The lack of immigration reform is just the result of ignorant people of the pasty persuasion fearful that they'll eventually become the minority and then they'll be on the persecution end for a change. The thing is, by 2050, whether they like it or not, the white race will indeed be the minority as the nation, if it doesn't blow itself up, becomes more of the melting pot it always was, and we then finally resemble the rest of the planet. Star Trek's IDIC ( Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations) coming true, and I'll be smiling from the Next World.
If I were ever insane enough to get married again, it would hopefully be to someone like Rachel Maddow; the story she did tonight on the theft and recovery of a Stradivarius violin by the Milwaukee police with the help of the FBI Art Recovery team (yes that is real), leading up to microstamping technology that could be used to solve crimes involving bullets and firing pins was very cool, a true story that could be an entertaining, James Bond like film. She always manages to assemble interesting and intricate pieces, scoops and revealing news that challenge the mind and open doors to truth not often seen in media. Kudos to her and to her network for keeping her kind of Stradivarius quality reporting.
Is it odd for me to continue to grieve for Philip Seymour Hoffman, someone I never knew but whose work, honesty, generosity and altruism I admired? Maybe, but that doesn't lessen the profound sense of loss I feel about his passing. Seems like the best of us gets taken way too soon. That said, I'll probably outlive all y'all.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Solamaine The Trancendant (treatment)
All text copyright 2014 James E. Finch, Quantum Mechanic Productions
Solamaine is a story I've been working on all my life, starting in High School I called the character Ikon, then changed in to Solamaine in 2007 after a friend of mine apparently died from her injuries after a car accident in Romania. The character, a young, troubled singer from New Zealand who becomes a near omnipotent being after an accident, represents my desire to empower women and to delve into the mystery of metaphysics. The following is a scene where Solamaine and her friend consult a mentor about how to control her God-like powers, and she gets in touch with her deceased father:
INT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – DAY
Solamaine, Katherine enter. Rajah, Katherine, Solamaine sit.
KATHERINE
You don’t seem very surprised to see us.
RAJAH
Life is full of surprises. I was just thinking
of you, Solamaine, and here you are.
KATHERINE
Aren’t you going to ask how we got here?
RAJAH
I suppose you walked.
KATHERINE
I’d say a little more than walked since we
were in Auckland just a few minutes ago.
SOLAMAINE
Actually we were in Piha, but that’s beside
the point. I need your advice, sir.
RAJAH
It matters not how we make a journey, just
that we make it. That’s what life’s all about.
SOLAMAINE
Professor Rajah, something has happened to
me. I’m not like I was before.
RAJAH
If you are not you, then who are you?
SOLAMAINE
Our town was hit by a meteor last night and
somehow, all that destruction has been
reversed. In all of that, I died and so did
Katherine, my mother, and everyone in the
town. I changed all of that, however.
RAJAH
Perhaps, the universe wanted you to
attain your full potential, which is why
you have such a command of things around
you now.
SOLAMAINE
When that rock hit, it opened a hole, a rip
in space and a whole bunch of light went
through me like I was toilet paper.
RAJAH
And how do you feel?
SOLAMAINE
Like I am literally beside myself. I feel
giddy, tingly, like something massive
happened, is happening, will happen.
RAJAH
Like a door opening. Like you are now
awake from a long sleep.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
RAJAH
And you’ve come to me to try to make
sense of it.
SOLAMAINE
My head is a mess right now. It takes all
of my strength just to keep from changing
things around me.
RAJAH
With this door opening, if you will, you possess
abilities never before tapped, and you’re using
more of your mind than ever before.
SOLAMAINE
The thing I don’t seem to be able to do is wish
myself back to what I was. Just a chick deejay
spinning trance for the masses.
RAJAH
Like trying to limit the limitless.
SOLAMAINE
I am not limitless.
RAJAH
You place limits on yourself. Which perhaps
is wise considering what would happen in your
present state of finite wisdom.
SOLAMAINE
Gee, thanks.
RAJAH
You are growing right now. You are trying to
restrain that growth because you fear that you
will act from emotion and not from your heart.
SOLAMAINE
So, what do I do?
RAJAH
Just let go.
SOLAMAINE
I do and all hell would break loose. I am not
sure if I could put it all back the way it should
be.
RAJAH
That’s your fear talking. Just let go. Be who
You are.
SOLAMAINE
Who am I?
RAJAH
You are like no one else. You’re just you. I
Remember you in high school, always bending
the rules a bit to get noticed. Always trying to
impress Andre. The rainbow hair, the somber
music, the need to break the stereotypes.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, that’s me all right
KATHERINE
You like to stand out.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, well, I got an ego to boost.
