LACONIA BOOKS
1st Generation
Ferdinand:
- "Supernatural Superserious", REM
Ferdinand and Selene:
- "Yellow", Coldplay
- "What Sarah Said", Death Cab for Cutie
- "Eric's Song", Vienna Teng
- "You've Got the Love", Florence + The Machine
- "Hero/Heroine", Boys Like Girls
- "Rainbow Veins", Owl City
- "Vanilla Twilight", Owl City
Selene:
- "Lullabye for a Stormy Night", Vienna Teng
Selene and Dianne:
- "Daughter", Vienna Teng
Dianne:
- "Howl", Florence + The Machine
- "Ode to My Family", The Cranberries
- "Strange", Tokio Hotel & Keri
- "Imitation of Life", REM
Dianne and Matthew:
- "The Scientist", Coldplay
Ferdinand and Nat:
- "Little Lion Man", Mumford & Sons
- "Gimme a Sign", Kevin Rudolf
- "Fix You", Coldplay
- "The Last Day On Earth", Kate Miller-Heidke
- "The Engine Driver", The Decemberists
- "If You Could Read My Mind", Gordon Lightfoot
Nat:
- "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid", The Offspring
- "Spaceman", The Killers
- "When You Were Young", The Killers
- "I Wanna", All-American Rejects
- "Driver 8", REM
- "Judas", Lady Gaga
Nat, Taylor, (Charity, Myra):
- "Star of Wonder", The Roches
Taylor:
- "Bright Eyes", Art Garfunkle
- "The Tower", Vienna Teng
- "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)", Florence + The Machine
- "How Can I Keep From Singing?", traditional folk song
Taylor and Derrick:
- "It's All Been Done", Barenaked Ladies
- "Such Great Heights", The Postal Service
- "We Will Become Silhouettes", The Postal Service
- "Brand New Colony", The Postal Service
- "The Blood of Eden", Peter Gabriel
Derrick:
- "The Great Beyond", REM
- "One Week", Barenaked Ladies
- "Light Up My Room", Barenaked Ladies
- "The Starman", David Bowie
Edofine:
- "Strangers Like Me", Phil Collins
- "Two Worlds", Phil Collins
Edofine and Lira:
- "In Your Eyes", Peter Gabriel
2nd Generation (books not yet published)
Demetrius (as an adult):
- "Psycho Killer", Talking Heads
- "Life During Wartime", Talking Heads
- "Viva La Vida", Coldplay
Sally:
- "Australia", The Shins
Puffin:
- "Cops and Robbers", ?
- "Private Eye", ?
Puffin and Sandi:
- "I Must Have Done Something Good", Reliant K
Charity:
- "The War on Drugs", Barenaked Ladies
- "How to Save a Life", The Fray
- "Cosmic Love", Florence + The Machine
- "Breakable", Ingrid Michaelson
- "Headlock", Imogen Heap
- "Sing", The Dresden Dolls
- "Tiny Voices", Bad Religion
Charity and Myra:
- "Red Rain", Peter Gabriel
Opal and Amaranth:
- "The Dog Days Are Over", Florence + The Machine
Rivki:
- "Son of Man", Phil Collins
Rivki and Val:
- "Six Feet Under the Stars", All Time Low
- "Fields of Gold", Sting
Val:
- "My Name is Luka", Suzanne Vega
Ikh:
- "The Rake's Song", The Decemberists
Taran:
- "Born this Way", Lady Gaga
Taran and Eric:
- "I'll Cover You (Reprise)", from RENT
Taran and Creed:
- "Straight to You", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- "Into My Arms", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Myra:
- "The Sound of Silence", Simon & Garfunkle
- "Chasing the Dragon", Epica
- "Growing Up", Peter Gabriel
- "Blinding", Florence + The Machine
Myra and Felix:
- "Soul Meets Body", Death Cab for Cutie
- "Anan Water", The Decemberists
Felix and Rose:
- "Violet Hill", Coldplay
The Devil:
- "Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Wren Fielding:
- "The Girl Anachronism" - The Dresden Dolls
- "Half Jack" - The Dresden Dolls
- "My Alcoholic Friends" - The Dresden Dolls
- "Ding Dong" - Nellie McKay
- "Mercy Street" - Peter Gabriel
Whole Series:
- "Human", The Killers
- "True Believers", Bouncing Souls
Misc.
