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lenora_roseI just set up a new playlist on my MP3 player, specifically for Bird of Dusk, because a lot of my staple music isn't suited for this one. Most of the music is the music I first listened to in the vicinity of 1993-1995 (Some started earlier; Sirius got onto my regular playlist in Junior High.) Which is the time period Bird of Dusk is set in. It's far from the only music I listened to then, but it's the stuff that clung to this story.
I can't easily copy it over in completion (260 songs!), but these are the keystone songs (Which start or end the playlist):
The Pinch of Snuff - Boiled in lead (Mentioned in the text)
King of Bohemia - Richard Thomspon (If I had to choose one song alone for the story, this would be it. Mentioned in the text.)
Blue Northern Lights - Ollabelle (Not released until 2006, a major exception, but I heard the song and instantly thought of Finno.)
Stolen Child - Loreena McKennitt (The exact version from Elemental is referenced in the text. I used the Alhambra live one. Except. I first learned of this Manitoban's song through Golden Bough, a vastly more obscure group from California. Alas, their version is on cassette. Also, Heather Alexander's entirely different and equally evocative setting for the poem does make it onto the playlist.)
Take Me Home - Julian Lennon
Granite Years - Oysterband (And this would be the chief band.)
Love and Affection - Clannad (And this would be a close second for chief band, and song alike.)
All that Way for This - Oysterband
Wild Rover - Boiled In Lead (Used the copy from Alloy. Heard it and adopted it from Boiled Alive '93.)
Bravado - Rush
Here Comes the Flood (Shaking the Tree Version) - Peter Gabriel
Who Wants to Live Forever? - Queen (Was a chapter title, even, back when I had chapter titles.)
Can't Win - Richard Thompson
My Son John - Boiled in lead
Another Quiet Night in England (1994) - Oysterband
Yesterday is Here - Tom Waits
The Hiring Fair - Fairport Convention (referenced in the text.)
Other Side of Town - Julian Lennon (With Paul Buchanan)
Morrison's - The Flash Girls
Turning Tide - Clannad
A Fire is Burning - Oysterband (The Live version from Alive and Acoustic because frankly, it sounds more like the live show I saw in 1994 than the studio version.)
Starwalker - Buffy Saint-Marie
King of Pain - the Police (Too obvious a song for an emo teen.)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
Linda, Linda - 3 Mustaphas 3
Heart of Stone - Maddy Prior (Another one slightly after the represented period.)
One Day I Went Out Walking - The Mollys
Gimme Shelter - Angelique Kidjo (Yes, the Rolling Stones version would be more accurate, but...)
Nothing More - Sandy Denny
Lost for Words - Pink Floyd
Mad About You - Sting
Turkish Song of the Damned - the Pogues
Nekashtuamani - Kashtin
Turnaround - Stan Rogers
The Assassin's Apprentice- Stephen Fearing
Sonnet in the Dark - Flash Girls
If I Should Fall from Grace with God - The Pogues
Exile - Enya
Look What Your Love Has Done - The Mollys
Stars Overhead - Cats Laughing
Little Child Eyes - Stephen Fearing
Charlie - Milla
Year of the Angel - Lennie Gallant
Tom o'Bedlam - Michael Longcor (I wanted the Heather Alexander version, or one with the right lyrics, but picked this as closest in other ways.)
Song of the Candle - Stan Rogers
Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
You bet Your Life - Rush
Help Yourself - Julian Lennon
Sun Child - Liona Boyd
Generation hand Down - Jerry Alfred and the Medicine Beat
Far From Home - The Levellers
Everything is Broken - Ollabelle
Harder than the Fall - Ruthie Foster
The Youngest Daughter - Fairport Convention
Put Out the Lights - Oysterband
And these are the key albums, which have all or most of their songs represented:
Clannad: Sirius, Anam
Oysterband: Holy Bandits
Richard Thompson: Rumor and Sigh
Kashtin: Innu (In 1994, this seemed to be the only Native Canadian album anyone had heard of.)
