiIyy5wAcCMS8e9g1RDk4MJb9antUG8ebuflOdFFl-75CzIUc1U-Y0SKJSNK2ozZkZFQ2GRrQ/s700/8a8f454c65f4e5e0ea423a5344fcb0a0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillA7XSNQRdo9so2BzI8vbU7yKo-ye520wtchVBiLDhvPlX_MQiZwnrKttE8RcAZQGsYLiIyy5wAcCMS8e9g1RDk4MJb9antUG8ebuflOdFFl-75CzIUc1U-Y0SKJSNK2ozZkZFQ2GRrQ/s320/8a8f454c65f4e5e0ea423a5344fcb0a0.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>If you know me really well, you know how much I love chocolate. </p><p>Like <b>LOVE CHOCOLATE.</b></p><p>Growing up, I would eat chocolate chips by the handful; </p><p> through high school and college, I would squirrel away chocolate stashes in my backpack, my locker, and my apartment;<b> </b> </p><p>even now, I have a drawer in my desk at work I have dubbed "the chocolate drawer", for obvious reasons. </p><p>I visited my sister in New York a couple of years ago, and one of the places we went was <a href="https://www.eataly.com/us_en/stores/nyc-flatiron/">Eataly</a>--a fabulous Italian marketplace that, among other things, has chocolate by the bag.</p><p>You heard me right. </p><p>Chocolate</p><p>by</p><p>the</p><p>bag.</p><p>Like, you fill up a bag of chocolate--any chocolate you want, individually wrapped, of course--and you pay by the pound. </p><p>Did I take advantage of this?</p><p>Yes, yes I did.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIYw7TQNhhmhofLOgsDzvr7WHQJWu2nwx63y-khOHeh4N1Od6Q5_yFf8551xqDCwWN21P8onIF5F08gg_m6Dtmm5Dl4frarlHiwsyrunBjE97pXHsJp6mYNaHX-DzGroVz6vQnFd3qno/s750/Eataly-02DEC2013-GALDONES-PHOTOGRAPHY-042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIYw7TQNhhmhofLOgsDzvr7WHQJWu2nwx63y-khOHeh4N1Od6Q5_yFf8551xqDCwWN21P8onIF5F08gg_m6Dtmm5Dl4frarlHiwsyrunBjE97pXHsJp6mYNaHX-DzGroVz6vQnFd3qno/s320/Eataly-02DEC2013-GALDONES-PHOTOGRAPHY-042.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> And then she took me to <a href="https://maxbrenner.com/chocolate-dessert-bar/">Max Brenner </a>where I tasted the most amazing hot chocolate I've ever had(at a restaurant, that is, nothing can beat my own made-from-scratch-cocoa).<br /><p></p><p>The only thing other place I spent that much money was The Strand and The Drama Bookshop, but I digress. <br /></p><p>No joke. <br /></p><p>Being a quirky thespian, I do things on this day that I don't usually do other days--I mean, I could, but I save these particular things for this particular day. </p><p>Because of course I do. </p><p>Back in college, I was introduced to Regency mystery writer Andrea Penrose. </p><p>She wrote several mysteries centering on a woman named Lady Arianna Hadley and her husband, the Earl of Saybrook, who is a government agent. </p><p>Together they solve mysteries that so<a href="http://andreapenrose.com/the-cocoa-conspiracy-excerpt/">metimes include murder but always include chocolate</a>. The headings of each chapter have historical references to chocolate and recipes in the back!</p><p>Needless to say, I fell in love. </p><p>I've borrowed this book from the library so much I should probably either get my own copy or buy the audiobook.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCs3mvLFeqInTqgOiGkqM-urn5A3Xjy_tpHfLkw7MQeM7dIhNgUQ_zNTzs1X0joeb3fI1GnlHVoG4zCJybYjxP774isH_n-6WpllUIJ0LAppycK_1tPyMFp_6iobD6ZEPikz8lPH1neE/s475/34101792._SY475_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCs3mvLFeqInTqgOiGkqM-urn5A3Xjy_tpHfLkw7MQeM7dIhNgUQ_zNTzs1X0joeb3fI1GnlHVoG4zCJybYjxP774isH_n-6WpllUIJ0LAppycK_1tPyMFp_6iobD6ZEPikz8lPH1neE/s320/34101792._SY475_.jpg" /></a></div><br />The other thing that I do--annually, since I actually own this one and don't have to constantly borrow it from the library--is watch the film <i>Chocolat</i>. <p></p><p>It's a fantastic fable about a woman who transforms a little French village by simply opening a chocolate shop...during Lent. </p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVrd_WIl2ygCVudGZuU2a-iAmOzL6-xYcOTJ3EBtNp1MDSM52N_w1KtW6ge5rOcvxV0-O8fvodcyZG7HZDngNpObarMMFcBDRqhy-KhCtJ5NLRry1b_bnP1jEihCXUIXG_4cSh04X8kY/s350/Chocolat_sheet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVrd_WIl2ygCVudGZuU2a-iAmOzL6-xYcOTJ3EBtNp1MDSM52N_w1KtW6ge5rOcvxV0-O8fvodcyZG7HZDngNpObarMMFcBDRqhy-KhCtJ5NLRry1b_bnP1jEihCXUIXG_4cSh04X8kY/s320/Chocolat_sheet.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Which is all sorts of fun. </p><p>Plus, it's got Johnny Depp in it, which is an added bonus.</p><p> If you want to be my best friend for life, bring me a pound of dark chocolate. If you're real nice, I might share it with you. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVjwn_fbdjCO_NpNCa1K9sfowsCw7k0U4dNDiEscfG5MsDtv9lnz4Bfs66hWc8qyZprdOPHyg0wXUSBUe_H2Z9AK6AWDJobyDZQbnRgwPhpX6avL0H6dH0ZgQgLAMU2kJXU5FJFj-GXc/s320/cd2f2a5c0c10f6dab687ac05b49fc49a--salad-meme-happy-monday.jpg" width="320" /></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-81756484707620297032020-08-20T11:00:00.022-06:002020-08-20T14:08:54.707-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Endings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Question for all of you awesome people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If I show you these characters:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. Do you know who they all are? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. Do you know what they all have in common?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZaBV7CdS1HbZCV_6pVKj5cIH6iAD5Yi3KqgUHH0lOwWdnIkfinqebME3T-9V6PRa8a5Tl5W9FVJKJZ4RRkOv1IVQyGvHaO43k_5mQZ02jm6guu0d0CGBImvtWldk6-AjbA1925x2jiY0/s322/download+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZaBV7CdS1HbZCV_6pVKj5cIH6iAD5Yi3KqgUHH0lOwWdnIkfinqebME3T-9V6PRa8a5Tl5W9FVJKJZ4RRkOv1IVQyGvHaO43k_5mQZ02jm6guu0d0CGBImvtWldk6-AjbA1925x2jiY0/s0/download+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsDgvQjVfJmKgxd6yEQ9vQG5Neim6gAfTn0Y_MXhKRL_Ita-8DTqo3bFy2dv7MIsVlHsSDGd6rDXYc9gkQK_zSownsoifO_g8HOGUkpwGUgsMcLFwBOO7HRF1BLArxelmZUrbx-gdzd0/s329/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsDgvQjVfJmKgxd6yEQ9vQG5Neim6gAfTn0Y_MXhKRL_Ita-8DTqo3bFy2dv7MIsVlHsSDGd6rDXYc9gkQK_zSownsoifO_g8HOGUkpwGUgsMcLFwBOO7HRF1BLArxelmZUrbx-gdzd0/s0/download.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmcVvNKk0Z8ps2_CIkalNVJ6OtaxMCxRnvoRRKXfv-jRkf6Qv1JEKXMFFhxmEVfyVEOQEkRbS9OeqHm1AiBuwZ1ekBYhTF202kNGgxip1ZSUOq5b_RpxjpWuu5U3U_2FZOXRo-4TXvGo/s296/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmcVvNKk0Z8ps2_CIkalNVJ6OtaxMCxRnvoRRKXfv-jRkf6Qv1JEKXMFFhxmEVfyVEOQEkRbS9OeqHm1AiBuwZ1ekBYhTF202kNGgxip1ZSUOq5b_RpxjpWuu5U3U_2FZOXRo-4TXvGo/s0/OIP.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqCrReXOUnGFIM6zmEgO88yOLevpfRbhPuXPYymf40Q9hfBcvxfQgOifiuLyHuaZ0TMZiZET0PpRzOtjQwfz1pFWKR4sRoPtEw9LUeiG_M8IJnt1SEAt_tBBdW0ioVQtozbkA_s8Z-3E/s180/OIP+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqCrReXOUnGFIM6zmEgO88yOLevpfRbhPuXPYymf40Q9hfBcvxfQgOifiuLyHuaZ0TMZiZET0PpRzOtjQwfz1pFWKR4sRoPtEw9LUeiG_M8IJnt1SEAt_tBBdW0ioVQtozbkA_s8Z-3E/s0/OIP+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yes?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Great! You might get an inkling of what I'm talking about.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Google these shows(or at least one of them--One Tree Hill, Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, The Office, The 100, Legends of Tomorrow/The Flash, Fast and Furious) and characters because you need to have an inkling of what I'm talking about!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Have you done it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll give you a minute.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOZrY_cIGVeKjOOOIPPAEs_E0MVAb5biN0W5i2mC7ncuEAh9I9Db70Bn8B4u6vU7YSuweuhGq3QqOsKQkJ6oerjH3RxOkS2d24VeLbgZ0LGnGkUecNAJTg3tq6iJkhy3aANexepvVLK4/s1920/are-ambiguous-endings-powerful-or-frustrating.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOZrY_cIGVeKjOOOIPPAEs_E0MVAb5biN0W5i2mC7ncuEAh9I9Db70Bn8B4u6vU7YSuweuhGq3QqOsKQkJ6oerjH3RxOkS2d24VeLbgZ0LGnGkUecNAJTg3tq6iJkhy3aANexepvVLK4/w512-h342/are-ambiguous-endings-powerful-or-frustrating.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><p>Confession time!</p><p>One of my favorite franchises ever, ever, ever is The Fast and the Furious. </p><p>(have I seen the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKQcDpXQE8&feature=emb_logo" target="_blank">original 1954 film on which the franchise is based</a>? Yes. Yes, I have. And it's brilliant!) </p><p>I am the unabashed proud owner of films 1-7(8 is on my To Buy list, along with 9 and 10 as soon as they happen🤞🤞)</p><p>When production on "Furious 7" was halted due to the death of Paul Walker, I cried for two days. </p><p>When I went to see "Furious 7" in theatres I spent the last fifteen-ish minutes of the film like this</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9e6opbZkgb1YDqZ6Eboz-Dh8P6JjQ-QmdYjk9x14MkFDN3gzryBwZOOd3FhxccL5rDIKV363vd3dU2tY6otv1zbnwVmsN5Lo22PSkKbmXToNWFtMTprBoJ8UR6bCDeNz_x2ZJQlqyNY/s500/New-Girl-Ugly-Cry-gif.