The Triumvirate Speaks

Welcome to November

2009-11-01T13:29:00.003-05:00

Hello all-who happen to stumble across this worthless excuse of a blog-and welcome to the new month of the most productive year of my life so far. Yes, I am so pathetic that I have yet to achieve what I have thus far(the amount being close to nothing). However, this is going to change this month. I am going to force my stupid, ADD, psychotic, delusional ass down to finish what I need to get done and make sure I post blogs more often as I have been slipping up bad. I will also be commenting on the blogs of the people I follow far more often than I have so those whom that concerns can rest uneasy as I shall be invading their spaces.

A couple of things going on that should be noted: we are building a space station in space which has been under construction for a few years and will be for probably the majority of the next two years. Once it is complete, the current shuttle model will be decommissioned and the new model will be constructed and used instead. At the current level of technology we utilize to do our business in space, no satellites originating from Earth will reach even the nearest solar system within several thousand years. Until we find a way to create artificial gravity and utilize it in space and protect ourselves from solar radiation, there will be no missions to Mars.
There will be no catastrophic event that will annihilate humanity in 2012, let alone this century-we would not have any knowledge of any actual major event as it would threaten National Security. Global Warming is not going to destroy our world nor render it inhabitable, but IT IS SOMETHING THAT MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. We cannot go on polluting on the level that we are as it is harmful to the environment. If you require proof of climate change then all you need to do is take a walk outside.
Obama's primary focus has not been progressing the way it should be which has led to his ratings being in between 40-50%. This is extremely low for a President during their first year in office, but he has actually been doing his job-unlike every President within the last half century-and that is what has led to his relatively low ratings. We all know the arguments on both sides of the issue and we all know where I stand so I shall not waste my time going into a rant.
As for what has been going on in the LGBT community, I suggest you go http://spiffykt.blogspot.com/ and http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/ for information as I feel they sum up, as for what is actually relevant to society, what we all need to know.

Now, for what I shall be working on. I am working on four novels-I know(I am insane). One is a cross between Ghost Hutners and Condemned: Criminal Origins. Another is a horror story that tales some elements from A Christmas Carol and inserts them into a Gothic world of fearies and and a representation of death. Another has been mentioned on myspace and has the title of In Flux. The last one is ...well, I will get around to that when the time is correct.

I have also made real head way on the creation of my first recurring transexual character, Panda-san. She is a Japanese-American who has not completely made the change as she has some personal unspoken hold-ups about "shedding her manhood." She is so internalized about it that she will not even tell her constant companion, the post-op Starr-chan. The first story she will appear in will neither be focused on her nor will she actually be in it. However, she will be mentioned and I will spend at least five short stories exploring her somewhat defeated, yet comical attitude toward life. What can I say? I like borderline nihilistic characters struggling through life.

More is to come-including announcements of publications I will be appearing in-but, for the time being, all I have to say is Welcome to November!!!!

Love,
Lain, Rhys and Austurias.

More of DEVY-Addicted: Nov. 17

2009-10-28T16:34:00.003-04:00

In support of Jessica and Wayne

2009-10-28T16:26:00.004-04:00

Here is a link to an interview he did for her.

http://alookatabook.blogspot.com/2009/10/26-of-2009-drop-dead-gorgeous-by-wayne.html

A very nice interview and I look forward to more.

MORE, JESSICA, MORE!!!!!!!!!

Love,
Lain.

Transexuality in Californication

2009-10-26T19:49:00.002-04:00

It is no secret nor Universal mystery that I love the show on which David Duchovny stars, Californication. This show about his hedonistic, seemingly immoral, misbehavior in the city of L.A. has been a love of mine since I saw the first episode. The first season proved to be immaculate television for my tastes and the second season, despite not being as strong, had really engaging moments due to the frictional encounters between Hank and Mia and Hank's comradery with Producer Lou Ashby.

During the first episode of the current season, I was unsure if it would live up to its track history as the story felt rushed and the daughter became far less interesting-why, Mr. Kapinos, why????-after two seasons of being my favorite supporting actor/character.

