lizvogel: Run and find out, with cute kitten. (Run and Find Out)
NaNo is coming, and I'm 97.326% sure I'm doing Apocollapse for it. Unlike previous years, there is much prep to be done, including organizing my research, compiling my notes, figuring out a major character's name, and putting together a writing mix -- which is where you come in, dear reader, if you have any suggestions to add.

What I've got so far is (almost certainly not in this order):

Sister Hazel, Sword and Shield  (lyrics)
Imagine Dragons, Demons  (lyrics)
Simple Minds, Summer  (lyrics)
Simple Minds, Walk Between Worlds  (lyrics)
? Simple Minds, The Signal and The Noise(lyrics)
Haley Heynderickx, Untitled God Song  (lyrics)
Tears For Fears, Rivers of Mercy  (lyrics)
Tears For Fears, Master Plan  (lyrics)
Tears For Fears, The Tipping Point  (lyrics)
? The Decemberists, Calamity Song(lyrics)
?? OK Go, Before the Earth Was Round ??  (lyrics)

As you can see, a range of musical styles/genres is fine; some of these things are not like the others. The more melodious strains of alternative/rock are my usual territory, with clever lyrics that can be reasonably clearly understood. The lyrics don't have to pertain to the prophesied destruction of the earth and everything on it; oftentimes my interpretations of songs are idiosyncratic at best. And sometimes (though rarely) it's just that something sounds right.

(ETA: There are probably several other songs that should be on this list; cf. needing to compile my notes. But more music is always welcome!)

So, what else should I be listening to?

Musical memery

Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 09:55 pm
lizvogel: lizvogel's fandoms.  The short list. (Fandom Epilepsy)
Via network:

Answer each category with a SONG TITLE. No repeats and don’t use the internet (it's tempting but try not to). Go with the first song that comes to mind, change my answers to your own (don't steal mine), and repost.


Something to wear: "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes", Elvis Costello
Something to drink: "White Russian", Marillion
Place: "Roads To Moscow", Al Stewart
Food: "Morphine & Chocolate", 4 Non Blondes
Animal: "Puss'n Boots", Adam Ant
Color: "Perfect Blue Buildings", Counting Crows
Girl's Name: "Karla With A K", The Hooters
Boy's Name: "Ray", Millencolin
Profession: "Fretman Sam", Jimmy Thudpucker And The Walden West Rhythm Section
Day of the Week: "Always Saturday", Guadalcanal Diary
Vehicle: "Fast Car", Tracy Chapman

It was surprisingly easy to come up with wears, days, and vehicles, and surprisingly difficult to find a drink among my music collection. /*is surprised*/ It's not at all surprising that I had to restrain myself from filling the list with Elvis Costello songs. ;-)

lizvogel: Banana: Good.  Crossed streams: Bad. (Good Bad)
My mp3 player has recently rediscovered that it has "Thick As A Brick" on it; it's come up three times in the last two trips around town. And now, WinAmp is playing, guess what?

The universe is probably trying to tell me something. I wonder what?

lizvogel: lizvogel's fandoms.  The short list. (Fandom Epilepsy)

Hark, the herald kitties sing
Food for us, it's time to bring
Fish on plates, and treats galore
That's good, human, give us more

Come on, human, time to rise
What's that mean, "quarter to five"?
With our tails erect we stop
in your path to speed you up

Hark, the herald kitties sing
Food for us, it's time to bring



You're welcome. ;-P

lizvogel: Banana: Good.  Crossed streams: Bad. (Good Bad)
Tell me, oh internets, can you recommend some music? I'm looking for something with a similar feel to the "chanty monk bits" of Carmina Burana (aka, "Fortune Plango Vulnera" and "O Fortuna"). Not that I necessarily want more chanting, but something with the same brutalist-architecture swirly energy would be great.


I've spent about a week being obsessed with Ringo Starr's "It Don't Come Easy". Which is somewhat inconvenient, as this is a song I don't own, but it turns out YouTube can be quite useful. (If one can stay the hell away from the sidebar links, of course.) I ended up making a mix of other songs that fit with the same mental settings. (And yes, the chanty monks are on it. It works for me. Let it never be said that my tastes aren't idiosyncratic.)


(The title refers to the fact that putting in the good headphones and cranking the volume seems to be the one thing that'll get me going when the words otherwise refuse to come. This is a useful thing to know, but I'm starting to feel like I've just been to a rock concert.)
lizvogel: Banana: Good.  Crossed streams: Bad. (Good Bad)
So, I'm NaNoing.

