Subject: The Climax of Lfe in a Dangerous Time....
Time: 1:02:35 AM EST
Author: keating71
Mood: Loopy
Music: Escape from Tropico -- Me / Jam Trax software/ 2005
"You ever heard of Harry Houdini? Well He wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theatre filled with people. Do you know how he did that? Misdirection. ...What the eyes see and ears hear..the mind believes." -- -- "Gabriel Sheerer" (John Travolta) Swordsfish (2001)
Pusuit and Flight plot ending...
It came to me while i was listening to the last version of Tropico.. its sorta the 'finale' which you haven't heard yet) ... Well remember the scene i wrote about them all waiting around for Marni to get back on a plane?? Well....this is how she ESCAPES. Det Strickland and a gaggle of law enforcement (including SA Karl Thallen) are pursuiting Marni/Andrea/Alice to the Emerald-Arbor International airport....Marni is in disguse with a blonde wig and sunglasses on right... .she's on her way to a British Air flight out of the country......Sgt. Strickland and the Feds get on the plane and confront the blonde woman with sunglasses who on the manifest says its Andrea W. Linden... but hold on!! The woman is NOT Marni...it really is an Andrea Linden!! 
The we see Marni jaunting down some steps to a dock....and a sea plane.... Marni gets in and it pulls away...(this is right next to the airport..) Back in the British airways plane ...it occurs to Sgt. Strickland and that moment...as all plane traffic was stopped from taking off..yet this sea plane moves down the sea strip... She starts yelling "She's on the plane! she's on that plane!!" and she thursts her fist into the top of a seat on the plane....The sea plane takes off Marni throws off her blonde wig and sunglasses.... the big shocker...
Marni Looks over at the pilot......
the pilot is none other than Stanley Manhiemer!!
Sgt Strickland looks out on of the windows of the BA plane to see the sea plane fly away and she knows she's lost the conflict. The Feds fail to capture their double agent and Strickland her murder suspect. Marni is still just a SUSPECT however and we do not know what level she was involved. just the suspicion that Strickland had. This is not the last Manri will see of Strickland...Teaming up with her new partner SA Karl Thallen...they pursuit Marni to
Tropico a tropical tourist destination (think of Cancun) This would also entail the introduction of a new detective from Tropico City ...hmm have to think of another character...
This would be a good close to this as a short story. Then i can add part II the pusuit continues of course.
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Subject: Rock Notes from Bobo Records
Time: 2:13:57 PM EDT
Author: keating71
Mood: Chillin'
Music: Tropico -- Urban Sound Masons / BoboRecords 2005
Ok...so I've been on a writing hiatus ....arranging music with computer programs. I have a small group of fictitious musical groups -- Urban Sound Masons, Topo No-No, X99, Makers of the MAR (Music Audio Revolution). I arranged some original music tracks using the JAM TRAX software by Sony(tm) and have been having a blast. (Actually, some of the names are inside jokes X99 is the Feature Class Code , MAR is Minimal Acceptable Rate but Music Audio Revolution sounds much better and Topo No No is harder to explain haha.
The best arrangments are two very tropical./latin purcussion dance beats called (appropraitely enough) Tropico and Return to Tropico by the ''group'' Urban Sound Masons (latin beat/ dance/ techno genre) It sort of has the same feel as Jan Hammer's Miami Vice theme at least purcussion-wise. Tropico was composed in Jam Trax and then remastered through Sound Forge 6.0 software to give it that treble boost and 'live' dance club feel. Return to Tropico features some seriously heavy purcussion (bongos, timbels etc) bass and some simple keyboards but it rocks.
X-99 (industrial/trance/ techno genere) comes in with a short (1:27) very toungue-in-cheek and darkly humorous arrrangment called A Nice Day to End The World. Starting out with classical music arrangment being interrupted by the blast of an aircraft afterburner followed by a very industrial trance-like beat (what sounds like a distant bomb and 'machines of war' and klaxons) that then reverts back at the end to the classical arrangment it opened with (all is well the nice day returns..ahh) . Another track , called Crash Dive is more industrial sounding. Beginning with dark cinematic ochestrial strings then FX of something akin to a sub sonar a chugging steam engine sound .. Has a video game soundtrack quality or perhaps something to that in an anime film.