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9e6opbZkgb1YDqZ6Eboz-Dh8P6JjQ-QmdYjk9x14MkFDN3gzryBwZOOd3FhxccL5rDIKV363vd3dU2tY6otv1zbnwVmsN5Lo22PSkKbmXToNWFtMTprBoJ8UR6bCDeNz_x2ZJQlqyNY/s0/New-Girl-Ugly-Cry-gif.gif" /></a></div><p>("Furious 7" still makes me cry no matter how many times I've seen it, much to the amusement of several family members, but that's neither here, nor there)</p><p>And this film isn't the only film that makes me cry--last count there were almost 200 of them (I know cause I have a physical list that I started as a joke and keep adding to just because)</p><p>Why?</p><p>Because in one way or another, they all include the words</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKwwRYt1S7gjNQu3-RLVw4CASLmO-XCgAQK53k1QaxbjDAtfbHnibgQs6YcIEr6uNfjw03Rk14r3l7kdhyphenhyphenrKjlwlkyUhU3D_ouK0xTh9i5eZg-IGynyDC_rgq2RATGuP5XISF9i7xa2U/s343/The-End.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKwwRYt1S7gjNQu3-RLVw4CASLmO-XCgAQK53k1QaxbjDAtfbHnibgQs6YcIEr6uNfjw03Rk14r3l7kdhyphenhyphenrKjlwlkyUhU3D_ouK0xTh9i5eZg-IGynyDC_rgq2RATGuP5XISF9i7xa2U/s0/The-End.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>And</p><p>I </p><p>hate </p><p>endings. </p><p>I hate them so much. </p><p>Not just "End of Play" or "Roll Credits" or "Last Page of the Book" endings. </p><p>I hate Character Endings. </p><p>Character Deaths. </p><p>Character Exits. </p><p>(and yes, those are three different things, with the same result)</p><p>I can't stand any of those. </p><p>And there are a lot of them in "Nottingham's Legacy".<br /></p><p>A </p><p>Lot!</p><p>So writing them all is a bit like a Thanos Snap/Infinity War/Endgame dilemma: </p><p>Which exits are drawn out?</p><p>Which are quick and don't "matter" as much(that's hard!)?</p><p>And do they all need to "exit" or not (Answer: "they do--kind of")?</p><p>And then, there's this tiny little thought bouncing around in my head each time I write an "exit"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYyMAwZ2dqS9adMnIDg2cYKjWAGfsh9pTxRmB77J9_3X4PvWgWqis2LQBzc-mxskoii4RBEEz8aL6skAhM1aPG_6YnbvEQvtDbplI-eSwsOV87ZXgS7LfhO8kkTN0gHCGgRTmJNf8juw/s320/SecondhandGiantJanenschia-max-1mb.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYyMAwZ2dqS9adMnIDg2cYKjWAGfsh9pTxRmB77J9_3X4PvWgWqis2LQBzc-mxskoii4RBEEz8aL6skAhM1aPG_6YnbvEQvtDbplI-eSwsOV87ZXgS7LfhO8kkTN0gHCGgRTmJNf8juw/s0/SecondhandGiantJanenschia-max-1mb.gif" /></a></div><p>But I'm fine.</p><p>It's fine.</p><p>That is what revision is for so I'm totally cool with it.</p><p>Totally.</p><p>Cool.</p><p>With.</p><p>It!</p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-73394323509693593762020-08-18T10:43:00.001-06:002020-08-18T10:43:56.120-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Malakai<p>Moving house plus beginning of new law school year in current circumstances is a fun combination, as it means it I spend so much time on my day job(law school) and packing that I forget this little blog. </p><p>But my brain is mostly back in order now, so I have another tidbit to share with you: <br /></p><p>Apparently, villains have to come in threes. </p><p>Because Gisbourne wouldn't just hire one person to take Oliver out. </p><p>He'd hire two--just to cover all his bases🙄<br /></p><p>So here's villain number three--and a total surprise. </p><p>Malakai. </p><p>He's little bit like The Hound and The Mountain from GOT, but without the height. And a little bit of a Beserker. Which is fun. <br /></p><p>For some reason that I haven't quite figured out yet, Malakai's animal parallel is a bat.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzou9qmRIUvLi2mxEclGKR8UsdhwHcw6p1zm-0q5fYu3avuQ4sBLDFlIV46ul4n_5YYe-1idJgAGG1sxh_gTm9wgqSs9WaOgNFDcvllOGWgnAvOHF9Zm1W_EDAZtcQMb4tnK5a8tkiIM/s319/170px-Flying_fox_at_botanical_gardens_in_Sydney_%2528cropped%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzou9qmRIUvLi2mxEclGKR8UsdhwHcw6p1zm-0q5fYu3avuQ4sBLDFlIV46ul4n_5YYe-1idJgAGG1sxh_gTm9wgqSs9WaOgNFDcvllOGWgnAvOHF9Zm1W_EDAZtcQMb4tnK5a8tkiIM/s0/170px-Flying_fox_at_botanical_gardens_in_Sydney_%2528cropped%2529.jpg" /></a></div><p> Then again, bats are associated with vampires, and blood, and death, so maybe it makes more sense than I initially thought. </p><p>We'll see. </p><p></p><p>Malakai's celebrity model is one that I discovered recently. He's been in "End of Watch" the "Sicario" franchise, and--most recently-"The Umbrella Academy".</p><p>In my head, Malakai looks like David Castañeda:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8I8pmdi8opyG1aahfb5TOs05_lLO75PHf02ElNu53kmbDc3WP_5nfaanQb8BG57dcmBdvyAI8JFnTNRpIS0qlvIXWxh7atvoQkb5IcQkrO4MRY_tkBseSr4eTk-w5qzaSKKgQSag4R-8/s253/220px-David_Casta%25C3%25B1eda_2019_MTV.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8I8pmdi8opyG1aahfb5TOs05_lLO75PHf02ElNu53kmbDc3WP_5nfaanQb8BG57dcmBdvyAI8JFnTNRpIS0qlvIXWxh7atvoQkb5IcQkrO4MRY_tkBseSr4eTk-w5qzaSKKgQSag4R-8/s0/220px-David_Casta%25C3%25B1eda_2019_MTV.webp" /></a></div><p>Except without the smile(as charming as that is). Maybe, this is a better visual(even if it is David Castañeda as Diego from "Umbrella Academy").</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AHfJlBxNvN15TKdIT1qvLWh70Qrt8QxN8RG53YIhXhHfDWNp7JpZQlbrGn65qC8NUkRSX_Fm04CMPEQ8_nEFLrsvtLqZWTm6gTCyok1Ybz8q_BRPcKmYj3myvLqyjy7-0PM6Uq9Xji0/s2048/the-umbrella-academy-david-castaneda-05-scaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1398" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AHfJlBxNvN15TKdIT1qvLWh70Qrt8QxN8RG53YIhXhHfDWNp7JpZQlbrGn65qC8NUkRSX_Fm04CMPEQ8_nEFLrsvtLqZWTm6gTCyok1Ybz8q_BRPcKmYj3myvLqyjy7-0PM6Uq9Xji0/s640/the-umbrella-academy-david-castaneda-05-scaled.jpg" /></a></div><p>Yeah. </p><p>That's <b><i>much </i></b>better. <br /></p><p>Malakai mostly shares the same soundtrack as Olympe--that's what I get for late discovery--so if you wanna give it another listen, then go <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2020/07/nottinghams-legacy-olympe.html">here</a>.</p><p>However, he does have at least two songs that are definitely his:</p><p><b>Bad Man by Audiomachine</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PnLPtTiBECI" width="320" youtube-src-id="PnLPtTiBECI"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p><b>Watch Your Back by Benny Cassette</b>(yep, from "The Fast and the Furious")<b> <br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8rSgH-ulBtA" width="320" youtube-src-id="8rSgH-ulBtA"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><p></p><p>And one "combat song" which he shares with Declan, Mei, Enzo, and Olympe, in one of the coolest fights I've written in a while(at least, it looks epic in my head😛)</p><p><b>They Gotta Go, by Lil Jon</b>(and yes, that song is from "Spies in Disguise)<br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gtKzthMGR_4" width="320" youtube-src-id="gtKzthMGR_4"></iframe></b></div><b> </b><br /><p></p>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-8957182289628969402020-08-11T10:23:00.003-06:002020-08-11T10:48:03.160-06:00Thespian Musings: Aesthetics<p> Real talk.</p><p>When I get passionate about something if I don't get it out of my head sooner or later I will explode.</p><p>Or implode.</p><p>Or whatever the proper term is. </p><p>Nevermind.</p><p>Here goes:</p><p>One of my favorite words is </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-vfmXKft_fsxhrkqWJ-Hzlo7QfoavdZKD1wRAmLL3dye6erxV__becQn3OoGg_VAwCyHxnCeV1rBhsVp84leCGaL66flgjAb3MnQJnkNhi8HxRu_Djm17XcaQO6SXQO8aHXUx0IduCY/s228/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-vfmXKft_fsxhrkqWJ-Hzlo7QfoavdZKD1wRAmLL3dye6erxV__becQn3OoGg_VAwCyHxnCeV1rBhsVp84leCGaL66flgjAb3MnQJnkNhi8HxRu_Djm17XcaQO6SXQO8aHXUx0IduCY/s0/OIP.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aesthetics is a particular approach to art which is pleasing to the sense, particularly sight, especially in terms of art and beauty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I guarantee no one has the same appreciation for the same type of art or the same definition of beauty as anyone else. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My brother takes some of the teeth from deer he's hunted, polishes them and wears them around his neck. Apparently, this is a fashion statement. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think wearing teeth around your neck is gross. