Raymond Gaynor's Blog, page 16
April 4, 2022
LOVING THOSE PLANTS
WHEN was the last time you picked a tomato, cucumber, carrot or peach right off the plant and thanked the plant for sharing its bounty? During my last trip to Japan, just before COVID set in, I visited the apple orchards of Iida, Nagano Prefecture, and walking a field with the farmer, heard him thank the tree after picking an apple for me to sample. And what an apple it was. Large, ripe, succulent and sweet. When I asked him his secret to success, he said it was because he always thanked the plant after picking an apple.
If that sounds unusual, I would remind that years ago, when berry picking at Neah Bay, Washington, I heard and witnessed the same respectful gesture from the Native American I was with. It touched my heart, and I hope, the plant, too. Later, when working for NASA on water recycling, it suddenly came to me that plants not only are essential to our lives — think CO2 to O2, “dirty” water to potable water AND food for humans — but have been around much longer than humans. That thought alongside the gratitude I’d heard offered directly to plants, got me thinking: In all our hubris, we humans often talk proudly of how we domesticated plants, making me wonder if it might not be the other way around. Maybe plants have slowly domesticated us to favor their growth, evolution and presence.
While working at NASA, I came to discover that plants use water like we do blood, except that their circulatory system is open instead of closed. They take up water and release it into the air. These plant transpiration waters (PTW) contain chemicals produced inside the plant that are unique to each plant species, which are imparted into their PTW. These chemicals can be biologically active, even potent, when breathed in by humans. So, maybe it’s not so crazy to imagine plants domesticating humans for their own benefit — https://glykineroresearch.yolasite.com (https://youtu.be/KanG0RCo934?t=18 – yep, that’s Setsuko and me).
I’ve tried to convey these ideas in my newest Amazon-genre-bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, available with FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING from The Book Depository at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed..., also available from Savant Bookstore Honolulu at https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... and Amazon in printed, digital and audio book versions at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859.
If that sounds unusual, I would remind that years ago, when berry picking at Neah Bay, Washington, I heard and witnessed the same respectful gesture from the Native American I was with. It touched my heart, and I hope, the plant, too. Later, when working for NASA on water recycling, it suddenly came to me that plants not only are essential to our lives — think CO2 to O2, “dirty” water to potable water AND food for humans — but have been around much longer than humans. That thought alongside the gratitude I’d heard offered directly to plants, got me thinking: In all our hubris, we humans often talk proudly of how we domesticated plants, making me wonder if it might not be the other way around. Maybe plants have slowly domesticated us to favor their growth, evolution and presence.
While working at NASA, I came to discover that plants use water like we do blood, except that their circulatory system is open instead of closed. They take up water and release it into the air. These plant transpiration waters (PTW) contain chemicals produced inside the plant that are unique to each plant species, which are imparted into their PTW. These chemicals can be biologically active, even potent, when breathed in by humans. So, maybe it’s not so crazy to imagine plants domesticating humans for their own benefit — https://glykineroresearch.yolasite.com (https://youtu.be/KanG0RCo934?t=18 – yep, that’s Setsuko and me).
I’ve tried to convey these ideas in my newest Amazon-genre-bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, available with FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING from The Book Depository at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed..., also available from Savant Bookstore Honolulu at https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... and Amazon in printed, digital and audio book versions at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859.
April 3, 2022
CELEBRATION AND LEARNING
SUCCESS demands celebration; but failure, as negative as it may sound, is how we learning. We learn from our mistakes and failures. The “trick,” of course, is to avoid fatal ones. The dead don’t learn from their mistakes or failures.
While it’s said, “Dead men tell no tales,” that isn’t necessarily true. The living, if curious, conscious and reasonably empathic, can learn from others’ fatal mistakes and failures. Call it science, if you wish, where science is the search for the repeatable.
Unfortunately, one distinctly human enterprise, war, tends to violate learning from others’ mistakes and failures. War, despite the hoopla about being a science, is not, given the number of elements that would have to be controlled to be perfectly repeatable. History (his-story), likewise, doesn’t repeat in exactly the same way, though it, like war, often seems to do so. However, what’s repeatable or scientific is the result rather than the causal conditions. Many paths lead to war. History and war are recorded by the victors, rarely by the survivors.
