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Vignette: Silver Moonlight (Story 2)

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AUTHOR NOTE: This was written as a part of a compilation series at the Silver Moonlight website in 2002. What happened is that someone starts the story and another picks up a story and continues for a little bit and stops then another picks it up, etc. Silver Moonlight was a Sailor Moon fansite back in the day, so obviously the following is Sailor Moon based.

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Queen Serenity closed her eyes as a soft breeze coaxed her to rest. Her mind drifted to the nothingness that became quite common during those times when she wanted nothing more than to relax. As her mind continued to slip further into the comforting abyss… it started to wander to the times of long ago. Times that were once free and not quite as chaotic, to a time where there was no destiny nor fate taking a hand in her future…

After what seemed to be just mere seconds she felt the warmth of the sunlight against her skin. Children laughter was heard far in the distance and she felt the afternoon breeze tickle her from her temporary reverie.

“Usagi-chan! Usagi wake up!”

A voice yelled to her, instantly Queen Serenity woke up. The picture she saw around her was not of the palace, nor was there the crystalline glow of her beloved city. What she saw before her was greener and more beautiful than she remembered the park in Tokyo to be.

“Usagi! Over here odango-atama!”

Serenity looked to the distance and saw Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus rushing over to her, <Usagi? But does that mean…> She lowered her head and gazed at her clothing, sure enough she was wearing the high school uniform. Looking back at Mars and Venus it would seem that they too were wearing their respective high school garments. <How in the… where is everyone?> She wondered.

Instinctively she rushed to her best friend and gave her a hug, “Hello Mars-chan,” seeing her other close friend she nodded, “Venus-chan.” However the reception was taken to a sudden jolt.

“What are you talking about odango atama? Mars? Venus? Did you eat more odango’s than you could think with?” The raven haired girl let go of Usagi and looked at her quizzitively. Looking to her golden-haired companion, “I knew she didn’t have anything in her head.”

Usagi’s heart pumped harder as her blood boiled quickly, <nothing? How could she? I’m the heir to the Moon Kingdom, Queen of Crystal Tokyo. I…> then she realized that her closest friends did not answer to their respective planets… in fact they seemed to be oblivious to… well… everything.

Forcing a slight smile and not really understanding what is going on with her friends, Usagi joined them in park never noticing a shadow of a tall young man looking at her with confused eyes.

Spirits of Atlantis: Original Notes

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AUTHOR NOTES: This is a prose related story that I thought about writing and have shelved, but in time I may revisit this with a total revision. We’ll see.

THE STORY
A great few millenia or so ago there was a small city-nation that was the known center of the continent: Panjera II. Located in a massive seas that extended through the other cities and nations via rivers, it was a necessary trading center for some of the nation’s leading partisans and artists. True center of learning, their way of life surpass all others in wealth, knowledge and wisdom.

Citizens of this city-nation could only travel out of the city via means of sail and air. Even with this inconvenience Atlantis continued to grow and prosper, soon gaining allies in the underwater nation of mermaids and the neighboring nation of Valinor.

Though ruled for many years by a monarchy, they never strayed from the people, and infact took part in many of the festivals thrown by its citizens.

At first it seemed that perfection was inevitable… until the great flood crashed through the walls of the once great city and submerged the entire city into the sea, destroying Atlantis and the underwater city along with it. The elven nation was soon engulfed in fogs and mists left over from the disaster and soon they disappeared into the air… believed to be the lost city of the skies, hidden amongst the clouds… away from the eyes of man.

Millenia past, and the once perfect world of this beautiful city faded into legend and myth. Until six young adults awaken to memories long since dorment, and they are presented with a singular mission: the find the evil that once destroyed the world of perfection and prevent it from destroying this new world.

INFLUENCES
The ‘lost city’ of Atlantis is greatly influenced by Homer and the numerous resources of Greco-Roman mythology Valinor, the neighboring elven nation is influenced by the ideals of JRR Tolkien, creator of Lord of the Rings. As well as touches of Norse mythology.