RAJAH
You’re so much more than ego. You want to
be somebody so hard that you literally broke
out of your shell when the meteor hit you.
KATHERINE
How do you know so much about what she is
going through?
RAJAH
I don’t, but I know something of the journey
to find one’s self. You’ve been given a great
opportunity, Solamaine, all you need to do is
find your true self in the maelstrom of the
limitless.
SOLAMAINE
So you’re saying, just let go and I’ll find
myself.
RAJAH
As much as you are afraid to know, you have
to bring your mind into focus…try some one
pointedness. Meditate.
KATHERINE
Yeah, maybe some of that Star Wars Yoda
stuff might do you some good.
RAJAH
I have a friend who can help guide you. He
is not easy to find, however. He’s very much
in touch with himself. To the degree that he
can hear thought the same way as we hear
sound.
SOLAMAINE
Point me to where he is and I’ll find him.
RAJAH
Best if he finds you. His name is Kalki.
SOLAMAINE
How will he find me? Do I just wait here?
RAJAH
The first step is to quiet your mind. When
you do that, he’ll hear your call and come
looking for you.
KATHERINE
Sounds a little out there to me, not that we
haven’t all been out there lately.
SOLAMAINE
If I quiet my mind, the song that keeps me
and everything around me in one piece will
be gone and then all bets are off.
RAJAH
It will be all right.
Rajah lights a candle. Solamaine sits in a lotus position in front of the candle and stares at the flame.
RAJAH
Just look at the flame, then close your eyes
and bring the image of the flame into your
mind’s eye.
The room begins to SHAKE, the walls begin to CHANGE COLOR. Katherine gets nervous.
KATHERINE
Uh oh.
RAJAH
It will be all right.
SOLAMAINE
I’m afraid. Everything around me depends
on me to remain real. I can’t just-
RAJAH
It will be all right. Don’t attach yourself to
anything. Just be free. Just think of the flame.
The buildings around the area shake, objects everywhere blink in and out of existence and change shape. Many people run to and from the buildings in fear.
INT. SOLAMAINE’S P.O.V. – DAY
Swirling colors begin to coalesce into a single flame.
RAJAH (V.O.)
Solamaine? Can you hear me?
INT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – DAY
The earthquake subsides, the walls go back to normal. Katherine is no longer agitated.
SOLAMAINE
(eyes closed)
I’m calm like I was before. I think I’ve
got the hang of it now.
RAJAH
Good, good. When you let go of your fear
and just be yourself, everything goes back
to where it needs to go. Now, we just keep
our focus on the flame.
SOLAMAINE
I’m standing on a circle of light, floating above
a galaxy that’s changing shape and swirling.
I’m hallucinating, maybe.
RAJAH
Perhaps you are in a place where time has no
meaning.
There is a KNOCK at the door. RAJAH gets up to answer the door. SOLAMAINE opens her eyes. Katherine looks toward the door. Rajah opens the door. KALKI, a young Indian man in a white robe, enters.
RAJAH
Kalki is here.
SOLAMAINE
Wow, that was fast.
KATHERINE
Fast? We’ve been here about four hours, mate.
SOLAMAINE
I didn’t realize.
Kalki looks at Solamaine with great interest. Solamaine reacts nervously.
RAJAH
Solamaine, Katherine, may I present my
good friend, Kalki.
KALKI
Hello.
KATHERINE
Gidday.
SOLAMAINE
Nice to meet you.
KALKI
I know you.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, I’m Professor Rajah’s former student
KALKI
You are Solamaine. You’re the limitless.
SOLAMAINE
(nervously)
Nah, I’m just a chick who likes to spin tunes
in Auckland.
KALKI
I heard you calling out. First, looking for your
Father Roy, then for Andre.
SOLAMAINE
How’d you know my Dad’s name? Better yet,
How do you know about Andre?
KALKI
These are the souls who you feel complete you
And so you feel alone and cut off. I hear the
thoughts of a strong mind.
SOLAMAINE
Ah, my mind isn’t anything special. Like I said,
I’m just a –
KALKI
There’s no need for that. How can you measure
the measureless, bind the boundless, limit the
Limitless?
SOLAMAINE
Here, what do you think I am?
KALKI
You’re you, nothing more, nothing less.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, well, you’re making me sound like
something I’m not.
KALKI
You can literally think things in and out of
existence, change matter to energy and back
again, control vast energies beyond imagination.