This whole concept is obliquely embedded in what I call the new literary genre of Sci-Fu — science-based futuring, or “future studies.” Neither fantasy nor fiction, but a plausible extension of current events into the future, Sci-Fu gives readers the opportunity of choosing what type of future world they would like by presenting contemporary conditions they can change. Neither science nor art, Sci-Fu presents the reader with a choice between celebration or learning. And, unlike war, the characters do tell tales from which readers can learn. Interested? Get a copy of the Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — or the multi-award-winning QUANTUM DEATH by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — and decide for yourself.
While it’s said, “Dead men tell no tales,” that isn’t necessarily true. The living, if curious, conscious and reasonably empathic, can learn from others’ fatal mistakes and failures. Call it science, if you wish, where science is the search for the repeatable.
Unfortunately, one distinctly human enterprise, war, tends to violate learning from others’ mistakes and failures. War, despite the hoopla about being a science, is not, given the number of elements that would have to be controlled to be perfectly repeatable. History (his-story), likewise, doesn’t repeat in exactly the same way, though it, like war, often seems to do so. However, what’s repeatable or scientific is the result rather than the causal conditions. Many paths lead to war. History and war are recorded by the victors, rarely by the survivors.
This whole concept is obliquely embedded in what I call the new literary genre of Sci-Fu — science-based futuring, or “future studies.” Neither fantasy nor fiction, but a plausible extension of current events into the future, Sci-Fu gives readers the opportunity of choosing what type of future world they would like by presenting contemporary conditions they can change. Neither science nor art, Sci-Fu presents the reader with a choice between celebration or learning. And, unlike war, the characters do tell tales from which readers can learn. Interested? Get a copy of the Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — or the multi-award-winning QUANTUM DEATH by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — and decide for yourself.
April 2, 2022
WHAT’S A LITTLE DYSTOPIA?
I’M often told that THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor —https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — is “classic” dystopia fiction, which due to the pandemic seems in demand at the moment. I’m also often reminded that dystopias, by their nature, are not good for the mind, body or soul. But I’m also reminded that dystopias have a real “positive” purpose in our contemporary world. After all, we’re well past 1984, the year George Orwell set his famous dystopic novel of the same name.
Dystopic works are no longer science or future fiction; they’ve become de rigueur. In fact, I believe the genre is slowly graduating from works of pure fiction to works of an entirely new genre, “science futuring” (future studies, if you prefer). Why? Because the future is rapidly becoming dystopic!
An article posted in YourDictionary.com entitled “What Are Examples of Dystopia? 23 Fictional Societies” describes four basic “classes” of dystopias: BUREAUCRATIC CONTROL (a government with relentless regulations rules); CORPORATE CONTROL (a large corporation controls people through media or products); PHILOSOPHICAL/RELIGIOUS CONTROL (an ideology enforced by the government controls society) and TECHNOLOGICAL CONTROL (computers, robots, artificial intelligences or science are used to control people). Interesting note: All four appear in THE EDGE OF MADNESS and it’s “naughty” prequel TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2006) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556 (which explores, if there is such a thing, a fifth class of dystopia: SEXUAL CONTROL).
And what about this recent, cogent article that has appeared on the BBC News: “How Dystopias Can Save The World,” a 28 March 2022 article by Diane Cole (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...)? I’m of the opinion that she’s got it right and dystopic fiction may be more than just important, it may be essential to progressing and surviving our contemporary world.
And, hey, don’t forget QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... if you find yourself suddenly itching for a great dystopia! I think you’ll like it. And QUANTUM DEATH, the fifth in the riveting seven-book “Koski and Falk Secret Agent” series is the sequel to FINDING KATE (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes, now a six-part film including A. G. Hayes as Tom Stewart, the head of ultra-secret Cerberus. Currently in production, FINDING KATE is scheduled for release in November/December 2022!
