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* The gynecologist alone with the lids of Campbell’s soup (or sardine) cans.

* Cricket or soccer game with “goals” made of flesh.

* Cthulu “bottled” in a glass jar and “fed” by columns in the RUINS.

* The “birth of Venus” with the shell and all but also with monsters and Bactrian camels.

HOC MOMENTUM ETIAM TRANSIBIT.

•• Originally made at 12:44 on 3/3/93.

* Fixed. Baby Ernie M/M (according to IMCINE)

DAY of NON-RIEL and NON-CRONOS commercial

Bertha spoke with Nacho Durán. Discouragement.

* Great Expectations. MAGWITCH: a convict, Miss Havisham (OF SATIS HOUSE), STELLA. PIP whose journey we follow to manhood. The story begins one gray afternoon in a cemetery/ “I will give you a reason to fight” to start a fight.

•• New version 2/5/95 How different!!

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Ernie in the Drainpipe.

** I move and realize that… X

* Ernie causes his enemy to slip.

A drowned man.

2^nd version of. First image June 6, 1992 already Enriquito has already left and there was no Sinc.but I started editing.

GDT:Meat Market is a story that is really close to my heart. At one point, it was called Meat Market: A Love Story. It was supposed to be like Phantom of the Opera set in a huge meat processing plant. The super-commercial pitch is: “Hamlet in a meat market, by way of Phantom of the Opera.”

Ernie, our star and son of a meat-processing mogul, falls in love with Ofelia. And Ernie’s uncle has killed his father to get the meat processing plant. But Ernie has been blamed for the murder and goes and hides in the sewers full of chunks of rotting meat. Eventually, he comes back to rescue Ofelia.

And I was going to have Ron Perlman play Ernie. So I tried to write it for him. And the idea was that Ernie was this baby who had been dropped and had his face broken on the concrete. They had to put him together the best they could, and he became sort of a mixture of the Phantom of the Opera and the Frankenstein monster. If I had Ron at age thirty-five, I would endeavor to find the money to actually make it.

MEPHISTO’S BRIDGE

GDT:Mephisto’s Bridge was based on a novel called Spanky by Christopher Fowler. It was a Faustian tale about a guy who makes a deal with a devil, but the devil doesn’t want his soul, he wants his body. He says, “You have no soul, but I can use your body to live for another hundred years.”

The main character is this guy who thought he deserved everything but did nothing to get it, expecting that because he is a good guy, he should get the girl, the money, the car, the apartment. So this demon comes in and offers to help him get all that, and then he gets it and it’s unsatisfactory because he didn’t earn it. And the demon knows this, and he says, “You didn’t want the car; you wanted the respect. You didn’t want the girl; you wanted the love. You didn’t want the apartment; you wanted the reward for your efforts.”

Spanky, the demon, was this slender, almost beautiful creature that was kind of made of moving pieces when he was out of his host. It’s one of my favorite designs I’ve ever made. I wanted him to be very ornate. Right here [opposite], pre-anything, are the roots of the Faun, and the Hellboy creatures, and Hellboy himself. This is where it all comes from, this basic form.

When Spanky is in his host, a transformation occurs. For that design, we started archangels, which are represented with a mouth on each feather, or with an eye on each feather. And the idea was that each of the demon’s feathers would have an eye that represented a soul he had taken. So he was a walking epic. He was literally a lot of people together.

Mephisto’s Bridge is one of my favorite things I’ve ever written and has some of my favorite designs, too.

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* Spanky with wings (?) Based on Odilon Redon.

The wings against the light, blocking the sun with “Flare”

* Someone scratches or breaks the glass in a window that they’re going to open when they remember that it’s the 9th floor!!!

* Reinforce or change the Billboard Fight A III

* Wings with layered colors or uniformly steel black, “blued” like a gun.

* Rusty pendulum clocks hanging from a sheet on the roof

Step over a cross at the b.o/ritual.

Could be of Shadow/Light.

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* Lottie goes to St. Lazarus, a feather falls out, the beating of enormous wings is heard.

* White, milky eyes zombified… “Harryhausenly” Everyone looks at the same place.

* The apparition of Joey with computer “ripple” like intensely colored little flames and like the halo of a fire virgin.

* Joey with CGI crash marks.

* Mollusk. “Spanish Shawl” (NUDIBRANCH)

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* Voice-activated light dimmer in his APT

* “I’ll race you little Faust…”

* Spanky has tentacle-like “legs” that “open up” into two parts.

* IF/STOP but for a MONITOR with a magazine dummy.

* Sometimes we trick people this way or the other but sometimes… truth is the tool to use, as simple as that”

* You’re a couple of years 2 late.

* Whole new ball game pal.

* Y’re like me, You are… X.

* Spanky: “Jus’ Call me a therapist”

* “Martyn, I haven’t been all bad 2 U have I?”

The texture of Spanky’s skin is “in motion.”

SQUISH!!

THE LIST OF SEVEN

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* Fear: the wretched thing… it’ll die soon…

* One of the A.R.C. from “List”

* No one else’s Fingerprints at the crime scene.

* The cops in the hospital/family life or “Gimme a break pal I have X’

* The guy is thrown from the tenth story, he crashes, they scream at him “It was a mistake, go hack upstairs, but please… use the service stairs”

* Credit card SPANKY ZZIP-PFFT SPUT!!

* “You are not just an observer MARTYN”

* Bolas ZZUCK! tumble, fire (Burning Man)

* They hired a TOY MAKER for A.R.C.

* We open the tape with the Doyle-like professor on which he speaks to us of his vision and shows us a model of a human eye. They have jute beneath the porcelain.

* Take note, Sparks: “IS this Masonic? “Cause I’m a Catholic.”

* Sparks tries not to speak about his brother…

* Martyn calls or observes Lottie on CHRISTMAS DAY or he sees her with a ♥

* Hanging from the Billboard S.