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My sister gets a huge kick out of painting gorgeous landscapes and things, and she loves going to art museums (she lives in New York, so she can go to the Met whenever she wants to, circumstances permitting).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I can't paint and I happen to think art museums are boring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, no other member of my family understands why it's fun to put on a costume, slap a pound of makeup on one's face, and stay up all night under hot lights saying things that were written by someone else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But I love it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is because we have a different sense of aesthetic. We have our or definition of what beauty is. And we have our own definition of what art is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My personal definition of art happens to include not just framed paintings and sculpture, but theatre, dance, novels, and music. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ok, fine, in humanities class they probably told you the same thing, so I'm not the only one, but that's not the point. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Art is not something that should be dictated.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By anyone. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For any reason. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because beauty and art don't have to appeal to the masses. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And when art is censored, sometimes it doesn't help as much as it hurts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1642 Parliament banned public theatre. No plays, no actors, no theatres, no street performers, no nothing. They did it because art and theatre were seen as frivolous and a waste of time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I happen to like frivolity. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back in the 1930s, the Hayes Code was introduced to Hollywood, which had rules on everything--plots characters, words out of people's mouths--<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-hays-code-rules/rebecca-shortall">and some of them were real weird</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It didn't help the movies--I think it made them worse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Art is created.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is there to make you think.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To make you feel things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is there to educate. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To help you understand something you didn't understand before. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What you shouldn't do--what you can't do--to any kind of art(painting, sculpture, film, play, poetry, novel) is dictate it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By defining what is and what isn't art--"good" art--we are compromising another's definition of aesthetics. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that's a deadly a threat as anything else can be. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfVjsbBhXd_OQSeH1H3esqVx6Tu3e83gByTftKkB0RG1pvyIdDX_BpUfnLEYDj6qkJEIJ-qCm0W4Hpi8c6vvZAIIlE-d7juCEDrZ7f3QLOiTLPGksLAEOGd-UUmt33P4MEncphVSv3rI/s1200/vatnajokull.0.1406817308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfVjsbBhXd_OQSeH1H3esqVx6Tu3e83gByTftKkB0RG1pvyIdDX_BpUfnLEYDj6qkJEIJ-qCm0W4Hpi8c6vvZAIIlE-d7juCEDrZ7f3QLOiTLPGksLAEOGd-UUmt33P4MEncphVSv3rI/s640/vatnajokull.0.1406817308.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Is it ok to be offended, disgusted, appalled by the art someone else chooses to create? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Does that mean because this particular piece of art didn't have any aesthetic appeal to you personally that it should be destroyed and that artist should be ostracized?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course not!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Art speaks differently to everyone because of our individual aesthetic appeal. I can't tell you the number of times I have had to bite my tongue when a friend or family member heaps praise on a book, or film as "the best thing [they've] ever read/seen" and I saw the same film or read the same book and think it was a complete waste of time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that's my "nice critique". <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've heard that the late Blake Edwards(director of the original Pink Panther films and married to Julie Andrews from 1969 until his death) wrote and directed the brilliant black comedies "10" and "S.O.B."(if you don't know what those are, google them). Julie Andrews is in both films, but in "S.O.B." she makes this face</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCPT5gcxkystTD5f_eIqogus5-PKe-JNv5qPa4YfPw0vQzgRRH7CtoAFLNWxw3MLVriZYVaEstN7QoGl6-2-fn518DOuTflShyMwz4GWRvbgcL-XK-shUDJV6xPEbi7WqVnNe-fP-R2A/s315/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCPT5gcxkystTD5f_eIqogus5-PKe-JNv5qPa4YfPw0vQzgRRH7CtoAFLNWxw3MLVriZYVaEstN7QoGl6-2-fn518DOuTflShyMwz4GWRvbgcL-XK-shUDJV6xPEbi7WqVnNe-fP-R2A/s0/download.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And people who have seen the film, or heard the famous story about Julie Andrews in this film, know why she's making the face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Having read Julie Andrews' latest memoire ("Homework: A Memoire of My Hollywood Years") and recaps of the films I know what they are about(and why she's making the face above), but I will never watch them--not because they're poorly written, or directed, or acted(see "brilliant black comedies" above), but they don't have any aesthetic appeal for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Neither do most of the Horror genre(though I will admit to seeing and rather enjoying a few "The Woman in Black 1 &2", "A Quiet Place", and "The Village" and my favorite tv show is "Supernatural", which is about as close to horror as I will ever willingly get and it's actually not that scary, but whatever).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But I have several friends who are self confessed horror-heads and would probably get a huge kick out of "10" and "S.O.B."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Which is great, because it means that particular niche of the art world is still being enjoyed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that's the point.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Art promotes conversation, be it good, bad or ugly(yes, sometimes a play or film or can lead to ugly confrontation, witness the book burning scene in the original "Footloose"). And we as a society need to have conversations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We thrive on that stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No one is going to force you to like a film, or play, or novel or painting. And maybe something you love is something that is highly offensive to someone else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJL-MoWreJrnCKder7H6Wv9aizXXIlQqrmEbrdJATcQYbLCeXgT3X95tTeD6U7US89g1ljl1F4QMJVckxOSx9GlmEx71haZu-i6gwslzgmTC8m-IkIAllNjrqa5L6_BHMLqCkJDI5tmS4/s199/OIP+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJL-MoWreJrnCKder7H6Wv9aizXXIlQqrmEbrdJATcQYbLCeXgT3X95tTeD6U7US89g1ljl1F4QMJVckxOSx9GlmEx71haZu-i6gwslzgmTC8m-IkIAllNjrqa5L6_BHMLqCkJDI5tmS4/s0/OIP+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that's ok.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You are free to choose to participate in/attend/read that particular piece of art or not.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's the beauty of art.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that's what's amazing about aesthetics. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So those are my thoughts, and my brain is still in one piece. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk 😛</div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-16531770342299968372020-07-31T11:48:00.010-06:002020-07-31T12:05:17.407-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Passive HeroYou know what's really hard about writing this particular script?