Makers of the MAR (Music Audio Revolution) (Dance genre) come in with their downtown jazzy bass beat track called Take the Beat Downtown.
Finally, Topo No-No (techno/trance) rounds out the arrangments with Tech Tonic (Agent Smith's Inevitibility Mix) featuring a dubbed sample from The Matrix words by character Agent Smith ( Following a break beat "I hate this reality..whatever you want to call it" following another break beat ..."Hear that Mr Anderson?" the song then dives into a rough distorted guitar riff at the end of which Agent Smith replies "That is the sound of Inevitibility".
So there you have it. my writing 'vacation' was toying around with my music maker machine :)
Actually, I had my mind in the story when i arranged Tropico and Return to Tropico. Tropico...That would be a cool name for a Dance Club yes? (In fact, i could add that as perhaps another bar or meeting place in the city. But in any case, it could be a song you might hear at the EMP Club. I am also thinking, what the hell...why not arrange and mix my own story "soundtrack" ?? Which i already have done with music made by others.
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Subject: "Their Self Mutating Guestating Mastadons , Oh my god!"
Time: 1:17:21 PM EDT
Author: keating71
Mood: Loopy
and with those words uttered by Scientist Paula Chirston THE INVASION HAS BEGUN!
It began so innocently, the last beautiful day on planet earth. Then the storm clouds began to gather.
A distant storm. Then the rain fell, the sky grew darker and darker. Forks of lighting split the sky cracking the earth. Panic! Chaos! Then they appeared. Black as pitch No other visible feature but gleaming teeth. Falling from the sky amongst the rain and lighting. On the ground short little upright ants fanned out and hid and darked amongst shadows ...watching.. the most hedious was to come. Planet earth was on the brink. No defense against the onslaught from above.
Could the human race band together -- just to survive!
[Poster seen in story -- a promo poster for the very event occuring}
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[Unreadable] [Unreadable]
POTENTIAL.
FOUR WEEKS!
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WHat is this?
It was an UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC DREAM. Something you might see on Sci-Fi Channel as a sci-fi horror. OMG! Its amazing i remembered just this little bit. The poster i saw in the dream was an ad for the mini-series with an unknown name..the name was scraped off the poster but the tagline "POTENTIAL." was underneath it clearly visible. This to me meant the potential that humans had to band together to survive even in the face of being wiped out with no hope of regaining the way things used to be. Also an esoteric message from my brain telling me this story has Potential. eh? eh? crazy!
I would say this story is like Battlefield Earth meets Indiependence Day. But the aliens are very weird constantly mutating parts of animals here on earth. First coming as the HEADS of killer whales (actually also like LANGOLEERS in the Steven King movie of the same name), then they have some kind of scouts, small four foot size upright walking ANT-LIKE things but they wore black motorcycle helmets. Then there are these very nasty things that are just shadows that kill and kill anything and everything -- the unseen. then there arethese GIANT BATS which for some unexplained reason a character (another female lead) a scientists who i have named Paula Chirston comments they are "Mutatiing Self Gestiating Mastadons, Oh my god!" as if the whale heads falling from the sky , upright walking four foot ants overrunning everything -- one dead dead 8 ft BAT would make her say Oh my god Mastadons? Apparenlty that is what was next. The return of the Mastadon after 16,000 years!! AHHHHHHHH!!!
"Self Mutating Gestating Mastadons! Oh My God! " -- Last Line of the dream
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/mammut.html
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Subject: New Character Roles
Time: 12:47:17 AM EDT
Author: keating71
Mood: Loopy
Music: Shoot High Aim Low -- Yes "Big Generator" ATCO 1987
So fast this expidition
So vast this heavy load
(With a touch of luck and a sense of need)
Seeing the guns and their faces
We look around the open shore
(Waiting for something..)
