Broken Saints Blog-a-Plenty

Posted By Brooke Burgess

Ian has returned

back in the saddle

(and if you’re REALLY good, and ask him EXTRA nice, he might send you the link to his personal slew of holiday snaps – England, Italy, Spain – the lad knows how to have fun!!!)

Posted By Brooke Burgess

To truly stay young

and a Go-Kart track!

🙂

(Loving thanks to Kimmie V, Jeff McNuts, The Closet, 5.1 Fulton, Drewbie Doobie, and the Wildthing for making me the center of attention…in a GOOD way. Better start planning the 40th now!!!)

Posted By Brooke Burgess

Hey kiddos. As mentioned in the latest edition of the newsletter, Kim and I are off to the World Television Festival in breathtaking Banff, Alberta…Canada (that one was for you, Lance). Sure, there should be chances for a shwack of cool workshops, as well as meetings with program buyers and distribs that could help the saintly cause – but I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t ACHING to get out of town for a few well-deserved days of clean mountain air and a trail ride or two.

Posts may be light for a few days – we’re in a shit hotel with no broadband (savages) – but I’ll be returning Wed or so as a judge and participant at this year’s VIDFEST in Vancouver. Will try to snag a few candid snaps for ya’, and maybe even drop by the forum once or twice. Until then, moochas smoochas to all…and you’d all better be planning your pilgrimages to Comic-Con or Anime Evolution. For the love of sweet Pete – we want to touch you in a non-emotional way for a change!!! 😉

Posted By Brooke Burgess

I like The Eggplant

not just a creative guy

but a ‘voyeur’ too

😉

Posted By Brooke Burgess

(from the files of hardcore saint and cultural sleuth MYRIDEAN – and damn, it’s a TASTY one!!!)

BS LINK TO DAVINCI CODE???

Even Abbé Saunière might have known the truth as this font can suggest that our very own Brooke was onto something when he started making Broken Saints at the beginning of the new millennium. At the Rennes-le-Château in France, Saunière received vast amounts of money through the extensive selling of masses albeit some believe that he got more money as explained in several “myths”, e.g. blackmailing the Vatican or finding the Knights Templars’ treasure. Some of that money nonetheless went back into the community in fixing up their church, building a guesthouse and other various improvements to the area. This fountain was one of them but it’s rather strange because not everyday you walk into a church and see this ghastly gargoyle head as a stoup of a baptismal font. Just above the basin, this symbol was found. When I was watching a documentary earlier this week, I knew this isn’t the first time that I’ve seen this fountain featured but it was the first time that the guide to the area focused on the symbol itself. Henry London thinks the initials may stand for Bérenger Saunière or for a particular Latin phrase but he states also that no one knows for sure. 😀

Posted By Brooke Burgess

Even the font is similar to our sub-headings in Trajan…weeeiiirrrd.

Posted By Brooke Burgess

Swimming in the sky

Above the turning of Wheels

on roads of decay

Posted By Brooke Burgess

One can choose to smile

Though bound by strange circumstance

Distinguish yourself

Posted By Brooke Burgess

…makes a man laaaaaaaame.

This whole ‘responsible adult’ gig started kicking in this year, and I can’t say that I’m wholeheartedly enjoying it. Being on the West Coast and operating on Pacific Standard Time, I need to be up at the sweaty asscrack of dawn if I want to make any headway with press or partners in TO or New York. And if I need to order clotted cream or organic schnitzel (ie: yap with European folk)? Then I’ll likely need to give the middle finger to Morpheus and stay up ’til 1 or 2 AM to make it happen.

The days aren’t getting shorter, no matter what the Sun says. 🙁

Posted By Brooke Burgess

Man, but do I hate being at the tail-end of a demographic now: 18 to mutherfrikkin’ 35. ‘Young’ associates look at you like you’re seconds away from drooling senility and a hip replacement, and ‘seasoned’ peers are opening their arms for zombie-like expressions of decrepit kinship and bladder-control brotherhood.

Fuck that noise. Today, I shall float like a pre-pubescent butterfly, and sting like a Viagra-fuelled bee. If performing monkey number 1, 2, and 3 can make 40+ work WITHOUT a makeup artist? Then watch out world…’cause this particular primate hasn’t matured enough yet to reach the metaphorical equivalent of ‘solid food’. 😉