Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single
purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds... true love?
- Dracula
A Trilogy
LOVE GONE SOUTH
New Orleans - Silent Lover - Mickey
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
The Love Gone South Trilogy Series comprised of three chapters begins as a romantic modern fairytale, set in the southern United States. As the belief in the veracity of the events described throughout the trilogies increases, its characters eventually merge into real life legends. The narrative will be progressively perceived by the audience, as such grounded in today’s relatable current socio-political affairs, truths, and deceptions. Narrated through nine story-driven rock songs synced with multimedia short films*, the Love Gone South visual-musical essay explores the notion and the line between reality, simulation, psychedelics, supernatural, magic and the indestructible and unstoppable power of True Love.
*Multimedia Videos: Animation, Film, Photography and Virtual Reality.
THE FIRST TRILOGY
PLOT
Once upon a time a traveling musician JIMMY (33) meets a former beauty queen MADELINE (42), a single mother with two kids who is living under her means in the parishes of “New Orleans.” After spending an eventful day, he end up at a wooden shack by the Mississippi River where he spends the night and a year or two goes by.
He truly loves this tiny family, the kids, the dog and the simple gypsy life as he works hard to put food on the table. However, shortly into this romance, he begins to quietly suffer as he doesn’t feel that he is measuring up to a former lover of hers. He feels this way as Madeline often zones out with a distinctive unbroken velvet gaze as if she is quietly in love and that her affections lie elsewhere. She is a “Silent Lover.”
One dark moonless night in the middle of summer, having done his time, the father of the kids comes back from prison busting through the door with a gun. Jimmy dodges a few bullets before Madeline steps in to protect him. But after all, she drops him off at the same spot that he was found. Haunted and broken, Jimmy flies out of The Big Easy to The City of Angels.
A year later her criminal boyfriend gets killed in a drug war. Shortly after, in hopes of seeking forgiveness and to confess a truth that she has kept secret for many years, she leaves everything behind, grabs the children and sets out on a quest only to find Rumi months later in The City of New York. She reveals that the very first time that they met was about 14 years ago in southern Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi River. And that upon their first meeting she witnessed the devil slip a “Mickey” in his drink.
Knowing that he is now in a vulnerable situation, she breaks away from her boyfriend and intervenes to save his soul. The two end up having a hot minute affair spending a magical night together. The Next morning, she sneaks out of his motel room and leaves a note behind that reads: “So long, little Prince, you are now free...” However committed, she leaves, with a heavy heart and a paradoxical feeling that he, could have been the one.
She ends up having two children with her boyfriend but over time he becomes abusive and violent and eventually gets locked up in prison. That’s when she decides to disappear with the kids as she travels down to the south of Mississippi River. 11 years later, by divine order, Madeline & Jimmy cross paths again when she pulls up in her junkyard-ready black Pontiac to pick him up on streets of New Orleans. This time, of course, he can’t remember her, because… Mickey.
To be continued. . .
LOVE GONE SOUTH PARADIGM
Jimmy (22)
Madeline (31)
Jimmy (33)
Madeline (42)
SILENT LOVER
Jimmy sees Madeline
bathing in the
Mississippi River
Year
1st Encounter
Madeline sees the Devil slip a Mickey in his drink
She leaves a note behind and sneaks out of motel room
1st Child
2nd Child
Madeline 's
Madeline's Boyfriend is jailed.
She flees to New Orleans with her 2 kids
2nd Encounter in New Orleans
She pulls up in her Pontiac
He moves into her wooden shack
Boyfriend is back from jail. She drops him off where he was found
Flies
to L.A.
Boyfriend is killed
She leaves New Orleans with her kids to find Jimmy
3rd Encounter
Finds him in New York City. Reveals the secret, asks for forgiveness.
MADELINE'S PERSPECTIVE - 2nd Trilogy
NEW ORLEANS
4
3
12
MICKEY(entire timeline)
THE SECOND TRILOGY
11
2
5
6
7
8
9
10
13
14
15
1
We explore their story from Madeline’s perspective over a 15-year timespan, starting from when she sees the devil slip a mickey in his drink till when she finds him in New York City.
