Carving the Stargazer and The 2nd Fool

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I woke at 2 in the morning… to a bright new moon smiling down at me… and took a walk down by the mouth of the Red River… I could hardly believe my eyes, rain was falling, in BOK… wow, it’s been a while. It was nice to sit in the rain and think. I haven’t read anything as of late, nor do I intend to, although some words from Anthony Weldon have been ringing in my ears just under the soft hum of the warmoths. I prefer my own words and thoughts this time. It’s been a busy few days, thinking about old “Fool Shame” proverbs from The Court and Character of King James, dead ends, buried coins, new songs and most important as of late, carving the stargazer idol relentlessly into the wee hours of the dark night in Chamber #408. I have a few new characters for the Diamonds Hadder tale but the time is short on the Hadder front. My stargazer commission is takin all my efforts at the moment, but I do see a window very soon where I can return to my Hadder universe. Met with old friends yesterday in the gardens and that was nice, was good to step away from the knife and idol.

I came to the end of a road recently, generally I’ve been traveling in a straight-line forking left and forking right at times but low and behold.. it literally stopped. I thought perhaps it was a trick, as Zabble seems to take joy in my bewilderment of this place, but I soon realized it was in fact simply an end. It happens so I’m told. I made my way through some not so desperate brush and into a clearing where I noticed a fresh path closely hugging the river, I didn’t look back this time. I also left my tattered journal, empty story book shell, and an old coin there as I felt it would better serve the next person on that winding path of broken and lost things. Say what you will, I have learned a thing or two from that path. It’s different this time, I’m different.

The last thing I will say about lost roads. Some things go beyond ignore…. And forever isn’t long enough for some heartless actions and paths.

I’ve been whistling a new tune as I work, it came in the night…. And generally, those are the best tunes I find… perhaps it will see the Hadder project once my idol is completed and I get some fresh new dirt under my feet. Enjoy a few video stills from a stargazers dream.

“The Second Fool”

Once I was blind

Watching lights and chasing shines

Looking for a line

To pull the world closer to me

Oh you’ll see

Before I died

I was catching ashes as they left the fire

To spin them into words I tried

But a fools hope, no

It doesn’t burn up twice

So no, oh no,

The lie is a truth

So go, you should go.. forever

for it’s coming ever coming

No why, oh know why

Must we die so soon.,

The story left the pages kept.. there

And the waves took the rest.. dear

One afternoon

Before the 2nd fool.. oh yeh

Before the 2nd fool..

come the moon

For us all so soon..

till we learn the tune..

oh.. there’s no June

Before the 2nd fool

Once I was tired

Thought ever spell I cast would lift the night

Every dream I had was worth some fight

But the sand underneath

Couldn’t keep the tower right, no more

Try I did, to build it quickly

A foolish kid caught up in foolish tricks see

And why? for the sake of it then

But Bless the sun, for she’s come to warm my sacred beach again

So no, oh no,

The lie is a truth

So go, you should go.. forever more

for it’s coming still ever coming

No why, oh know why

Rest the one, my own mirage

Another chapters done.. but I go on.. and on

Oh, oh, oh..

before the 2nd fool

Before the 2nd fool.. oh yeh

Before the 2nd fool..

come the moon

For us all so soon..

till we learn the truth..

oh.. there’s no June

Before the 2nd fool

Rain out my window, woke me in the night

Months since I heard her out the fire

But the sun, she’s coming soon

New lights and new June’s

For me.. oh.. and for you

So far I came.., Oh what a shame.

Sometime before the second fools rain.

- evermore j

Images:

Doug Weiand - Guitar

Joey Mancaruso - Drums

Kent Hiltz - Bass

John Evermore - Vocals

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The Child: Zabble meets Diamonds Hadder

Field Notes: From the book of Evermore.

Master Zabble entered the Black Forest early in the morning.. not exactly a place to be at that time or any time really, named after the Drok witches and their magic that called this forest home for as long as any book could tell. A rumor of a child abandoned on the outskirts on the forest is what drew him here. Not really a thing that Zabble regularly leaves his castle for, but a dream the night before of a man with red eyes had haunted him so and something told him to go.. some unseen feeling.. another problem with the forest is the warmoths of course, although they don’t exactly harm humans without cause.. it’s best to just avoid such encounters and they do seem to frequent the forest at night.. he approached a clearing near the mouth of the red river and suddenly heard the faint hum of classic warmoth singing, an odd dissonant song only they make.. it’s said that if you even try to utter a warmoth song you’ll never speak again, or wake from the night.. and so it’s been this way forever...

The creek was loud and in the distance he could see some shadows huddled around something in a circle.. warmoths perhaps.. although it was an odd sight to see them huddled in such a composition. Close to each other. They are nomad creatures who tend to travel and hover in flocks though they keep to themselves mysteriously.. he approached with caution although he felt no fear from them.. they knew if him as most did... the legend of zabble and his power was far stretched. As he came upon the circle he could see that it wasn’t them that were singing.. it was a small child.. wrapped in a blanket with gold and silver writings... a language he didn’t recognize, in the hundreds of languages he was well versed in, but what was more interesting and shocking was the singing or humming that the child was doing.. it was the song of the warmoths, how bizarre, as he stepped even closer he suddenly noticed the warmoths were gone.. rather suddenly and abruptly, the face of the child was slightly covered by the blanket... it’s strange markings now almost glowed in the dark as if sensing danger.. and under some illumination spell, but it was an odd unrecognizable magic. He reached his hand in to uncover the child’s face.. to see him.. and the song stopped as the blanket slid over to reveal the child’s face, it was then that Zabble saw the red tattoos that decorated the child’s eyes.. in a similar magic as the golden blankets spell, the tattoos also glowed slightly and moved with the dark.. it was an odd sight, not a solid red but a finely etched red pattern so small and intricate that it appeared to simply be solid red, but in fact it was a universe of words and things that Zabble couldn’t unravel or begin to understand. But he decided perhaps, because from his dream and premonition, that he would try. And so Zabble called him Diamonds Hadder and took him home to BOK. “Diamonds” for his eyes and “Hadder” for the famous human mage, John Hadder, who ended the war between the warmoths and men and who disappeared in the Black Forest just before the Kilgore temples were built and the vicious rule of the young lord Bane began.

- evermore

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Stargazer Stills.

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"Oh I see his face,

Where is your star? Is it far, is it far, is it far? When do we leave? I believe, yes, I believe."

-RJD

As the long and tedious process of video edited takes place in the tower, I thought I would share a few stills from the video shoot. We had a videographer on set the whole day documenting the shoot and these images came from him. The entire process of this video has been filmed along the way, from rehearsals, to studio tracking and recording to the actual video shoot and I hope to edit together a nice behind the scenes video showing the process with all the incredibly talented people involved in this project. I've been filming the entire "TOR" record for about 3 years and the hope was always to release this footage after the record came out. For now, it does bring me a lot of joy to see that we could salvage "Stragazer" and see it through to this point, I can only hope the rest of the missing record will find the air waves and screen as well. As far as this video goes, so many great people worked tirelessly on this music and video and I hope it shows in the end that a little real well placed passion can maybe find a place in this world forever.

- evermore

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