As many of you may have started to notice by now, I have not yet been announced as a guest at this year's Dragoncon. In fact, it's starting to look like I may NOT be invited this year at all. I have long since lost count but I believe that if I'm doing my math correctly, this would have been my 15th year in a row performing there! Hard to believe but true.
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Greetings friends,
On a weekly basis, I get hundreds and hundreds of messages via email, Facebook, twitter, Youtube, etc... As many of you already know, I go to great lengths to try to respond to most if not every one. Of these messages, a good handful of them every week are requests for me to check out or inspect or critique someone's work. As it happens there are several reasons why it's impossible for me to do that or perhaps more importantly, better that I don't. None of this will be terribly easy to swallow for the artist who just really wants to share their work with another artist they admire and I'm fairly certain that there will be those who will think me incredibly arrogant for saying some of the things I'm about to say. But for the sake of sharing these ideas communally (and saving myself the trouble of having to explain my position, ineloquently in 140 words or less on Twitter, week after week to an earnest young artist seeking guidance or acceptance, let me say it here instead.
Let's start simply...
TIME:
A Small Dream Come True
Twenty eight years ago, when I first ran away to New York City I spent a lot of time walking around at night. I had lots of free time on my hands back then. I worked at a record store my first four months in New York and when I'd get off work around one o'clock AM, I would take to walking the streets. It always amazed me how quiet and desolate the city could be in the wee hours of the morning.
A True Twilight Zone Moment
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
I'm sitting in a cafe on 3rd street and 2nd ave and believe it or not, I'm still shaking a little bit. Nothing really traumatic has happened, mind you, but I have quite actually just had a true Twilight Zone moment...
Well, I guess Sucker Punch got me all riled up (see last post). As often happens, I juggle so many things at any given time that sometimes, I completely forget about certain projects or they fall into the background long enough to seem forgotten. In any case, last year, with an option agreement in place to develop Chi-Chian into a live action feature film, I thought about Chi-chian a lot. But when the option expired and I found myself writing and rewriting "Call of the Jersey Devil", working on a bunch of Deady toys, promoting the country record, writing a new record and seemingly always on tour, the old girl got a little neglected. Well, I'm getting back on track with Chi-chian. Just this week I started writing an outline for a Chi-chian feature film screenplay. I've waited too long for someone to step in and do this for me so now it's time I do it myself. And how better to keep the story close to what it should be, right? So hopefully, I'll actually have a script to shop around. It's a language that Hollywood understands. I've always been amazed at how I can walk into a meeting with a stack of Chi-chian comic books, drawings, a role-playing game, a maquette, the web series on DVD, etc... just really hit them with how much content there already is for this story and the usual response I get is, "I don't get it, where's the script"? So hopefully this will cure that problem and we can get moving forward.
I also REALLY want to write it as a novel. I guess I must have a burning desire to become a Sci Fi author! lol! But in truth, I just love telling her story and I'm very verbose (which doesn't work for screenplays). A novel would be the best way to be able to really describe her world in great detail and describe what she's feeling emotionally. It excites me tremendously! Again... I just have to find the time.
In the meanwhile... I will be posting episodes from the Chi-Chian "The Black Seed" webseries I originally made for the Sci Fi Channel's website back in 2000. An episode will go up every Tuesday at 8pm every week until they are all up. This week's episode will go up early due to a scheduling conflict. You can see them under FILMS right here on www.voltaire.net
I hope you enjoy the world of Chi-chian as much as I do!
Cheers!
Voltaire
I went to the movies tonight to see Adjustment Bureau.. which was fine by the way. But something happened during the previews that made me sick in that way you get when you lose so profoundly that your stomach feels like it drops into your knees.
This is what happened...
We were watching...
Welcome!!!!
I just sent out the very first e-newsletter from the new Voltaire.net! As promised, I've started my e-list from scratch to insure that only people who REALLY want to be on it, are... It went out to a little over 1,000 people. If you were one of them, then you were one of the first 1,000 people to sign up either at one of my shows recently or right here on VOLTAIRE.NET!
For that I thank you and I hope you will join me right here often for news, tour dates, to hear ALL of my CDs in their entirety, watch my little films, or chat on the Blog or (if I get my way...) in...
Hi!
Well, as you can see, there have been some big changes to Voltaire.net... however, there is still lots more to come. It only just got started being assembled... so please be patient and soon enough all of these pages will be full.
It's my hope that this will be a place you can come to again and again for news, tour dates, to listen to EVERY SONG I'VE EVER RELEASED!!!! and of course to participate in the blog. In the meantime, please join the mailing list so you'll know when it's all up and ready.
Thanks for joining me on this exciting new beginning!
Voltaire