Stephen Fearing: Blue Line
And these are the missing-in-action, things I have on Cassette or Vinyl and couldn't put on.:
June Tabor - Aqaba. (had this on cassette. it died. I WANT this album back.) Abyssinians
Oysterband - Deserters. (Have this on cassette. Yes, Granite Years and All that Way For This made it even so, but I NEED Diamond for a Dime and Never Left.)
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (Selections only. Still, Colin has this. Hmmm.)
Fairport Convention - In Real Time (A faked not-live album that nonetheless acted, for me, as a really good best of), Red and Gold
Rawlins Cross - Reel and Roll
Golden Bough - Far From Home (Selected tracks only)
Maire - Maire Brennan
Rush - Presto, A Show of Hands (Selected tracks only from both)
Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire (Selected tracks only)
The Pogues - Hell's Ditch
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Another source of boringness for people:
Not a lot of these change much, since I haven't been working on the short stories. Just to be clear, these aren't everything in my files of unfinished business, these are the ones I think I could end up working on in the recognizably near future. In rough order of likelihood. Very rough, starting with the one I actually am working on:
Bird of Dusk (Novel. Set on what I call Damina-Earth, which means almost modern day, almost our world, almost Winnipeg):
"When the doorbell rang, Harry thumbed the pause button."
The Serpent Prince (Novel. High Fantasy. Very traditional.)
"Most men came before the High Dame of Germaine with admiration and lust. I approached her chair with contempt and scarce-veiled hatred."
Soldier of the Road (Novel. Sequel to Serpent Prince. More ghosts.):
"The wind scoured across my cheeks and spat the dust of the road into my eyes."
Unnamed Wizard story (Short. Weird. Ballad-based.)
I'd been travelling the wilderness for a good many weeks when my walking stick grumbled at me, "If you're not going anywhere in particular, Huw, you might veer westward. That's where I'd like to go."
Gods In Flight (Slightly future-modern version of my usual high fantasy world. Novel.):
"To explain why I ended up where I did, at the right hand of the Bastard, of all Gods, I think I'd better start with a sum-up where I'm coming from. I was born in nowhere-town in the county of nowhere in the province of nowhere in the farthest back corner of the most nowhere country on the whole planet."
GIF: Armageddon (Sequel to above, happens 40 years further on. Posted here not long ago. Also, sucky first line.)
"There's things that happen every era, every place, that make folk of the time say, "I was there."
It Shall Come To Pass On A Summer's Day (Short fantasy. Weird tense.):
"She will be coming soon."
Blood of the Woods (Novel. Wants a new title. High fantasy.)
"Zhared watched the camp from his meagre shelter, and wished they had settled themselves nearer the brink of the woods. The grain was ripe with summer's end, but it did not shelter him as closely as the oaks could; nor could it stop a gunshot."
The Blood Rose (Novella, about my fox-people and the human character Zhared, mentioned right above. Prequel of sorts to that novel. Not as pretentious as the first line makes it sound.)
"The Sorceress of the Rose had lived many previous lifetimes."
Wily (Short. Was a project from VP.):
"When I saw Old Nick sporting a fine cravat among the guests at dinner, I knew it wouldn't be just me this time."
I have another line in mind for the revision, but I'd have to dig up the exact phrasing.
Untitled Labyrinth story (Novel. Possibly YA. Set in no world otherwise used.)
"Heather had lost count of how many turnings she'd taken in this part of the maze."
Dark Water (Novel or longer. High Fantasy about my fox-people. A generation before Blood Rose.)
"Hahleph-Ailce was not, by her own admission, a forest fox at all."
Small Plain Marianne (Short. Damina-Earth. Disturbingly like the opening to Soldier of the Road.)
"The wind drove the snow against the bare trees with an abrasive hiss, and slithered it across Marianne's hood and exposed cheek."
Old Man of the Sea (Short, nod to the Odyssey.)
"We saw the black ship sailing towards our island, but when it became clear that it would bypass our rookery, we left it to its own devices."
How He Carried On (Disco Dracula story. Will probably switch from disco to modern bar culture. Will stay short.):
"When Mary came back from Mexico, her first stop was the disco."
