9.13.2007
TRAMBLINGS...
BIG! BIG! BIG! NEWS (at least to me) in the next couple days so keep checking back. I don't want to announce it until everything is in place but I am very excited. Not pregnant. We didn't elope. Didn't adopt. But that's all I'm saying. That little picture at the top should clue you in that it has something to do with writing. Another bit of news that has to do with writing. I am officially a part of pop culture. Yep, that's right, lil' ole me. THE DYING GROUND and THE LAST KING are both available for download on ITUNES. How cool is that?
Anyway, the music list in the last post was a huge hit. Here are the other two mixes that I made. DISCLAIMER: Can't say this will work for anybody but me. Can't say it makes sense. Can't tell you the exact mix of KC & The Sunshine Band and Doo Wop that will get you started on your writing but I encourage you to experiment a little. Throw in some blues, some rock n' roll, a little old school hip hop, jazz, big band...Stir and then shake until you get it right.
Writing Mix Number Two
Brooklyn, Mos Def
Noche Azul, Si Se
So Lonesome, The Flatirons
So What'cha Want, Beastie Boys
Jingo, Santana
Express Yourself, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones
Welcome To Jamrock, Damien Marley
Hazy Shade of Winter, The Bangles
Bus to Baton Rouge, Lucinda Williams
Long Road, Eddie Vedder
Million Miles Away, The Plimsouls
Killing Me Softly, The Fugees
Bonita Applebum, A Tribe Called Quest
Lovely Day, Bill Withers
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, Ennio Morricone
Bennie & The Jets, Elton John
I Only Have Eyes For You, The Flamingos
Djin Djin, Angelique Kidjo (Featuring Alicia Keys
Writing Mix Number Three
Jamie's Crying, Van Halen
Cry To Me, Betty Harris
Show Me The Way, Peter Frampton
Free Bird, Arnold McCuller
You Drive Me Wild, The Runaways
Microphone Fiend, Rakim
Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith
Why, Annie Lennox
When the Levee Breaks, Led Zeppelin
Heart of Glass, Blondie
I Don't Like Mondays, The Boomtown Rats
You Gots To Chill, EPMD
Three Crosses, The Flatirons
Under Pressure, David Bowie & Queen
Shooting Star, Bad Company
Black Dog, Led Zeppelin
Time Is On My Side, Rolling Stones
Something 2 Dance 2, NWA
One Way or Another, Blondie
You're All I Need, Mary J & Method Man
Take what you need, discard what you don't and above all else...SEND ME YOUR WRITING LISTS. If you're game I'll post them here. On the book front, here are a couple titles I've picked up over the last couple weeks.
"Cafe de Flore was the essence of all that was desirable on the Rive Gauche of Paris. It stood on the corner of Saint Germain life, an irresistable mix of cafe society, surging with literary, artistic, wanton and fashionable ambitions. It was a mirrored place of entrances and encounters.--THE BEAUTIFUL FALL: LAGERFIELD, SAINT LAURENT AND GLORIOUS EXCESS IN 1970S PARIS by Alicia Drake.
"When describing my mother it is impossible to overstate her grandeur, her haughtiness, her genorisity, her old Hollywood star power, her immaturity, her joy, her entitlement, her suffering. If you want a sense of what she's like, for grandeur and loneliness and elocution, go see Sunset Boulevard. --OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL by Sean Wilsey.
"The town was so small and shabby that, except for it's location and the entrance to the Mississippi River, a stranger could not have guessed it was the capital of an enormous Spanish colony. The little houses stretched for about a mile along the levee and went only six blocks deep. The buildings faced the river, for everywhere, in both Europe and America, the main thoroughfares were water." --INTIMATE ENEMIES: THE TWO WORLDS OF THE BARONESS DE PONTALBA by Christina Vella.
"My worst dreams have always contained images of brown water and fields of elephant grass and the downdraft of helicopter blades. The dreams are in color but they contain no sound, not of drowned voices in the river or the explosions under the hooches in the village we burned or the thropping of the Jolly Green and the gunships coming low and flat across the canopy, like insects pasted against a molten sun." --THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN by JAMES LEE BURKE.
"On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival; but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky, and on cloudy days that method didn't work. That was why he chose to stay near the house on those days."-- I AM LEGEND by RICHARD MATHESON.
"The last time I saw Laurent Jammett, he was in Scott's store with a dead wolf over his shoulder. I had gone to get needles, and he had come in for the bounty. Scott insisted on the whole carcass, having once been bamboozled by a Yankee who brought in a pair of ears one day and claimed his bounty, then some time later brought in the paws for another dollar, and finally the tail."--THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES by Stef Penney.
"Oscar Feldman, whose bold and innovative female nudes are among the most admired and influential artworks of recent years, died of a heart attack August 7 in the Riverside Drive apartment where he'd lived with his wife and son for many decades. He was 78." -- THE GREAT MAN by Kate Christensen.
Bound to be something you like somewhere in there.
What else? Oh, yeah. The Nichelle Barbie finally arrived and my sis has dubbed her Lil Chelle as in "Lil Chelle gonna go 'head and handle that." The box is fabulous, her clothes are fabulous and she's rocking some serious stilettos. Maybe I'll stand her up on top of my wedding cake when me and the Crown Prince finally "do that thang".
Until next time...
