The Maverick Kommandments

"Mav·er·ick"

a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.

(initial capital letter) an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for destroying tanks and other hardened targets at ranges up to 15 mi. (24 km).

I had a dream last night where i saw the Eastern Sky Grow Dark and in the West a Pale light Lingered with voices crying.. "Doom is near at Hand"... and i was confronted with a sadistic choice... dye or dye trying... thus... There is only 1 real choice... Maverick's bane must be defeated before Zero Dark Can Prosper.

To do so i must re engrain in my heart The Maverick Kommandments

Today I shed my old skin. The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed are piled one atop another casting a shadow down upon all the SkyScrapers of the Wold. Yet I will not fail because now I hold the charts that will ascend me like a jet pilot to the battlefield in the clouds!

Two years ago I failed to charge ahead in the trenches of Los Angeles. I left and retreated to the mountains of Pasadena then went back home for what I thought was going to be a week and turned into 8 months. Upon returning I became lost in those same mountains only to return to the fray. A year passed and i was sent back to the beginning once again. Each time i strike Hollywood i gain further into an industry that i consider the Vatican. One doesn't simply just walk into the Hollywood Vatican. Riddled with tradition and ritual that consumes the people creating a barren wasteland of fire, ash, and dust. The very air your breath is a poisonous fume and its black gates are guarded by more than just soldiers. The Collective Consciousness is a dense ether than inhibits the freewill of art and drives the artists to Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride.

ONce again i must go to the front lines of the battle for the city of lost angels only this time I am returning with the Legions of Zeniths under the Flag of Zero Dark!

Way Back Somewhere along the way people began calling me "Maverick" I don't remember who where how or why to this day it sill makes me wonder never the less before I left I was known throughout the film industry as 'Maverick" It was in this moment that I picked myself back up and was born again with a new identity, a new purpose, and new troops to command. Somehow the name followed me back to l.a and I decided once and for all to embrace it rather than play it down.

On Dec. 25th 2007 while everyone was hanging with their family I was alone in the mountains so I decided to do something Maverick. I hiked to the top of Sierra Madre "The mountain mother' One of the tallest mountain chains in the L.A. area armed with only a camera.

6 hours later tired, starving but determined I made it to the top. Overlooking Hollywood from the distance I realized it was time to be a Maverick. Time to be the best, Time to live or die. It was time to go back! When I reached the bottom 12 hours after departure I brought down with me what I like to call the 10 MaVerick Kommandments. They are the Maverick habits that I will maintain, which will jet me off of the ground and back into the clouds.

Following the last crusade i became aware that a Maverick can't take on the world alone... Thus i created Zero Dark and now that Zero Dark is becoming what i envisioned, its time to re establish the Maverick Kommandments. These are the Kommandments of Maverick and Zero Dark that will lead us to Victory in the Hollywood Vatican and then onward..

Below is the video that came down with me from the mountain. Its also the video that inspired the Zero Dark Chronicles.




The MaVericK Komandments
MaVericK Kommandment I
Today I shed my former skin which hath, too long suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.

MaVericK Kommandment II
Today I will ask the light to assign me tasks to which others have failed; yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. I will ask the light to confront me with fears that will temper my spirits; yet endow me with the courage to laugh at my misgivings.

MaVericK Kommandment III
Today I am natures greatest miracle because no man in the city nor beast in the forest can create the same way I do. Value is placed to all things scarce: I am rare and therefore I am Extremely Valuable.

MaVericK Kommandment IV
Today I will multiply our worth a million fold. Today I choose to plant my dreams like a grain of wheat to multiply a million fold to feed all the people of earth.

MaVericK Kommandment V
Today I will Laugh at the world. We are the only beast in the forest given the gift of laughter and I will use it to ensure I continually rise from the ash of misfortune yet also use it to bring my inflated glory back down to earth.

MaVericK Kommandment VI
Today I will be the master of my emotions. Unbeknownst to most, but our moods are constantly churning in a cycle from happiness to depression and then back again. Weak is the one who acts in accordance to his emotions. Strong is the man who forces his actions to control his emotions. I will master my emotions through positive action.

MaVericK Kommandment VII
I will greet THIS Day with Love in my heart. Only the unseen power of love can melt all hearts and soften the hard edges of competition like rain upon the clay. Love will be my shield to thwart the arrows of hate and will forge my sword to slice through the negativity of the moment. Who can turn me down who's heart has opened to me.

MaVericK Kommandment VIII
Today I will persist until I succeed. Bulls are tested in the Orient by how many times they charge ahead despite the sting of the swords blade. Likewise i shall attack with the same steam. Always will i take another step for no one knows how many steps are required in order to reach my goal. I will always assume it lies around the next bend.

MaVericK Kommandment IX
I will Act NOW. Goals are Worthless, Dreams are but Dust. Only action will ignite the map's dashes to lead me to my treasure. Only Action can rip through the tide to take me to shores that only yesterday were but dreams. And if action is the principal by which my goals will be met then i will act NOW!

MaVericK Kommandment X
I will live THIS day as if it were our last. Today I realize that there were many who awoke believing it was just another day and before the sun set they lost their lives. Why have i been granted this extra day when those who didn't desearve to die fell and how many of those tragic stories were threaded with a mundane existance. If they only knew that today was there last day they would have lived it to its fullest. Therefore i greet the sunrise like a newborn given the gift of one more day and with this last precious day i shall rip and roar burning all the tires and lighting all the Fires!!!

Each week i am going to devote to one of these Kommandements and offer wisdom in my Dark Blast Newsletter for all the Zeniths to ponder and become stronger.