The Marvellous Death of Marina (Short. The MOST frustrating story in my drafts file: I knew exactly where I was going, and what it would really be about, and I CAN'T REMEMBER AT ALL. So I have a snippet I hope will remind me one day. Especially as I LIKE the first line:)
"I'm dead!" Marina said, in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
I can't easily copy it over in completion (260 songs!), but these are the keystone songs (Which start or end the playlist):
The Pinch of Snuff - Boiled in lead (Mentioned in the text)
King of Bohemia - Richard Thomspon (If I had to choose one song alone for the story, this would be it. Mentioned in the text.)
Blue Northern Lights - Ollabelle (Not released until 2006, a major exception, but I heard the song and instantly thought of Finno.)
Stolen Child - Loreena McKennitt (The exact version from Elemental is referenced in the text. I used the Alhambra live one. Except. I first learned of this Manitoban's song through Golden Bough, a vastly more obscure group from California. Alas, their version is on cassette. Also, Heather Alexander's entirely different and equally evocative setting for the poem does make it onto the playlist.)
Take Me Home - Julian Lennon
Granite Years - Oysterband (And this would be the chief band.)
Love and Affection - Clannad (And this would be a close second for chief band, and song alike.)
All that Way for This - Oysterband
Wild Rover - Boiled In Lead (Used the copy from Alloy. Heard it and adopted it from Boiled Alive '93.)
Bravado - Rush
Here Comes the Flood (Shaking the Tree Version) - Peter Gabriel
Who Wants to Live Forever? - Queen (Was a chapter title, even, back when I had chapter titles.)
Can't Win - Richard Thompson
My Son John - Boiled in lead
Another Quiet Night in England (1994) - Oysterband
Yesterday is Here - Tom Waits
The Hiring Fair - Fairport Convention (referenced in the text.)
Other Side of Town - Julian Lennon (With Paul Buchanan)
Morrison's - The Flash Girls
Turning Tide - Clannad
A Fire is Burning - Oysterband (The Live version from Alive and Acoustic because frankly, it sounds more like the live show I saw in 1994 than the studio version.)
Starwalker - Buffy Saint-Marie
King of Pain - the Police (Too obvious a song for an emo teen.)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
Linda, Linda - 3 Mustaphas 3
Heart of Stone - Maddy Prior (Another one slightly after the represented period.)
One Day I Went Out Walking - The Mollys
Gimme Shelter - Angelique Kidjo (Yes, the Rolling Stones version would be more accurate, but...)
Nothing More - Sandy Denny
Lost for Words - Pink Floyd
Mad About You - Sting
Turkish Song of the Damned - the Pogues
Nekashtuamani - Kashtin
Turnaround - Stan Rogers
The Assassin's Apprentice- Stephen Fearing
Sonnet in the Dark - Flash Girls
If I Should Fall from Grace with God - The Pogues
Exile - Enya
Look What Your Love Has Done - The Mollys
Stars Overhead - Cats Laughing
Little Child Eyes - Stephen Fearing
Charlie - Milla
Year of the Angel - Lennie Gallant
Tom o'Bedlam - Michael Longcor (I wanted the Heather Alexander version, or one with the right lyrics, but picked this as closest in other ways.)
Song of the Candle - Stan Rogers
Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
You bet Your Life - Rush
Help Yourself - Julian Lennon
Sun Child - Liona Boyd
Generation hand Down - Jerry Alfred and the Medicine Beat
Far From Home - The Levellers
Everything is Broken - Ollabelle
Harder than the Fall - Ruthie Foster
The Youngest Daughter - Fairport Convention
Put Out the Lights - Oysterband
And these are the key albums, which have all or most of their songs represented:
Clannad: Sirius, Anam
Oysterband: Holy Bandits
Richard Thompson: Rumor and Sigh
Kashtin: Innu (In 1994, this seemed to be the only Native Canadian album anyone had heard of.)
Stephen Fearing: Blue Line
And these are the missing-in-action, things I have on Cassette or Vinyl and couldn't put on.:
June Tabor - Aqaba. (had this on cassette. it died. I WANT this album back.) Abyssinians
Oysterband - Deserters. (Have this on cassette. Yes, Granite Years and All that Way For This made it even so, but I NEED Diamond for a Dime and Never Left.)