However, each episode has been better than the last and last night's episode touched on a subject that I relate to and I appreciate the makers for handling the way they did. In the episode, which I believe can be viewed in its entirety on Shotime's website, Hank's old high school friend-who has had a falling out with his wife-shows up in L.A. to turn Hank's life on its ass. It is quickly evident that this guy, despite having some good intentions as revealed later in the episode, is a bit of a misogynistic, horny ass that does not know how to talk to women.

The scene I wish to focus on occurs at a party at Hank's agent/bestfriend's boss' house. The friend goes off hitting on women and Runkle shares upsetting news with his wife about the woman he cheated on her with during the second season while Hank does his own thing. HAnk and his frined meet up later and the friend says that he will go down swinging with the woman at the other side of the pool. It automatically cuts to the next scene in which Hank is playing pool and the friend returns wet and distressed.

The friend says that he punched the lady when she gave him a nasy surprise and Hank, much to my admiration and respect, responded that she is a human being and that it is not cool to hit people. The transwoman runs up the stairs ready to fight with Hank's friend and Hank apologizes to her on his friend's behalf-and even hits on her a little-sparking a fight between the two. The transexual leaves and the agent's boss shows up, breaking the fight and declaring that she will not tolerate any discrimination towards anyone in her households on grounds of sexual orientation.

The scene is only two minutes long-if that-but it has given me new found respect for the show and I felt I should share.

I cannot wait for more Californication!!!!!!

Love,
Lain.

HAPPY OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-10-02T09:06:00.002-04:00

It's October!!!! I have a feeling it will replace August as my most productive month of the year!!!! Oh, wait. August is Austurias' most productive month of the year.....

OH, WELL!!!!!!! Here is the new law of nature: October is Licorice Lain's most productive month of the year and Black will be the most awesome thing EVER!!!!

Happy October! ^_^

Love,
Lain.

So damn Addicted....

2009-09-30T13:58:00.001-04:00

A bad peom

2009-09-12T23:12:00.002-04:00

Here is the whole version of the poem I started last night. It is artistically inept, but it is what it is. If that makes sense to you then enjoying reading the pain of a sick mind!!! :)

Pierce me through the heart
Disembowel my entrails
Crack my skull in two
With your furious red heel
It descends upon
My whitened crown of pale bone
Splitting it into
Ground micro-fragments gray as stone

Heart and mind
Removed as one
One with knife
Latter undone
Red and white
Sweet blood and bone

Steel beckoning
With slanted tongues
Behold before you
That fate is mine
Should have known better
But I was young
Do away with me
Into the grind

Wow, I just realized how much it sucks. It is a good thing that I do not try to get paid for my voice. XD Anyway, that is all until Tuesday.
-Licorice Lain

Damn! Facebook

2009-09-11T11:49:00.002-04:00

My Facebook will no longer work. Those of whom that speak to me over Facebook must now do so through this blog or over myspace from now on.
-Brandon Rhys Parker

Tenet Eviction

2009-09-11T11:45:00.003-04:00

I have been serving up eviction notices to the banana spiders in my backyard with a metal rake. For large and somewhat rare spiders, they are slow on the uptake. I had to pull out the lawn mower and eviscerate that midget section in the backyard to get those bastards on the move. I have not completed the job yet and they are still hanging around in the few bushes that are left which is why I am giving them until tomorrow to move out.
-Licorice Lain

A fragment by Austurias

2009-09-11T09:24:00.002-04:00

Check this out: http://www.dieselpunks.org/forum/topics/a-rough-fragment-of-something
-Austurias

The age of majority

2009-09-11T08:31:00.003-04:00

I have finally reached and I feel just like I did every other birthday-one year more intelligent and wise. I don't really have any interest in partying or acting like a horses ass just because I moved up another level in the eyes of a fucked society, but I will acknowledge my chronological age increasing by another mathematical figure.

One positive is that I can write about certain issues that would have gone up as a red flag before today. Why people are disturbed by a clearly intelligent, yet argumentative minor writing about pedophilia, incest, rape and disturbing fetishes is beyond me. In fact, I have no idea why our culture prides itself on being so ignorant of all that transpires in the world. Does is it bring people security to shut the door on things that they just don't like to think about?

