Set in St. George, Utah and Clovis, New Mexico, FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA is a modern-day feminist/lesbian
western where sex and religion ride together.
SAGE SWEETWATER is the lesbian equivalent to Louis L'Amour! FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA, the lesbian equivalent to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN to be a motion picture! Currently
in Development with
Triboro Pictures
Screenplay Adaptation
by Screenwriter Timothy O. Riley
Celebrating with Shay Dillon and her Live Performance video, Drink Instead. I am highly honored that Shay Dillon is singing my songs and others geared for my movie soundtrack from my lesbian Western pulp fiction dime store novel to film adaptation FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA. Thank you Shay Dillon and Paul Kraushaar from Para-Sight Records and Productions in Nevada City.
Soundtrack written
by
Paul Kraushaar
and
Shay Dillon
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Way up in the California Gold Country, there is a wonderful recording studio housed in a gloriously rerfurbished over a hundred year old barn. Inside comes a heavenly artistry from my music producer Paul Kraushaar and my movie soundtrack singer and friend, the lovely Shay Dillon. They are truly partners in every sense of the word. They are writing and singing the movie soundtrack from my movie lesbian western equivalent to Brokeback Mountain, adapted from my lesbian Western novel From the Convent to the Rawhide: The Saga of Sadie Cade and Vi Montana, adapted to screen by screenwriter Tim Riley.
This afternoon, Paul sent me the music he wrote for the orchard/convent scene. It is the most religiously spiritual music I have ever heard, prominent spiritual piano and guitar truly a masterpiece which lifts my soul when it opens the opening scene of the orchard scene and the nuns in the convent and the church. It's days like today, that makes me so thankful of the friends I have. Sage Sweetwater, being a highly sensual and creative artist thanks all of her friends and fans who have arrived at their spirituality and sensuality. I look forward to sharing my movie and soundtrack with you when that day comes. It has been a long journey...moviemaking is a worthwhile journey...for an artist writer to tell a story and have it adapted to big screen is a chance in a lifetime and I want to also thank my film company for giving us a chance with this film script and soundtrack music package. Thank you dearly Paul Kraushaar and Shay Dillon of Para-Sight Records and Tim Riley, my wonderful and gifted screenwriter who has stayed with my original storyline...where sex and religion ride together.
Peace,
Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
Set in St. George, Utah and Clovis, New Mexico, FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA is a modern-day feminist/lesbian western where sex and religion ride together.
Mercedes Cade is on a mission, serving 18 months at the Pish Convent in St. George, Utah as a Mormon missionary, coming to Zion, the promised land, to reunite with the church she was raised in, to find her place in life by the time she is 40.
She is partnered up with Violet Mace-Reese, a rebel politician from Montana who is fed up with unwashed politicians and has come to ask God for direction, perhaps her political career having played itself out when she walked a labyrinth on the lawn of Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. set up to encourage politicians to find inner peace so we can find world peace.
Mercedes Cade and Violet Mace-Reese partner up after serving out their respective missions. They run a mid-size leather ranch and build furniture in Clovis, New Mexico with top-of-the-line gene pool, the cows bred for their perfect hides, showing no scars. They are not branded or fenced by barbed wire, analogous perhaps in search of the perfection of humans and simpler life. The natural grains of their unflawed hides are highly valuable to leather furniture consumers paying for the best leather, perfection, and coddled lifestyle of the cow.
From atop a ridgeline looking down into a quarry where the original Clovis people made their prized spearheads, Vi and Sadie convert from Mormonism to Australian Dreamtime, being that the Mormon religion is just too structured of an environment for the personalities of these two women to live by.
Key Scenes
Vi Montana in a spiritual scene taming wild mustangs in a labyrinth, walking the mustangs through the labyrinth to their destination, the grain manger filled with sweet oats.
Sadie Cade and Vi Montana re-upholstering a horse-drawn buggy seat for a Mennonite family, Papa Moses, Zea, and Jediah.
Sister Pish at the Pish Convent having her "mad scene" in "Lucifer," the dark dungeon of Hell we call Alzheimers.
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Newsletter Dated: 11/10/2005 10:23:48 PM
Subject: Character Profiles FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA
This newsletter gives the behind-the-scenes inspiration for Sage Sweetwater's second lesbian pulp fiction novel FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA.
