About Me
Hail all of the Coven. I am Blackwolf the Reaver. aka Blackwolf the Bard, aka The Heretic. I write and sing powerful and also comical songs of medieval virtues, Bloody battles, love, Horrible fiends, and pub songs. Also I create fantasy photowork. I invent role playing games. I am also the creator and host of the underground TV show "Death Talk TV" I enjoy nature and this wonderful planet(too bad humans are here, but nothings perfect)I love people who are interested in the medieval and renaissance eras, spiritual and or magical enthusiasts or practitioners, Artists, musicians and all of those whom find something in themselves that seem to separate them from the "normal" community that surrounds them.
Music
Corvus Corax, Ween, The Pixies, Portishead, Classic rock, some punk, hardcore, and grunge. Many others. Music is like food or wine, it all depends on what you are in the mood to taste when you choose what music to listen to.
Movies
Brazil, Naked lunch, Mirrormask, The Shining, the Thing, Underworld Evolution, 12 monkeys, Fight Club, Brave Heart, Sweeney Todd, Company of Wolves, Holy Mountain, Exestence, and many others. I am a movie addict. I absolutely love them and dedicate whatever time possible to view them. I am more of a Indies fan than main stream Hollywood fliks. I review movies and post my reviews of them often. I tend to give more points to a movie that has good cinematography, eye candy, or that is bizarre.
I use a sword method of rating my movies this following chart will help clarify what my 5 sword rating system is. Please post your own views on my reviews. I love to hear different or agreeable comments. Our objectivity is what makes us unique.
TV
Red Dwarf
Likes
Renaissance fairs, video games, beautiful women, ale, playing guitar, singing, watching hundreds of movies
Dislikes
stuck up people, especially people on sites similar to this one that think they are better than you, or too high up to acknowledge you. Politicians, large industrial windmills that corrupt our planets beauty, anyone who glamorizes the hip hop gangster mentality that is eating away at our love and communities, Criminals, Capitalists and corporations that step on anyones neck to better there position, narrow minded people who think their way of thinking is the only correct way.
Virtues
Music, Art, photography, writing, I have a warm passionate heart and dream of how if all of us would not be skeptics, our love and respect could unite us as one.
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Gary Gygax has has now become scribed into
the pages of Deities and Demigods. For those who do not know whom Gary Gygax is,
He is and for ever shall be known as the Grandfather of Dungeons and Dragons.
He contributed the largest portion of creative input into D&D and was one
of the founding fathers of TSR (Tactical Studies Rules). He was also an
author of some fantasy books. I read some of his saga about a thief, I'm not
sure but I think his name was Gord. For those whom have played Dungeon and
Dragon's especially in it's early stages would remember some of the modules for
the game that Gary wrote. Which were pretty insane, including "The Tomb of
Horrors" which I believe he truly wanted all of the player characters to die.
(: I have a vast collection of "old school" Gary Gygax D&D books, and before
images were so easily found (via the internet) I used to have a black and white
picture of him, which made me the envy to a lot of friends whom had no idea back
then what he looked like. I have literally thousands of dice both from the early
stages of role-playing to the current, a RPGA (role playing game association)
card from 1980, and I still have unopened box sets of Dungeon and Dragons and
another TSR game the 4th dimension. (at least that's what I think it's called,
truthfully I have them so deeply tucked away up in a closet and haven't seen
them in years. Anyhow, Gary Gygax was and is a great influence on
the role-playing game creations of my own, and everyone should praise his
accomplishments, because truthfully, I believe if it weren't for J.R.R Tolkien
and others like Gary Gygax, The fantasy culture (including Renfairs) would not
exist.
I've always had fun with dreams.
Logging them and on occasions becoming conscience while inside them. And also
I've tried to use that surface sleep (when you first start to dose off) to help
me remember things that I can't in my conscious state. Example: If I'm looking
for something (Let's say a photo) and I've looked everywhere, and have no idea
where I put it. Well, when I go to bed that night, just as I'm starting to dose,
I'll start thinking where it could be, and there has been times that my mind all
of a sudden reveals it's location. So a week or two ago, I was sleeping next to
Lady Anita, and I woke up for a second in the middle of the night, and when I
turned toward her to reenter my sleep, I thought to myself, "Let's see what
she's dreaming about" . With the same type of concentration that I apply when
searching my memory, I tried to slide into here dreams. Well since I was already
half asleep it was easy to start to go back in. I then dreamed of a flood. I was
watching Anita and two other people in the middle of a paved street, and then
like in the Tsunami video footages, a surge of water was slow traveling uphill
in that street. The rest is kinda vague for me now, but when we woke up the next
day, I asked her "Did you have any dreams about water?" Already her eyes began
to open wide, then I continued "Like a flood or something?" And she replied "How
the f $@!&*
do you know that?" I haven't attempted since that time (mainly because she's on
her vacation in Guyana) but I was wondering if any of you had had a similar
experience.
Ahhh yes, it's Wednesday. My fairest maiden
and soul mate Lady Anita left last Friday to visit her family in Guyana. She has
not been there in 12 years and had nieces for which she had not (until this
trip) met. At first I was a bit worried about the trip. One, there has recently
been radical gangs that have committed two massacres (killed 11 people last
month and 12 people the weekend before she left) and the other reason I've been
worried, is just because it's a third world country, and unlike the US or other
developed countries, if something goes wrong there, you only have the embassy to
rely on (and they don't go out of their gates) I'm not as worried as the first
couple days, but it is crazy quiet without her here, especially because of the
phone. I don't know if any of you have given up smoking or any other bad habits,
but you know that there are certain times in the day that were the times you use
to do it, and that's when you miss it. Well its the same thing with the phone.
