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[cleolinda]

Okay, I don't know what's wrong with Radio KLEO, but right after the "She Bang" debacle of yesterday, it tried to play songs by both Ted Nugent and Randy Savage. Yes, "Macho Man" Randy Savage. I didn't even know "Macho Man" Randy Savage had an album. I guess KLEO saw that metaquote and got offended...

Sadly, I ended up working on Black Ribbon... volume 2 last night. Of course, that has a huge impact on how I end volume one, because it doesn't so much "end" as "come to a breather stop before volume two." But because of a new character I came up with for V2, it looks like I'm going to have to push the V2 plot over to V4 (which is good, as it needed a good strong plot, and this plot will do much better over there at the end) and come up with a whole new plot to accomodate this character (name's Bijou, if that helps any). Which is fine, because V2 was ending way too much like V1 and this new character really makes more of the Paris setting, and it gives me time to develop the villains more. More resonance by V4 and all that. So now that I've gotten that little plot itch off my back, I'm going back to work on chapters 4 and 5 in V1.

I'm sure that didn't make sense to anyone but me.

Oh, and I totally forgot to address a couple of comments about my choice of music last week. I actually don't know much about Loreena McKennitt--I really liked "The Mystic's Dream" as it was used in Mists of Avalon, and so I gave it a high rating on KLEO. Launchcast then started playing more of her stuff--"The Mummer's Dance" sounds really similar, but (or so?) I liked it. I don't know much else of her work, so I rated a couple of her albums highly so they'd get tossed into rotation. Any song recommendations?

P.S. The sketch wank is still going at FW. It's up to something over 1400 comments now, last time I checked. I think the previous record was 800 something. Meanwhile, I'm pining for a copy of Photoshop. I think my stepfather said he got it with his copy of XP (Office/Professional whatever--I only got Home). Maybe I can snaffle it from him, and actually get some clear text on my icons.

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[fba.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say that I love that song!

Saw them live in a teenytiny venue of about 150 a few weeks back :)

[fba.livejournal.com]

Clarification - the song that is in your now playing - not any others you mentioned in the post.....

[malenky-devil.livejournal.com]

Oh, photoshop, how I miss thee. I need to be working on my story, I should be working on my story, but for some odd reason I'm not. And I see it on the startup bar below me. I'm so close to the end. Good on ya for your progress.

Ooh! Have you seen the new VanHelsing trailer? Daisy gets a few seconds of good screentime and actually has dialogue! Go Daisy!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Is that the one I screencapped, or is there a third one out? He did have a good bit of dialogue in the second.

Eh, my progress is magical non-progress--I've found ways of writing anything but chapter 4.

I wish I could get on YM right now, but I'm having to run in and out at the moment. I might be on later, though.

[malenky-devil.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I may have to check the screencaps to be sure, but this is only the second time I've seen this trailer, so it very well may be.

I'd go for magical progress than no progress for me. I need to finish this one and move on to the second book. Desperately.

[missbingley.livejournal.com]

I have not heard Macho Man's songs, but I have read the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's album (http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lowbrow/lyrics.html) and I have never been the same since. Fitty Cent can't rhyme as tight as Hulk, yo.

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

Loreena McKennit is one of my favorite artists; I have ALL of her albums. I particularly enjoy The Mask and the Mirror, especially "Santiago" and "The Dark Night of the Soul". She also has this really great song called "Snow" which is on a Windham Hill Celtic Christmas as well as her album To Drive the Cold Winter Away.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

ROFL!!!!!!
Sorry..I think that's hilarious.
Being a WWE fan I know about Randy's album..I just choose not to listen.Wrestlers can't sing very well.Well..except for Chris Jericho.

I been thinking of getting a station on Launchcast too..just wish I wasn't broke.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, you can go pretty far with a free station--you might want to try that.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It was The Mummers' Dance that actually got me into Loreena in the first place. I'd like to recommend an album, but I like them all differently in their ways. Book of Secrets is the most recent and it probably has her most well-rounded and developed songs - especially the very long musical version of Alfred Noyes's The Highwayman... brilliant.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

"The Highwayman" was actually one of the first Loreena songs that Launchcast played for me--a live version from a Paris & Toronto album. I thought it might be related to the poem, since I remembered it reading it as a kid, and was v. excited to realize it was the same one. "The trigger at least was hers." I just always remembered that line.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I have that same album of hers and I love all the songs! "Marco Polo" and that other one--aigh! I can't remember the name, but it's the one about dancing under trees in springtime at night--were used for background music by my old bellydance teacher.

I generally shun anything that smacks of being Magical! and Mystical! and Special!--i.e., most crap I consider Too Twee For Words--but she's just flat-out talented and very, very good. That spring-song especially sounds like what I imagine elf-music would sound like. You can picture a bunch of elf maidens doing some grand dance every spring in Lothlorian (said she who shuns the Twee).