Have we still yet to advance beyond the imposed instinct to shut our eyes and ears when we come across something we don't like?
-Rhys, Lain, Austuris

Seemingly out of nowhere

2009-09-10T08:25:00.002-04:00

I am forming this novel that I am using as a warm up for writing my The Sinking of Dalysium roughie. I, personally, do not like this large idea, although it is mostly because a)I have no idea what direction it will go in b)I HATE rough drafts, but they are unfortunately necessary part of the writing process c)It most likely will not make any sense. Will it ever make sense? I have no idea-I am only the person writing it(and poorly so far, I might add).

What is really bothering me is that I plan for it to be a dark Steampunk piece of Speculative Fiction and I very much dout it will turn into anything that I like. What can I say? I love coming up with ideas, but I hate how generic my writing sounds. No matter how hard I try, it always sounds like something that any goombah could dream up. I hate rough drafts.

My TSOD roughie is not impressing me either. I have completed the first page of the rough draft and it is already obvious that it is an environmentalist piece. I cannot wait to finish these rough drafts so I can turn them into something worth the trouble that goes into selling a story. And, by worth it, I mean in my opinion.
-Licorice Lain

Mr. Mieville

2009-09-09T16:37:00.004-04:00

I have begun reading The Scar by China Mieville(FINALLY) and I must say that, besides the common mistakes that most writers make, it is a very well written book. That being said, I must emphasize the issues I have found with this book already(and I have not even read thirty pages yet). His vocabulary is very high brow and there were several instances that I came across a word that I have never before seen used which is good. What is lacking about this novel is that, in the same paragraph that he dishes out this high speech and complex sentence structure, he will put a "she was very sick" statement in the mix. *Licorice slaps herself in the head*

Why must so many of the most talented writers of the past couple generations wind up in this pitfall? Are they incapable of communicating a character's emotions competently without having to bluntly state it? It makes want to roll my eyes everytime I see a potential insight into the character's psyche wasted by momentary laziness.

Now that I have made my point, I am enjoying The Scar and I hope that I will get The City and The City for my birthday(which is Friday). I have also heard that he is working on a novel titled Kraken due for release in May of next year. Needless to say, I have a new book on my 2010 wishlist.
-Licorice Lain

fixed

2009-09-04T17:27:00.003-04:00

Wow, I just realized I did not use a title for my last post. Oh well, this time I will not be ranting on the economy and all of the fools that contribute to the issues the collective must deal with on a regular basis. No, today I will rant about something else for a bit-something extremely childish, but I feel that I need to say it.

Why am I almost always one of the last people to learn about opportunities that are easily accessible to people(like me)? I just yesterday learned about Chuck Palahniuk's anthology that he is building up. From what I have learned, a bunch of editors sift through the suck of the submissions and send to him the best they have gotten and he edits those choice few himself. The best of those will be collected in this anthology, due for release possibly in 2010. That is all I know.

If anybody knows anything about any guidelines whatsoever, please leave a comment on this post.

Ok, so not a whole bunch of ranting there, but you understand my plight. I would just wish, with how much crap I have learned since beginning to surf the internet, I would find or hear of this information sooner. Now I have to do a mad rush to think up somehing spectalur, plan it out, draft it, draft it again after edits, edit again, type it out(yes, I write everything on paper prior to typing it out-I hate sitting at this computer for hours on end) and send it to these editors for them to tear it apart before December. I realize that is a while away, but I have other projects, including a novel, that I am working on.

Oh, the insanity...

Now, the title of this post: fixed. I have formulating an idea based on the imagery that flashes in my head while I listen to the fixed EP by Nine Inch Nails. It could possibly be interesting. I just have no idea how I will pull it all together(somewhat coherently) yet.
-Brandon Rhys Parker

2009-09-01T08:32:00.002-04:00

I have a very unique idea for an "alternative" romance. Yeah, all of you "alternatives" out there know what that means. It actually came to me in a dream(on a night which I spent the four hours or so mostly awake with moments of sleep.

