~ Animal Rites ~
~ Saturday 18 February 2006 ~
~ Precious Precis ~
Following the formal, floral, flurry of her
first
full (indigestible) fe(a)stival, a young girl
~ whirled in the Ancient World ~ feels less
than bullish about a "barbecue" she can't
"relish" whilst ruing the rules of religious
rite to favour the flavour of Vegemite
at
a panicked Pannychis
that's proven death,
like "life...'s
no picnic".
You can read about the [BULL SACRIFICE] at
the end of the Eleusian
Mysteries, that is the
cause of this kid's queasy consternation by
clicking the highlighted hyperlink to visit
Wikipedia's [FREE ENTRY] "entry".
~ Pretend Poem ~
Animal
Rites
Pensively Penned : 11:04:28 - Monday 16 May 1994
We were
happy
Happy dancing
And the flowers in our hair smelt like the summer should
And the music had a melody before the evening came
And betrothed their scent to incense
Letting*
The tabor
take our steps
Cold,
cold marble
Sculpted into silence
Sanctified
Paler platter for a smearing and a knowledge
Within hopeful visions
That deter the night
Yet stir the Shades
And we
were quiet
Quiet watching
The solemn palms of preparation
Moistly glisten
Dionysus' roses drowning for the
Fire
Barley water, a reflex in sharp reflection
And we
had altered
Altared faces
And the ashen garlands squealed and spat their colours out
And the lyre
called us louder, wilder as its strings were scorched
Like ceremonial sunsets
Return
Before the evening came
~ Animal Rites : Audio Acceptance ~
I like the vocal.
(!).
~ Animal Rites : Creation & Criticism ~
In a move forward from the wonky-mouth
(and
incorrect dentition) of
Mountain
Mouton the
Singing Sheep, [THIS] computerised character's
teeth are mu(n)ch
more acceptably angled.
However, "Uncanny Valley" has dictated
full-time,
fully-dilated (non-(")unruly) pupils(") fixed
in an
intense,"Rolling, Rolling, Rolling" rôle - as
over-cooked as the carcass
their (seemingly
possessed) possessor has not over-looked but
rather - looked over ; sadly strickened, sickened
as a stoned and silenced Sibyl.
You could shut your
<I+I>,
it rather <looks>
like <"eye">
did !
Appearing old
enough to be a Sibyl,
makes this
model MUCH more mature than
she should be.
I envisaged a girl aged
between eight and
twelve years and NOT the
grown-woman we see
flexing Tara
FitzGerald's features
(and the great
big wig she has whisked from Andie
MacDowell).
~ "COLOR" ME <CONFUSED> ~
"Color"ed : CONFUSED
by a (Pseudo-)"Senior
Moment", Andie
MacDowell
Loses Her Hand Luggage,
Her Eye Baggage and the
((Big-Hair,) Airport)
Plot in Pursuit of "The
Grey Pound" (if not a "Greyhound").
Er...of
course, <none of that actually happens>
in the above advert - but
I'm sure it DID in one of the BRITISH localisations for this <Revitalift>
series ....erm.....um.....if
only I could...um...rem(....um...)ember...
A similar <MEMORY MALFUNCTION>
seems to be affilcting Andie who
("Andie Who ??")...er...Andie
who has <COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN>
that she isn't French. Elsewhere on YouTube Andie
MacDowell has
<COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN>
that she isn't German or...um...Turkish.
I had considered adapting (not adopting):
Dis ((Dissed) Miss (Missed) (Dismissed))
To ~Not Look So Sad~ She Needs to Raise *UR...CHIN*
"Laying it on with a (Handy
Muck) trowel,"
yet Ashputtle-ragged,
she is NOT "Annette
from "Grange
Hill"" ; she is NOT "Scary
Spice" and she is "NOT going out looking
like THAT,".
Instead, I forewent "dis" <no-go
photo>
and made the base-picture for the speaker's
face by using .StarMaker.,
a standalone
head-designing tool that
was given away
by publishers LionHead Studios
to promote
.The
Movies., their film-making
scenario
varaint of the ground-breaking management
games .Theme
Park. and .Theme
Hospital..
The fun FREEBIE utility armed
me with a
fully-frontally posed portrait ensuring the
easiest and most successful feature-fitting
within Reallusion's .Crazy
Talk 4. lip-synching
software. It also provided a non-photo-realistic
"cartoony" quality to the character that, I think,
ironically, makes her seem less <eerily unnatural>
than the result from an un-edited snapshot
may have been.
.StarMaker.
only allows for the generation of
Adults. I would really like
to get access to a
tool that lets you make ANIMAL
heads
enabling the creation of casts whose casts
...DON'T
get [IN THE WAY] of their
~words~....