Atlantis’ underwater city of Ocienia is based on the mermaid city from ‘The Little Mermaid’ by Hans Christian Andersen, as well as some Greco-Roman mythology.

The concept of meshing the past with the present (or past with its future) is borrowed from the WB show of Jack and Bobby.

Atlantia, North Carolina is a completely fictional town nearby the oceanfront.

may my light shine for you
when all the other lights go out

~ Eärendil

CHAPTER BREAKDOWN
Every chapter written will include scenes from the past and the future. As the children of greatness come to terms with the reality of their dreams and how each one handles the truth of their purposes in life.

As the future opens up, memories of the past will unveil people of the past that may or may not be included in the future. Bits and pieces will be revealed accordingly to each of the six main characters.

Vignette: Finding the Soulmate within a Knight / Prince

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AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

… he would be everything I need a man to be and more …

The knight and the prince, very different in definition yet very similar in ideals. This man that is both handsome and wise, intelligent and strong. A messenger from above he is one with strong morals, discipline, and Godly convictions. Within his heart he would have a nobility and goodness that is would command respect and admiration from those around him no matter where he goes.

As a Knight he would be unafraid of challenges as well as competent and able with strong confidence and ambition to succeed in life and love. He would be aggressive though gentle; kind and compassionate yet stern and just. His realistic views upon the world would not overshadows his idealistic dreams, but rather enforce and strengthen his beliefs allowing him to live life with a lighter note of humor and laughter.

As a Prince he would grow to become a leader, a man to look up and follow because it is his judgement that I would trust above all others. He would be a man of my church, and of my culture and heritage – he would believe and follow our values though not blindly but with an open mind and heart. He would love me and treat me as his Princess – his future Queen, and would consult to me when it is necessary.

Like all other men he would not be without his quirks – his eccentricities. He would be playful, passionate, walking with me through life with a smile and together we would enjoy the beauty that life has given us. On days when the clouds threaten our happiness we would be there to comfort the other.

This is the man that I would marry… A Knight and Prince in every sense of the word.

.: a love like no other – the love of a soulmate :.

The kind of love that is lasting and strong, the love that dreams are based from, the love that would surpass everything: distance, space, time and the normal everyday obstacles. This kind of love – true love – does not always happen easily, for some it takes time and effort, for others it just seems to happen.

Vignette: Reincarnation

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AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

REINCARNATION

Before I could say anything about me, let me make something clear. Marianya is a name that I had adopted years ago. It is the name that I am known in the online world. My given name at birth will never be divulged.

I don’t really remember how my life was like without all the friends I have made or rather reacquainted myself with since my Reawakening. I too am of oriental descent, mistakenly for Chinese or Philippino. I was and still am a dreamer in every sense of the word. I always dream of a better life in the future, one where pain does not exist, happiness and joy reign supreme. I dream of a world that does not know of wars, that does not know of hatred. But alas at the time, the dreams were just that, dreams.

I grew up, most of my young life from birth until high school, pretty much alone. Sure I had friends, some that I talk to, but no one, I felt, really understood me. They were already in their own little group, in their own little world. I did not mind the loneliness, I grew accustomed to it, it became the center of my being. Sure there were times when I was in pain, and depressed, but I thought that perhaps everyone goes through this once in a while…

However that pain became a daily dose of reality for me, something that became a constant, that became me. Once in a while I would find a small corner of my home and cry, knowing quite well that I was alone in the world.

I went through accidents that I should have died from, but something, someone was preventing that from happening. Each day became another day through obstacles, another day through life, through pain. Thus how my poetry began. There were times when I found a focus, another purpose to keep me out of trouble, to forget about my worries and my life.

But I knew that these were not last, they would never last.

High school came to an end for me, though most were not thrilled of leaving the ‘Four Best Years’ of their lives behind them. I for one was extremely happy. I never wanted to go through those torturous corridors another day of my life. I wanted to start my life anew, take another chance of becoming happy. Thus the university.