The Edge of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
Available in printed, digital and audiobook formats; purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatments
Dystopic works are no longer science or future fiction; they’ve become de rigueur. In fact, I believe the genre is slowly graduating from works of pure fiction to works of an entirely new genre, “science futuring” (future studies, if you prefer). Why? Because the future is rapidly becoming dystopic!
An article posted in YourDictionary.com entitled “What Are Examples of Dystopia? 23 Fictional Societies” describes four basic “classes” of dystopias: BUREAUCRATIC CONTROL (a government with relentless regulations rules); CORPORATE CONTROL (a large corporation controls people through media or products); PHILOSOPHICAL/RELIGIOUS CONTROL (an ideology enforced by the government controls society) and TECHNOLOGICAL CONTROL (computers, robots, artificial intelligences or science are used to control people). Interesting note: All four appear in THE EDGE OF MADNESS and it’s “naughty” prequel TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2006) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556 (which explores, if there is such a thing, a fifth class of dystopia: SEXUAL CONTROL).
And what about this recent, cogent article that has appeared on the BBC News: “How Dystopias Can Save The World,” a 28 March 2022 article by Diane Cole (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...)? I’m of the opinion that she’s got it right and dystopic fiction may be more than just important, it may be essential to progressing and surviving our contemporary world.
And, hey, don’t forget QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... if you find yourself suddenly itching for a great dystopia! I think you’ll like it. And QUANTUM DEATH, the fifth in the riveting seven-book “Koski and Falk Secret Agent” series is the sequel to FINDING KATE (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes, now a six-part film including A. G. Hayes as Tom Stewart, the head of ultra-secret Cerberus. Currently in production, FINDING KATE is scheduled for release in November/December 2022!
The Edge of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
Available in printed, digital and audiobook formats; purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatments
April 1, 2022
FILMING OF “FINDING KATE” BEGINS
YESTERDAY, the casting call went out — https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... — for the K. Simmons Production of “Finding Kate,” a six-part action-thriller series about “long-ignored computer genius Kate Keenan who has designed a computer program that will put Hollywood and Bollywood out of business overnight. Suddenly everyone wants her…and her program. To stay alive, Kate goes into hiding, barely keeping ahead of a lethal hoard of pursuers" -- https://kspllc.media/finding-kate.
“Finding Kate” is based on the award-winning novel, FINDING KATE (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — the fifth in the seven-book multi-award-winning “Koski and Falk Secret Agent” series, and the first of three in the “Kate Keenan Special Assignment” series. Available from Amazon in printed and Kindle versions written by Savant Books and Publications’ own real-life James Bond, A. G. Hayes, the book is adapted for television and the cinema by screenwriter Myka Arakawa. FINDING KATE is the prequel to the sixth “Koski and Falk” adventure, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — also available from Amazon in printed and Kindle versions, and purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
Filming begins today in California with A. G. Hayes as Tom Stewart, head of the ultra-secret quasi-governmental agency, Cerberus. A. G. Hayes has years of experience as a theatrical actor in UK and USA. Break a leg, A. G.! For more information, I invite you to follow my actor website with behind-the-scenes information on “Finding Kate” at http://janik.yolasite.com/findingkate....
Setsuko Tsuchiya and I (as Daniel S. Janik) are hoping to appear in the initial part as participants at a gala studio party. Fingers crossed, digging out my custom competition tux and Setsuko one of her many outstanding competition ballroom dresses. Could we go skimpy Latin-American instead? Who knows? Follow us at https://janik.yolasite.com/findingkat... and https://janik.yolasite.com/dancer.php.
