Andy Partridge Tweeted Me...AGAIN

Phone jingling woke me up. It was a tweet. From Partridge. A reply to my reaction to him and B not making any music in the foreseeable future.

@Tinhuviel: pffft.You & Bazzer create Magick and should make music again, in any way, shape, or form. Just sayin'...
@xtcfans: agree with you.

Not sure why he's started talking to me, but I am not going to complain. It always thrills me when brilliant people, particularly musicians I've admired for ages, communicate with moi. Now...if there were some miracle that would get me in touch with Jeff Lynne. The mere thought fries my onions.

Vampire

I got a call from my neurologist last week wanting me to come in ASAP about my blood work from a few weeks ago. The office made me an appointment for today, and I just got back from seeing him.

It turns out that I'm severely anaemic (again), so much so that he wanted me to go see my PCP as soon as she could get me in. He was giving me a hairy eyeball when he was telling me about my lack of hemoglobin. I could tell that he was fairly alarmed by it all. His exact words were: "It looks more like a major blood loss more that just low hemoglobin. Have you had heavy menses or any major wounds lately?" What the hell?

I did tell him that the time before last I was in the hospital, it was partly because of anaemia, and that they actually had to give me a transfusion. His hairy eyeball got more intense and he made some extensive notes.

Now, I don't mind Dr. Pilch looking at me because he's damned gorgeous; however, when he looks at me like I'm about to die, it's entirely a different matter. It was as though he suspects me of being a Vampire.

Grant Morrison is a big proponent of reality being changed by what you write. The character based on himself, King Mob, went through some pretty trying times in The Invisibles, and everything he went through, Grant experienced in some form or fashion, up to and including getting a kind of staph infection on his face after he wrote about King Mob having part of his face eaten off in a parallel reality. He still bears those scars. After that happened, he wrote about King Mob making all sorts of merry (sex drugs, rock-n-roll - the whole megillah) and, lo and behold, Grant began having the time of his life.

All that said, perhaps my writing my Vampires has intruded upon my health, particularly Cadmus' insatiable thirst for blood. He is, after all, my Demon Child, so I figure his literary influence may well have altered my own reality. Who the hell knows?

Anyway, Dr. Pilch got me an appointment with Dr. Adams for next week, telling me that he was going to have her do some extensive blood work on me, as well as possibly put me on iron injections. He said that iron supplements may not be enough. Hell, she may just put me on a slow blood drip and check to see if I have an aversion to crucifixes.

The Tim Roth Tutorials, Lessons #77 and #78

Tim Roth Tutorial #77 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.

Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #78 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.

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Oooookay...working on Tutorial #79 and came across a scene in Deceiver where Tim Roth's character talks about drinking Absinthe. That's Flint's Vampire name, the one he rejected in lieu of his mortal name. Why does this shit happen to me?

Ffffuuuu!!! And The Raven.

It has been repeatedly NOT SAFE on Facebook today. Even experienced a brief conversation on my 'Phoenician' video. Was gonna seriously write on 'Star Watcher' and even 'The Braid,' but my reality keeps being canoodled with and keeping my psyche in an uproar. This combined with the Absinthe scene in Deceiver has put a dent in my sanity today.

That said, I'm going to the 10:30 screening of The Raven tonight. Because I want to. And I can.

The Tim Roth Tutorials, Lessons #79 and #80

Eighty lessons? Really? Surely I've traveled far beyond Sparta. And, of course I had to use the Absinthe scene...because that's just way too bloody bizarre.

Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #79 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.

Tim Roth Tutorial, Lesson #80 from Tinhuviel on Vimeo.

She's So High

When I first heard this song on the radio, my head blew right off my body. I said to myself, "This dude...he's been heavily influenced by Jeff Lynne."

So, while at work one day, I moseyed out to the warehouse and snagged a copy of Tal Bachman's album. In the liner notes, he thanks Jeff Lynne. Now, to my knowledge, Tal never actually met Jeff Lynne (he's the son of Randy Bachman, of BTO fame), but Lynne was enough of an influence on the boy and man, that he felt compelled to thank him in his album. I think he does a pretty impressive job at honouring Mistah Lynne.

I'm wailing mournfully like a damned Bean Sidhe...

On Twitter:

Her: Beiber stinks even dubbed. lol
Me: can't agree more, but I love it when he's made fun of. He's a superstar while my beloved Shriekback is delegated to obscurity. >:[
Her: Who is Striekback

That's not a typo up there. ::slams head on a concrete block::

Talk about having your point proven almost instantly. 

The Crazy Eye Striketh Again

I've probably mentioned this, but one of the reasons I believe Tom Hardy would make the perfect Cadmus is his proclivity for giving 'The Crazy Eye' in every movie I've seen him in. When janalyson and I went to see This Means War, I contended that Hardy wouldn't get through the movie without giving THE EYE at least once, even though this was a romantic comedy. I think he did it twice in this film, if I'm not mistaken, but here's concrete proof that he did it at least once. Chris Pine died shortly after this scene. Oh, and if Tom Hardy is 5'10", then Chris Pine isn't 6'1", he's 9' tall. And that's all I'm gonna say about that...

The Jedi and the Sith

The latest Tweetage from Andy Partridge got me to re-pondering one of the Great Mysteries of musical life, and one I often shared with the Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade in '99 and 2000.

It has always been my contention that Andy Partridge was a Jedi and Barry Andrews was a Sith, just from the music they each make. Now, I don't believe that so much anymore, considering some information that has come to light since that time; but the music is still very much Light Side/Dark Side sounding. Here's a fine example.

The Jedi:
"Don't you know, in this new dark age, we're all light."

The Sith:
"I feel our two young deaths so close now, smiling soft and shiny, the blade is sharp and fine, it could just slit us open."

So yeah. To this day, the dichotomy strikes me. They're like the faces of Janus or sommat.