Badlands or Bust!
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theladyrose! May you have a fantastic day and many more to come!
I am off tomorrow morning before the crack of dawn to go to South Dakota. There I will join my friend and one of my very favorite musicians, Giuseppe Festa of Lingalad (see my previous post about him here), and filmmakers Francesco and Massimo Piccioli. They are shooting a feature on Native America and the West for Sky TV, and they kindly have invited me to appear in the documentary as the "guide" for Giuseppe (who will be hosting the show) as we make a whirlwind tour of the Badlands, the Black Hills, and the Pine Ridge Reservation. We will get to visit the Crazy Horse Memorial and the scene of the Wounded Knee Massacre, among other places. Needless to say, I am thrilled at this opportunity to share the West in general and Native America in particular with an Italian audience, in a trip that I know will be profoundly meaningful and emotional for me, in the homeland of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Black Elk, and much of the modern American Indian Movement. I will be offline until Monday morning, and I plan to bring back many pictures to share.
A couple of quick notes before I go:
* Maria Lectrix has begun an unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
* Night Shade Books is currently having a 50% off sale (with a minimum four-book purchase).
* Tom Burns of The Deadbolt has posted "Seven Things We Want from The Hobbit."
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
"Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop."
- Black Elk
theladyrose! May you have a fantastic day and many more to come!I am off tomorrow morning before the crack of dawn to go to South Dakota. There I will join my friend and one of my very favorite musicians, Giuseppe Festa of Lingalad (see my previous post about him here), and filmmakers Francesco and Massimo Piccioli. They are shooting a feature on Native America and the West for Sky TV, and they kindly have invited me to appear in the documentary as the "guide" for Giuseppe (who will be hosting the show) as we make a whirlwind tour of the Badlands, the Black Hills, and the Pine Ridge Reservation. We will get to visit the Crazy Horse Memorial and the scene of the Wounded Knee Massacre, among other places. Needless to say, I am thrilled at this opportunity to share the West in general and Native America in particular with an Italian audience, in a trip that I know will be profoundly meaningful and emotional for me, in the homeland of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Black Elk, and much of the modern American Indian Movement. I will be offline until Monday morning, and I plan to bring back many pictures to share.
A couple of quick notes before I go:
* Maria Lectrix has begun an unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
* Night Shade Books is currently having a 50% off sale (with a minimum four-book purchase).
* Tom Burns of The Deadbolt has posted "Seven Things We Want from The Hobbit."
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
"Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop."
- Black Elk
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Date: 2008-05-27 03:16 pm (UTC)Mostly because I blew the budget on copies of HPL Selected Letters vol 1 and 2, and Misc Writings.
Hi, I'm Vulpine, and I'm a bookaholic ;)
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Date: 2008-05-22 05:21 pm (UTC)**Hugs you**
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Date: 2008-05-27 02:12 pm (UTC)*hugs you back*
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Date: 2008-05-22 05:40 pm (UTC)I hope that you have a wonderful, memorable time, and please do take lots of pictures!! Oh, and be safe. :o)
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Date: 2008-05-26 07:08 pm (UTC)I wish I still had that. Unfortunately, one of my friends in the group "lost" it (meaning that she didn't want it replicated or shown ever again, so she wasn't ever going to give it back to me).
I believe I played a brilliant Gandalf. Smaug was played by a dachshund named Amy, and her owner made a dragon costume for her (for us). Quality entertainment. I'd pay to see it again.
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Date: 2008-05-22 06:08 pm (UTC)Have a blast and take pics. We can compare the awesomeness of Nature's majesty once you're home again. (And squeeeeeeeeee you as a guide for their film!)
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Date: 2008-05-27 02:18 pm (UTC)Each day we had these short, intense thunderstorms that, of course, you could see coming for hours across that big sky, and then watch move away for hours after they'd passed. The most amazing moment, I think, was in the park. We were watching two elk lock horns and fight not 30 feet away, while the sky turned black and thunder rolled over the Black Hills. It was very primal, very raw, and the air just sizzled. Nature's majesty, as you say.
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Date: 2008-05-28 05:19 am (UTC)I told you that I was standing on the pigtail road once, in August, in a sudden snow squall, right? It was freakin seventy degrees, and snowing like a bitch. I had to video it just to prove it to people. Amazing weather up there, amongst other things.
Elk in rut, eh? Such a stunning thing. Custer, I'm assuming? Although the roadside shows can be just as impressive. We had to wait for a herd of bighorn to move their slow asses once because, clearly, they thought they owned the road. We didn't argue, we just sat and marvelled.
Have fun in South Dakota!
Date: 2008-05-22 07:15 pm (UTC)xoxo Rebecca
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Date: 2008-05-27 02:21 pm (UTC)ConCarolinas is in three days. I can't wait! And it makes me especially excited, thinking we might be together for it when they host DeepSouthCon!!! Hope all's well with you! *hugs*
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Date: 2008-05-22 09:20 pm (UTC)See you next week.
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