Like you, I have always confused Mercenary’s anal-infused all-black Black Reign series with Bruce Hornsby’s Mandolin Rain. Mercenary director Lexington Steele, like Hornsby, knows how to craft a timeless piece of art using a range, if you will, of tools.
With Hornsby, art was forged with his complacent soft rock stylings, honed by years of working with greats like Huey Lewis, whereas Steele employs Tricia Price, Jasmine Cashmere, Beauty, Simone West, Mone Devine, and Fire to offer up their greatest treasures–their devotion to me–to make scenes work.
“The darker the berry, the sweeeter the juice,” Steele maintains, while Hornsby has often been quoted as saying, “The song came and went/Like the times that we spent/Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent.” Funny story: whenever I hear a Bruce Hornsby song, I want to kill myself.
Both men have their convictions, and it is up to people like us to catch the magic however we can.
Black Reign 7 arrives in stores this week.
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