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Texas Show Three: Austin Night Two

I'm in my San Antonio hotel room, awaiting Show Four. I can see how a person might get used to this. New city, new hotel, comfy bed (fingers crossed), tiny writing desk/table/bureau for me to sit at and pour out my adventures from the night before.

But there is a not insubstantial quantity of animals at home who need me back, not to mention a boss who will notice if I'm not back and re-chained to my oar at the proper time.

So I will continue on with the time allotted to me.

Last night was the Cactus Cafe in Austin and this had me feeling a lot of feelings (in my feelings? as the kids say?) If all eventualities are still playing out every where at any given time, four-years-younger me was still wandering the halls, looking for the cafe.

I was still there taking pictures with Marty where I accidentally hit record and ended up getting a video of the table top and random audio of our weird conversation (90% of conversations with Marty are probably weird conversations and I am 100% here for that), me with my hotel room freshly cancelled out from under me still talks to Salim (he has kind eyes... He's tall. Like me. Most people aren't tall like me. Why is he talking to me?), talks to Danny (who will go home to England and yet - on the other side of a stack of calendar pages - will still become my Skype guitar mentor). Maybe in some reality we still have our Austin hotel room and all is well, maybe in some realties, we hit a deer on the way home (Hill Country Deer roulette is a thing, y'all, never doubt.)

The stage curtains are still red at the Cactus Cafe. The whole thing felt small. Like when you return to a childhood classroom after a growth of years and wonder at the doll-sized tables and chairs, hooks for coats and backpacks now at stooping level.

The audience was good. A very respectable number. Quiet and attentive. Joe and Salim are appreciably tighter as a duo than just a couple of days ago. The songs with Oliva (all songs should be with Olivia. That should be the rule. If you want your song to be exponentially more gorgeous, allow her to deftly draw her bow across it) have grown from one to two ("Friends for Life" and now "Miette.")

Curfew at 10 doesn't afford Marty the same relaxed approach as previously. He still banters... he just tries to do it quickly/more condensed. Still. A sight to behold. I mentioned to Danny ("Laish" from the last tour, 2018) that we didn't get back from Celina last weekend until after 2am. You know how Marty loves to talk. That man, he agrees, loves to talk. But I don't think any one of us who have met him would have it any other way.

If there were ever enough time, I would love to take Marty strolling in some cool, storied old cemetery. He has prefaced "Hopes and Fears" each night with mention of a love story occurring during the Industrial Revolution where people were being eaten by machines just miles from the picturesque English countryside.

I wonder what he would say at the Colorado mining town cemeteries we've been to in years gone by where my favorite thing to do was walk amongst the headstones and imagine the tragedies that went with each short span between dashes. Injury, illness, tragedy... anything has to be infinitely more interesting and therefore romantic than the angry, disposable society of today.

It was a good show. The best possible incubator for what is about to happen because I'm surely about to be standing in Philly tomorrow (philly... philly... philadelphia. TOMORROW. Wake up. Terrifying miracle of modern air travel *POOF* other side of the US) wondering where all that good will and attentiveness went.

Salim gives voice to exactly what I'm thinking (he gestures to me twice last night to come back over to where he is because I wander off when people want to talk to him. Still, watching him wave at me, I stifle the urge to turn around and look behind me. Surely, he's waving at someone else.)

The touring unit, Salim says (Joe, Salim, Marty and Olivia) are hitting their stride and perfecting their performance (story about Venice here, speaking in different accents, counting in different languages, story about the arrival of "I Don't Think So" in one day's work)... just to only have one night left and done. This is the kind of situation where you want this to be the beginning, the warm up, not the end.

The East dates will not be like any of this. I know that. And I worry. He doesn't need me to worry. He's an old pro at this, but I also remember very clearly standing in the West Salem gig in 2020 and just being so angry while forks clattered against plates and people just would not *shut up*. They talked over Rhett too which is bizarre to me as this is who most of them are paying specifically to see (I still have only the most basic concept of Rhett. I know he is kind and gives off similar good feelings as Salim... but I also know he's on TV. Like, a lot). These audiences will be looking for a tipple, looking for a gnosh and the music will be a backdrop that a lot of them will barely pay attention to.