My university life, started out reasonably the same as in high school, I was still very much alone, not knowing as to where I fit in or to whom I was friends with. I knew however that it was only the first year and that I still had three plus years left to go. So came summer school.

During summer school a friendship grew between myself and another person. Also during that time in my life I met the most outgoing and happiest person in the world, another Usagi if you will. For with out her, I may never have gone through my university life happier, and intact.

It was during the summer that I started to learn about the Japanese animation, Sailor Moon. One thing led to another and I was hooked. I loved the story line, and enjoyed reading about her. For without my sudden interest in Sailor Moon I would never have found that chance to find a strong bond and friendship between myself and others of like mind.

Vignette: Reawakening

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AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

REAWAKENING

In this present life, it had taken me quite a bit of time to fully understand the past that I had once lived. In fact it was all just a bit of imagination, until the dreams I have been receiving were far more detailed than I had originally thought.

My first dream, what did I first think about above all else? Peace, it was my dream to live in a world where peace was everlasting. So imagine my surprise when I dreamt of a shining kingdom upon the Moon. The subsequent dreams after that included my life in the Elysion Kingdom, better known as Earth. That was the beginning of everything.

Each night brought on a different dream, each night brought more questions than answers, and what do this all mean? I needed answer but were at a lost as to how to go about getting them.

It was a pleasant surprise indeed when I took a chance one day and started talking to the Crystal Guard. By this point in time I believed that the dreams were just that, dreams, and my original intention was to use them in the form of stories. Considering these dreams were so detailed in my mind’s eye it seemed justified that I should involve them in my story writing.

Over time, I had come to believe and understood my past as I remembered it, and the many parts that were still foreign to me. Particularly my family and my lover from the Silver Millennium. (Please read Gardens of Elysion for more details.)

Many months past, and I had become reacquainted with my brother in my past, Prince Endymion, now known as Chiba Mamoru. As well as the Generals of Elysion and the Senshi. But a part of me was still missing, and that part came to me upon a Midnight Dream…

One night I had recently found a new mode of travel through ones dreams, and I used this to the utmost advantage, going to the moon in particular. It was the third trip to the moon that I met him, the ‘man of my dreams’. Apolline.

Which brings me to now, there is still a very long a tedious description as to my first meeting with Apolline in this lifetime, but that is another story for another time. And now I have the obligation of keeping my past life away from the people I loved and have known in this life.

Vignette: Gardens of Elysion

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AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

GARDENS OF ELYSION

“I awoke one night and was overwhelmed by the bed of blue and lavender rosepetals that I found myself in, with him by my side. It was right then when a flash came to me… a flash from my past, not the past of now…. but the past of yesteryear. The past that I had only begun to remember…”

Strange is it not? How sometimes it is the little things that trigger the hidden memories, the ones from your past. Not the past you have lived not that long ago, but the past of another life, another time. In my case it was upon this very planet, this star planet, what was once known as the Elysion Kingdom, now known as simply Earth.

One of my earliest memories, and still is, are the times I spent with my family, my father, my mother, and my brother – Endymion. I remember when I was still so very young, my brother and I would go to a special part of the palace gardens, this was our own little ‘special area’ where we were able to roam free and enjoy that little part of our lives where we are not swept into the holds of royal duties.

Amongst the rose beds were my personal favorite blue and lavender roses. Once in a while a perfect rose would be in bloom and Endymion would go and pluck that perfect rose and tease me with it, but in the end he would decorate it in my partially pulled back hair making sure that there no thorns upon it, say how one day I would be ‘as pretty as mommy’.

Endymion and I very were close since we were so young and as we grew older we still kept that youth within us for a time. We were never afraid to act young once in a while, just as long as we would continue to be that way for years to come.

Mother was precious to me, I hardly ever saw her during the day, for it were the generals and the nursemaids that I had for company, but every night, before I would go to sleep she would come to my room and sing me a special lullaby, one that the both of us would know. Even now, I could still hear her voice, soft and gentle as the cool spring breeze, that is how I know, that even now, thousand years later she is there watching over me with a smile upon her face, the same soft smile I remember from so many years ago…

Father was the one that taught me the intricacies of the sword. He knew how I would watch the generals and my brother many times alone, and once in a while with the Lords from the Moon Kingdom, and my clear longing to train with them. Though I was happy with the element of dance, it was not the same. No clear competition, no where to go but down, for I was already at the top and showed no signs of faltering.

And so begins my life at Elysion, no knowledge of the kingdom from whence I came, for the family I was with, was my family and always will be.

‘What is a name? A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ – Shakespeare

So would it really matter if I were not from Elysion? I would still be same child by any other way, would I not?

Vignette: Forgotten Kingdom

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AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

FORGOTTEN KINGDOM

As I opened my eyes I soon realized that I was no longer in my bed at home asleep, instead I stood in the center of a long passageway. Everywhere I turned I saw doors to my left and right, reaching far ahead and behind of me. As I was standing there wondering what I am suppose to do, a soft voice whispered behind my ear… “Maia through all of these doors are different visions of your past, present and future as they may have been or occur. Each door will lead you to that alternate reality of your life, but you are to choose one door, and one door alone. Choose wisely my child…”, the voice disappeared as silently as it came.

One door? How could I possibly choose one door, I wanted to know more of my past life in the Silver Millennium, when I was with Endymion, Apolline and my Elysion family. I knew that those memories would someday come around eventually, so that would have been a waste.

I couldn’t very well choose the future, for that is forever in motion, ask Pluto-sama yourself she’d say the same thing, that although there is a particular way that the timeline should flow that may not always be the case.

So I set out walking down the seemingly unending corridor, various sounds from other doors tempted me to enter them, but I could not, would not. For those doors would not answer the questions I seek. What answers do I seek?

After what seem like hours I finally reached the end of the long passage, that voice from the beginning of my journey came again, “Child you have little timeleft, choose your destination and choose wisely for if you do not choose then you will never receive this chance again…” it disappeared for the lasttime.

Choose? How could I possibly choose a door when I do not even know which door leads to where. Finally I faced the door in front of me. Out of all the doors this one was the same in physical appearance, but there was a strange silvery-golden aura emanating from the door frame.

I took a deep breath and reach for the knob knowing quite well that what I do now would determine what I do and do not know after the conclusion of my journey. Opening the door, the hallway flooded with the silver-gold light… finally taking one last breath I walked into the light. Hoping that the decision that I had made was the right one.

More to come as I slowly remember the kingdom from whence I came… the Syth Kingdom.

Vignette: The Story

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Originally I created the below series of vignettes as a way to create the world that “Marianya” knew. Building up her background and past life as you will and bringing her into the modern world. So below is a series of vignettes that gave snapshots of what “Marianya” the character knew.

AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

THE STORY
I remember… I remember the sunbeams flying from the ground tickling my skin as I sit upon mother’s lap. I remember… the golden rays of light that disappeared as war ravaged through the Forgotten Kingdom.

I remember… the greens and blues of the marble Elysion, the kingdom I would call home… and the one place that I would seek sanctuary deep within the Gardens of Elysion.

However those times of pease have long since disappeared, forgotten within the rubble of Mare Serenitatis upon the Moon Kingdom, while all that fought in the epic battle were reincarnated, and later reawakened upon the soft meadows of the future Elysion – Earth.

Through these past many years, those of us from the legendary ~ Silver Millennium ~ were plagued with mystical visions. Visions that could open the doors to our pasts, presents and futures upon this blue-green planet.

Would this golden age of Crystal Tokyo come to pass… or would our more realistic dreams take over our mind and blind us from out true destiny?

You have read the story of Sailor Moon and her friends. You have read how Endymion and Serenity found that love can overcome all barriers including time. Now read another legend, the legend of Maia as she escapes from her birthright, and finds sanctuary in the world of Elysion.

Poetry: Gardens of Eden

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From my original website, I had a short poem that was supposed to be constantly evolving as life changed. Within the poem there were going to be key words that led to other pages on the website. Obviously that changed, but here is that poem, the “key words” would be in bold. Over time I’ll connect the “key words” to the various pages as appropriate.

AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

GARDENS OF EDEN
Sunbeams dance upon the sky
fragrances tickle my senses
as reality disappears into fantasy
the Gardens of Eden

Home to a prince and princess,
she – who am I
dreams of a knight
to fill her desires with passion

Slow as the passing tide
fast as the changing seasons,
memories of childhood dissolve
as the age of womanhood beckons

With the Gates of the Gardens beckoning to me
I follow the path to forge a future
where my fantasies become reality

This is what I hope
This is what I dream
This is what I see

UPDATES: Website Pages Added

So I’ve been busy, putting down a little of my history, interests, etc.

Although I haven’t really updated the blog contents persay, I have been adding pages that can be found in the upper right hand corner of the weblog. Below is a breakdown of the pages:
BIOGRAPHY
Information about my background in writing, theatre, web designing: basically anything and everything artistically related.

BLOGGING
A lot of the work I do at PureDWTS, PureSYTYCD, PureAmericasGotTalent and PureTVNet sometimes would require references and background work… so I will posting a lot of the background information here. Though some of the pages can be found over at the various blogs as well.

BREAKDOWN
A quick cheat sheet of the breakdown of the various posts on the website

ENTERTAINMENT
Anything and everything that I find entertaining from books to music to comics, etc.

FAQ
General information about specific projects that I have been working on.

BEYOND THE ABYSS
I’ve been going through my old website design and posting the various vignettes and stories that are officially shelves in some capacity or I took the time to complete real quickly just to complete the series. Since they are more fiction related that is why they are in “Beyond the Abyss” as opposed to here on the primary blog.

UPDATE: Website Additions and Changes

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After looking through the years of writing projects that I’ve shelved, I’m dusting off a lot of what I have written and posting them at “Beyond the Abyss”, a side blog dedicated to everything related to my fictional writing projects (primarily fanfiction and some original).

I am doing this primarily because questions have popped up over the years in regards to some of the things I have written and were discontinued for one reason or another. This particular side blog will be connected primarily with such projects like Currents, Like a Dream, and the fanfiction Elements of Song that I have worked on in the past and will post ideas, characters, background that I feel have no chance of being revisited again in the near future. Another web-drama that never got a chance to come off the ground was Rosarito, I may provide insight to that particular never launched web serial depending on which characters/background I may recycle for future works.

In the meantime, in the coming months I will be busy blogging at other sites:
Pure America’s Got Talent (Mondays and Tuesdays)
– Providing the music list and personal thoughts/power rankings on the acts that have come through the show

Pure So You Think You Can Dance (Wednesdays)
– Providing the music list and personal thoughts on the dancers during the auditions and power rankings when the performances are live

Pure Dancing with the Stars (Thursdays and/or Fridays)
– Providing comparison statistics of previous seasons to this last season
– Providing statistics and graphs of celebrities rumored to be on the show for the Season 15 All-Star Season in the Fall

Also in preparation for Season 15 of Dancing with the Stars, because so many questions have popped up I will be providing expository calculations, reasoning and breakdowns as to how I come up with the predicted calculations and pre-season elimination predictions. These pages will be found via the PureDWTS page on my personal blog.

Elements of Song: Original Notes/General Summary

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As promised, in regards to my fanfiction: Elements of Song, I am posting some (if not all) of my original notes that deals with the world I created. Please, enjoy.

Some of the notes below I wrote years ago when I needed an idea that would provide a very realistic crossover story between the popular boy bands of the time and Sailor Moon. The below is what I came up with.

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There was a prophecy, on the planet of Euphonia, that predicted the awakening of the heart of the planet that would mark the beginning of all things good and grandiose of the world. At the same time however the awakening of the final element of song: heart, marked the beginning of the end of Euphonia.

