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Okay, people, you can thank since he tagged me to do this eight facts meme about my Valerie DeVille character.
1. Valerie was originally created as a nemesis for my heroic Danger Doll team. I can't recall at this point if she predates the millennium, but I suspect some version of her does. The idea was that she would be larger than life, dark and perfect in every way. A paraphrasing of the Galadriel line from LOTR when she is offered the ring is how I view Valerie. "I will be your mistress, so terrible and beautiful to behold that all shall gaze upon me and despair." Here is a video I found of Rowena Scibelli, the first model I recall imagining as a physical representation.
2. The name Valerie comes from that of an intern and friend who was over six feet tall and very vivacious. The last name DeVille just seemed a good fit with the voodoo origins of the Dark Dominatrix as the character developed.
3. The character prefers to be thought of as "Vivacious" Val rather than the "Vicious" Val moniker that wrestling announcers have assigned her.
4. Because, while Valerie, as the Dark Dominatrix, enjoys dominating heroines as entertaining sport, her real ambition is to gain power over others, be loved like a goddess and eventually rule the world.
5. To that end Valerie has made herself into the leading fetish fashion designer for the rich, influential and decadent through a very successful line of fetishwear and chain of high-end boutiques known as "Second Skin."
6. Val enjoys playing the Dark Dominatrix spokesperson part so much that the fantasy of the advertising gimmick has blurred into reality for her and any unfortunate caught within her Second Skin restraints.
7. Valerie is inhumanly powerful, nigh invulnerable and commands an army of the old ones' fleas, amphibious creatures the Danger Dolls call Froglodytes.
8. Valerie has a mysterious mansion on a difficult-to-locate island that seemingly floats about a dark tract of swamp in Louisiana that is crawling with thousands or perhaps millions of Froglodytes, not to mention the even more terrible unmentionable tentacled thing with uncountable gaping eyes and yawning maws.
1. Valerie was originally created as a nemesis for my heroic Danger Doll team. I can't recall at this point if she predates the millennium, but I suspect some version of her does. The idea was that she would be larger than life, dark and perfect in every way. A paraphrasing of the Galadriel line from LOTR when she is offered the ring is how I view Valerie. "I will be your mistress, so terrible and beautiful to behold that all shall gaze upon me and despair." Here is a video I found of Rowena Scibelli, the first model I recall imagining as a physical representation.
2. The name Valerie comes from that of an intern and friend who was over six feet tall and very vivacious. The last name DeVille just seemed a good fit with the voodoo origins of the Dark Dominatrix as the character developed.
3. The character prefers to be thought of as "Vivacious" Val rather than the "Vicious" Val moniker that wrestling announcers have assigned her.
4. Because, while Valerie, as the Dark Dominatrix, enjoys dominating heroines as entertaining sport, her real ambition is to gain power over others, be loved like a goddess and eventually rule the world.
5. To that end Valerie has made herself into the leading fetish fashion designer for the rich, influential and decadent through a very successful line of fetishwear and chain of high-end boutiques known as "Second Skin."
6. Val enjoys playing the Dark Dominatrix spokesperson part so much that the fantasy of the advertising gimmick has blurred into reality for her and any unfortunate caught within her Second Skin restraints.
7. Valerie is inhumanly powerful, nigh invulnerable and commands an army of the old ones' fleas, amphibious creatures the Danger Dolls call Froglodytes.
8. Valerie has a mysterious mansion on a difficult-to-locate island that seemingly floats about a dark tract of swamp in Louisiana that is crawling with thousands or perhaps millions of Froglodytes, not to mention the even more terrible unmentionable tentacled thing with uncountable gaping eyes and yawning maws.
Top albums of 2023
So music nut that I am I have been meaning to do this, but unlike everybody else I like to wait until the year is actually over before making my list. I mean how can you make a "best of the year" list in early December? Even waiting until now I'm sure my opinion is still rather tentative. I'm going with a list of forty-two because forty-two is of course the secret of life, the universe and everything. Also it means I can tag on two decent but not great albums by classic legacy bands at the end. ;) So here it is! Agusa - Prima Materia Unitopia - Seven Chambers Retreat From Moscow - Dreams, Myths and Machines Riverside - ID.Entity Mystery - Redemption Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour Great Wide Nothing - Hymns for Hungry Spirits, Vol. II Godsmack - Lighting Up the Sky Rick Miller - Altered States Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain Mondo Drag - Through the Hourglass Advent Horizon - A Cell To Call Home Steve Thorne - Malice in Plunderland Pattern Seeking Animals - Spooky Action at a
Albums that turn fifty this year!
It is a bit of a shock when you realize that albums from when you became interested in music are turning fifty. I recently made a list of thirty-seven from 1974 divided into three groups by release date to create three days of listening, about ten hours a day. Some notables that failed to make my list include Aerosmith - Get Your Wings; Argent - Nexus; Bruce Cockburn - Salt, Sun and Time; Budgie - In for the Kill!; Bob Dylan - Planet Waves; Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory; Jethro Tull - Warchild; King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black as well as Red; Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark; Traffic - When the Eagle Flies. The early 1970s were a great time for music in my opinion. My listening list follows below with approximate release dates. Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown (Jan) The Doobie Brothers – What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (Feb 1) Deep Purple – Burn (Feb 15) Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic (Feb 20) The Marshall Tucker Band – A New Life (Feb) Camel – Mirage (Mar 1) Kansas –
My Top 25 Comic Book Films
As we appear to have reached the end of the golden age of comic book films I thought I'd try to make a list of my top 25. This is a live-action list so no animated films here. It is interesting that the films that stick with me and get multiple viewings don't tend to be all the superhero genre films from Marvel and DC, but rather more interesting and original fare with overt pulp and/or science fiction flavors. Here's my list. Joker Dredd (2012) Watchmen Alita: Battle Angel The Avengers Kingsman: The Secret Service Speed Racer V for Vendetta Logan Sin City The Rocketeer Deadpool Guardians of the Galaxy Iron Man Captain America: The Winter Soldier Kick-Ass The Shadow Men In Black Thor Hellboy II: The Golden Army Batman Begins Danger: Diabolik Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Spider-Man (2002) Superman (1978) What are your favorites?
We're An American Band (Crossover Prog)
Recently it occurred to me that perhaps the biggest contribution to the progressive music genre from US bands came in the form of bringing prog elements into the AOR arena. I know a lot of hardcore prog lovers look down on this sort of prog light or prog adjacent stuff as being way too commercial. Hey, who doesn’t enjoy LARPing as a prog snob? But there is something to be said for bringing our favorite music genre to the masses. So I started compiling a list from my collection. No Brits. No Canucks. Nobody else. Just US bands. I skipped the earlier psychedelic stuff like Spirit or Sugarloaf and the art rock glam of Alice Cooper. I passed over the jazz-fusion confusion of Blood Sweat & Tears; Chicago; Mahavishnu Orchestra; Return to Forever and Weather Report. But there are no artists I could not connect to prog in some way. So no Springsteen or Steely Dan either for instance. I also excluded a few more capital P prog bands (some that I quite love) that just seemed to have music too
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very nice choice of model.
interesting. I didnt know her mansion and island floats above the swamp
interesting. I didnt know her mansion and island floats above the swamp