<div><br /></div><div>(besides the fact that it's the Sherwood Cycle Swan Song and even though there's still one more script to write the series as a whole is basically over😭😭😭)</div><div><br /></div><div>Oliver is a Passive Hero.</div><div><br /></div><div>Awesome.</div><div><br /></div><div>What is a Passive Hero, you ask?</div><div><br /></div><div>Rocky in "Rocky Balboa".</div><div><br /></div><div>Or the title character in "Ivanhoe" (he spends half the book and a good deal of the film adaptions suffering blood loss and basically in hiding and immobile).</div><div><br /></div><div>Even--according to some--Katniss Everdeen(as witnessed by this writing forums <a href="https://www.writingforums.org/threads/why-katniss-everdeen-is-a-passive-hero-spoilers.159943/" target="_blank">thread</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>And Cameron in most of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdV1URd5zfXQnO36UkADNCOsIP7M51ZXDFQyP1IRO_TxZo27VWf77bnPmMko0_Jffxfp2sZaoZ8x4_9WmgaJYXo29bDx1cbyVPd4nlKxv5DLpR62-Iqsij1bE1WYhK885bansZwFWoT-E/s267/th.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdV1URd5zfXQnO36UkADNCOsIP7M51ZXDFQyP1IRO_TxZo27VWf77bnPmMko0_Jffxfp2sZaoZ8x4_9WmgaJYXo29bDx1cbyVPd4nlKxv5DLpR62-Iqsij1bE1WYhK885bansZwFWoT-E/s0/th.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>There is still a character arc, and the character does change; but it's a slow change, and it comes through an almost deus ex machina type of event or events. </div><div><br /></div><div>Aka, the story is heavily<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/12/thespian-musings-and-sherwood-cycle.html" target="_blank"> plot-driven</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Basically, a passive hero is someone who is a pawn of fate. They get dragged through the story because fate demands it; their actions are reactions to an outside force. They complete their "arc" because the plot says they do.</div><div><br /></div><div>Which still makes a good character (see examples above) it just means that I as a writer need to work harder to make Oliver appealing. </div><div><br /></div><div>Not impossible, just challenging.</div><div><br /></div><div>So that'll be cool. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqfNsxY4JDCiw90_ML5CKyWx2EzhG45ihyphenhyphenVYd7dmDL_z5jNu8G8gsH9kLZ5OInmIW32LXY5_zjpvybSsduxc6PoY73eeTWcWd3lvsybJ5iJm6qdFrn3GWC9vJWRTg3OakZic1YNEqIBw/s1080/e3c52e9d-0fc1-4313-a523-1201145502ec.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqfNsxY4JDCiw90_ML5CKyWx2EzhG45ihyphenhyphenVYd7dmDL_z5jNu8G8gsH9kLZ5OInmIW32LXY5_zjpvybSsduxc6PoY73eeTWcWd3lvsybJ5iJm6qdFrn3GWC9vJWRTg3OakZic1YNEqIBw/s320/e3c52e9d-0fc1-4313-a523-1201145502ec.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-57006896432005791912020-07-28T12:13:00.000-06:002020-11-02T11:55:25.293-07:00Nottingham's Legacy: All Grown Up<div>
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chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-80260419618799152122020-07-23T12:02:00.004-06:002020-08-18T01:42:50.212-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Combat Soundtrack<div>You guys, there is a lot of combat in this show. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Like, a lot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not quite as much as there was in "Wolves", but pretty close. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And it's darker and grittier(like all out brawling sometimes, which I love).</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a particular three on two fight between Declan, Mei, Enzo, Olympe and Gisbourne that is currently my favorite--but I'm still in the drafting process, so we'll see if that particular fight remains my favorite(think armed/parkour/fisticuffs type of fight and you might get the same beautiful picture I get in my head).</div><div><br /></div><div>As with everything concerned with my scripts, I have to have a soundtrack for all the combat, because of course I do. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Since that soundtrack is ridiculously long, I'm only gonna share the highlights. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And there's Godsmack and Breaking Benjamin and Red and hip-hop/rap in this soundtrack too.</div><div><br /></div><div>Because of course there is.<br /></div><div><b><span face="" id="docs-internal-guid-2bb7168a-7fff-0a23-0adb-a43d7cca9fba" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: white;"><b><span face="" id="docs-internal-guid-2bb7168a-7fff-0a23-0adb-a43d7cca9fba" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pray 4 Love by Travis Scott </span></b><span face="" id="docs-internal-guid-2bb7168a-7fff-0a23-0adb-a43d7cca9fba" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Combat Theme)</span></span></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E37WLE-qVrU" width="320" youtube-src-id="E37WLE-qVrU"></iframe></div><span face="" id="docs-internal-guid-2bb7168a-7fff-0a23-0adb-a43d7cca9fba" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b>Jungle by X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons </b>(Combat Theme)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSMY2CVjCZA" width="320" youtube-src-id="rSMY2CVjCZA"></iframe></div></div><div><br /><b></b></div><div><b>Made for This by The Phantoms </b>(Combat Theme)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i8yw6F7DiFs" width="320" youtube-src-id="i8yw6F7DiFs"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Keep Hope Alive by The Crystal Method</b> (Tirzah)<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n3N_Lkgftc4" width="320" youtube-src-id="n3N_Lkgftc4"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Fighter by Jung Youth & Sam Tinnesz </b>(Oliver)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hpiaYXWqDVQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="hpiaYXWqDVQ"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Go Hard or Go Home by Wiz Khalifa & Iggy Azaelia </b>(Aislinn)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D_VRSFpUcp0" width="320" youtube-src-id="D_VRSFpUcp0"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Hide by Red </b>(Tarquin/Sorcha)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l2bUd66B_BM" width="320" youtube-src-id="l2bUd66B_BM"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Speakerbox by Bassnectar</b> (Declan/Mei/Enzo/Olympe/Gisbourne) updated: Malakai is also in this one.<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VderDpgjBzw" width="320" youtube-src-id="VderDpgjBzw"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Warrior by The Phantoms </b>(Jean-Luc/Oliver/Cassian)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n5TUxQfkCtk" width="320" youtube-src-id="n5TUxQfkCtk"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Good Day to Die by Godsmack</b> (Jean-Luc--my second favorite fight)<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UxFH22-l0QM" width="320" youtube-src-id="UxFH22-l0QM"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Still Alive by Red </b>(Cassian/Ravenna)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lq57GG49Kdw" width="320" youtube-src-id="Lq57GG49Kdw"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Defeated by Breaking Benjamin </b>(Oliver)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d7O-FGSkUJk" width="320" youtube-src-id="d7O-FGSkUJk"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>It Has Begun by Starset </b>(Oliver)<br /><b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XZp3Mtn-YsI" width="320" youtube-src-id="XZp3Mtn-YsI"></iframe></div><b></b><br /></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-57178698666887349422020-07-20T15:44:00.003-06:002020-07-21T10:53:04.507-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Olympe<div>Because every story needs a villain(or villainess), here's the one for "Nottingham's Legacy". <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Her name is Olympe.</div><div><br /></div><div>And she's wonderfully awful. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Think Milady de Winter meets Cercei Lannister meets Regina in full Evil Queen mode.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Olympe has been hired by Guy of Gisbourne (yep, Gisbourne's back!) to kill Oliver. Which is kind of fun. She's also one of the coldest a most dispassionate villains I've written, which makes some scenes perfectly heart-wrenching to write. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Her animal parallel is a Stingray</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtlcg8G9U_L_2CRpXWPO0nRxmdUZhH3nsPdrYS715pr3lxoUbggXHqym-P7TtCJphPRRKHCS6hTUDWXa1CcTFfcuX5WV2Rte6KRiwIebDJTKsTH4rBIEkWHzfLWNhwtbKUXm4Q62GG-U/s639/1574398229990.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtlcg8G9U_L_2CRpXWPO0nRxmdUZhH3nsPdrYS715pr3lxoUbggXHqym-P7TtCJphPRRKHCS6hTUDWXa1CcTFfcuX5WV2Rte6KRiwIebDJTKsTH4rBIEkWHzfLWNhwtbKUXm4Q62GG-U/s320/1574398229990.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>She's persistent and tenacious and when she sees her target, she