..Shall we lose ourselves for a reason
Shall we burn ourselves for the answer
(Have we found the place that we're looking for)
Someone shouted "open the door"
Lookout
-- "Shoot High, Aim Low" - Yes
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I'm thinking of the original plot having Marni be the Private Investigator. I was of course brainstorming on my way home with my story inspring music.
This would leave Manhiemer without a role for the moment obvisouly still key to the plot Strickland is still the lead, Marni the opposition, Vanhorne Strickland's "foil" (sidekick or confidant), Manhiemer would then be somewhat of a 'middle man' or out of the role of the opposition he could become the stories love interest of the lead. In most stories the lead and the love interest always end up together. the love interest is then the subplot. But I don't consider this to be the subplot.
There is the subplot of Marni. You get a sense of being a bit sympathetic to Marni she becomes perhaps the "misunderstood" at least thats how she sees herself. OF course what she feels she is doing (thwarting the lead to her goal) is advancing her goal. Puting Manheimer in the middle. Three characters form a triangle (not necessarily a love triangle) just pivot points of conflict..and conflict is the driver of plot. Sometimes its necessary to switch characters to different roles.
Perhaps Marni could be a retired FBI and be a PI. maybe there was some extenuating cicumstance that made her 'retire' early. Maybe something she is ashamed of. This could definately work the way the original plot was.
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Subject: Something funny
Time: 1:15:22 AM EDT
Author: keating71
Mood: Happy
Music: Nothing... :(
The Bookshop Sketch from "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl"
Customer: (entering the bookshop) Good morning.
Proprietor (John Cleese): Good morning, sir. Can I help you? C: Er, yes. Do you have a copy of "Thirty Days in the Samarkind Desert with the Duchess of Kent" by A. E. J. Eliott, O.B.E.?
P: Ah, well, I don't know the book, sir....
C: Er, never mind, never mind. How about "A Hundred and One Ways to Start a Fight"?
P: ...By?
C: An Irish gentleman whose name eludes me for the moment.
P: Ah, no, well we haven't got it in stock, sir....
C: Oh, well, not to worry, not to worry. Can you help me with "David Coperfield"? P: Ah, yes, Dickens.
C: No....
P: (pause) I beg your pardon?
C: No, Edmund Wells.
P: I... *think* you'll find Charles Dickens wrote "David Copperfield", sir....
C: No, no, Dickens wrote "David Copperfield" with *two* Ps. This is "David Coperfield" with *one* P by Edmund Wells.
P: "David Coperfield" with one P?
C: Yes, I should have said. P: Yes, well in that case we don't have it.
C: (peering over counter) Funny, you've got a lot of books here....
P: (slightly perturbed) Yes, we do, but we don't have "David Coperfield" with one P by Edmund Wells.
C: Pity, it's more thorough than the Dickens.
P: More THOROUGH?!?
C: Yes...I wonder if it might be worth a look through all your "David Copper- field"s...
P: No, sir, all our "David Copperfield"s have two P's.
C: Are you quite sure?
P: Quite.
C: Not worth just looking?
P: Definitely not.
C: Oh...how 'bout "Grate Expectations"?
P: Yes, well we have that....
C: That's "G-R-A-T-E Expectations," also by Edmund Wells.
P: (pause) Yes, well in that case we don't have it. We don't have anything by Edmund Wells, actually: he's not very popular.
C: Not "Knickerless Knickleby"? That's K-N-I-C-K-E-R-L-E-S-S.
P: (taciturn) No.
C: "Khristmas Karol" with a K?
P: (really quite perturbed) No....
C: Er, how about "A Sale of Two Titties"?
P: DEFINITELY NOT.
C: (moving towards door) Sorry to trouble you...
. P: Not at all....
C: Good morning.
P: Good morning.
C: (turning around) Oh!
P: (deep breath)Yesss?
C: I wonder if you might have a copy of "Rarnaby Budge"?
P: No, as I say, we're right out of Edmund Wells!
C: No, not Edmund Wells - Charles Dikkens.
P: (pause - eagerly) Charles Dickens??
C: Yes.
P: (excitedly) You mean "Barnaby Rudge"!
C: No, "Rarnaby Budge" by Charles Dikkens. That's Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author.
P: (slight pause) No, well we don't have "Rarnaby Budge" by Charles Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author, and perhaps to save time I should add that we don't have "Karnaby Fudge" by Darles Chickens, or "Farmer of Sludge" by Marles Pickens, or even "Stickwick Stapers" by Farles Wickens with four M's and a silent Q!!!!! Why don't you try W. H. Smith's?
C: Ah did, They sent me here.
P: DID they.
C: Oh, I wonder...
P: Oh, do go on, please.
C: Yes...I wonder if you might have "The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Amongst the Giant Pygmies of Beckles"...volume eight.
P: (after a pause for recovery) No, we don't have that...funny, we've got a lot of books here...well, I musn't keep you standing here...thank you,--
C: Oh, well do, do you have-- ---\
P: No, we haven't. No, we haven't.
C: B-b-b-but--
P: Sorry, no, it's one o'clock now, we're closing for lunch--
C: Ah, I--I saw it-- -------loud arguments
P: I'm sorry--
C: I saw it over there! I saw it...
P: What? What? WHAT?!? ---
C: I saw it over there: "Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds".
P: (pause; trying to stay calm) "Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds"?
C: Yes...
P: O-L-S-E-N?
C: Yes....
P: B-I-R-D-S??
C: Yes.....
P: (beat) Yes, well, we do have that, as a matter of fact....
C: The expurgated version....
P: (pause; politely) I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that...?
C: The expurgated version.
P: (exploding) The EXPURGATED version of "Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds"?!?!?!?!?
C: (desperately) The one without the gannet!
P: The one without the gannet-!!! They've ALL got the gannet!! It's a Standard British Bird, the gannet, it's in all the books!!!
C: (insistent) Well, I don't like them...they wet their nests.
P: (furious) All right! I'll remove it!! (rrrip!) Any other birds you don't like?!
C: I don't like the robin... P: (screaming) The robin! Right! The robin! (rrrip!) There you are, any others you don't like, any others? C: The nuthatch?
P: Right! (flipping through the book) The nuthatch, the nuthatch, the nuthatch, 'ere we are! (rrriiip!) There you are! NO gannets, NO robins, NO nuthatches, THERE's your book!
C: (indignant) I can't buy that! It's torn!
P: (incoherent noise)
C: Ah, I wonder if you have--
P: Go on, ask me anything!! We got lots of books here, you know, it's a bookshop!! C: Er, how 'bout "Biggles Combs his Hair"?
P: No, no, we don't have that one, funny!
C: "The Gospel According to Charley Drake"?
P: No, no, no, try me again!
C: Ah...oh, I know! "Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying".
P: No, no, no, no, no,...What? WHAT?????? C: "Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying".
P: "Ethel the Aa--" YES!!!YES!!! WE'VE GOT IT!! (throwing books wildly about) I-I've seen it somewhere!!! I know it!!! Hee hee hee hee hee!!! Ha ha hoo ho---WAIT!! WAIT!! Is it?? Is it??? (triumphant) YES!!!!!! Here we are, "Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying"!!!!! There's your book!! (throwing it down) Now, BUY IT!!!
C: (quickly) I don't have enough money.
P: (desperate) I'll take a deposit!
C: I don't have ANY money!
P: I'll take a check!!
C: I don't have a checkbook!
P: I've got a blank one!!
C: I don't have a bank account!!
P: RIGHT!!!! I'll buy it FOR you! (ring) There we are, there's your change, there's some money for a taxi on the way home, there's your book, now, now..
C: Wait, wait, wait!
P: What? What?!? WHAT?!? WHAT???!!
C: I can't read!!!
