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When life seems to sweep you out to a bedeviled sea. Nothing but you, the frenzy of life's towering waves lashing out at you every which way, and the slithering demon creatures of the night that color your demise in every way. Gasping for breath as strength seems to give way and as you resign to the songs of life's stormy sea, who wouldn't want to go away in blissful death as you're dragged down to doom? Will you sink or swim? This is the manifestation of all the demons that try to drag you to the depths. The anchor represents comfort in the storm, being grounded, and living to fight another day. Conjure the spirit of the original travelers, Seafarers, their voyages, the demons they saw and battled while exploring life and legends, fighting to get to where we are today...
Conjure the dance rhythms and ragtime that enliven any speakeasy, juke, or house party. The spirits of jovial celebration and endless double entendre while evoking the thunderous applause and soles of the souls delighted and uplifted even in the most harrowing of times. How will you encourage those around you and the ones you love? Will you bring down the house with laughter and dance? This plate was inspired by George "Shorty" Snowden, Frankie "Muscle Head" Manning, and Jitterbug James of The Vaudevillian. As the resonators founders and those who wanted a more vocal mouthpiece to their soul and rhythm intended, this plate was created to better rise above the noise.
Have you felt the talons of life's destroyers flailing and pawing at you, trying to get a hold of you and drag you down? How many souls have we lost due to the perils of darkness? Feeling the dark, scaly hands of temptation rip at your soul, rip at your will to endure, to push on. The shadow of a towering altered beast, looming over you that has a hold of you, controlling you...leading you to a pit of despair all for a fleeting glimpse of ecstasy? How do you fight this? What are your demons? How will you slaughter them? Will you push on? Do you see these as trials and tribulation, failure, recompense, and redemption? Sometimes doomed to repeat, sometimes, revelation...sometimes both. Will you pull yourself up from the ashes?
When the systems of the world aren't working for us. When every day is a struggle. When kindness, sweetness, patience, and innocence are stoked, prodded, then exploited. Every effort has been made to navigate threatening situations in the most respectful way you can, to no avail. When life's challenges give you walls of thorns, grab your figurative chainsaw. When life is attacking you at every turn, grab your psychological weapons. Using those challenges as a muse, we have music as a weapon coupled with other proverbial weapons. Master Yourself. Be Aware. Balance. Strength. Focus. Control. Power. What brings you into warrior mode? What are your mental weapons? What intellectual weapons are you bringing to battle? Don't let them win.
When you feel you hit rock bottom and nothing will ever be okay. When the world keeps battering you relentlessly with hail, piercing rain, gusts of wind that stir the soul, bone freezing coldness, soaked and immersed in despair and hopelessness. When life's tornadoes uproot your basic foundations when the skies heave bolts of electricity and hardship while quaking the very globe, yelling at you to give up...What do you do? Do you weather the storm? Do you challenge? Challenge the battery with your own earth-quaking declaration of Endurance, Will, and Might conjured from within? Will you match the storms life throws your way and throw them right back in its face?
Ever wonder about leaving it all behind. Traveling to distant nigh unreachable unknowns that only you can wander to. Exploring the vast darkness and light that surround you. Exploring the unforgiving cold and the lashing fury of heat that surrounds you. Letting the mind wander into the cosmic vastness of your own conscience, your pathways of unending possibilities. Your dreams of what's to come can be accomplished. Where will you go? What galaxies will you explore? What universes will you adventure to? What possibilities will catapult you to new heights?
The vast frontier. Landscapes of larger-than-life Legends, Outlaws, Vaqueros, Sunsets, and Pistoleros. The very essence of roaming and adventuring to improve one's position in life was stamped into our psyches and hearts. Where ways of the gun protected the same fabric of our values and ways of life. Certain lawlessness, romance, and ere that permeates our very being. Our essence. Spurs spinning in the dust-filled wind, blistering sun-drenched towns, crows feet gazes, rolled cigarettes, and brown fingertips. The vast landscapes of life unbound forever immortal...
Be Immortal.
Jaguar Knights: Warriors & Obsedian. El Azteca: Innovation, Philosophy, Agriculture, Art, Architecture & Engineering, Culture. Sophistication before it was a thing. The will to make something out of nothing. Building foundations out of none at all. Floating life. How will you engineer and build your life to succeed and overcome? Will you summon the Jaguar Knight in you? Remember your roots. Your roots as a survivor, as part of an elaborate history of culture and humankind. Build yourself better starting with foundations that you may not know are there. Utililize your surroundings and make them work for you. Obsidian, the sharpest blades on earth, slice trough the negativity and conquer. Tools for you to overcome lifes impossibilities. Prove that you are more and that you cannot be beaten down, that you will survive and come out better than where you started.