pounces, paralyzes and "consumes" them(the paralyzing part can be
literal, thanks so some really interesting poison research); and she has
this uncanny ability to balance her emotions and practice restraint. She
doesn't aggressively attack unless you attack her first. <br /></div><div><br />Olympe's model came from "Aladdin", the same film I got<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/07/lure-of-fox-declan.html"> Declan's model</a> from. She's also played Pink Ranger and was in the reboot of "Charlie's Angels". This woman is a powerhouse of an actress and perfect--in my head at least--to take on Olympe. Naomi Scott.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuWF6vMoi-lFo07GQyC_n_dwsXxb5B72hBkVibqrsUKQhGsjSC_HqLonPjsjFd4rQZZ5NkmPQWCzOYCz8nKRrXehZdm8JkOjF6CrA7Zvd4EfrFABJ45UvPFHQR3oS_VkPZQkwiBzjBFw/s2000/Naomi_Scott.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuWF6vMoi-lFo07GQyC_n_dwsXxb5B72hBkVibqrsUKQhGsjSC_HqLonPjsjFd4rQZZ5NkmPQWCzOYCz8nKRrXehZdm8JkOjF6CrA7Zvd4EfrFABJ45UvPFHQR3oS_VkPZQkwiBzjBFw/s320/Naomi_Scott.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's her soundtrack. <br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Chain, by Evanescence</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M2kgcpZX42w" width="320" youtube-src-id="M2kgcpZX42w"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Awake, by Godsmack</b></div><div><b></b><br /><b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/opU1urLhw50" width="320" youtube-src-id="opU1urLhw50"></iframe></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Payback, by Juicy J, Kevin Gates, Future & Sage the Gemini<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UmgXmidaFuw" width="320" youtube-src-id="UmgXmidaFuw"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Mask Off, by Future</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aO3fpZOOFPs" width="320" youtube-src-id="aO3fpZOOFPs"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Sacrimony(Angel of the Afterlife), by Kamelot</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LvWT-7l6vJU" width="320" youtube-src-id="LvWT-7l6vJU"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>War and Peace, by Godsmack, <br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y36bA9vxF4A" width="320" youtube-src-id="Y36bA9vxF4A"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>What You Keep Alive, by Red</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wMCRE5SnyJo" width="320" youtube-src-id="wMCRE5SnyJo"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Lithium, by Evanescence</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PJGpsL_XYQI" width="320" youtube-src-id="PJGpsL_XYQI"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>E.T. by Katy Perry</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e1IXTQxYnPI" width="320" youtube-src-id="e1IXTQxYnPI"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Where Did You Sleep Last Night, by Sleigh Bells</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pdOJaCT5uTE" width="320" youtube-src-id="pdOJaCT5uTE"></iframe></div><b><br /><br /></b></div><div><b>Monsters, by Ruelle</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5DYUHQm46VI" width="320" youtube-src-id="5DYUHQm46VI"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Redose, by The Prototypes</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3C78w1TTRQg" width="320" youtube-src-id="3C78w1TTRQg"></iframe></div><br /></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-65439664589853137712020-07-15T10:13:00.002-06:002020-07-28T10:54:25.366-06:00Nottingham's Legacy Mini-Detour: Scorpion's Nest Mini-Soundtrack<div>A group of scorpions is called a nest. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Why do I even bring this up? <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Because I kinda sorta got distracted and started writing about how Mei/Declan/Enzo met and created a whole soundtrack just for them. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Because of course I did.</div><div> <br /></div><div>(yes, there are some repeats, but enjoy it anyway) <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Get the Job Done, by Huxley Ware, Tiguan, & Ceezlin</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(google for a music video)--YouTube is being dumb 😛<br /></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Broken, by 3 Doors Down</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FEcnmLQn9CM" width="320" youtube-src-id="FEcnmLQn9CM"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Voodoo, by Godsmack</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nw2iipzHl3w" width="320" youtube-src-id="Nw2iipzHl3w"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Don't Wanna Fall, by Seven Lions, Last Heroes & HAILENE<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZIpGBkmeHBg" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZIpGBkmeHBg"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Giants, by Dermot Kennedy</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPLY7W5mg7M" width="320" youtube-src-id="oPLY7W5mg7M"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Unstoppable Now, by The Phantoms</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ppkXdOJkqkU" width="320" youtube-src-id="ppkXdOJkqkU"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Burn with Me, by Whilk & Misky</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bnh5sJBDFdA" width="320" youtube-src-id="bnh5sJBDFdA"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Marry Those Eyes, by MKTO<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J8nLEELv0ic" width="320" youtube-src-id="J8nLEELv0ic"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>I Need to Know, by Marc Anthony</b><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/35swFE2hyzA" width="320" youtube-src-id="35swFE2hyzA"></iframe></div></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Kill My Mind, by Louis Tomlinson</b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IzuvvjrUBEw" width="320" youtube-src-id="IzuvvjrUBEw"></iframe></div></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Bad Boy For Life, by Black Rob, Mark Curry & P. Diddy<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Edz-0eS8e9I" width="320" youtube-src-id="Edz-0eS8e9I"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Intentions (feat. Quavo), by Justin Bieber</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3AyMjyHu1bA" width="320" youtube-src-id="3AyMjyHu1bA"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Familiar, by Liam Payne & J Bavin</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Wo9JfgJMAE" width="320" youtube-src-id="9Wo9JfgJMAE"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Rescue Me, by OneRepublic</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nym5stAJAt8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Nym5stAJAt8"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Are You Even Real? by James Blake<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gt5KBaHtQV4" width="320" youtube-src-id="gt5KBaHtQV4"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Bleeding Out, by Imagine Dragons</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jNFgynmVmx0" width="320" youtube-src-id="jNFgynmVmx0"></iframe></div><br /><b><b>How You Remind Me, by Nickelback</b></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1cQh1ccqu8M" width="320" youtube-src-id="1cQh1ccqu8M"></iframe></div></b></div><div><br /><b>Forever, by Red</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W4Fou0-q00g" width="320" youtube-src-id="W4Fou0-q00g"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Broken People, by Logic & Rag 'n' Bone Man</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3-ERnb2-emI" width="320" youtube-src-id="3-ERnb2-emI"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>This Is a War, by The Phantoms</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m5oAuZhh6HU" width="320" youtube-src-id="m5oAuZhh6HU"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Kinda Love, by Olivier Dion</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hXAcEjK5L6Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="hXAcEjK5L6Y"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>If