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (Selections only. Still, Colin has this. Hmmm.)
Fairport Convention - In Real Time (A faked not-live album that nonetheless acted, for me, as a really good best of), Red and Gold
Rawlins Cross - Reel and Roll
Golden Bough - Far From Home (Selected tracks only)
Maire - Maire Brennan
Rush - Presto, A Show of Hands (Selected tracks only from both)
Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire (Selected tracks only)
The Pogues - Hell's Ditch
____________________
Another source of boringness for people:
Not a lot of these change much, since I haven't been working on the short stories. Just to be clear, these aren't everything in my files of unfinished business, these are the ones I think I could end up working on in the recognizably near future. In rough order of likelihood. Very rough, starting with the one I actually am working on:
Bird of Dusk (Novel. Set on what I call Damina-Earth, which means almost modern day, almost our world, almost Winnipeg):
"When the doorbell rang, Harry thumbed the pause button."
The Serpent Prince (Novel. High Fantasy. Very traditional.)
"Most men came before the High Dame of Germaine with admiration and lust. I approached her chair with contempt and scarce-veiled hatred."
Soldier of the Road (Novel. Sequel to Serpent Prince. More ghosts.):
"The wind scoured across my cheeks and spat the dust of the road into my eyes."
Unnamed Wizard story (Short. Weird. Ballad-based.)
I'd been travelling the wilderness for a good many weeks when my walking stick grumbled at me, "If you're not going anywhere in particular, Huw, you might veer westward. That's where I'd like to go."
Gods In Flight (Slightly future-modern version of my usual high fantasy world. Novel.):
"To explain why I ended up where I did, at the right hand of the Bastard, of all Gods, I think I'd better start with a sum-up where I'm coming from. I was born in nowhere-town in the county of nowhere in the province of nowhere in the farthest back corner of the most nowhere country on the whole planet."
GIF: Armageddon (Sequel to above, happens 40 years further on. Posted here not long ago. Also, sucky first line.)
"There's things that happen every era, every place, that make folk of the time say, "I was there."
It Shall Come To Pass On A Summer's Day (Short fantasy. Weird tense.):
"She will be coming soon."
Blood of the Woods (Novel. Wants a new title. High fantasy.)
"Zhared watched the camp from his meagre shelter, and wished they had settled themselves nearer the brink of the woods. The grain was ripe with summer's end, but it did not shelter him as closely as the oaks could; nor could it stop a gunshot."
The Blood Rose (Novella, about my fox-people and the human character Zhared, mentioned right above. Prequel of sorts to that novel. Not as pretentious as the first line makes it sound.)
"The Sorceress of the Rose had lived many previous lifetimes."
Wily (Short. Was a project from VP.):
"When I saw Old Nick sporting a fine cravat among the guests at dinner, I knew it wouldn't be just me this time."
I have another line in mind for the revision, but I'd have to dig up the exact phrasing.
Untitled Labyrinth story (Novel. Possibly YA. Set in no world otherwise used.)
"Heather had lost count of how many turnings she'd taken in this part of the maze."
Dark Water (Novel or longer. High Fantasy about my fox-people. A generation before Blood Rose.)
"Hahleph-Ailce was not, by her own admission, a forest fox at all."
Small Plain Marianne (Short. Damina-Earth. Disturbingly like the opening to Soldier of the Road.)
"The wind drove the snow against the bare trees with an abrasive hiss, and slithered it across Marianne's hood and exposed cheek."
Old Man of the Sea (Short, nod to the Odyssey.)
"We saw the black ship sailing towards our island, but when it became clear that it would bypass our rookery, we left it to its own devices."
How He Carried On (Disco Dracula story. Will probably switch from disco to modern bar culture. Will stay short.):
"When Mary came back from Mexico, her first stop was the disco."
The Marvellous Death of Marina (Short. The MOST frustrating story in my drafts file: I knew exactly where I was going, and what it would really be about, and I CAN'T REMEMBER AT ALL. So I have a snippet I hope will remind me one day. Especially as I LIKE the first line:)
"I'm dead!" Marina said, in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