- "Sons and Daughters", The Decemberists
- "Marching Bands of Manhattan", Death Cab for Cutie
- "Hello Seattle", Owl City
- "Swimming in Miami", Owl City
~*~*~*~
SEASONS FOUR OPEN THE DOOR
Whole book:
- "Calamity Song", The Decemberists
- "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", REM
Jared:
- "Wendell Gee", REM
- "Maps and Legends", REM
- "Fireflies", Owl City
- "Closer to Fine", Indigo Girls
Jared and Kira:
- "I Run to You", Lady Antebellum
- "Falling Slowly", from the movie Once
Kira:
- "Circle of Steel", Gordon Lightfoot
- "June Hymn", The Decemberists
- "In the Eye", Suzanne Vega
- "When Your Mind's Made Up", from Once
- "Lady Isobel's Knight", traditional folk song
Timmy:
- "The King of Bedside Manor", Barenaked Ladies
William:
- "January Hymn", The Decemberists
Gwen:
- "Don't Carry it All", The Decemberists
Radcliff:
- "I Wish I Was James Bond", ?
Lynne and Amber:
- "Under Your Spell", Amber Benson (written by Joss Whedon)
- "Momentum", Vienna Teng
Rain:
- "Sober", P!nk
- "River's Dance", from the Firefly Sountrack
- "You Can't Take the Sky from Me", Firefly Theme Tune
- "Land of Canaan", Indigo Girls
- "Poker Face", Lady Gaga
Minor Character Ensemble:
- "Pork and Beans", Weezer
- "Firework", Katy Perry
Djones:
- "Deadly Handsome Man", ?
Will update as I get ideas and encounter new songs. :)
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
300 for 30: Day 22
Story ideas I have yet to expand upon:
1. Waiting for the Snow, a Waiting for Godot pastiche featuring male Emperor Penguins huddled together during the Antarctic winter, each cradling a single egg on his feet, talking about the meaninglessness of life. I plan to use this as the premise of my script for my playwriting class next semester. The penguins would be played by four men in tuxedoes wearing orange bowties and baseball caps. Their mates, played by three women dressed the same way, would show up during the second act (one of the mates got eaten by a leopard seal).
2. My Life as an Octopus, a novel based on a prompt I responded to in a high school creative writing class. The idea is that Octavia is a genetically engineered octopus with human-level intelligence who has learned to communicate by typing on a waterproof keyboard. This is the biography of her strange and wonderful life. The thing that’s held me back thus far is that this would require a lot of research before I could get started.
3. Another idea requiring a lot of research, but would be ridiculously awesome, would be a crossover novel between Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and The Jungle Book. Kim would have some spy mission for the British Empire that required him to spend time hiding in the jungle, and Mowgli would provide him with assistance. Perhaps Kim could repay him by pulling strings to keep Mowgli’s forests and his wolf pack protected. I’d have to have a great grasp of Victorian-era British-occupied England, what dialects were spoken, the geography of the Sewanee, and several other things, but I might even be able to get this published, since Kipling’s characters are now public domain.
4. An anthology of short stories covering minor Laconia characters.
1. Waiting for the Snow, a Waiting for Godot pastiche featuring male Emperor Penguins huddled together during the Antarctic winter, each cradling a single egg on his feet, talking about the meaninglessness of life. I plan to use this as the premise of my script for my playwriting class next semester. The penguins would be played by four men in tuxedoes wearing orange bowties and baseball caps. Their mates, played by three women dressed the same way, would show up during the second act (one of the mates got eaten by a leopard seal).
2. My Life as an Octopus, a novel based on a prompt I responded to in a high school creative writing class. The idea is that Octavia is a genetically engineered octopus with human-level intelligence who has learned to communicate by typing on a waterproof keyboard. This is the biography of her strange and wonderful life. The thing that’s held me back thus far is that this would require a lot of research before I could get started.
3. Another idea requiring a lot of research, but would be ridiculously awesome, would be a crossover novel between Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and The Jungle Book. Kim would have some spy mission for the British Empire that required him to spend time hiding in the jungle, and Mowgli would provide him with assistance. Perhaps Kim could repay him by pulling strings to keep Mowgli’s forests and his wolf pack protected. I’d have to have a great grasp of Victorian-era British-occupied England, what dialects were spoken, the geography of the Sewanee, and several other things, but I might even be able to get this published, since Kipling’s characters are now public domain.