CUT TO:
It is not until the end of this Trilogy that we will find out whether they will get back together or not. When she finds Jimmy in New York City she reveals the truth and asks for forgiveness. She then lets Jimmy think it all over. After ruminating all night, the next morning he steps out of his building. Madeline, cigarette in hand, she is leaning against the black Pontiac with her kids sleeping in the back. Jimmy, solemnly, with long strides and an unbroken velvet gaze, advances, and stands before her. They take a moment as they see through each other’s naked souls. He then wraps a bandana around her neck. They embrace.
FADE OUT.
THE THIRD TRILOGY
With a serendipitous ending of the 2nd Trilogy, we proceed to portray the events that follow their life together in New York City and their activism in the socio-political scene.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF "LOVE GONE SOUTH"
TRUE LOVE
"Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds... true love?"
True Love manifests itself in Love Gone South when each character finds their other half and as a result, they become an unstoppable force. Through these trilogies, we will discover what the lovers of our story do with this power. The True Love philosophy has been assigned to a few literary works and pop culture entries, most notably depicted in the film “Natural Born Killers.” However, our trilogy, as an antidote, will have a positive take on the overall theme.
THE MORNING STAR
..is referred to the love that comes to someone right before they meet their True Love. It feels like true love but in reality, it is only a preparation for what is to come next. This philosophy has been inspired by the observation of the rise of the planet Venus at dawn. As planet Venus rises in the morning sky, it is the brightest object until the Sun rises above it. Therefore, in literary works of ancient mythology, Venus was given various names such as; the Fallen Angel, the God Wannabe, and the Morning Star. And of course, the Sun being, the True Love.
THE ELECTS
The Elects philosophy describes the idea of invincibility of the next couple that has been appointed the divine True Love. Further explaining that the power of True Love is an energy passed on from the principal couple to the next and is never truly destroyed nor forgotten. This process actuates during the liminality state, starting when the principles have successfully served their calling and before they fade-out into annihilation.
NEW ORLEANS
Debut Single
Written by Desmond Child & Prince Rumi
Produced by Mario Winans & Prince Rumi
Vocal Producers: Larry Dvoskin, Enrique Margulis
Mixing Engineers: Daniel Sanint, Fab Dupont
Sound Engineers: JC Monterossa, Greg Recchia
Electric Guitars: James Richardson
Background Vocals: Tabitha Fair
Drums: David Zerio
Acoustic Guitars: JC Monterossa
Additional Guitars & Bass: Tony Alipetli
Organ: Abe Williams Jr.
Recorded at: Flux Studios NYC, Deston Entertainment, Nashville, East Side Sound NYC
Official Single Art Work
NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS
Written by Desmond Child & Prince Rumi
Intro:
1. I’m on a plane on my way to the City of Angels
2. I’m leaving it all behind in New Orleans
3. I’m never going back but I know it’ll haunt me forever
4. I fell in love and I lost it in my dreams
Verse 1:
5. She pulled up in her junkyard ready black Pontiac
6. It was all beat up and her kids were in the back
7. She was a former beauty queen who’d fallen on hard times
8. She said “hop in the front” and she took me for a ride
Chorus 1:
1. I’m on a plane on my way to the City of Angels
2. I’m leaving it all behind in New Orleans
3. I’m never going back but I know it’ll haunt me forever
4. I fell in love and I lost it in my dreams
Verse 2:
13. We ended up at a wooden shack by the river
14. I spent the night and a year or two went by
15. She needed a man in the house to put food on the table
16. And looking back those were the best days of my life
Chorus 2:
17. I’m on a plane on my way to the City of Angels
18. I’m leaving it all behind in New Orleans
19. I’m never going back but I know it’ll haunt me forever
20. I fell in love and I lost it in my dreams
Verse 3:
21. One dark moonless night in the middle of summer
22. I woke up to the cursin’ of a big man with a gun
23. He’d done his time and he was taking back the life I had borrowed
24. And then she dropped me off at the same spot I was found
Chorus 3:
25. I’m on a plane on my way to the City of Angels
26. I’m leaving it all behind in New Orleans
