“This is the ballad of the black gold,
They call it Texas tea,
But it’s bigger than a cowboy with a lasso,
It’s deeper than a black hole…”
–Talib Kweli
Most of us only comprehend the B.P. oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an abstract concept. It’s a horrible idea to be sure, but it exists only in [...]
Why so quiet for so long?
Well, real life has a way of taking over and contentment has a way of marginalizing creative projects that were initially fertilized in bitterness. Fortunately, the characters and concepts of “Baby Girl” are strong enough that they want to live, damn it! Moreso than any other cast of characters that [...]
I came up with the band name and the album title.
Pretty much everything else was the brainchild of composer/keyboardist/producer, Sam Lee and vocalist/lyricist, Heather Williams. I also provide the hammy emcee vocals on track 4, “No Guns Allowed.” Of course, Sam is the real wizard behind this. It was his idea to put together [...]
http://www.sheisrisen.com is exactly one week away from its first birthday so now would be a good time to discuss the few yet significant bits of progress that have been happening with poorly kept secret project that is “Baby Girl” as well as what I hope will be a better explanation of what the project means.
In [...]
I’ve finally locked the story for “Baby Girl.” And that mighty wind you hear is an exhale of relief.
“Baby Girl” will mark the first time in 17 years that I’ve actually seen a writing project through to fruition (not counting school papers and blogs). Every bright idea that I’ve had throughout college and beyond has [...]
Actually, this post could more accurately be titled, “The Perils of Hyping a Project That Is Still A Work In Progress.”
Were I rigid planner, the structure and trajectory of “Baby Girl” and “She Is Risen” would have been set in stone months ago and my day to day task would merely involved cushioning the bones [...]
“Can’t stop what’s coming. Can’t stop what is already here.”–Tori Amos
The gears are turning ever so slowly, but they are still turning. “Baby Girl” will be a reality and so will the “She Is Risen” site.
Since this is all rather early in the game and no one really cares about it anyway (except for the [...]
On the last day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
An ornamental story of erotic horror and a bauble of kinky intent.
When I met Clive Barker, I remember telling him something like, “Three months before I discovered masturbation and three years before I discovered drugs, I discovered your fiction.”
He clasped my hand and said, [...]
You want success, but you refuse to define it.
You want independence, but as with success, you wait for others to define it for you.
You want friends, but you are a tough judge.
You pass judgement without guilt and feel guilty for being so forgiving.
You want to be a lover, but you mistake hallucinations for the friend [...]
“This is the girl.”
I knew that “Baby Girl” owed a fair amount of debt to writer/director, David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE, but after rewatching it last night, I now realize that I may have to give Lynch a cowriting credit. Weird how I hadn’t quite noticed it before.
Over the course of the next several blog [...]