4. An anthology of short stories covering minor Laconia characters.
300 for 30: Day 20
My Objections to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1. All “worthy” young men age 12 and up can have the priesthood power bestowed upon them. No female ever can. The arguments for this sound suspiciously similar to those once used to justify women not having the vote: women share in their fathers’ and husbands’ power, they have hidden influence on the men that runs deep, it is simply not their sphere, etc.
2. They made me fear and hate my romantic feelings towards women.
3. They made me fear and hate my budding sexuality towards everyone in general.
4. The Book of Mormon states that the Lamanite people, a supposed lost tribe of Israel, were cursed with dark skin because of their sinfulness. ‘Nuff said.
5. For several decades men of African descent were not permitted to be ordained with the priesthood. No explanation or apology was made after this policy was altered.
6. The church authorities commanded the masses to support and campaign for Proposition 8, overturning legal same-sex marriage in California.
7. The older I got, the more and more my female role models om in the Church started to resemble Stepford wives.
8. This quote: “Of course it’s important for a woman to be educated. You never know what might happen to your husband!”
9. This quote: “The Prophet has instructed women not to delay marriage and family for the sake of education.”
10. This quote: “Oh, don’t worry about your mother being a Buddhist. She’s sure to convert one day.”
11. Though polygamy is banned, a widower may be “eternally married” to multiple women if only one of them is alive. A widow must be “eternally married” to only one husband, living or dead.
12. I was taught to rely on a “still, small voice” in my mind to confirm that things were true. The voice was no stiller and no stronger than the voices that criticized me, that mocked me, that hurt me, that proved to be symptoms of my mental illness. I tugged on the thread and the whole thing unraveled.
1. All “worthy” young men age 12 and up can have the priesthood power bestowed upon them. No female ever can. The arguments for this sound suspiciously similar to those once used to justify women not having the vote: women share in their fathers’ and husbands’ power, they have hidden influence on the men that runs deep, it is simply not their sphere, etc.
2. They made me fear and hate my romantic feelings towards women.
3. They made me fear and hate my budding sexuality towards everyone in general.
4. The Book of Mormon states that the Lamanite people, a supposed lost tribe of Israel, were cursed with dark skin because of their sinfulness. ‘Nuff said.
5. For several decades men of African descent were not permitted to be ordained with the priesthood. No explanation or apology was made after this policy was altered.
6. The church authorities commanded the masses to support and campaign for Proposition 8, overturning legal same-sex marriage in California.
7. The older I got, the more and more my female role models om in the Church started to resemble Stepford wives.
8. This quote: “Of course it’s important for a woman to be educated. You never know what might happen to your husband!”
9. This quote: “The Prophet has instructed women not to delay marriage and family for the sake of education.”
10. This quote: “Oh, don’t worry about your mother being a Buddhist. She’s sure to convert one day.”
11. Though polygamy is banned, a widower may be “eternally married” to multiple women if only one of them is alive. A widow must be “eternally married” to only one husband, living or dead.
12. I was taught to rely on a “still, small voice” in my mind to confirm that things were true. The voice was no stiller and no stronger than the voices that criticized me, that mocked me, that hurt me, that proved to be symptoms of my mental illness. I tugged on the thread and the whole thing unraveled.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
300 for 30: Day 18
I'm going with something half-baked today, because I'm tired and starting to slide into another depression. Who knows, I might perk up in the process.
So you get a list! (And there was much rejoicing - insert dispirited 'yayyyyy'.)
Writing-Related Things I'm Doing At the Moment
1. This 300-for-30 which is going to morph into 750-for-Clarion on the 26th.
A. Some it, as you have seen, is miscellany like this.
B. Another portion is my Raw Ghosts of Thailand expansion, again obvious on this blog.
C. Though I'm in composting mode, letting Sweeping the Puddles Away mature in my brain before I make a serious attempt at it, I may take a few nibbles as part of the Write-A-Thon if I tire of A and B.
2. A "translation" of a Shakespeare play into modern English [I won't say which publicly; I signed a non-disclosure agreement], ghostwriting for a $200 payment. Due on the 25th. I'm glad it's not overlapping with the Write-A-Thon.