I'm glad for the Texas gigs. I'm glad for the love that has been afforded everyone so far. So so much.

Salim mentioned liking the response gotten so far to "Protect Your Peace," a lovely song Salim has been weaving around a piece of audience participation that has - so far - gone beautifully. I feel like this song is probably not even going to be tried on the next leg of shows... just a feeling.

But an old, dear friend of mine I've never actually met in person bought EIGHT tickets for Philly so there is as much positive mojo as anyone could possibly want right out of the gate.

And Sarah and me and my husband will be there. Which means, no matter how hard he has to fight to win the room every night... the cheering section from home will still be there.

And doubtless, there will be someone there every night that was just like I was. Someone who didn't know that some guy they've never heard of from Texas is EXACTLY what they needed to include to make their listening, their *living* experience that much better.

And winning one person is WINNING.

Grand adventure awaits.

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Schizophrenia

I am the author and artist of all substance inherited, content beseeched and context consecrate of this form of media. 

Name: Mason Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Company: Occultum Nocturum.

[magnanocturnum-blog]

The Basis of Magna Nocturnum: The Husk Theory

The basis derives from the mother religion, Hexisim. The original name is the Jar Theory. For Nyxisim we call it the Husk Theory, which goes as follows.

Every person starts off as a husk, and empty vessel. Before this body comes into existence bits a pieces are mashed together to make the soul inside the husk. Depending on your purpose determines your spiritual make up.

A Number: The Number is made up of recycled bits of other’s with that same number. A Number will die if it is not seen that they are on the path to achieve their goal. The remains are used to form the new Number with its new goal that is slightly based off the goals of the previous owner of that soul bit. A Number is determined by date of birth and can only go up to nine (loosely based off of numerology.)  

An NPC: The NPC is made up of scarp soul bits and is used by the numbers to help them with their goal. A number, if powerful enough, can put some of their essence in the NPC to “claim” them.  On face value it sounds like an NPC is a waste of space, worthless.  In actuality, the NPC is a very important being. They are given a special view on the world that most cannot grasp. They are aiding for a better, important goal. They have the opportunity to become privileged beings. Though the downfall of the NPC is their ability to be close minded, thus not being able to allow others in. The other downfall is that an NPC can be used by an opposing number to sabotage the rivaling numbers goal.

An Arch: (In Hexisim the Cralos). The Arch is an Arch Angel of sorts. Each number has their Arch(s) which protect them. They could be numbers in your Group or just bystanders in your everyday life. Sometimes they are higher entities on the spiritual plain and occasionally they manifest in other beings to help and guide a Number.

After all of this is put into play there are overall goals of a Number. The collection of the Numbers is called a Group and the Group revolves around the nine in that Group as the overall end goal of the collective numbers. The nine is also the leader of said Group. In nature and by law there is always an opposite as well as an equal. To the simplest of putting’s, there is good and evil. Now not all good agrees with good and same goes with evil. Thus Groups may find an opposing group a treat and try to alter the path of the Group. Opposite there are groups that have their own views but sees how another’s can work with them thus forming a larger group made up of two or more. This is called a Society.

In summary we are all husks with a soul inside and dependent on what makes up that soul we have a different role in life. Do to this there are groupings made up of certain husks known as Numbers. There are fights that can be had between Group as well as alliances. NPC’s are used to benefit the Group and become something more than just a binary NPC and an Arch protects and helps guide the individual Numbers on their path.

Stay posted for an essay that goes a little more in depth with diagrams as well as a video explanation, this video explanation will also be able for audio download.  

Again some of the terms have been changed but the majority of this derives from Magna Nocturnum’s mother religion Hexisim. Hexisim was not a religion I created and I have slowly been branching away on. The creator of Hexisim is still working on her page and once that is established I will link you to it!

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