P: (staggeringly long pause; very quietly) You can't...read. (pause) RIGHT!!! Sit down!! Sit down!! Sit!! Sit!! Are you sitting comfortably??? Right!!! (opens book) "Ethel the Aardvark was hopping down the river valley one lovely morning, trottety-trottety-trottety, when she might a nice little quantity surveyor..." (fade out)
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Subject: New Scenes / More Ideas
Time: 7:09:17 PM EDT
Author: keating71
Mood: Happy
Music: Games without Fronteirs -- Peter Gabriel
OK BRILLIANT LIGHT BULB IDEA TIME
Seeing how Andrea Wilcon Linden an alleged 'client' of PI Padraig Stephon
(yes he has a first name now) partner in Manhiemer-Stephon Investigations....Here are the other list of 'clients'....
hee hee hee hee hee (clever snickering)
Padrig Stephon Private Investigator
partial Client listing
Amman Filar
Dr. Walt Foreshow
Felicia [Ott] Stowe
Ana Derby-Burg
Carl [Walter] Theivish
Shari [Vella] Twitcher
Dwight [Eon] Whitten
Amanda Sneed-Holt
Andrea [Wilco] Linden
Berry [Lynch] Fink
Marcia [Clines] North
Marshall [Tenon] Ricci
Sir Clarion Manchet
Animal Farm
War of the Worlds
Tale of Two Cities
Barnaby Rudge
Travels With Charlie
Old Man and The Sea
Gone With the Wind
Martian Chronicles
Gess what all those are???
new character trait of Strickland. How she MIGHT figure out the Andrea Wilcon Linden annagram is...she is found of jumbles and word scramble games and crossword puzzles. she plays around with all kinds of words she just happens to take Andrea wilcon Linden and starts making anagrams of the name coming up with the title of a book. I dunno if that sounds hackneyed or trite or maybe even to ironic that one of her hobbies rather than professional training and procedure But she doesn't put the other piece together that ther OTHER names on the client listing might also be names of books. ahaaaaa.. What was Padraig up to? Who is involved? Is this just a simple unsolved murder or has Strickland stumbled into a nest of conspirators covering their tracks? What are they hiding?
Capt. Stannard - Strickland Scene
"Let Vanhorne handle Maniemer" he tells her.
I ran through a huge dialouge in my head last night between Capt. Stannard and Strickland. Aware of the past between Manhemier and Strickland he orders her to let Vanhorne handle interviewing Manhiemer. As Strickland leaves Stannard calls up the local FBI RA (Residence Agency) to get help with the encrypted documents. They are sending down a cryptoanalyst (Marni) who will not arrive for several more hours. Strickland, decides to look over the client list of the former PI, a day book with names and dates in it.
Later on, Vanhorne and Strickland are later coming back from the crime scene and they stop in at Martinelli's . Antoni Martinelli, the cafe/bar owner doesn't see who it is entering. He tells them "sorry we're closing for the night" Then he sees it's Strickland... Antoni knew her father and he himself was once on the force. Pictures of proud police officers of Arbor Falls line parts of the walls..along with a few famous faces that happened to stop in. "Come in, I didn't see you" he tells Strickland. He hasn't yet met Vanhorne. and Antoni kids Strickland about her new 'boyfriend' He's recently been promoted to detective she tells Antoni. How about some coffee Antoni says I always make some before i close up gets me through the receipts (Antoni runs the plce himself with a line cook and a waitress also working there long since gone home for the night). This scene we see a more personal side of Strickland and how she handles herself ''off duty''. Vanhorne is a little stiff as a character so this is an ooportunity for Strickland and Vanhorne to 'bond' in their professional relationship.
I wish i had just spoken outloud the dialouge last night. Wow i think the Stannard-Strickland scene went on for 15 minutes and the Martinellis scene for a good 15 as well. But its all still really fresh in my mind.
The Stannard-Strickland scene i sorta imagined her talking to the Captain (bald guy) on Law & Order (1st season).
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