It’s been a busy Summer and an even busier Fall. Sol Del Ray had a few technical difficulties involving FlashDevelop and the MilkMan Games ANE, which, by the way, has excellent customer support and wonderful communications…even for app n00bs such as myself. The great news is that the reskin, rebalance and rehash will complete the first opus and make a way for more to come. I again thank DJ Mugshot for his tunes and patience after so long an affair. Your first game is the longest and the hardest, but it’s the most rewarding to finish no matter how long it takes.
My other creative endavors have been vast and tiring, but so creatively rewarding that I thought I’d update my game focused blog into something more expansive. Hell, I’m just showing off, but it’s awesome to do that every once in a while.
What’s New?
I’m now producing podcasts for Girl Genius! It’s a dream for me to work with Phil and Kaja…heroes of my youth when I was a young MGT player and saw their artwork within many a R/W deck. Although I’m not huge in the steampunk culture (I’m a Runner through and through, chummer), it’s been awesome hanging out, laughing, learning and just enjoying general silliness these brass button nerds endow me with.
On the other side of the coin, since I have a mic fetish, super talented friends and the Seattle rain shuttles indoors, we started making radio plays for kindle romance novels that become popular on reddit. Some people ask why not read from the Guttenburg project or other classical, right free literature but we agreed that there is something fantastic about doing something creative and exposing yourself to the world by your own means. Maybe that sounds punk as fuck…perhaps it is, but there is something magical about being a self publisher and we wanted to sharpen our theater chops to celebrate that.
Now that renovations are coming to a close on the new place, I had the chance to start blogging again for Anywhere The Needle Drops. Remember, kids…If you kiss someone, make sure it counts.
Other Artistic News
Last, but most dear to my heart…is I May Have Seen The Devil. It’s a alternate world Hamlet set in post WW2 where I’ve been cast as an Asylum patient and…get this…Queen Gertrude. My mother used to take me to a lot of theater when I was younger. I saw local plays like For Colored Girls, Frankenstein…and even Broadway such as Starlight Express (with James Earl Jones) and Rent. Not to mention multiple extravaganzas of puppetry masters Sid and Marty Kroft. But, excluding two shows I did as a kid (Surfin’ Santa and Showtime with the Mousekateers), I never performed theater. I was scared off by the fact that I since I wasn’t the paragon of American beauty and since I loved technology, that the arts were far from my reach. But Shakespeare…that always stayed with me. At 14 I watched Romeo and Juliet and I remember being so moved upon hearing Romeo’s soliloquy about Juliet’s beauty. To love someone, to desire them so much to the point that you have to put it into words jsut to ease one’s self inflicted heartache.
For the first time in my memory, I, an overweight, black, midwestern nerd living in the still highly racial South, felt moved. So moved I wept in literature class and didn’t know why. The next year, I remember going to Grandma’s and engorging myself on Hamlet cable repeats starring Mel Gibson and Glen Close. At 16, I remember being introduced to Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and not understanding any of it, but feeling energized upon hearing ‘Once more! Into the breech, dear friends, once more!‘ even after the bell rang for lunch. Or my addiction to Jeremy Brett’s Macbeth. I can wax long yarns about my incidental exposure and hiding of Shakespeare, but it came to an orgasmic head just last year after watching Bob Peck (Clever Girl) bleed on stage as a disbelieving, frothing McDuff.
I bit the bullet, took a shot and auditioned. The rest is history. I have an IMDB page. Wow.
It’s been busy.
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