Finding Kate (Koski and Falk #4.5)
“Finding Kate” is based on the award-winning novel, FINDING KATE (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — the fifth in the seven-book multi-award-winning “Koski and Falk Secret Agent” series, and the first of three in the “Kate Keenan Special Assignment” series. Available from Amazon in printed and Kindle versions written by Savant Books and Publications’ own real-life James Bond, A. G. Hayes, the book is adapted for television and the cinema by screenwriter Myka Arakawa. FINDING KATE is the prequel to the sixth “Koski and Falk” adventure, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and Raymond Gaynor — https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ... — also available from Amazon in printed and Kindle versions, and purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
Filming begins today in California with A. G. Hayes as Tom Stewart, head of the ultra-secret quasi-governmental agency, Cerberus. A. G. Hayes has years of experience as a theatrical actor in UK and USA. Break a leg, A. G.! For more information, I invite you to follow my actor website with behind-the-scenes information on “Finding Kate” at http://janik.yolasite.com/findingkate....
Setsuko Tsuchiya and I (as Daniel S. Janik) are hoping to appear in the initial part as participants at a gala studio party. Fingers crossed, digging out my custom competition tux and Setsuko one of her many outstanding competition ballroom dresses. Could we go skimpy Latin-American instead? Who knows? Follow us at https://janik.yolasite.com/findingkat... and https://janik.yolasite.com/dancer.php.
Finding Kate (Koski and Falk #4.5)
March 30, 2022
WHAT’S GOING ON IN PARA-DICE?
GAMBLING – GAMING – WAGERING – PUNTING – SPECULATION – TAKING A CHANCE ON LADY LUCK. Gambling is as old as mortality, which is pretty old, don’t you know? We gamble every day, every hour, every minute, sometimes every second with our lives. No wonder that gambling in that first virtual world of money is so tempting. Win and you get more; lose and all you lose is money. And when that get’s boring, gambling in that second virtual world of power is even more tempting, lying between gambling for money and gambling for one’s existence.
The problem is, this world, at best, is “mostly safe” (from HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY). Safety comes in being an invisible part of the herd “norm.” In many countries herd “norm” members gamble by “investing,” typically in the largest organized gambling effort I know, the stock market. But is investing really gambling? I make a distinction between gambling (whereby one can lose principal) and investing (whereby one’s principal is guaranteed and only the return isn’t). So, given my definition of gambling, yes, investing is gambling by the herd “norm” unless the principal is guaranteed. That’s what, in my opinion, should be the difference between gaming and business. Business is inherently risky, but in “good” business, the principal should be guaranteed. Even if the business fails, which most, in fact, do, leaving an interesting question: Is business today investment or gambling?
And what about currency values and inflation? If one is talking money (one of the two great illusions), both of these factors can change investment into gambling disaster overnight. And what about popularity, violation and competence? These can also change an investment into gambling disaster overnight.
So what do we humans have to counteract the destructive forces inherent in gambling? I would say it’s trust. Trust that is earned, not demanded. It’s, in my opinion, neither money nor power that “makes the world go round” but trust — see my latest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor in printed, digital and audio format — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 or https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ...
And in whom should we ultimately place our trust? USA currency contains one consistently repeated suggestion:
The problem is, this world, at best, is “mostly safe” (from HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY). Safety comes in being an invisible part of the herd “norm.” In many countries herd “norm” members gamble by “investing,” typically in the largest organized gambling effort I know, the stock market. But is investing really gambling? I make a distinction between gambling (whereby one can lose principal) and investing (whereby one’s principal is guaranteed and only the return isn’t). So, given my definition of gambling, yes, investing is gambling by the herd “norm” unless the principal is guaranteed. That’s what, in my opinion, should be the difference between gaming and business. Business is inherently risky, but in “good” business, the principal should be guaranteed. Even if the business fails, which most, in fact, do, leaving an interesting question: Is business today investment or gambling?
And what about currency values and inflation? If one is talking money (one of the two great illusions), both of these factors can change investment into gambling disaster overnight. And what about popularity, violation and competence? These can also change an investment into gambling disaster overnight.
So what do we humans have to counteract the destructive forces inherent in gambling? I would say it’s trust. Trust that is earned, not demanded. It’s, in my opinion, neither money nor power that “makes the world go round” but trust — see my latest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor in printed, digital and audio format — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 or https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.squ...