There are certain times in the day or in the week that I would without fail call
her, or vice versa, now it's like dead air. And just like quitting smoking or
something, I have noticed I'm eating allot more since she's been gone. Yeh, I
know I sound like a sap, but she is such a wonderful wonderful person. I never
thought I would ever find someone that would give me more joy than annoyance (: ooh!!! I was just
about to end this blog, and she called me and said she's going to come home
early! She'll be back Tuesday the latest, and if the airline can find something
sooner she'll take it. It's going to cost her $ 200 more to do that, but she
hasn't been feeling well down there the last couple of days, so it's worth it.
See, what started as a blue blog has taken a happy turn. I'll leave you with a
cute pic of my queen. (:
I really don't know how I miss these movies
when they come out, but for all whom don't know the movie MirrorMask, it is a
genuine gem.
It's writer's are Dave McKean whom I myself
am not too familiar with, and Neil Gaiman, who's writing and producing has
started to blossom in such current productions such as Beowulf and the cinematic
version of his novel Stardust. But where he made his first impression on me was
his comic series The Sandman which ran from 1989 to 1996. These writers paired
up with the Jim Henson Company and created MirrorMask. It is a combination of
live action and CGI animation. As you know I'm not much for telling too much of
the story (I love when you're as surprised as me) but it involves a
Avant-garde circus similar to Cirque du Soleil, and a dreamesque world that
reminds me a lot of Madeliene L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Which a movie attempt
was made of a couple years back but lacked the dark bizarre mood that A Wrinkle
in Time invokes as literary work. (I always hoped Burton would give that one a
go). Anyhow, MirrorMask had that dark spacey feel, and I would say it had some
influence from the movie Legend as well (Again I won't tell how, but you'll see
parts in this movie that are very similar to parts in Legend). The main
character is portrayed by a charming young actress named Stephanie Leonidas,
whose acting may still need a couple of tweaks, but she makes up for it with her
charisma. The CGI, special effects, characters and the dark bizarre color pallet
used by it's creators definitely plunges you into spellbinding landscape. I
enjoyed it, I wished it were a bit longer in duration, but I have decided to
add it to my personal library. I give MirrorMask ( If not for all of the
above reasons, then at least for it's trippiness and eye candy ) 4
swords out of 5
Ahhh, The Beatles. Let me
just say in opening: the Beatles (as for many of us) had played a large role in
my brother's and my life. As a matter of
fact,we were
part of the band. Yes, at only four feet high, me and my sibling would stand
cogently, singing loudly many a song into our miniature pool table sticks,
rather from the entire record albums, or from our collection of heavily
scratched Apple Record 45 singles. Yes, we were stars! So needless to say,
Though I had not gone to the theater to see it, I still waited in eager
anticipation to see this brilliant concept of a musical, and tribute to the
songs of The Beatles called Across the Universe. The movies virtues were as
follows: Interesting story concept (although a bit melodramatic). It's
cinematography was well orchestrated and executed, and lots of delicious
imagery, eye candy, and trippy scenes. However: I think the movie relied heavily
on our emotional attachment to these wondrous songs. Which at times did work: At
points in the movie I did get goose bumps. But was it from the movie? Or just
from the strong feelings I have for the songs. I would love to hear comments
from non-Beatle fans on this movie to help clarify that, by removing any bias or
influential favoritism that a Beatle fan would be subjected to. The young
(mainly amateur) actors made the movie young and amateur. I feel a movie of such
bold convictions, represented by such sacred compositions should have been
delivered to us by only the highest ranks of our thespian community. Like the
Who's movie Tommy, with such stars as Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Oliver Reed,
Ann Margret and of course Roger Daltrey himself made more of an impact than say a cast of college
graduates would have. Though some of the song renditions were unique, and had
enjoyable twists, most were butchered to a point of resembling Rosanne Barr's
infamous version of our National Anthem. . There were parts that I really
thought were good, like the Strawberry fields scene, and truthfully, I loved
watching the psychedelic displays during the rolling credits at the end of the
film. Also its depiction of the 1960's time frame was pretty credible. However
for me, it just fell short of hitting the mark. Director Julie Taymor seemed to
tried so hard to create an emotional wave out of as many Beatle puzzle pieces
she could put together, but instead ended up with just a bunch of different
flavored crumbs on the bottom of a bag of Party Mix. Sure you might find a whole
cheese doodle or two here and there, but nothing worth a second viewing. I give
Across the Universe 2 swords out of a possible 5
yea i talk a lot lol only when i got something to say. i havent had my cable working at home since thursday so im behind on everyones voices. hopefully they will get it fixed today if not left to my own devices ill go effin insane. have a nice day!!
Greetings Blackwolf;
Glad to have you as a new friend. I read your blog, nice reviews. I had not heard of the movie Mirrow Mask either but will see if I can find it and check it out.
Blessings Kittina
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yea i talk a lot lol only when i got something to say. i havent had my cable working at home since thursday so im behind on everyones voices. hopefully they will get it fixed today if not left to my own devices ill go effin insane. have a nice day!!
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