27. I’m never going back, never going back
28. It’ll haunt me forever
29. I fell in love and I lost it in my dreams
30. I’m dreaming of the love I lost in New Orleans
©2018 LIMINALITY RECORDS (BMI) / DESTON ENTERTAINMENT (ASCAP)
NEW ORLEANS
SILENT LOVER
Second Single
Written by Prince Rumi
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Temporary Art Work
SILENT LOVER
Written by Prince Rumi
Intro:
1. She’s got a deep velvet gaze, quietly in love and always-
2. Tapping her fingers to a beat of a heart so far away
3. She is a silent lover, she is a silent lover
4. She’s a silent lover, oh she is a silent lover
Verse 1:
5. We chased the night to a rundown red-light cabaret
6. It was such a beautiful, beautiful sunny day
7. She moved like the characters in the books by Hemingway
8. And I was trying to charm her with my New York City ways
Chorus 1:
9. She’s got a deep velvet gaze, quietly in love and always-
10. Tapping her fingers to a beat of a heart so far away
11. She is a silent lover, she is a silent lover
12. She’s a silent lover, oh she is a silent lover
Verse 2:
13. I went over a thousand stories in my head
14. But I couldn’t dare to ask who’d broken her
15. We already knew what was on my mind
16. So she held my hand to dance and said the past is dead
Chorus 2:
17. She’s got a deep velvet gaze, quietly in love and always-
18. Tapping her fingers to a beat of a heart so far away
19. She is a silent lover, she is a silent lover
20. She’s a silent lover, oh she is a silent lover
Verse 3:
21. We’ve now got a tiny house, children and a cute dog
22. She’s the princess but I’m still the little frog
23. I wanna be the man before that velvet gaze
24. But she’s the silent lover and I’m a lover on the chase
Chorus 3:
17. She’s got a deep velvet gaze, quietly in love and always-
18. Tapping her fingers to a beat of a heart so far away
19. She is a silent lover, she is a silent lover
20. She’s a silent lover, oh she is a silent lover
©2018 LIMINALITY RECORDS (BMI)
SILENT LOVER
Music Video Visual Treatment
Set in the mid-2000s in the parishes of the City of New Orleans, Silent Lover music video will be portrayed with a cinematic look and a short film structure which includes two narrative scenes, a prologue and an epilogue with speaking parts on both ends of the video. Below, you can see on the mood board, visuals that closely represent the envisioned aesthetics of the Silent Lover video. Jimmy and Madeline’s relationship, however, attained is one of a mystery. His character is caught up in a dilemma as he is suffering from what he considers to be an unrequited love, while Madeline is hiding truths about the past. Therefore a realistic approach in depicting their simple gypsy life will help to capture the subtle emotions involved.
Mickey
Third Single
Written by Prince Rumi
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MICKEY
Written by Prince Rumi
Verse 1: (Prologue)
1. There was a girl bathing in the river of Mississippi
2. Who laughed like an angel but she cried like a Salem witch
3. She’d seen many sharks, none ever caught up to her
4. Head to toe, tats and scars, her soul was without a stitch
Chorus 1:
5. I was comfortable with her darkest demons
6. She was alright with my all-day-dreaming
7. We ran away, we ran away, we went too far
8. We gave love a new name, chasing the Morning Star
Verse 2:
9. She saw the devil slip a mickey in my whiskey drink
10. Confessed in a note that she left behind, so she got me to think
11. Was it her? Was it Lucy or was it just me?
12. Didn’t care what it was, she made love like a woman to me
Chorus 2:
13. I was comfortable with her darkest demons
14. She was alright with my all-day-dreaming
15. We ran away, we ran away, we went too far
16. We gave love a new name, chasing the Morning Star
Verse 3: (Bridge)
17. We kept it to ourselves and felt the burn with desire
18. All the stored-up love within which had lain quiet
19. Maybe we were always destined to fall and crash
20. Knowing what our hearts wanted- our bodies couldn’t have
Chorus 3:
21. I was comfortable with her darkest demons
22. She was alright with my all-day-dreaming
23. We ran away, we ran away, we went too far
24. We gave love a new name, chasing the Morning Star
Outro: (Epilogue)
25. There is a girl outside with her kids in a beat-up Pontiac
26. She’s driven up to Big Apple and left the Big Easy behind
27. Her note’s by the window, Ashtray’s full, empty bottle of cognac
28. And I wonder if what’s left of this heart, can love her back