I Die Young, by The Band Perry</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7NJqUN9TClM" width="320" youtube-src-id="7NJqUN9TClM"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Be Like That, by Kane Brown, Swae Lee and Khalid</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5UjjjTtSYsM" width="320" youtube-src-id="5UjjjTtSYsM"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Tattoos Together, by Lauv</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0U1miDq5ztU" width="320" youtube-src-id="0U1miDq5ztU"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Fire on Fire, by Sam Smith</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zwMHXgusVzk" width="320" youtube-src-id="zwMHXgusVzk"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Until We Go Down, by Ruelle</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bQqUYFjcyOc" width="320" youtube-src-id="bQqUYFjcyOc"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Brother, by X Ambassadors</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A72ZtWo4jv8" width="320" youtube-src-id="A72ZtWo4jv8"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Savage, by Sam Tinnesz</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YfuR2T8I4Z8" width="320" youtube-src-id="YfuR2T8I4Z8"></iframe></div><div><br /><b><b>Blood on Blood, by Bon Jovi</b></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OqhHdbkTZGE" width="320" youtube-src-id="OqhHdbkTZGE"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></b></div><div><b><b>Where I Want to Be, by The Dangerous Summer <br /></b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9_K1lywPZms" width="320" youtube-src-id="9_K1lywPZms"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper <br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VdQY7BusJNU" width="320" youtube-src-id="VdQY7BusJNU"></iframe></div><div><br /><b>Giants (feat. SOYEON, DUCKWRTH, Thutmos & League of Legends), by True Damage, Becky G & Keke Palmer</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sVZpHFXcFJw" width="320" youtube-src-id="sVZpHFXcFJw"></iframe></div><div><br /><b><b>Watch Me, by The Phantoms</b></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QZ_v2wkBt3k" width="320" youtube-src-id="QZ_v2wkBt3k"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Walk Me Home, by P!nk</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J1OsKJW51HY" width="320" youtube-src-id="J1OsKJW51HY"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Wolves (feat. Silverberg), by Sam Tinnesz</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fni2-V1kbR8" width="320" youtube-src-id="fni2-V1kbR8"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div>You're welcome. </div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-30957134357887556242020-07-13T10:21:00.001-06:002021-06-22T11:02:52.573-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Mai<div>Mai is the third Dark Horse in Nottingham's Legacy. <br /></div><div> <br /></div><div>And <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I</div><div><br /></div><div>Love</div><div><br /></div><div>Her</div><div><br /></div><div>So <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Much!!!</div><div><br /></div><div>Ok, if I'm being really honest, Mai was a total surprise. One of those characters that pops into the story and flatly refuses to leave and then you figure out it won't work without her.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah. Mai to a T. And "Nottingham's Legacy" isn't the only part of the Sherwood Cycle she's in(but that's for later).<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>She's also connected to Declan, and she and Enzo help make up the trio that I like to call the Scorpion's Nest(again, more on that later).</div><div> </div><div>Mei is stubborn and feisty(yes, I know, like most of my female characters), but she's got a stronger moral compass than either Enzo or Declan...which makes things interesting, especially when it comes to keeping and telling secrets.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, the perfect balance between Enzo and Declan. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Being part of the Scorpion's Nest means that one of her parallels is a scorpion, but, like Enzo, Mai has two parallels. Her other animal is a dolphin.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh014U8x4h8vQjBrt-f_6IR_iqv4v1Xd_G5s2BOlz5SWy_UopiAvRpkvr7u8B9VXDgDDZeEGaDUqL1uiAhyphenhyphenJAnbmFvPTX0B8hz0p8Q91SdrGOXPg9evXUGg8cQODp1FjSiVdJWiWgyXHsk/s2048/atlantic-bottlenose-dolphin--jumping-high-during-a-dolphin-training-demonstration-154724035-59ce93949abed50011352530.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh014U8x4h8vQjBrt-f_6IR_iqv4v1Xd_G5s2BOlz5SWy_UopiAvRpkvr7u8B9VXDgDDZeEGaDUqL1uiAhyphenhyphenJAnbmFvPTX0B8hz0p8Q91SdrGOXPg9evXUGg8cQODp1FjSiVdJWiWgyXHsk/s320/atlantic-bottlenose-dolphin--jumping-high-during-a-dolphin-training-demonstration-154724035-59ce93949abed50011352530.jpg" /></a></div><div>Dolphins have a slew of symbolic meanings: peace, harmony, protection, playfulness, joy, resurrection, inner strength, and cooperation. They trust their gut more than anything else, and create a balance with those they are around. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Which suites Mai perfectly. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Mei's model has been dancing in the back of my head for a while. I saw the trailer for "Ocean's 8"(haven't seen it though) and one particular actress caught my eye. I saw her again in "Crazy Rich Asians" and then "The Farewell"(jaw, meet floor); and she lent her voice to "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" before doing "Jumanji: The Next Level"(saw it twice in the same day and pre-ordered it as soon as that was possible) and it was that and "The Farewell" that sealed the deal for me: <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Awkwafina</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNG-kaWt_FrirVBZVYM_GwPD7CeYHJ4Qg3O2DkkHlsR4ausCQdirhXJXVpzoDmFDKuZaZ5_4zxqBtOvOP1NHG_15-sioHdNxMMUHpsA8refOm8LgKemTpT9UdUzX1HOz45GIZfpLccOaY/s265/index.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNG-kaWt_FrirVBZVYM_GwPD7CeYHJ4Qg3O2DkkHlsR4ausCQdirhXJXVpzoDmFDKuZaZ5_4zxqBtOvOP1NHG_15-sioHdNxMMUHpsA8refOm8LgKemTpT9UdUzX1HOz45GIZfpLccOaY/s0/index.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><u><b>Soundtrack</b></u></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Marry Those Eyes, by MKTO</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J8nLEELv0ic" width="320" youtube-src-id="J8nLEELv0ic"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Don't Wanna Fall, by Seven Lions, Last Heroes & HALIENE<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEoirqW37DM" width="320" youtube-src-id="CEoirqW37DM"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Bad Girls, by MKTO</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uu4wP-Bprq4" width="320" youtube-src-id="uu4wP-Bprq4"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah!), by Sevyn Streeter<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-GlW8n3r_E" width="320" youtube-src-id="A-GlW8n3r_E"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Ready For The Fire, by Valley of Wolves</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lFEowavI_CA" width="320" youtube-src-id="lFEowavI_CA"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Great Divide, by Breaking Benjamin <br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oXLblvLzhEA" width="320" youtube-src-id="oXLblvLzhEA"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Nothing Else Matters, by Godsmack<br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/klXeyvGkHI4" width="320" youtube-src-id="klXeyvGkHI4"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Le chemin (feat. Sita), by Kyo</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yPYm9CmGYig" width="320" youtube-src-id="yPYm9CmGYig"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Landslide, by The Chicks <br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4_wXPZ1Bnk" width="320" youtube-src-id="J4_wXPZ1Bnk"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Rescue Me, by OneRepublic <br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nym5stAJAt8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Nym5stAJAt8"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Good Life, by G-Eazy and Kehlani <br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FG9M0aEpJGE" width="320" youtube-src-id="FG9M0aEpJGE"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>You Put Up With Me, by Tyrese</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iJQzJ3fdIPA" width="320" youtube-src-id="iJQzJ3fdIPA"></iframe></div><b></b><br /></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-82217602721814419482020-07-09T13:27:00.001-06:002020-07-12T12:19:42.107-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Enzo<div>Dark Horses are in every single of of the plays in the Sherwood Cycle, because I love them that much. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Except in this one. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In "Nottingham's Legacy", there are three. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>One of them--Declan--you already met, so I'm going to introduce you to the other two, starting with Enzo. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So I told you that<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2019/07/lure-of-fox-declan.html" target="_blank"> Declan is basically Jean-Luc 2.0</a>, right?</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, Enzo is the type of person I would call Declan's Dark Side, for lack of a better description. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There are a whole lot of things about Enzo that came as a surprise. For instance, he has two "animal parallels". The first one is a scorpion, due to his close connection with Declan(you can read all about scorpion symbolism in the link above); and the other one is a seahorse. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOG_A9O4pp35Ddd3phDYJrNpBBwfabSqm2KbyW2tBoB3YzLyGX4Mn1iR-78BYw1EdMphxpyahiAW8Ry3CRbWhstL-pyeneMVMeCULeFi-LSAOtsZhcIQ8gcUG69Sr1FBCsAb0I8lgIGM/s271/index.jfif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOG_A9O4pp35Ddd3phDYJrNpBBwfabSqm2KbyW2tBoB3YzLyGX4Mn1iR-78BYw1EdMphxpyahiAW8Ry3CRbWhstL-pyeneMVMeCULeFi-LSAOtsZhcIQ8gcUG69Sr1FBCsAb0I8lgIGM/" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In Ancient Greece and Rome, the seahorse was a symbol of power and authority and they both thought the seahorse was some kind of sea monster(there's even a legend that seahorses guide drowned sailors to the Afterlife), which is a little odd, considering it's size, but whatever. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The seahorse is a symbol of perspective, bravery, patience, serenity, persistence, protection and a desire the help others, which are all facets of Enzo's personality. He's stubborn and persistent and due to his close connection with Declan, he's one of the plot's catalysts. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I saw the film "Straight Outta Compton" four times when it was released. I loved the music; I loved the story(if NWA all wrote memoirs I'd read the covers off of them) and I loved that actors that portrayed members of NWA. Particularly this one:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLc1uwVePQoKRXgm1DmQlguEuKcp_vfVc98a2XG2U9_CWHJj5-KyUoyMjtFJ9S1Z5CUvvE1x-mU32FZ_USvqa7GqqOkEw_ARLGLpQgabblDfCxtqJj8gXghbHHdr_KljD515KMuuCNPj4/s186/index.jfif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLc1uwVePQoKRXgm1DmQlguEuKcp_vfVc98a2XG2U9_CWHJj5-KyUoyMjtFJ9S1Z5CUvvE1x-mU32FZ_USvqa7GqqOkEw_ARLGLpQgabblDfCxtqJj8gXghbHHdr_KljD515KMuuCNPj4/" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This is Corey Hawkins. He's also in "24: Legacy"(which was surprisingly good), "Kong: Skull Island"(ditto), "Walking Dead"(which I haven't seen yet--I know!!), and the upcoming "In The Heights"(which I'm really excited about!!!!).</div><div><br /></div><div>Enzo is a corsair and a former assassin, but he isn't as dangerous as any of the previous assassin characters in this cycle. He's one of those people who thinks everything down to the last detail before acting--almost like Jean-Luc, but not quite. He's also Declan's voice of reason, which is nice because everyone needs one of those. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And, just like everyone else in this particular play, his soundtrack is really eclectic. And I'm totally ok with that. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><u><b>Soundtrack</b></u></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Voodoo, by Godsmack</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nw2iipzHl3w" width="320" youtube-src-id="Nw2iipzHl3w"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Lights Up, by Harry Styles</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LS-gp2nJoF4" width="320" youtube-src-id="LS-gp2nJoF4"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Christmas At Sea, by Sting</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJoW2iigvk0" width="320" youtube-src-id="WJoW2iigvk0"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Pray for Me, by The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XR7Ev14vUh8" width="320" youtube-src-id="XR7Ev14vUh8"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Hills, by The Weeknd</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/soX_VNZ70hc" width="320" youtube-src-id="soX_VNZ70hc"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Animal by Def Leppard</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jbPnStzUzTw" width="320" youtube-src-id="jbPnStzUzTw"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Bad Boy For Life, by Black Rob, Mark Curry & P. Ditty</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Edz-0eS8e9I" width="320" youtube-src-id="Edz-0eS8e9I"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Saints and Sinners, by Godsmack</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IfwPMg7T-aY" width="320" youtube-src-id="IfwPMg7T-aY"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /><b>Last Way Out of Here, by Paoloalto </b><br /></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-uB-0PXgbM" width="320" youtube-src-id="A-uB-0PXgbM"></iframe></div></b></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-20456244078787435492020-07-07T10:30:00.004-06:002020-07-07T10:35:30.984-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Aislinn<div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All of you know by now that I like having amazing leading ladies to go with my leading men, and this particular leading lady is no exception. <br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her name is Aislinn, and she is Tarquin and Sorcha's daughter. She's got Tarquin's spunk and idealism and Sorcha's amazing inner strength, which makes her a great foil for Oliver. <br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And she tells it like it is--which I think is something that quite a few characters this time around need to hear--but she does it with a lot of understanding that feels less like pushing someone in the direction they're supposed to go, and more like gently nudging and letting them come to the conclusion in their own time, if that makes sense. She leads people by doing, not just talking. <br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Her animal is a deer. <br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf0li8GSwMNyMF6xh3ADxJ6BVPcN5PRE74np9-pkMpZFVJbNxFkqMvBCFOInHOv71SuUWjogxt8rgp0xChrmUGLUgz2PZGYmfjMBNzW1RSqYCXQKkLP9DtXESp3GqF_NEZrE2Kqe5iWSE/s225/index.jfif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf0li8GSwMNyMF6xh3ADxJ6BVPcN5PRE74np9-pkMpZFVJbNxFkqMvBCFOInHOv71SuUWjogxt8rgp0xChrmUGLUgz2PZGYmfjMBNzW1RSqYCXQKkLP9DtXESp3GqF_NEZrE2Kqe5iWSE/" /></a></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Deer symbolize grace, compassion gentleness, meekness, independence, discernment and subtlety, to name a few on the very long list. Aislinn is in possession of all of those things. <br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The other thing I love about this girl is that her celebrity model's name also starts with "A". <br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I first saw this </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> amazingly talented actress in "Hunger Games", <br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and then in "Everything, Everything" and "Rio 2". <br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="color: white;">I haven't seen "The Hate U Give", but she's in that one too. </span><br /></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYU0dmW94W-VqHH0kRemf3Amv-_RyZTU5QjMWtdiU-vvFzPQyxfnj0FzuHSmbOIykl1ZLIclbo2_6eejni-8vIOYbfwoFUGtLnDM3MqhYb6W0Oede7EWaQbjVtJgOFbIbgEcMr08DuYw8/s250/index.jfif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYU0dmW94W-VqHH0kRemf3Amv-_RyZTU5QjMWtdiU-vvFzPQyxfnj0FzuHSmbOIykl1ZLIclbo2_6eejni-8vIOYbfwoFUGtLnDM3MqhYb6W0Oede7EWaQbjVtJgOFbIbgEcMr08DuYw8/" /></a></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Her name is Amandla Stenburg.