The Hadder and Gazer: Update

Well it’s been about a week since we finished the first preliminary “Stargazer” video viewings so to say. Results are good, it now enters a little phase of final edits and touches. It’s an 8 minute song so it would be nice if the video did hold some attention.... while having a few pretty spectacles throughout of course. It’s a nice thought anyway. I spent the weekend collecting dry ice and doing some laser reshoots as I find that some extra footage in your pocket is always nice to have in the closing hours of a video cap… kind of like leaving the house with a knife strapped to your leg and hidden under your pant and boot… you just never know. Just finished up the last shoot in the clouds high above BOK… the August fog was lingering just outside the poles I've been planting, but I was safe high above and hard at work, forgetting and remembering and forgetting again.

There's no hurry for a release date, it’s almost done and nothing or no one is really stopping that now. We're not exactly curing world hunger. Considering it’s forever, a few weeks shouldn’t hurt right? We had a few musical edits that needed to take place on the master track as well, so that’s in the works this week in the “Old Land of the Gardens”. I will say that a week away from the video editing was nice. I had a chance to sit back and watch it with some fresh new Diamond eyes… hell, I didn’t even see the dust velocities in it. A few ideas started to sprinkle after viewing it though…. so… I’m onto that while also finishing up work on a promising new song called “Last Light”. A three-minute song, wow, imagine that. It’s busy here in the towers and busy is delightfully good. Autumn is in the air and my voice feels and sounds stronger than ever. Been listening to some new things in the old rafters and my hummingbirds are happy, I really have nothing to complain about.

Stargazer… soon. Maybe 13 days, we’ll see. Yeh, that's random enough.

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New Song: Last Light

Putting some finishing touches on a new song called "Last Light", with the help of Lord Scott Ramsay who provided the initial musical landscape. The lyrics and vocals came to me over the weekend, I hardly complain when such things happen. Interesting song, came together fairly quickly. Might be a Hadder thing, might not, to early to tell... but it's almost done. Important to note: The prize comes from the creation, not the outcome, but it would be nice to deliver it to Remdom.

Last Light

"We rise or die

No reason why

We somehow lost the wonder

Its fight or flight

On the devils night

But the tower is forever"

And we dance like fools, puppets to the tunes

In the pool… but who’s to say

And the water rises for the keepers and finders

Who would rule the day

I’ll give you everything tonight

This is the last light

The last Light

This is the last light

The last Light,

And we fall or fight

Under evil lights

Or is it just a glitch in a dream

will we stand tonight

to wrong the right

or hang the witch at the tree

And we dance like fools, puppets to the tunes

In the pool… but who’s to say

And the water rises for the keepers and finders

Who dare to rule the day

I’ll give you everything tonight

This is the last light

The last Light

This is the last light

The last Light

So close to end, so far from the star that made you,

This might be the end of everything… oh

But we’ll rise up from the ground

After the light goes out

This is the last light

The last Light

This is the last light

The last Light

#lastlight #diamondshadder #johnevermore #hadderuniverse #creation #newsong #love #lyrics #ramsay #evermore

Red River and the Warmoth.

Field Notes from Diamonds Hadder:

I found a rather stunning Luna Moth yesterday in the courtyard gardens and it reminded me of an old field note from my journal. So I dug it up and shared. I'm on pleasant holiday from midnight carvings while my stargazer idol warms in the sun a few days, a much needed break from the tiny details and dust velocities is in order before a final signature is burned in the wood. I can only do so much, in the end were all just boats being pushed around. You have to make choices, hard choices sometimes, from heart to head to hand... we never really get to the top of the mountain, we only enjoy the sun a little while before climbing again. I was talking to Zabble about heading into the revine to spend some time alone over by Barkers Notch. I'm exhausted from the climb and my axe is quite dull. I received word from emissaries that more commissions are in order so I really need to sharpen the blade so to say. So much I care about, so much I've done and still so much yet to do... I often ponder if it was all in vain. I guess pondering is part of me and my dreams. "Stay the course Mr Hadder... stay the course"... I can still hear Zabble's calming voice echo in the darkness of the lower tower. Anyway, soon enough I suppose. I now have a Luna moth to talk to.

Yesterday I was sitting by the red river just enjoying a little peace and quiet as the sun was getting low in the sky. I noticed a warmoth by the river bank.. it was dim and so it’s transparent wings were fluttering different colors… not sure exactly how that works but it’s very fascinating. In the dark they almost become invisible, the 2 main enormous wings shaped like a luna or a tiger moth. Hence the floating triangles that people often envision when you mention warmoths. It almost looked like it was exercising them or testing them out or stretching them.. or dare I say just having fun. I noticed some interaction with some dragonflies which seemed quite fascinated as well with the warmoths tail lights and I think the warmoth was teasing the dragonflies and playing around with them… flashing his lights as they investigated. I think people have a misconception of them, perhaps the name they were given has something to do with that. The more I know about them the more I wonder about men.. I see much more harmony with the natural world and warmoths than I do with men, and their the constant overwhelming need rule and judge and destroy. I guess not all men, but, as I get older I seem to relate with the hero john hadder more and more. Zabble has me out here taking notes for him.. but I must say, I rather enjoy the hillsides at dusk.

#lunamoth #diamondshadder #evermore #hadderuniverse #warmoths #fieldnotes #stargazer