BIG! BIG! BIG! NEWS (at least to me) in the next couple days so keep checking back. I don't want to announce it until everything is in place but I am very excited. Not pregnant. We didn't elope. Didn't adopt. But that's all I'm saying. That little picture at the top should clue you in that it has something to do with writing. Another bit of news that has to do with writing. I am officially a part of pop culture. Yep, that's right, lil' ole me. THE DYING GROUND and THE LAST KING are both available for download on ITUNES. How cool is that?
Anyway, the music list in the last post was a huge hit. Here are the other two mixes that I made. DISCLAIMER: Can't say this will work for anybody but me. Can't say it makes sense. Can't tell you the exact mix of KC & The Sunshine Band and Doo Wop that will get you started on your writing but I encourage you to experiment a little. Throw in some blues, some rock n' roll, a little old school hip hop, jazz, big band...Stir and then shake until you get it right.
Writing Mix Number Two
Brooklyn, Mos Def
Noche Azul, Si Se
So Lonesome, The Flatirons
So What'cha Want, Beastie Boys
Jingo, Santana
Express Yourself, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones
Welcome To Jamrock, Damien Marley
Hazy Shade of Winter, The Bangles
Bus to Baton Rouge, Lucinda Williams
Long Road, Eddie Vedder
Million Miles Away, The Plimsouls
Killing Me Softly, The Fugees
Bonita Applebum, A Tribe Called Quest
Lovely Day, Bill Withers
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, Ennio Morricone
Bennie & The Jets, Elton John
I Only Have Eyes For You, The Flamingos
Djin Djin, Angelique Kidjo (Featuring Alicia Keys
Writing Mix Number Three
Jamie's Crying, Van Halen
Cry To Me, Betty Harris
Show Me The Way, Peter Frampton
Free Bird, Arnold McCuller
You Drive Me Wild, The Runaways
Microphone Fiend, Rakim
Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith
Why, Annie Lennox
When the Levee Breaks, Led Zeppelin
Heart of Glass, Blondie
I Don't Like Mondays, The Boomtown Rats
You Gots To Chill, EPMD
Three Crosses, The Flatirons
Under Pressure, David Bowie & Queen
Shooting Star, Bad Company
Black Dog, Led Zeppelin
Time Is On My Side, Rolling Stones
Something 2 Dance 2, NWA
One Way or Another, Blondie
You're All I Need, Mary J & Method Man
Take what you need, discard what you don't and above all else...SEND ME YOUR WRITING LISTS. If you're game I'll post them here. On the book front, here are a couple titles I've picked up over the last couple weeks.
"Cafe de Flore was the essence of all that was desirable on the Rive Gauche of Paris. It stood on the corner of Saint Germain life, an irresistable mix of cafe society, surging with literary, artistic, wanton and fashionable ambitions. It was a mirrored place of entrances and encounters.--THE BEAUTIFUL FALL: LAGERFIELD, SAINT LAURENT AND GLORIOUS EXCESS IN 1970S PARIS by Alicia Drake.
"When describing my mother it is impossible to overstate her grandeur, her haughtiness, her genorisity, her old Hollywood star power, her immaturity, her joy, her entitlement, her suffering. If you want a sense of what she's like, for grandeur and loneliness and elocution, go see Sunset Boulevard. --OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL by Sean Wilsey.
"The town was so small and shabby that, except for it's location and the entrance to the Mississippi River, a stranger could not have guessed it was the capital of an enormous Spanish colony. The little houses stretched for about a mile along the levee and went only six blocks deep. The buildings faced the river, for everywhere, in both Europe and America, the main thoroughfares were water." --INTIMATE ENEMIES: THE TWO WORLDS OF THE BARONESS DE PONTALBA by Christina Vella.
"My worst dreams have always contained images of brown water and fields of elephant grass and the downdraft of helicopter blades. The dreams are in color but they contain no sound, not of drowned voices in the river or the explosions under the hooches in the village we burned or the thropping of the Jolly Green and the gunships coming low and flat across the canopy, like insects pasted against a molten sun." --THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN by JAMES LEE BURKE.
"On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival; but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky, and on cloudy days that method didn't work. That was why he chose to stay near the house on those days."-- I AM LEGEND by RICHARD MATHESON.
"The last time I saw Laurent Jammett, he was in Scott's store with a dead wolf over his shoulder. I had gone to get needles, and he had come in for the bounty. Scott insisted on the whole carcass, having once been bamboozled by a Yankee who brought in a pair of ears one day and claimed his bounty, then some time later brought in the paws for another dollar, and finally the tail."--THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES by Stef Penney.
"Oscar Feldman, whose bold and innovative female nudes are among the most admired and influential artworks of recent years, died of a heart attack August 7 in the Riverside Drive apartment where he'd lived with his wife and son for many decades. He was 78." -- THE GREAT MAN by Kate Christensen.
Bound to be something you like somewhere in there.
What else? Oh, yeah. The Nichelle Barbie finally arrived and my sis has dubbed her Lil Chelle as in "Lil Chelle gonna go 'head and handle that." The box is fabulous, her clothes are fabulous and she's rocking some serious stilettos. Maybe I'll stand her up on top of my wedding cake when me and the Crown Prince finally "do that thang".
Until next time...
Labels: Books, Lil Chelle, Music, Writing Life