Sage Sweetwater is using castable characters and a brilliant background to launch a screen story. A mixture of wild grass up to the horses' hocks, great movie vegetation lashing in the breeze, the windmill in the foreground, and an old Indian paint mine in the background, coloring the Southwest horizon in bold colors.
Sage Sweetwater is good at what she does and her storytelling demonstrates that her artful command of language maintains a strong readership.
In 1978, at the age of twenty, Sage met Jane Fonda. In Sage's small mountain hometown of Wetmore, Colorado, a rancher was commissioned by Hollywood types to use the rancher's expansive property and working ranch with Pikes Peak in the majestic background.
The movie being shot was "Comes a Horseman," starring Jane Fonda and James Caan.
Sage sat on the corrals and watched the filming. Even shook Jane Fonda's friendly hand.
Most actresses have a stunt double to perform scenes that the leading actress either can't or won't. Vividly, Sage remembers Jane Fonda pushing her lovely double aside and boldly stating she was "castrating her own steer." And so she did, and Sage watched the Rocky Mountain Oysters go into a pan for the fry. And so when you read this line in Sage's novel, this is the real-life inspiration. This line is "Before Mercedes leaves this plane of life, she wants to try the life of a cowgirl. It is a trip she wants to make. This very thing incites other women to want to go, especially the younger girls who look up to women who are on top, riding in a saddle with a good fit on feminism. She is a keen-looker, full of reserve and at trail's end, she wants it said that she downed a plate of prairie oysters she harvested from the lead steer in her herd ..."
The Profiles of the Characters FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA.
SADIE CADE (Mercedes Cade) .......... a woman on a mission, serving time at the Pish Convent in St. George, Utah as a Mormon missionary, coming to Zion, the promised land, to reunite with the church she was raised in, to find her place in life by the time she is 40.
She is not pursuing this missionary work as an occupation, but she is truly here to learn about spiritual happiness, and in going about her daily duties, provides her with enjoyment she will take with her when she leaves the Pish Convent. The wonders of nature are all around her and she has room from the wide range of emotions that the city constricts. She is in search of honest, hard work and finding appreciation in simpler things. These grounds are to remind her of the beauty of God's creation.
VI MONTANA (Violet Mace-Reese) .......... a rebel politician from Montana who is fed up with unwashed politicians and has come to the Pish Convent to ask God for direction, perhaps her political career having played itself out.
She chooses to focus on the landscape because she has always felt a likeness toward it. Her rebel spirit is a part of nature ... the outlaw prairies, the lawless mountains, the physical dynamics of the river ... wild and opinionated as it cuts its own path, neverminding the government, the rogue trees, and even the sky being entertainment for a rebel lawmaker, its cool attitude with colorful exchanges. All of it damn powerful, like a rebel.
SISTER PISH .......... a seventy-year-old Nun who owns the Pish Convent. Her daddy's grandparents, Papa and Granny Pish came here with the first party on the Mormon trail with Brigham Young in 1847. They settled the Convent land.
She is afflicted suddenly with Alzheimer's and has a showdown with the Devil, her "Mad Scene" in "Lucifer."
PAPA MOSES .......... a Mennonite husband and father who operates a school for carriage driving. Along with his wife and son, he has brought the coach to Sadie and Vi to have the coach seat recovered in leather hide. He wants to see the coach completely restored before the good Lord takes away the power lines and the black-topped country roads.
ZEA (pronounced Zay-ah) .......... a Mennonite wife and mother of Jediah. A genteel woman so precious in the kind, thoughtful blue eyes of her son. The kind of woman he will look for those same qualities when he is ready to take a wife.
JEDIAH .......... a seventeen-year-old Mennonite young man who builds carriages with an Amish wheelright looking over his shoulder. He immerses himself in wagon building and restoration. He makes sure the wheels turn, the hand brakes can be set and released, tool boxes can be opened and closed, carriage lanterns flash off and on, and he makes sure the burlap bean sacks are filled to the double-stitched seam and sewn shut as standard equipment and not an option. Only when he's talking about the Lord's quality in his construction, he shows his enthusiasm. Jediah can find a sermon in about anything. He's about turning wheels, not pages.
ANDY SUE .......... Vi Montana's ex lesbian lover. She rides a Harley and owns a trendy women's gym and oxygen parlor. Vi has never gotten over Andy Sue. She has just moved on. All the legislation in the world cannot abolish kissing Andy Sue, but the Pish Convent can. Andy Sue eventually rises above her ego, steps out of her vainglory gym shoes and into cowgirl boots ... but you have to read the novel for all the rest.
