Lana's Shadow
Lana's Shadow is track 20 of the 27 tracks on the Carbon Harbor soundtrack album.
This song is for Lana, who happens to be one of my favorite characters in Carbon Harbor, though her role is being drastically cut back in version 2. That's too bad in many respects, but I like her so much that I let her talk me into practically making her the star of version 1 and Act III totally sucked as a result. But I won't hold it against her because she's really the first character I'd ever created that came to life to that degree and started telling me how things were going to be. Even though she didn't really get what I was up to and messed things up a bit as a result, I love her for having giving me the thrill of that experience. I now know how Gepetto must have felt.
Though back to being a minor part of the story, Lana is a key character. She's a gabby, gossipy older woman in her sixties who wears too much hairspray and owns/manages a gas station. Part of her back story that I draw upon -- though it's barely hinted at on screen -- is that she has known Chic since the day he first hitchhiked into Carbon Harbor, years before he became the sheriff. He learned back then that he could always count on her to keep him up to date on who's who and the goings on in Carbon Harbor, very often learning even more than he really cared to know. She becomes key in the on screen story once Chic learns something that she seems either to not know or, for reasons he needs to find out, just never talks about. That's a key clue for him that he has perhaps stumbled into some skeletons in the town's closet. Since Lana generally volunteers any and all gossip, be it any of her business or not, he knows there's no point in asking her about it until he can discover more about what she has personally at stake that would keep her so mum.
Oh, it's a tangled web. Just hope I can keep from getting caught in it.
This song is for Lana, who happens to be one of my favorite characters in Carbon Harbor, though her role is being drastically cut back in version 2. That's too bad in many respects, but I like her so much that I let her talk me into practically making her the star of version 1 and Act III totally sucked as a result. But I won't hold it against her because she's really the first character I'd ever created that came to life to that degree and started telling me how things were going to be. Even though she didn't really get what I was up to and messed things up a bit as a result, I love her for having giving me the thrill of that experience. I now know how Gepetto must have felt.
Though back to being a minor part of the story, Lana is a key character. She's a gabby, gossipy older woman in her sixties who wears too much hairspray and owns/manages a gas station. Part of her back story that I draw upon -- though it's barely hinted at on screen -- is that she has known Chic since the day he first hitchhiked into Carbon Harbor, years before he became the sheriff. He learned back then that he could always count on her to keep him up to date on who's who and the goings on in Carbon Harbor, very often learning even more than he really cared to know. She becomes key in the on screen story once Chic learns something that she seems either to not know or, for reasons he needs to find out, just never talks about. That's a key clue for him that he has perhaps stumbled into some skeletons in the town's closet. Since Lana generally volunteers any and all gossip, be it any of her business or not, he knows there's no point in asking her about it until he can discover more about what she has personally at stake that would keep her so mum.
Oh, it's a tangled web. Just hope I can keep from getting caught in it.
posted by Bryrock at 12:55 PM
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