I don't remember being quite this fed up with it this soon, the last time. Day 1 went okay, a bit of slogging but overall productive, but by Day 2 I was thoroughly sick of the whole thing and wondering why I ever started.

Part of the problem has been that the things I've been doing to try to get myself into the right headspace have turned into chores instead of fun. Cramming in Avengers and Doctor Who (Roger Delgado Master, of course) instead of watching my newly-acquired Season 3 of Lucifer, for instance. Listening to Cabin Pressure was definitely on that list, which usually accompanies making cookies, but trying to fit a batch of my insanely time-consuming cookies in with everything else I had to do was, well, insane. It was a huge weight off when I finally decided that no, I didn't have to make cookies before November; but then "don't have to" turned into "not allowed to" and one more thing NaNo meant I couldn't do. And that was just making me resent the whole thing before I even started.

Hence making the cookies after all. For Halloween, which got done November 5th. Yeah. But they'll still taste good.

And Season 3 of Lucifer is coming along nicely, thank you.

So one of the lessons I get to learn this NaNo is how to tell when pushing through is called for, and when taking a break and just having fun is the right approach. This is a tough one, since for me NaNo is all about continuing writing when I feel like I'm done, and finding that second (or third, or fourth) wind.

That, and how to tackle such a large project when the universe seems determined to throw things at me. The car particularly seems to be its instrument: I lost part of a day early on to finally getting the leaky tire fixed; now I need to lose half of another to having a coolant leak seen to. And the usual epic list of stuff continues. Heck, I've been trying to get to this journal post for days.

Also, I voted today. It's discouraging that the "music to vote by" mix I made for... the first Bush II election? maybe the second?... is just as appropriate this time, as it has been every time since.

So, anyway, NaNo. Yesterday I got almost nothing done (should have just taken that nap), and today, while I did a thousand words or so (which is a lot for me), I'm falling behind par for the first time. And yet, I think going to bed may be the right thing to do. I'll probably regret it when I'm trying to make up the wordcount, but I'm not sure slogging for hours to drag the words out tonight would get me any farther ahead in the long run.
lizvogel: A jar of almonds that warns that it contains almonds. (Stupid Planet)
I'd heard that Dylan song, of course, but I'd never realized that the title was "Positively 4th Street".

That's... freakin' prophetic, that is.

lizvogel: Banana: Good.  Crossed streams: Bad. (Good Bad)
This morning I had a song fragment stuck in my head. After a few futile googlings, I finally narrowed down enough correct lyric to discover that it was "Saturday" by Built To Spill. Played it, was happy, moved on.

I'd left the tab with the lyrics up so I could mention it to the housemate, who I'd hummed it at. Just now, hours later, I was looking at that tab and deciding I ought to copy the lyrics to my off-line collection, since the song's pretty cool.

And WinAmp started playing it.
lizvogel: lizvogel's fandoms.  The short list. (Fandom Epilepsy)
It's Raining Tacos, brought to you by Parry Gripp.

Is it even better that he's the lead vocalist and guitarist for Nerf Herder?

lizvogel: lizvogel's fandoms.  The short list. (Fandom Epilepsy)
With a little help from the housemate:


Shotguns ring, are you listening?
In the mall, blood is glistening
A terrible sight, we're running in fright
Shopping in a zombie wonderland

In the shoe store, we will build a barricade
And hide behind it til they knock it down
We'll say "Run away!" and they'll say "Brains!
Brains brains brains brains brains."

Later on, we'll perspire
As we set them on fire
With the barbecue set we bought on discount
Shopping in a zombie wonderland.



Daria on DVD!

Friday, May 7th, 2010 11:45 am
lizvogel: lizvogel's fandoms.  The short list. (Fandom Epilepsy)
As people who aren't me may already have heard, Daria: The Complete Series is coming out May 11!

Not surprisingly, they've replaced some (much?) of the music. (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Daria-DVD-Plans/13010, http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/#bignews -- oh hey, the official release sheet about it) Which, frustratingly, means I couldn't get rid of my original tapes, although from the sounds of the "extras" list, I could at least dump the several Daria Day marathons that I'm only keeping for the Daria & Jane intros.

To buy the musically-compromised DVDs, or to take comfort in a scratchy and disorganized set of original-broadcast VHS... that is the question....

I do wonder, what is it about owning rights to music that impairs higher brain functions, like basic math? "This music is so valuable, I will set the price for its use higher than you can afford!" "Well, we'll just replace it with something cheaper then, and you'll get nothing, thanks anyway." Wouldn't it be better for the profit margin as well as the art (if I can dare mention such a thing in the context of music rights) to set the price at something people will, you know, actually pay?

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