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Here's a duet I did
with my 9-year-old, Liam, at a recent church service.
It's his first solo in public, so it was a sweet moment to be able to share.
Hold those you love often and closely, it's a hard world out there ...
So, I finally get to divulge that a script I co-wrote called The Quest has been bought and is being developed
as a feature film by MaXaM Productions in England. I can't reveal any more 'til they make their own announcements,
but it's all in somebody else's hands now, in any case. The logline from their site which I also wrote is below.
"At the height of the Roman Empire, a young man dies a mysterious death on the banks of the Nile,
creating a cult which will change the face of civilization.
His features are struck on coins and his eyes stare from every statue,
yet the location of his final resting place vanishes in the sea of time.
Now an archaeologist and the greatest computer hacker in the world
have stumbled onto something both amazing and terrifying,
a secret they wish they did not possess,
but that powerful forces will kill to protect.
Through the magnificent streets of modern Rome
and in an ancient city buried deep beneath her hills,
the hunt for a treasure stolen from the library at Alexandria
becomes a desperate and deadly race to save their lives,
and unravel the tangled mystery of the lost boy god."
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Following the tradition of movies like The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure,
The Quest will meld factual historical mystery with edge-of-the-seat adventure
in beautiful and extraordinary locations.
Finding Haven is a projected series for television created in the mold of long-running hits
like Supernatural, Fringe and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Its new web page and a short trailer are available here.
Click here for the trailer of the first thing I co-wrote (a few years ago),
Ignotus (unknown, in Italian). The film won over 25 major awards,
including the Cisterna D'Argento, also accepted by Pope John Paul and Nelson Mandella.
Here's 4 beautiful minutes of the solo work Wendy did at our church recently
on Rutter's Pie Jesu, from his Requiem.
(... and yes, our Lord loved Him some pie.
Mmmm, pie.)
Our California Intermediate Handspinning Champion
won a blue and three red ribbons for 2 skeins and 2 socks this year
at the LA County Fair.
Pilgrim's workshop has finished, and now we wait on tenterhooks to see where the producers will take it to make changes. Meanwhile, if you're curious about what the new face of theater will look like, click on the image below to view a 3-minute video, or go see their site from our links page. By-the-bye, that's me 16 feet in the air, and there are some costume pics from the show on stack. There are also shots of Wendy and myself out in front of the theater down at the very bottom of this page.
Trying to combine my love of Harlaxton and my need to tell a truly horrible-beyond-all-words story
dealing with meaningful questions about the nature of the universe a'la Wm Peter Blatty's gory and goofy
The Ninth Configuration, I stumbled upon a refutation of The Ontological Proof set out by David Gasking.
Once I'd settled on a group of 80 students in a hugely rambling manse with a history of exorcism,
prayer wheels inscribed onto hard drives, the true nature of sacrifice, and an entity greater than God,
Wendy and I had started on our latest script, for which you'll see the image below.
(and since I ain't all that bright, I'll see you when I come up for air in about a year . . . )
Lilith, The Rock Opera, has been released. The folks over at Talkin' Broadway said: "appropriately strong and with requisite melodrama is Satan, Jeffrey Stackhouse. He does especially well in his role as The Snake, showing real versatility and creating palpable tension"
Check out the Lilith link in favorites for composer Tom Kugler's site, which also posts notices for concerts of the work in and around LA.
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