What do you think that is?
SOLAMAINE
I dunno. I’m trying to figure it all out.
KALKI
Perhaps you know already, but are thinking
that those around you might fear you, so you try
to be normal, if you will. This is an artifact of
your perception of the need to fit in.
SOLAMAINE
Geez, everybody is trying to be a shrink today.
KALKI
I only have a desire to guide you to peace.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, well, I think I’m on the right road. I just
have to let go of some stuff.
KALKI
Limits, perhaps.
SOLAMAINE
Everybody has limits.
KALKI
It can be easy to understand things that have
beginnings and ends, boundaries, limits. These
are things you do not have.
SOLAMAINE
Sure I do. I can’t do everything.
KALKI
How can you be sure? Have you tested your
skills?
SOLAMAINE
Well, I can’t bring me Dad back and Andre
doesn’t love me.
ROY PURCELL, Solamaine’s Dad, APPEARS.
ROY
Angel eyes. How are you?
SOLAMAINE
Dad? But you’re….you’re dead.
ROY
Apparently not, as I am here. I’ve missed you.
Roy embraces Solamaine.
SOLAMAINE
You’re here because I asked you to be.
ROY
I never left you, ya little sprog. Just
because I messed up don’t mean that
I stopped loving you or your Mum.
SOLAMAINE
But you did leave. You committed
suicide because you couldn’t cope with
losing your job and Mum’s anger.
ROY
I let myself get mugged by a couple
of desperate blokes because I knew the
insurance would take care of you and
Lucy. If that’s what you call suicide,
then shoot me. So to speak. I was
worth more dead than alive.
SOLAMAINE
(starts to cry)
That’s all bollocks and you know it.
EXT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT BUILDING – DUSK
It starts to RAIN.
RAJAH
(looks out window)
Interesting. It does not rain here this time
of year….very often anyway.
SOLAMAINE
I’ve always loved you, Dad. It’s been
thirteen long years without you. How
could you ever think so low of yourself?
We love you, will always love you,
Mum and me. Don’t ever forget that.
ROY
I won’t. And now, you can let me go.
SOLAMAINE
I can’t let you go, now. I need you back.
ROY
I’ve always been right here (points to her heart).
C’mon, Angel Eyes, would you want me to be
stuck on this plane?
SOLAMAINE
What do you mean?
ROY
You know, this level, this plane. You’re a
bright little shiela, you know what I mean.
KALKI
You brought Roy from his world into yours.
SOLAMAINE
You mean Heaven?
ROY
I guess. People have got so many names for it.
All I know is that it’s a place where I never feel
knackered.
SOLAMAINE
If that’s what you want.
ROY
You can visit me any time. Just think of me
and you’ll be there with me.
SOLAMAINE
OK, Dad…I love you.
Solamaine is a story I've been working on all my life, starting in High School I called the character Ikon, then changed in to Solamaine in 2007 after a friend of mine apparently died from her injuries after a car accident in Romania. The character, a young, troubled singer from New Zealand who becomes a near omnipotent being after an accident, represents my desire to empower women and to delve into the mystery of metaphysics. The following is a scene where Solamaine and her friend consult a mentor about how to control her God-like powers, and she gets in touch with her deceased father:
INT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – DAY
Solamaine, Katherine enter. Rajah, Katherine, Solamaine sit.
KATHERINE
You don’t seem very surprised to see us.
RAJAH
Life is full of surprises. I was just thinking
of you, Solamaine, and here you are.
KATHERINE
Aren’t you going to ask how we got here?
RAJAH
I suppose you walked.
KATHERINE
I’d say a little more than walked since we
were in Auckland just a few minutes ago.
SOLAMAINE
Actually we were in Piha, but that’s beside
the point. I need your advice, sir.
RAJAH
It matters not how we make a journey, just
that we make it. That’s what life’s all about.
SOLAMAINE
Professor Rajah, something has happened to
me. I’m not like I was before.
RAJAH
If you are not you, then who are you?
SOLAMAINE
Our town was hit by a meteor last night and
somehow, all that destruction has been
reversed. In all of that, I died and so did
Katherine, my mother, and everyone in the
town. I changed all of that, however.
RAJAH
Perhaps, the universe wanted you to
attain your full potential, which is why
you have such a command of things around
you now.
SOLAMAINE
When that rock hit, it opened a hole, a rip
in space and a whole bunch of light went
through me like I was toilet paper.
RAJAH
And how do you feel?