3. Editing the first manuscript in my new long-term position, for $50. Low pay but great resume/work experience credit; the publisher is quite snazzy. This is due on the 22nd. I have not received the actual manuscript yet. If I don't get it by tomorrow I am requesting an extension, because I said I'd need a week to do it, and they had better GIVE me a week, by Eru! And they'll give me another one immediately afterwards that I must have done before August 1st, since they "had to fire one of their copyeditors".
* I must admit, I am curious about what the copyeditor did.
4. Waiting to hear back from Queryshark, of queryshark.blogspot.com , to see if she is interested at all in either posting my query for Seasons Four Open the Door on her blog and eviscerating it, or on, just maybe, requesting pages. In the meantime I am polishing the query until it screams, so that if 90 days pass with no reply I can resubmit a better one in September.
5. Waiting to hear back from various other agents for Seasons Four.
6. Promotion, promotion, promotion for Humans and Demons and Elves. I'm hoping to get the Facebook page fanbase to at least 300 before July 7th. I will have to take some time off my Embassy job on the big day to be available on live chat during my appointed hour, and draft up some contests/"press releases" to put on the Yahoo loop.
7. Waiting to hear back from The Memory Eater anthology about whether a story I submitted pleases the editor enough to be included. I would get a share of whatever the book makes. I adore the Ryan-North-edited Machine of Death anthology this is inspired by, and would love to be part of a similar project. I'm on equal footing with all the other submitters credential-wise, though, since the editor has explicitly stated s/he doesn't care about that. But their twitter does follow mine, which can't be a bad sign anyway.
8. Growing my Twitter community- largely consisting of trying to find interesting things to say on command, like a trained parrot.
9. Occasional fanfic, because I'm a writingslut like that.
10. And a partridge in a pear tree.
So you get a list! (And there was much rejoicing - insert dispirited 'yayyyyy'.)
Writing-Related Things I'm Doing At the Moment
1. This 300-for-30 which is going to morph into 750-for-Clarion on the 26th.
A. Some it, as you have seen, is miscellany like this.
B. Another portion is my Raw Ghosts of Thailand expansion, again obvious on this blog.
C. Though I'm in composting mode, letting Sweeping the Puddles Away mature in my brain before I make a serious attempt at it, I may take a few nibbles as part of the Write-A-Thon if I tire of A and B.
2. A "translation" of a Shakespeare play into modern English [I won't say which publicly; I signed a non-disclosure agreement], ghostwriting for a $200 payment. Due on the 25th. I'm glad it's not overlapping with the Write-A-Thon.
3. Editing the first manuscript in my new long-term position, for $50. Low pay but great resume/work experience credit; the publisher is quite snazzy. This is due on the 22nd. I have not received the actual manuscript yet. If I don't get it by tomorrow I am requesting an extension, because I said I'd need a week to do it, and they had better GIVE me a week, by Eru! And they'll give me another one immediately afterwards that I must have done before August 1st, since they "had to fire one of their copyeditors".
* I must admit, I am curious about what the copyeditor did.
4. Waiting to hear back from Queryshark, of queryshark.blogspot.com , to see if she is interested at all in either posting my query for Seasons Four Open the Door on her blog and eviscerating it, or on, just maybe, requesting pages. In the meantime I am polishing the query until it screams, so that if 90 days pass with no reply I can resubmit a better one in September.
5. Waiting to hear back from various other agents for Seasons Four.
6. Promotion, promotion, promotion for Humans and Demons and Elves. I'm hoping to get the Facebook page fanbase to at least 300 before July 7th. I will have to take some time off my Embassy job on the big day to be available on live chat during my appointed hour, and draft up some contests/"press releases" to put on the Yahoo loop.
7. Waiting to hear back from The Memory Eater anthology about whether a story I submitted pleases the editor enough to be included. I would get a share of whatever the book makes. I adore the Ryan-North-edited Machine of Death anthology this is inspired by, and would love to be part of a similar project. I'm on equal footing with all the other submitters credential-wise, though, since the editor has explicitly stated s/he doesn't care about that. But their twitter does follow mine, which can't be a bad sign anyway.
8. Growing my Twitter community- largely consisting of trying to find interesting things to say on command, like a trained parrot.
9. Occasional fanfic, because I'm a writingslut like that.
10. And a partridge in a pear tree.
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