</span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Aislinn's soundtrack</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is just as eclectic</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as the rest of the soundtracks in this piece. <br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And I'm not altogether </span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="color: white;"> unhappy about that. </span><br /></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Feel Good (feat. Daya), by the Chainsmokers</b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gBkWR-WfEeU" width="320" youtube-src-id="gBkWR-WfEeU"></iframe></div><br /></b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Miss Independent, by Kelly Clarkson</b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dS1ZW0FdoIU" width="320" youtube-src-id="dS1ZW0FdoIU"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Fallen Angel, by Three Days Grace</b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nuLMDvoshrk" width="320" youtube-src-id="nuLMDvoshrk"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Great Escape, by Kevin Rudolf</b></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9R-fGRkGd0U" width="320" youtube-src-id="9R-fGRkGd0U"></iframe></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>There for You, by Martin Garrix & Troye Silvan</b></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pNNMr5glICM" width="320" youtube-src-id="pNNMr5glICM"></iframe></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Trial Run, by Olivier Dion</b></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SuBW-vwv3tA" width="320" youtube-src-id="SuBW-vwv3tA"></iframe></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Mean It, by Lauv & LANY</b></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c_10qS7amjk" width="320" youtube-src-id="c_10qS7amjk"></iframe></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Go Hard or Go Home, by Wiz Khalifa & Iggy Azalea</b></span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D_VRSFpUcp0" width="320" youtube-src-id="D_VRSFpUcp0"></iframe></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d6d39d1-7fff-a70a-d16e-5a4b0205ea83" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></span></font></div>chexfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07205947720597634861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119818018118842033.post-8595257311456049482020-06-30T10:12:00.002-06:002020-09-09T10:07:14.362-06:00Nottingham's Legacy: Oliver<div><br /></div><div>So it's time to introduce the new protagonist, and I gotta say, he's going on the list of my favorites. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oliver Scathelocke. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oliver is the adopted son of Cassian and Ravenna (yes, they had to adopt and the whole story behind that is better discussed in person) which makes him the grandnephew of Robin Hood. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>He's grown up in the shadow of two heroes rather than one, and he's got a secret that not even he knows about. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>For loyal followers of this blog, that means that he has grown up as a combination of <a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/locksley-of-sherwood-family-portrait.html">Cassian</a> and<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2017/02/locksley-of-sherwood-extended-family.html"> Jean-Luc. </a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oliver is rash, and impulsive and has a couple of rage issues. He holds grudges and doesn't like being told what to do(but then, that's what every sixteen-year-old is like).</div><div><br /></div><div>As is the case with all the inhabitants of the Sherwood Cycle, Oliver has a spirit animal: the falcon.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPK7JAfU_ObMs8zjBMnchg2p7TQO8dUuacc2JonKYIM86QRCib3d1jpMqsj40F_8rq63oLa_1uboC9vKBto2Co9zRdw7zU_IrqeBGofYalU-SKc-dIUNIm79H6UaMcTBx-MPfTgm4ZYkI/s2240/Peregrine-Falcon-flying-16x9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="2240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPK7JAfU_ObMs8zjBMnchg2p7TQO8dUuacc2JonKYIM86QRCib3d1jpMqsj40F_8rq63oLa_1uboC9vKBto2Co9zRdw7zU_IrqeBGofYalU-SKc-dIUNIm79H6UaMcTBx-MPfTgm4ZYkI/s320/Peregrine-Falcon-flying-16x9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The root word of "falcon" comes from the Latin word for foreigner or stranger, which is a perfect fit for Oliver because he has no clue who he really is. Falcons symbolize victory, superiority, determination, loyalty, and strength (so there's Cassian's influence) and also wisdom, the ability to be patient and strategize(thank you, Jean-Luc). <br /></div><div> </div><div>Oliver's celebrity model has changed several times, since in the initial phase of writing anything, I can't make up my mind about anything. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>However, I recently saw bits of a little thing called "His Dark Materials"(I don't have HBO, which makes me mad, but I know who's in the cast and I can squirrel out clips from somewhere, so that's...fine I guess?); <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>and then I saw a fun miniseries on Netflix called "A Letter for the King"(which is a perfect YA GOT and if you're an entertainment cynic, then as long as you keep in mind that it's YA then you'll enjoy the heck out of it); <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>and a trailer for the upcoming remake of "Secret Garden"(which will be released in August in the UK only, so I have to wait. And it's fine); <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>and this particular celebrity was in all three and the first time I saw him I went "ooooh, that's Oliver!" And, at least in my head, he's perfect. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNj6N7wHnLJEpGkyAoZNUsZ81Cx2sqQfKFc07Ax4wXMgFT9HRCDE9o9kpTGC_XHhvnIMCtehzEJI5jZlxCoi0fdf4EJ8HiiZ0k66pfKJgyFxdUDcsJZh7IWctSq3qhHl8pWWor1dtWKk/s258/index.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNj6N7wHnLJEpGkyAoZNUsZ81Cx2sqQfKFc07Ax4wXMgFT9HRCDE9o9kpTGC_XHhvnIMCtehzEJI5jZlxCoi0fdf4EJ8HiiZ0k66pfKJgyFxdUDcsJZh7IWctSq3qhHl8pWWor1dtWKk/" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>His name is Amir Wilson aka Will from "His Dark Materials" aka Turi from "Letter for the King" aka Dickon from "Secret Garden". <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And yes, I know I just repeated myself and yes, it's fine. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I had an interesting discovery about Oliver's soundtrack--for some reason, there is a lot of K-Pop in it. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I<a href="https://stagecraftutah.blogspot.com/2015/03/quirky-monday-k-pop-la-musique-francaise.html"> posted about my mini K-Pop obsession</a> a couple of years ago, and it never really went away so I guess that the muse has decided that there should be K-Pop in Sherwood now. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And again, it's fine, I'm ok with that. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Oliver's Soundtrack</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b></b><b>Unbreakable (feat. Jay Park), by Kim Hyun Joong</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mPXaR2s7Y90" width="320" youtube-src-id="mPXaR2s7Y90"></iframe></div><b></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Boomboom, by Adam Jensen</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0FYjPHnRkpg" width="320" youtube-src-id="0FYjPHnRkpg"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Indestructible (feat. Jung Youth), by Sam Tinnez</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/60TO4Jk6gRY" width="320" youtube-src-id="60TO4Jk6gRY"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Own It, by Mack Wilds</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3rb-pmCCL20" width="320" youtube-src-id="3rb-pmCCL20"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Purple Line, by TVXQ!</b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_1OIO3cYpzo" width="320" youtube-src-id="_1OIO3cYpzo"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Breakdown by Jim Hyun Joong <br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bpj5M1iyCUI" width="320" youtube-src-id="bpj5M1iyCUI"></iframe></div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Mama (feat. 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