SOLAMAINE
Like I am literally beside myself. I feel
giddy, tingly, like something massive
happened, is happening, will happen.
RAJAH
Like a door opening. Like you are now
awake from a long sleep.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
RAJAH
And you’ve come to me to try to make
sense of it.
SOLAMAINE
My head is a mess right now. It takes all
of my strength just to keep from changing
things around me.
RAJAH
With this door opening, if you will, you possess
abilities never before tapped, and you’re using
more of your mind than ever before.
SOLAMAINE
The thing I don’t seem to be able to do is wish
myself back to what I was. Just a chick deejay
spinning trance for the masses.
RAJAH
Like trying to limit the limitless.
SOLAMAINE
I am not limitless.
RAJAH
You place limits on yourself. Which perhaps
is wise considering what would happen in your
present state of finite wisdom.
SOLAMAINE
Gee, thanks.
RAJAH
You are growing right now. You are trying to
restrain that growth because you fear that you
will act from emotion and not from your heart.
SOLAMAINE
So, what do I do?
RAJAH
Just let go.
SOLAMAINE
I do and all hell would break loose. I am not
sure if I could put it all back the way it should
be.
RAJAH
That’s your fear talking. Just let go. Be who
You are.
SOLAMAINE
Who am I?
RAJAH
You are like no one else. You’re just you. I
Remember you in high school, always bending
the rules a bit to get noticed. Always trying to
impress Andre. The rainbow hair, the somber
music, the need to break the stereotypes.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, that’s me all right
KATHERINE
You like to stand out.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, well, I got an ego to boost.
RAJAH
You’re so much more than ego. You want to
be somebody so hard that you literally broke
out of your shell when the meteor hit you.
KATHERINE
How do you know so much about what she is
going through?
RAJAH
I don’t, but I know something of the journey
to find one’s self. You’ve been given a great
opportunity, Solamaine, all you need to do is
find your true self in the maelstrom of the
limitless.
SOLAMAINE
So you’re saying, just let go and I’ll find
myself.
RAJAH
As much as you are afraid to know, you have
to bring your mind into focus…try some one
pointedness. Meditate.
KATHERINE
Yeah, maybe some of that Star Wars Yoda
stuff might do you some good.
RAJAH
I have a friend who can help guide you. He
is not easy to find, however. He’s very much
in touch with himself. To the degree that he
can hear thought the same way as we hear
sound.
SOLAMAINE
Point me to where he is and I’ll find him.
RAJAH
Best if he finds you. His name is Kalki.
SOLAMAINE
How will he find me? Do I just wait here?
RAJAH
The first step is to quiet your mind. When
you do that, he’ll hear your call and come
looking for you.
KATHERINE
Sounds a little out there to me, not that we
haven’t all been out there lately.
SOLAMAINE
If I quiet my mind, the song that keeps me
and everything around me in one piece will
be gone and then all bets are off.
RAJAH
It will be all right.
Rajah lights a candle. Solamaine sits in a lotus position in front of the candle and stares at the flame.
RAJAH
Just look at the flame, then close your eyes
and bring the image of the flame into your
mind’s eye.
The room begins to SHAKE, the walls begin to CHANGE COLOR. Katherine gets nervous.
KATHERINE
Uh oh.
RAJAH
It will be all right.
SOLAMAINE
I’m afraid. Everything around me depends
on me to remain real. I can’t just-
RAJAH
It will be all right. Don’t attach yourself to
anything. Just be free. Just think of the flame.
The buildings around the area shake, objects everywhere blink in and out of existence and change shape. Many people run to and from the buildings in fear.
INT. SOLAMAINE’S P.O.V. – DAY
Swirling colors begin to coalesce into a single flame.
RAJAH (V.O.)
Solamaine? Can you hear me?
INT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – DAY
The earthquake subsides, the walls go back to normal. Katherine is no longer agitated.
SOLAMAINE
(eyes closed)
I’m calm like I was before. I think I’ve
got the hang of it now.
RAJAH
Good, good. When you let go of your fear
and just be yourself, everything goes back
to where it needs to go. Now, we just keep
our focus on the flame.
SOLAMAINE
I’m standing on a circle of light, floating above
a galaxy that’s changing shape and swirling.
I’m hallucinating, maybe.
RAJAH
Perhaps you are in a place where time has no
meaning.
There is a KNOCK at the door. RAJAH gets up to answer the door. SOLAMAINE opens her eyes. Katherine looks toward the door. Rajah opens the door. KALKI, a young Indian man in a white robe, enters.