And in whom should we ultimately place our trust? USA currency contains one consistently repeated suggestion:
March 25, 2022
TOO MUCH OF A NOT-SO-GOOD THING
AND I’m not talking broccoli here (actually I LOVE broccoli, ha, ha). I’m talking the currently very negative millieu. Between Putin’s War, daily death and misery in the Ukraine, the world preparing for war, the “new politics,” business gone amok, COVID’s possible return, the slow demise of gasoline cars, the quick demise of the global environment — hey, need I go on? I for one, could sure enjoy some positive news. So here’s some positive news:
I’ve finished filming my scenes in THE PERFECT ILLUSION — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill.... I think I’ve finished my part in THE MALTESE COLLECTION — https://kspllc.media/maltese-collection. Soon FINDING KATE should begin auditions, and I’m hoping for a speaking role as well as a dance scene in it — https://kspllc.media/finding-kate. I’m out scouting for some new roles for 2022-23 with Premier Models and Talent — https://www.premiermodeling.com/resul.... All in all it’s been a good year for acting for myself and my partner Setsuko Tsuchiya — https://janik.yolasite.com/actor.php.
As some readers may know, I recently sold Savant Books and Publications, THE independent, medium-sized, traditional book/ebook/audiobook publishing company that recently unveiled an entirely new genre of books, namely screenplay-novels, published under the imprint Aignos Publishing. K. Simmons Productions, a multi-media communication company, is the new owner, and promises to bring book publishing to a new level, offering the same fee-free, royalty-based, quality book, ebook and audiobook production, as well as manga, animation and cinematic treatment. An author with over over 60 publications, I write under my author/actor name, Daniel S. Janik, as well as several pen names including Raymond Gaynor and Gary Martine. My newest work, PROPHECY, is nearing completion and will soon begin the usual rounds of publishers.
Won’t you join me and a bevy of the best authors, actors and actresses in the world, including William Maltese, A. G. Hayes, Helen R. Davis, Setsuko Tsuchiya and others in celebrating not-enough-of-good-things-for-a-change!
I’ve finished filming my scenes in THE PERFECT ILLUSION — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill.... I think I’ve finished my part in THE MALTESE COLLECTION — https://kspllc.media/maltese-collection. Soon FINDING KATE should begin auditions, and I’m hoping for a speaking role as well as a dance scene in it — https://kspllc.media/finding-kate. I’m out scouting for some new roles for 2022-23 with Premier Models and Talent — https://www.premiermodeling.com/resul.... All in all it’s been a good year for acting for myself and my partner Setsuko Tsuchiya — https://janik.yolasite.com/actor.php.
As some readers may know, I recently sold Savant Books and Publications, THE independent, medium-sized, traditional book/ebook/audiobook publishing company that recently unveiled an entirely new genre of books, namely screenplay-novels, published under the imprint Aignos Publishing. K. Simmons Productions, a multi-media communication company, is the new owner, and promises to bring book publishing to a new level, offering the same fee-free, royalty-based, quality book, ebook and audiobook production, as well as manga, animation and cinematic treatment. An author with over over 60 publications, I write under my author/actor name, Daniel S. Janik, as well as several pen names including Raymond Gaynor and Gary Martine. My newest work, PROPHECY, is nearing completion and will soon begin the usual rounds of publishers.
Won’t you join me and a bevy of the best authors, actors and actresses in the world, including William Maltese, A. G. Hayes, Helen R. Davis, Setsuko Tsuchiya and others in celebrating not-enough-of-good-things-for-a-change!
March 24, 2022
THE AMERICAN PENCHANT FOR BITTER FOOD
THIS is a rather complex post compared to most. First, I don’t really think American love bitter food. But I do believe that COVID’s anosmia (loss of smell/taste) and pressure on grocery stores to “sell food” rather than provide outstanding food items; the commercial food industry’s use of pesticides, GMO’s and premature harvesting due to increasing concerns over transportation infrastructure breakdowns; and youth’s acclimatization to all this, that together they present a Perfect Storm. As a COVID-free individual, I’m increasingly shocked by the bitter, but otherwise lack of any taste of many of today’s commercially available veggies and fruits.