During the final battle everyone else was killed except for Bazyli, Arion and Greta. Bazyli and Arion did not know that Greta was captured by the attacker until they finally reached him/her. It was then when the attacked reveals his ace. This revelation only moved the two to fight even harder forcing the villain to realize that she/he would need to do something and quick, and as thus casted a spell that placed Greta into a frozen prison pushing Arion to the breaking point and Bazyli to fight even harder.

In the end Bazyli is mortally wounded which awakens Arion from his mourning and Arion fights the evil to the bitter end, killing her the moment she wounds him. His last few moments of life he talks to Bazyli and forgives him for his love of Greta and reaching Greta he dies by the crystal.

Little does he know, his enemy though now dead managed to find the foresight to seal a major portion of their being into Greta, and as thus the evil that everyone is fighting is really Greta when this evil takes control of her. Greta (the part that Arion and Bazyli both loved) still exists and was in full control when she meets JC and Brian, however, when she’s alone or asleep it is that evil side that awakens and takes hold to do the evil deeds necessary to destroy music once and for all.

The final battle would again include JC and Brian, but this time Sailor Moon would be the one that would be able to seal the demon away and leave behind the girl that brought so much life and inspiration to a little known thing called music. Except, in the end she wouldn’t remember a thing, the demon that brought her to this point taking much of those memories away, she’d never remember the love she ever had with the past nor the present… much to the disheartenment of all parties involved.

However, as Mamoru later points out, it is for the best for her to try to live her life as best as she can, and as thus ends up living with the Sailor Senshi in Japan. So when NSync or BSB goes to Japan for a tour, there they will find her happier and more in tune with herself and that will be when the love reawakens.

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– take the elements of music and intertwine them with each of the members of the court. Without one court member/spot filled all other elements would coalesce over time. Thus when the traitors are revealed there is an immediate need to find those that would take the places of the traitors of the court.

– the power of the prince also depends on the integrity of the court. Once one or more members of the court falter the prince also falters. If everyone of the court is gone the prince will die

– however there is one element that could save the prince should all of the court turn against him or no longer exist, heart. As long as ‘heart’ exists the prince is more likely to survive longer than when he has nothing. However once the prince finds ‘heart’, no matter what happens with the court (should they all be whole) once ‘heart’ is taken away the prince will only be living on borrowed time.

Blogging: DWTS Season 14 – Pre-Cast Announcement

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Tomorrow’s the cast announcement for Dancing with the Stars Season 14 and I’m excited. Why? Because I get to bring my writing background and combine it with my love of ballroom dancing and crunch numbers up the wazoo… I swear I should have been a statistician or actuary at this point, but I digress.

In previous seasons of Dancing with the Stars at the PureDWTS.com weblog I would post my pre-season predictions of who the numbers say would be eliminated in what order. For more information go to my post DWTS Season 11’s Who has the Edge?: Part 1 and Part 2. If you’re curious here were my pre-season elimination predictions for Season 12 and Season 13.

Now if you’re wondering how did I get myself into this… let me tell you.

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UPDATE: “Can we start again please?”

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So I decided to change everything out again. So instead of a splash page that leads into a bunch of other mini-sites, I decided to just simplify everything to the point that it is just a weblog. This way if time permits I can still add on pages outside of the blog that will be accessible via the blog.

This is a reflection of what has been going on in my life, where I used to compartmentalize everything and over-complicate matters to the point that I was stressing myself out. Now that I’ve found a bit of a balance, and a bit of simplicity it became easier to just put everything down on one page and throw the complexities out the window.

So with a weblog I could keep ideas up here, if anything new happens in my life it would be easier to post about it… and as writing projects complete itself then I’ll post accordingly.

Oh and if you were wondering where the title of this page came from? It is from a musical – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ SuperStar – that is playing at the Arcada in St. Charles, IL in mid-December. It is being co-produced by Natural Talent Productions.

Ja ne!