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By gosh, you're right! My mistake...

I know what you mean. I always like the raw unrelenting sound of the original. It was designed so that the chords and vocal harmonies came together as kind of a musical scream - something that was lost in the new version I produced. But, they're both still around, so take you pick! :)

It made me rethink my own life choices when I was writing it! LOL

Stop replying with human slop. Aw, did I offend your sensibilities because I included AI in my creative process? This concept was mine, the name of the character is mine, the Frank insights are written by me. I'm not an artist, so I used AI to realize my vision and then put it into motion. Go somewhere else to dump your ill tidings, and stop disparaging my art.

Uh, is that a positive or negative comment? If it's positive, uh, thanks! If it's negative, then stop disparaging my art.

LOL! I've always been a fan of Hieronymus Bosch - the surrealist 15th century painter. When I decided to create a musical version of my poem of many years ago, I thought that AI's ability to create surreal visualization of concepts would be perfect to illustrate my words. So, working with one AI system, I created still images based on my instructions to create a single image to illustrate the key concepts and moods expressed in each individual verse. Then I imported those images into another AI system to put them in motion. Though AI is still advancing in capability almost daily, I am rather pleased with the result, and especially that I can finally see before the ideas I've only previously been able to watch in my mind's eye.

@@MelanieAnnePhillips An artist takes pride in their work, capitulating that effort to the machinations of artificial design is not a worthy or desirous discipline as it removes the artist from their work. One single image painted and expressed by your own hand would have served better to realize your imagination.

@@UncontainablePickle-_420 Sorry - Can't paint. No artistic talent. I'm great at lyrics, though! I also use drawing programs and photoshop-like programs to make up for my lack of ability in that area and still realize what I'm seeing in my mind's eye. AI is a tool. Don't be afraid of it. Just because we invented photography doesn't mean people have stopped painting - it just allowed those who can't paint to still make pictures of the world.

Thanks for your thoughts. You have tuned in exactly to the concept. Now, how well I can fulfill the concept or whether this particular work will do no more than point the way for others - well that remains to be seen as the stories are uploaded over time. :)

Not in the sense of people yelling at each other, but in the sense that underneath all the passion, the structure of the underlying story is a message - a logic argument that one way of behaving is a better choice than another.

@@MelanieAnnePhillips The structure of a story might be reducible to a logical argument, but that doesn't mean that a story is a logical argument. Great stories transcend logical interpretations, and interpretations in general.

@@kessler2797I couldn't agree more. That's what my 113 part series is all about - separating structure from the passion to better understand the logic of it - to see how structure works and why. And then, armed with that understanding in the back of you mind, go forth and write with passion. Once you understand structure, it guides you from the background. Never let structure be your master any more than logic should rule our emotions in real life. But if stories, or if people, are emotion only with no sense of reason, then they make no sense. It can still be a fun ride, but other than the experience there is no take-away, no meaning. Structure is what builds that meaning, adding strength and power to passion so that it affects both the heart and the mind.

I am sad that you are unsettled.

Glad you like it! It was written and recorded in 1986 using a CZ-101 Casio synthesizer and a TEAC 3340 SX 4-track reel to reel deck. I added the drum track just this year (first time playing drums - I got a tabletop electric drum pad kit for Christmas).

I'm afraid I'm a child of long ago - almost all my work was recorded as demos (about 500 songs, melodies, riffs, and hooks, but I've only ever produced a few properly. It's great to hear that you appreciate that heady age too. :)

@@MelanieAnnePhillips I'm afraid that I'm coming up 60 really, really quick. Retirement or a facelift and work forever 🤣

@@jdwyer4851 71 this year, and finally devoting all my time to my artistic endeavors that have lain fallow.

Thanks! It is something of a grab bag. I just kept throwing prompts at it and extending the original 5 second video until it ended up as this sort of collage.

Thanks!

Good question. Well, you know that it was right after The Strangeness and partly because of it that we began work on story theory. We wanted to write another script together, Chris and I, but we didn't want to run into the same problems we had on The Strangeness. So, we started trying to figure out how stories worked so we could write them better. After several months, however, we got stuck. And Chris said he felt we just didn't have enough life experience to understand it yet and we should put it aside until we did. Wise man. So, we put it aside and went on to write that second script, which was never produced. Then, about ten years later, he called me up and said, You know that old theory of ours about how stories work?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "It's time." Next day we met for breakfast at the Coral Cafe in Burbank to talk about it and never looked back. So, bottom line - I think we were already primed for Dramatica by our experiences on the strangeness and our innate desire to understand the process.

Thank you! Always nice to hear.