I totally miss my brief stays in Japan, where foods had distinct aromas and flavors, often being presented at the peak of ripeness. I recall Japanese farmers checking fruit carefully for peak sugar content before harvesting. I also recall their incredible taste. It all makes me wonder if today’s generation of youth know how ripe vegetables and fruit actually taste.
While I don’t discuss this directly in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859, I plan to in PROPHECY, my upcoming book. At least, I plan to mention it alongside, yes, a prophecy, and I’ll leave it at that until the book is finished and accepted for publication. For now, I decry my love for and the lack of taste with today’s commercial veggies and fruits. Am I the only one, I wonder?
Video Book Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
THE EDGE OF MADNESS is available in printed, digital and audiobook formats, and has been purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and/or cinematic treatment.
I totally miss my brief stays in Japan, where foods had distinct aromas and flavors, often being presented at the peak of ripeness. I recall Japanese farmers checking fruit carefully for peak sugar content before harvesting. I also recall their incredible taste. It all makes me wonder if today’s generation of youth know how ripe vegetables and fruit actually taste.
While I don’t discuss this directly in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859, I plan to in PROPHECY, my upcoming book. At least, I plan to mention it alongside, yes, a prophecy, and I’ll leave it at that until the book is finished and accepted for publication. For now, I decry my love for and the lack of taste with today’s commercial veggies and fruits. Am I the only one, I wonder?
Video Book Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
THE EDGE OF MADNESS is available in printed, digital and audiobook formats, and has been purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and/or cinematic treatment.
March 23, 2022
THE RETURN OF THE KING
AH! Are you thinking Tolkien? Elvis? Putin? NOPE! I’m thinking Mr. William Maltese, the king of M/M erotica back from his publicity trip to LA-LA Land to promote his newest BlueBoy book, his CC Money Magazine magazine articles, the audiobook version of DARE TO LOVE IN OZ (Savant 2009 — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VVK7LN2), his future contributions to Contessa’s Court, or his new bio-documentary movie “THE MALTESE COLLECTION” (K. Simmons Productions — https://kspllc.media/maltese-collection) currently in post-production and scheduled for release in 2022. The King is back! All hail the King!
Seriously, I’ve been privileged with my partner, Setsuko Tsuchiya, to not only Executive Produce but hopefully appear briefly in THE MALTESE COLLECTION, having known William for quite a few years from our MLR Press days and our co-authored work, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2006 — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese. Working with William is one of the great pleasures whether in print or film. And for updates on THE MALTESE COLLECTION from a personal perspective, or behind-the-scenes action, don’t hesitate to visit my actor webpage at https://janik.yolasite.com/thewilliam....
Seriously, I’ve been privileged with my partner, Setsuko Tsuchiya, to not only Executive Produce but hopefully appear briefly in THE MALTESE COLLECTION, having known William for quite a few years from our MLR Press days and our co-authored work, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2006 — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese. Working with William is one of the great pleasures whether in print or film. And for updates on THE MALTESE COLLECTION from a personal perspective, or behind-the-scenes action, don’t hesitate to visit my actor webpage at https://janik.yolasite.com/thewilliam....
March 22, 2022
THE RETURN OF WILLIAM MALTESE
MY good friend and author colleague, William Maltese, is returning from a jaunt to LA-LA LAND for what I’m told is a bit of vacation R&R as well as a meeting of the minds for “a MsTigerProduction documentary on the resurrection of an icon life-style and luxury-living LGBT magazine ‘Blueboy’, in a collector’s coffee-table edition this next October. There may just be a new Blueboy Library book, too” — https://www.facebook.com/williammaltese. Welcome back, William, to cloudy, 48-degree, (balmy for the Northwest) Washington state! Time to put away the LA speedo for long pants?
I was just pondering re-reading TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by William Maltese and Raymond Gaynor, my pen name for thrillers, which TOTAL MELTDOWN definitely is — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556. After all, the sequel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 — will soon be followed by PROPHECY, the sequel to the sequel. As soon as I finish writing it. Think of Futureboy.
