Tales of the Vuduri: Year One

  Pretty cool, huh?

 

  Entry 1-160: June 3, 2013

 

  Days of Future Past

 

  When I was writing the first Intermezzo for Rome's Evolution, which took us back to "Rei's last day on Earth," I had Rei pick a song at random. My original draft had the song as "Days of Future Past" by the Moody Blues, as I believed this was a song on the album.

  If you think back to Part 2 of Rome's Revolution, I made a big deal of Rei having recovered his music slab. Well, in Intermezzo 1 of Rome's Evolution, you see how he acquired it and in Intermezzo 2, you see how he recovered it. I even made mention of the fact that Rome liked the Moody Blues as well.

  Well, as I was researching Intermezzo 1, I looked at the play list for the album Days of Future Past (P.S. The first book I ever wrote was called Future Past and discovered there was no song with that title. But then I stumbled across a song called "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" which I had heard many times but never listened that carefully to the lyrics. Here is just a little taste:

  I know you're out there somewhere

  Somewhere, somewhere

  I know I'll find you somehow

  Somehow, somehow

  And somehow I'll return again to you

  The mist is lifting slowly

  I can see the way ahead

  And I've left behind the empty streets

  That once inspired my life

  And the strength of the emotion

  Is like thunder in the air

  'Cause the promise that we made each other

  Haunts me to the end

  I know you're out there somewhere

  Somewhere, somewhere

  I know you're out there somewhere

  Somewhere you can hear my voice

  I know I'll find you somehow

  Somehow, somehow

  I know I'll find you somehow

  And somehow I'll return again to you

  Once I read the lyrics, I was blown away. It was as if this song were written for Rei and Rome. And the song was written in 1967. I didn't even write the first draft of VIRUS 5 until 1973. But it took me until 2013 to read the lyrics carefully.

  If you want to listen to it, here is a video with the song and lyrics.

  Pretty prophetic, huh?

 

  Entry 1-161: June 4, 2013

 

  Who is Rei?

 

  The “Who is Rome?" posting was so popular, I thought I'd follow it up with a similar one for Reinard for the Rome's Revolution series. The idea is simply when thinking about casting the characters for a potential movie, I need the actor to meet certain physical characteristics. Of course, they have to be able to act, too.

  For Rei, I needed an actor who was about 6 feet tall and had sandy to dark hair. I started with Ian Somerhalder. Here is his picture: