Happy Slappy You Tube Goodness

If you want to watch the whole thing, good. If not, I suggest starting at 5 minutes and watching Peter MacNicol's reaction to Mr. Bean's refurbishment of Whistler's Mother. Each time Aunt Tudi sees this, she pees herself laughing.

The absolute best Spandau Ballet song ever recorded. Plain and simple. "True" sucks ass compared to "Chant #1." The jazzy horn section makes me want to shake El Bootay.

"Now the fire's out, but you look like HELLRAISER!" ::cackle::

One of the best scenes in all of film history can be found starting at 1:17. Harold & Maude is truly a wonderful movie and Bud Cort is adorable.

I believe this the Arch Deviant mix of "Nemesis" featuring sound bytes from Apocalypse Now and showing the famous chicken foot on the 12" mix. A You Tube featurette wouldn't be worth it without an offering from my beloved Shrieks.

This is in my Favourites. I have no recollection of ever seeing it or adding it to my You Tube Faves. Go figger. Enjoy.

"Keep this place QUIET! Because I hate NOISE! I cain't stand NOISE! GOOD! NIGHT!" Heh... My all-time favourite cartoon.

I swear this is James Spader getting down. Has to be.

Actually, his name is Jonathan Arons and he makes the trombone uber-sexy.

Oh hell, three time's the charm. This is kinda long, but worth it, because Jonathan Arons is my future husband.

Let's finish this up with the Andy Partridge/Barry Andrews video from Back in the Day. They were obviously having a blast and I hear that no one perished after the fact, so it was a good thing all way 'round. If things don't work out with Jonathan, I'm still keen on marrying Andy Partridge.

I hope anyone seeing this enjoyed it as immensely as I did.

Weaving

I've posted part of this before, but since I've added to it, I need to repost the entire portion for reference purposes.

"So your plan is to infiltrate the Apostate's stronghold and take the Blood Crown, even if it rests upon his brow?" Kelat asked Cadmus, her heart increasing its rhythm, pumping the stolen blood through her hungry veins. It was her hope that Cadmus was indeed keen on taking up this quest.

Cadmus thought before answering. The Blood Crown was one of those relics that held the fate of the Great Hive in a kind of magickal thrall, the chalice possibly being strongest of the three. That was securely in his hands. He didn't use it to sway the Will of the Great Hive; rather, he depended on the chalice as a supply of Blood to keep him sated. Cadmus could live his life without worry, for no Vampire except Kelat would dare attempt to take the chalice from him, and Kelat was not strong enough to attempt such folly alone. For any other Vampire to try to take the chalice would mean their demise, a painful and degrading one at that, depending upon the Darkling’s age and strength. The stronger the Vampire, the longer Cadmus liked to keep him or her alive, drinking from the hostage at whim and exacting cruel punishments upon the flesh as not only an eternal recreation of his own degradation, but now also as an amusement. But the Blood Crown was the very one that helped to drain the life of the Christ so that his blood could be used in a vengeful act of perversion. To have that and to possibly kill the living husk that hid away in his poison catacombs...that would be a glorious thing. It would achieve two of Cadmus' goals: to retrieve another Vampire relic for his own and to murder the Apostate.  It would also gain him not a small amount of control on the remaining nine of the Original Ten.  The only relic left to acquire was the Augury of Gideon, that elusive book of Vampiric prophecy.  But it was believed that the only copy of that book had been destroyed with Gideon when he invoked Inferno, and that the vestiges of his prophecy existed only in the memories of the Vampire scatterlings, passing on their knowledge and predictions by rote, from one Vampire to another. 

( click for Cadmusian goodness )

My current word count for The Vampire Relics (working title, not written in stone just yet) is 107,770. "The Blood Crown" contributes 6,671 of those words and I'm not even into the meat of the story yet. There's gonna be so much interaction between Cadmus Pariah and Orphaeus Cygnus, it might be a crime. One of the things I want to have them do during their time together on this quest of theirs is share a stage and maybe even vie for the audience's attentions and adoration. Just imagining those two making music together in some sort of magickal, vampiric competition is about more than I can bear. It wouldn't surprise me if my head exploded while I try to write this segment of the book. One thing I'd like to do is ask B a few questions about performing, how he feels interacting with the audience and what he'd like to perform with Danny Elfman, if given half the chance. He likes Danny Elfman, which was an immense relief to me. If it'd turned out that he despised the Little Maestro, the psychic implications would have made me keel over for good, I'm afraid.

Just Another Day

He has lovely teeth.

Gratitude

Is it me, or does he bite the fortune teller??

Preeeety teefies....