And, hey, William, how is your latest film by K. Simmons Productions progressing? “The Maltese Collection bio-documentary is a reprise to William Maltese’s many inspirations, his achievements, and his lifelong support of erotica, LGBTQ authors and readers.” As one of the interviewees, I’m excited about it being in post-production, awaiting the final touches before release. Like everyone, I’m following https://kspllc.media/maltese-collection for official updates.
Welcome back William Maltese. There seems to be a lot happening around you these days. So, what’s next?
THE MALTESE COLLECTION TEASER at https://vimeo.com/626706914
I was just pondering re-reading TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by William Maltese and Raymond Gaynor, my pen name for thrillers, which TOTAL MELTDOWN definitely is — https://www.amazon.com/dp/1434403556. After all, the sequel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 — will soon be followed by PROPHECY, the sequel to the sequel. As soon as I finish writing it. Think of Futureboy.
And, hey, William, how is your latest film by K. Simmons Productions progressing? “The Maltese Collection bio-documentary is a reprise to William Maltese’s many inspirations, his achievements, and his lifelong support of erotica, LGBTQ authors and readers.” As one of the interviewees, I’m excited about it being in post-production, awaiting the final touches before release. Like everyone, I’m following https://kspllc.media/maltese-collection for official updates.
Welcome back William Maltese. There seems to be a lot happening around you these days. So, what’s next?
THE MALTESE COLLECTION TEASER at https://vimeo.com/626706914
March 21, 2022
IT’S HOSPITAL DAY!
HAVING recently finished my and Setsuko Tsuchiya’s parts in the Kurt Ken Kaminaka Production of THE PERFECT ILLUSION, and enjoyed our first social party in over two years (okay, it was a movie set, but, hey, it was real FUN to socialize in a bubble), it was time yesterday to visit the hospital, where Ren Gaya is dreaming wildly while in a deep coma. Or was that imagining himself wildly dreaming in a deep coma. Or is he in a coma at all? Don’t ask me, I’m just the doctor.
I play Dr. Stevenson — you might presume — and if you do, you are right on. Our three hour shoot of the hospital scene, my final scene in THE PERFECT ILLUSION — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill... — turned into a full day, with multiple sets and views, despite the “right on” acting, if I do say so myself. And I do! Being a doctor playing a doctor was strange, but quite exciting. Really. And I’m talking no coma dream, and even if the scene was all about whether I’d encourage Ren’s “friends” to agree to “pull the plug” on his coma/dreams/alternate reality/reality.
This proved a particularly fun movie for me, including the quixotic story and weirdness of doctor-playing-doctor in what may very well be Ren’s death scene. I say “may very well be” since even I haven’t any idea if he’s actually dreaming the hospital scene, me OR his coma. And, hey, I’ve read the script! This is a definite “gotta see” movie for me when it finally comes out. Hard to wait? Check out the “sort of” prelude, TALES OF THE CIRCLE KEYS —https://www.totck.com/other-trailers — and on Amazon Prime.
YouTube video vignette: https://youtu.be/dx50j7NE7K8
I play Dr. Stevenson — you might presume — and if you do, you are right on. Our three hour shoot of the hospital scene, my final scene in THE PERFECT ILLUSION — https://www.totck.com/the-perfect-ill... — turned into a full day, with multiple sets and views, despite the “right on” acting, if I do say so myself. And I do! Being a doctor playing a doctor was strange, but quite exciting. Really. And I’m talking no coma dream, and even if the scene was all about whether I’d encourage Ren’s “friends” to agree to “pull the plug” on his coma/dreams/alternate reality/reality.
This proved a particularly fun movie for me, including the quixotic story and weirdness of doctor-playing-doctor in what may very well be Ren’s death scene. I say “may very well be” since even I haven’t any idea if he’s actually dreaming the hospital scene, me OR his coma. And, hey, I’ve read the script! This is a definite “gotta see” movie for me when it finally comes out. Hard to wait? Check out the “sort of” prelude, TALES OF THE CIRCLE KEYS —https://www.totck.com/other-trailers — and on Amazon Prime.
YouTube video vignette: https://youtu.be/dx50j7NE7K8