Unfortunately for me, I saw a very specific name-that I had never seen before-on a journal in the dream that I wanted to use as the title of the novel and when I googled the name to make sure it was original(I do that with every name I really like that I have thought up) and it turns out that it is the name of a race of aliens in the Star Trek universe. Well, obviously, I cannot use a name or thing from the Star Trek universe, even though I did not get the idea from MR. Roddenberry, so it had to be changed. I have now decided on a name close to the original, but it is shared with some kind of a company-I did not bother to look up what they do.

If they want to take it up with me when the time comes then fine. I just have one question: why the hell do they have such a weird name?
-Austurias

2009-08-27T21:36:00.002-04:00

It is 9:37 as I write this opening sentence and I am feeling quite exhausted, despite having done not all that much during the day. This next week or so will be rough for me as I am rushing to meet deadlines(personal, of course) so that I may feel that I actually have accomplished something.

I will not be making posts tomorrow or over the weekend as I will be attempting to seize every opportunity I can to complete my objectives and, if I can fit it in somewhere, sleep. I, myself, am not one for sleeping that often. I have some sort of internal alarm system that wakes me up around 7 or 7:30am, regardless of when I went to sleep. It can be quite irritating, but others can rely on me as they will not be forced to wait until midday to have me do something productive. :D

Yeah, there is no rest for the Licorice as she goes about her day trying to make something somewhat respectable about herself. It is not as if I would have it any other way, though. Sitting around on one's ass all day doing nothing in particular is nothing short of wasting one's own life away and just goes to show what amount of will that person has to live. I am, in case you have not picked up on it already, implying that people who sit around on said ass are the people that John Kramer hunts and puts into his traps in Saw. Now, sure, there are some emos and suicidals and just rotten people that he gathers up, but it is mostly people who can't get off their butt even to turn on the TV. WTF?

Despite my tiredness, I will go through with my plan to finish the bacon story(I do have a name for it, I just don't feel like typing it) and the story I plan on subbing to Mr. Jones for his High Tides II compilation. Speaking of the bacon, Victorya stills needs a pretty big number of stories to fill out here anthology and this is one I want to see come into fruition. If you have an idea or think you may have an idea about anything pertaining to bacon, please write a story and email to her at: baconhorror@gmail.com
-Licorice Lain

2009-08-27T09:58:00.002-04:00

And it seems that despite the speculations of nationwide recovery, that may not be entirely true. According to media giant CNN, this week, much of the focus of trading on Wall Street has been on Citigroup(which taxpayers now own a third of), the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac(which are under government conservatorship) and Bank of America(which has needed $45 billion in bailout funds). To reiterate, 36.8% of trading was focused on these four fortune 500 companies. Now, you don't need me to tell you that it is unsettling that some of the giants that are partially responsible for the mess we are in at this point are getting all of this attention while small businesses are continuing being run down into the dirt.

However, it may be necessary to atleast start out this way. While the countries economic infrastrucrue will not collapse if a couple ma and pa shops go under, we will all most certainly be feeling the pain if these smooth criminal fuck ups tank. Personally, I am of the mind that while it is necessary to continue on this path that Wall Street has undertaken for the time being, they better start branching out to other businesses by the end of the year. If not, it is possible that we could wind up rolling toward a Rockerfeller-esque governmental system(i.e. one, or maybe a few, rich capitalists tell the government how to run the country, because said rich guy has enough money to render any believer in democracy into a pansy ass obedient tool.
-Brandon Rhys Parker

2009-08-26T14:26:00.002-04:00

http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2009/07/08/baconology-the-new-baconhorror-anthology-from-libr/page1/

Definitely sounds interesting and I plan on doing a sub for it. Mmmm, sub. Also working on my sub to the Sinking of Dalysium anthology.

For those who are curious about it, you can view the technical information on it here: http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,17682.0.html

I will post daily on all my Licoricey exploits so make sure not to miss any, ok?
-Licorice Lain

2009-08-26T12:08:00.002-04:00

And thus begins the triumvirates blogging here. A couple people will recognize the names from places such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Permuted Press, Brass Goggles, Funimation and Gaslamp Bazaar. This blog will be the first source for all things Brandon Rhys Parker, Licorice Lain, R. Austurias, writing news and Licoricey Syrup. A second and less basic post will go up later today when the Triumvirate is not busy eating. ;)