RAJAH
Kalki is here.
SOLAMAINE
Wow, that was fast.
KATHERINE
Fast? We’ve been here about four hours, mate.
SOLAMAINE
I didn’t realize.
Kalki looks at Solamaine with great interest. Solamaine reacts nervously.
RAJAH
Solamaine, Katherine, may I present my
good friend, Kalki.
KALKI
Hello.
KATHERINE
Gidday.
SOLAMAINE
Nice to meet you.
KALKI
I know you.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, I’m Professor Rajah’s former student
KALKI
You are Solamaine. You’re the limitless.
SOLAMAINE
(nervously)
Nah, I’m just a chick who likes to spin tunes
in Auckland.
KALKI
I heard you calling out. First, looking for your
Father Roy, then for Andre.
SOLAMAINE
How’d you know my Dad’s name? Better yet,
How do you know about Andre?
KALKI
These are the souls who you feel complete you
And so you feel alone and cut off. I hear the
thoughts of a strong mind.
SOLAMAINE
Ah, my mind isn’t anything special. Like I said,
I’m just a –
KALKI
There’s no need for that. How can you measure
the measureless, bind the boundless, limit the
Limitless?
SOLAMAINE
Here, what do you think I am?
KALKI
You’re you, nothing more, nothing less.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, well, you’re making me sound like
something I’m not.
KALKI
You can literally think things in and out of
existence, change matter to energy and back
again, control vast energies beyond imagination.
What do you think that is?
SOLAMAINE
I dunno. I’m trying to figure it all out.
KALKI
Perhaps you know already, but are thinking
that those around you might fear you, so you try
to be normal, if you will. This is an artifact of
your perception of the need to fit in.
SOLAMAINE
Geez, everybody is trying to be a shrink today.
KALKI
I only have a desire to guide you to peace.
SOLAMAINE
Yeah, well, I think I’m on the right road. I just
have to let go of some stuff.
KALKI
Limits, perhaps.
SOLAMAINE
Everybody has limits.
KALKI
It can be easy to understand things that have
beginnings and ends, boundaries, limits. These
are things you do not have.
SOLAMAINE
Sure I do. I can’t do everything.
KALKI
How can you be sure? Have you tested your
skills?
SOLAMAINE
Well, I can’t bring me Dad back and Andre
doesn’t love me.
ROY PURCELL, Solamaine’s Dad, APPEARS.
ROY
Angel eyes. How are you?
SOLAMAINE
Dad? But you’re….you’re dead.
ROY
Apparently not, as I am here. I’ve missed you.
Roy embraces Solamaine.
SOLAMAINE
You’re here because I asked you to be.
ROY
I never left you, ya little sprog. Just
because I messed up don’t mean that
I stopped loving you or your Mum.
SOLAMAINE
But you did leave. You committed
suicide because you couldn’t cope with
losing your job and Mum’s anger.
ROY
I let myself get mugged by a couple
of desperate blokes because I knew the
insurance would take care of you and
Lucy. If that’s what you call suicide,
then shoot me. So to speak. I was
worth more dead than alive.
SOLAMAINE
(starts to cry)
That’s all bollocks and you know it.
EXT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT BUILDING – DUSK
It starts to RAIN.
RAJAH
(looks out window)
Interesting. It does not rain here this time
of year….very often anyway.
SOLAMAINE
I’ve always loved you, Dad. It’s been
thirteen long years without you. How
could you ever think so low of yourself?
We love you, will always love you,
Mum and me. Don’t ever forget that.
ROY
I won’t. And now, you can let me go.
SOLAMAINE
I can’t let you go, now. I need you back.
ROY
I’ve always been right here (points to her heart).
C’mon, Angel Eyes, would you want me to be
stuck on this plane?
SOLAMAINE
What do you mean?
ROY
You know, this level, this plane. You’re a
bright little shiela, you know what I mean.
KALKI
You brought Roy from his world into yours.
SOLAMAINE
You mean Heaven?
ROY
I guess. People have got so many names for it.
All I know is that it’s a place where I never feel
knackered.
SOLAMAINE
If that’s what you want.
ROY
You can visit me any time. Just think of me
and you’ll be there with me.
SOLAMAINE
OK, Dad…I love you.
ROY
And
I love you, Angel Eyes, a million years
past
forever.
Roy fades and then blinks out.
EXT. RAJAH’S APARTMENT – DUSK
The rain stops, the skies rapidly
clear, to the astonishment of passersby looking up at the sky.
Solamaine, the TRANCEndant.
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