It's an odd thing to see an article or song about moonshine while listening to an album of Prohibition-era music and realize that the two bastard stepchildren of Prohibition were a stronger organized crime... and Nascar.

Also?  I'd like to say that reading Murder at the Vicarage, Fer De Lance, and Thin Man (Miss Marple, Nero Wolfe, Nick & Nora ( Read more... )

25 - Music - Do you listen to music while you write? Do you make playlists to get into a certain "mood" to write your fic? Do you need noise in general? Or do you need it completely quiet?

Music is just about necessary while I write, and I'll have (long) playlists on random while I write.  I can't listen to television shows; they're too ( Read more... )

This year (yeah, seriously, back to January or further) has been just a tad stressful for me and
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Who Fears the Devil, the collected short stories about John the Balladeer, John with the silver-strung guitar, is being reissued next month! (I already own the original, but my copy was printed in 1963 and I'm very careful with it!)  Anyway, these are Appalachian folk/horror/fantasy stories, *great* stuff.  I can't be the only one who loves them, ( Read more... )

Today's question from fannish5: Name five effective uses of songs in movies or TV shows.

6. (Because I remembered it and couldn't leave it out.) X-Files, Mulder listening to Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" while driving up Skyland Mountain.

5. Highlander, the movie. Yes, most of the songs in that movie were written for it (and work amazingly well, too ( Read more... )

Gacked from
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And several more damns besides. If you've never been to Memphis In May's Sunset Symphony, this probably won't mean a thing to you. If you have, we've lost James Hyter, the best bass singer I've ever heard. He was famous for singing "Old Man River" for 21 years straight at the Sunset Symphony and it was a rare occasion when he escaped with only ( Read more... )

Name five songs (or whole playlists, if you want to get ambitious) that you associate with particular fictional characters.Cory Raines or Amanda or maybe both (Highlander): Minor Swing, by Django Reinhardt ( Read more... )

::eyeing the bag suspiciously:: Okay, they sent me coupons for 25% off one book or DVD, and buy one CD get the second 50% off. But I now own My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris are two of the writers,and P.N. Elrod edited), and Rogue's Gallery (two CDs of pirate ballads, sea songs, and chanteys) and Sting's Songs from ( Read more... )

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