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Topic: An EMPATH Soundtrack?
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Vic Twenty George
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posted 02-11-2000 06:51 AM
Years ago, around 1992, I created for myself what I would call an "inspirational soundtrack" for the still-unfinished Empath: The Luckiest Smurf novel story. Basically, it's just a collection of favorite songs from various artists I listened to at the time -- strangely including Boy George, Madonna, A Flock Of Seagulls, Men Without Hats, Garth Brooks, Mike & The Mechanics, and George Michael -- set and ordered within the framework of the story itself. Back then, I had also come up with lyrics to a song that's simply called "Empath's Ballad", a sad intro to the whole story with the refrain, "Of all the people living in this world, why does it have to be me?". It still has no music parts written for it since I don't know how to write music, but it's something I hoped to put into an actual soundtrack to the novel story.
From: House of the Unknown Smurf
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Vic George
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posted 09-17-2002 09:50 PM
Though recently I have given up on the idea of a soundtrack for my Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story, what I have been hearing lately from a Christian music artist named John Elefante, who was a lead singer for Kansas and also did work for the Christian group Petra, has given me some inspiration for a soundtrack for a future Empath story to come, tentatively titled "The Departure". Basically, it's Empath and his friend Polaris Psyche being left behind in the village when all the other Smurfs have gone in that nonclimactic time-traveling adventure that took place in the 1989-1990 season, and they set out to try finding a way to bring their fellow Smurfs back.
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-- VIC GEORGE, Westfield, MA, USA
Posts: 222 | From: Westfield, MA, USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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Vic George
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posted 09-25-2002 10:27 AM
Well, "The Departure" would be a first of many stories that would have Empath and Polaris travel the world in search of how to bring their fellow Smurfs home, running into various sorts of trouble along the way, and concluding with a story called "The Return Of The Smurfs". Strangely, the more I think about this kind of a story, the more it makes me think of the LEFT BEHIND series of books, but the stories I'm thinking of creating would not be analogs of what took place in the Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins story series. (Then again, there could be analogs of various Christian biblical stories that can be developed, like the three Jews in the furnace that would not bow down to the image of King Nebuchadnezzar.)Interestingly, though, one idea I do have is crafting a fanfiction Smurfs story that is based on their time-travelling adventures, in which they wind up in the land of Judea during the time period of 4 BC to 33 AD to witness the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, though that is a rather touchy subject to deal with. Even more distressing is whether there should be yet another Gargamel lookalike in the story, possibly in the person of Judas Iscariot.
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-- VIC GEORGE, Westfield, MA, USA
Posts: 222 | From: Westfield, MA, USA | Registered: Jul 1999
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