#urban nirvana

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Urban Nirvana

And the Peradventures of Maddy Henderson

Urban Nirvana is a novel (planned for release in 2015) that tells the story of world-renown, Chicago-based architect, Stewart MacLeod, who travels from place to place combating irrational forces of NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard) behavior which have become a contagion holding back city-state development in the 2030s practically everywhere. The novel also tells the story of his younger brother (Logan MacLeod), a writer, living in the basement of Stewart’s brownstone in a trendy part of Chicago.

Just a few doors away lives unhappy Heather Meacham with her eight year old daughter, Mildred, whom everyone calls Mia. Mildred is an artist and a prodigy. Heather’s father is Mansfield Meacham, owner of the largest insurance finance company in the world, Meacham and Knott Insurance Brokerage. Her boyfriend is Tyrese Muhammad, one of the top event managers in Illinois.

Logan is busy writing something called The Peradventures of Maddy Henderson and the reader becomes familiar with a whole new cast of fictional characters living in Big Muddy Saskatchewan. It becomes a novel within the novel and is the basis for a graphic novel that, unbeknownst to her mother, Mia is providing artwork for. Meanwhile, Stewart is busy in LA trying to get an Inland Empire location approved for a second NFL team to be based there.

Somehow, the three stories– about the architect’s struggles in LA, the writer’s past catching up to him and his fiction– merge into one in a surprise twist.

Here are some of the themes of Urban Nirvana as told via music video. It contains content appropriate for an audience 18 years of age and older.

This video contains music and images which are used here for non commercial purposes. Images of long brown haired, skinny Maddy, her best friend, anti-animal cruelty crusader, Dukabor-descended Dariya, and Heather are meant to inspire.

Here is KC and the Sunshine Band singing Please Don’t Go. It’s the song playing in someone’s head as Maddy heads for the exit of their life together…

Partial lyrics–

Babe, I love you so I want you to know that I’m going to miss your love the minute you walk out that door

so please don’t go don’t go, don’t go away please don’t go don’t go, I’m begging you to stay…

Full lyrics at,http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/beverlyhills90210songsfromthepeachpit/pleasedontgo.htm.

More music for Urban Nirvana–

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Quantum Entity trilogy film and video

Here’s the logline for the trilogy:

A brilliant, other-directed young physicist loved by two women—one a performance artist from Palos Verdes and the other, a marcom graduate from prestigious Elmira College—unleashes unlimited bandwidth quantum phones and intelligent quantum entities on an unsuspecting world coming into conflict with entrenched commercial and governmental interests.

This trilogy is really about the intermingled stories of 25 women and girls. The above video will not only give you a sense of the key characters, it will tell you something about the geography of the trilogy.

This is the first animation of what Quantum Entities look like coming out of your new smart phone (called a Q-phone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbk-dPl4Eg&list=PLCD76D02637BE0EEE&index=3

Here’s the author (moi) on the “Shotgun Show” talking about my work and writing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb9oZZ3hKas&list=PLCD76D02637BE0EEE&index=8  

Here’s the 27 minute student film based on book 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrK4v786vsk. It starts with the 1 and only drug scene in that book. Sheesh. Watch it on full screen after at least 1 glass of wine…

In book 3, the forbidden love story of Magellan (Ellen and Damien’s son) and Nina is the glue that holds the last part of the trilogy together. Here’s their story in pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHgQzjxrXkM

Like many writers, I am driven by character visualization. So I created dozens of these videos, mostly for me…

For example, here’s one for Urban Nirvana, a novel I’m going to write next year http://profbruce.tumblr.com/post/126821843499/urban-nirvana-and-the-peradventures-of-maddy

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