The time frame of this novel skips back and forth. Not to confuse my readers, but the intermittance structured as an alliance between contemplation, set-point, and one's mission in life, where it will all take one in the end, integrating it into one's own life, hopefully on a spiritual journey of happiness and wholeness.
FROM THE CONVENT TO THE RAWHIDE: THE SAGA OF SADIE CADE AND VI MONTANA has been written with you women with feminist/lesbian sensibilities in mind, hopefully allowing you to find the better part of yourselves. I certainly have through writing this novel.
Thank you to all my friends and fans. Until we meet again. I love you all!
Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
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Excerpt
On a scale of blue-ribbon,
Vi places the mustangs
superior to humans.
There may not have been
a more spiritual scene in
the world, the dust hangs.
They took off, rumbling
through the canyon,
lighting the stick of TNT,
throwing that coil of humbling
feminist fuse and caution
to the wind.
From here on out, things
got pretty Western, Sadie
and Vi screwed down on
those Ozark Rancher's
Basketweave saddles as
tight as a "Morgan"
silver dollar on a frontier
store counter, not easily
plucked down in those days.
Balance and coordination
combined with timing left
no room for inaccuracies.
Dust is an evil, and so are
the pheasants they are
flushing out, heading for
a wreck if they pulled those
reins back, or worst yet, if one
of the pheasants collided with
horse or rider at this great speed.
Neither Vi or Sadie is looking to
have a transitional wreck at forty.
"Sadie and Vi have a world full of good instincts and a Marlboro spirit and that is what is going to bring these wild mustangs in. Instead of driving them straight as they pulled out of the canyon, they drove them at an angle, Sadie up front along beside them and Vi running a hundred yards back.
"Every few seconds, the crescent-moon hoofs plowed up the buffalo grass, hurling the divets, not exempt from uprooting, but only in this special case. Created by the hand of God, or by Dreamtime ancestors, whatever our religious beliefs, we must try to keep the land as we find it, but occasionally, we disturb it for the good. Bringing in the wild mustangs is a spiritual happenstance for Sadie and Vi.
"Changing gears, Sadie spurs her horse, thinking ahead what they were going to do once they got to the corral. She was sure the gate was closed, and these mustangs weren't going to wait around.
"Vi knew what Sadie was thinking. She was thinking the same thing herself, but they weren't within talking distance. Sadie threw her right hand up, the same one she used to throw her half of the coil of feminist fuse, and pointed ahead, meaning it was all up to Vi to bring the mustangs in. They were only about a half-mile out and running at the speed they were, it wouldn't take but a wild, eight-second ride to get to the finish line.
"Tailgating the "hung" Outlaw one with his penis extended, Vi shot past him, getting a lick of sperm flying in the air when he ejaculated from being damn excited. She'd put his dick in the dirt if she had to! She had a coil of feminist fuse to spare. 'Save it Outlaw---you'll need it one day,' she hollered, her throat hoarse and dry from the dust. She wiped her lips off and cracked them in a conspiratorial grin. Reeling it in, he may or may not have heard her next comment, blowing him off with 'I'm a gay woman, so don't waste that big one on me.'"
"Sadie pounded a few nails quickly, securing loose boards. She didn't know what to expect. She was choking from the dust of Sagebrush Rebellion and her nostrils flared to the overpowering sweetness of horse lather. Her partner was out there about to make a very satisfying end to this serendipitous day. Hospitably, Sadie cleaved a bale of timothy hay and stood respectfully, taking her western hat off like you do at a rodeo before the National Anthem. She got goosebumps and teary-eyed just like you do at the event just described.
"By the time it was all over, they looked like a street-cleaner's broom, dirty and frazzled. 'What the hell did we just do?' Sadie asked.
"In her polished speech and confident manner, Vi answered as if she was putting her name to a maverick bill. 'The ink goes down dark, bold, and cranky, hon, but as it dries, the letters evaporate leaving behind tame gray shapes.'
"Ridden hard and put up wet, the metaphor had yet to be proven...and it would. Somewhere in between the lick of stallion sperm and the taste of mare snot hurled at her, Vi knew what her method of taming the mustangs would be, and she discussed it with Sadie, and because of the day's soul-stirring emotionalism and link with Dreamtime, they went to bed passionately attached. You often found them this way. In each of us, there is a dreamer...and a rebel...where sex and religion ride together."
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