Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Time to celebrate September birthday boys! So let's start with my
cousin-in-law, Stephen MacLean,
shown above with his wife, my cousin Julianne MacLean.
Stephen's getting ready to celebrate by having a rather huge dream come
true. This Sunday evening at 9:30 pm, his feature film Wispdebuts
at the Atlantic Film
Festival.
Wisp screens at Park Lane
Cinemas on Spring Garden Road, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
"A gripping lost-in-the-woods video-verite horror flick that begins
with a whimsicle search for the lights of the Will O' the Wisp and then
descends into a struggle for survival against an unforseen biological
threat." -- Dream Front Entertainment
I freely admit to many forms of obsession. I don't see any of them as minuses in my life as a creative person. An obsessive compulsive disorder detracts from a person's life, getting in the way of doing basic things. A driving passion, however, is not only to be embraced if you're going to master something enough to truly understand your creative medium (or your sport, if that's what you love to do) -- it's actually necessary. If I told you someone repeated the same actions in the same sequence over and over every evening before he went to bed, you might think, wow, that person must have OCD. Yet, if I told you that person was an elite violinist and he was working on musical scales, perfecting his technique, you would have a much different view of that person than if I told you it was a guy who re-sorted his DVD collection into perfect blocks of color according to the packaging spines of the jewel cases -- but only if he looked behind each DVD three times. If you asked hockey superstar Sidney Crosby how many hours he's spent shooting a puck into the net, he probably wouldn't be able to tell you. If he didn't obsessively practise his hockey technique, he would not be the player he has become. For artists and athletes, the word 'obsession' could basically be replaced with 'passion'. One of my most enjoyable obsessions/passions is listening to music while I'm writing. It often has nothing to do with the tone or subject matter of the scene I'm working on. I just have to be obsessed with it. I'll know I'm obsessed with a song or a piece of music when I end up choosing it as the first song of the writing session, playing it about six times in a row, and then returning to it a few times during that writing time. Often, that song will go through my head while I'm riding the bus, and I'll hum it through the day, only to race towards it once again the next evening. For me, I find that my musical obsessions act as a short-cut to placing me in the head-space I need in order to write fiction. I'm telling my brain 'Write NOW' with my obsessive selection. So, here are thirteen of my current and former musical obsessions, all of which have led to the scenes that become my books. 1 - I'm Your Boogie Man -- KC and the Sunshine Band
2 - Assassin -- Muse
3 - Princes of the Universe -- Queen
4 - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? -- Moby This version specifically, with all of the Dean and Sam voiceovers from Supernatural
5 - Lies -- The Pierces Also, this version specifically, because there are Guy of Gisborne scenes in this one that I will stop to watch.
6 - I'm Crying -- The Animals I guess I can see a bit of a pattern here (LOL!) Guess that's why I'm obsessed with these ones.
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
1 - Bedroom Hymns - Florence + The Machine
This is a Vikings fan video. In the like-attracts-like category, I've discovered that the people who make fan videos featuring the shows that I like, also have a similar taste in music.
I hadn't heard of Florence +The Machine before watching this fan video, and now I can't get enough of them.
2 - Mr. Brightside - The Killers
3 - Army of Me - Bjork
4 - Extreme Ways- Moby
5 - Shame on the Soul - Speck Mountain
Another fan video for BBC's Robin Hood, featuring my Scorpius inspiration, Richard Armitage as Sir Guy of Gisborne.
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.
Here's a bit of randomness due to having to clear a path wide enough to allow our old fridge to clear the basement when I would have been getting this week's set ready.
So here's to fresh starts.
1 - Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
2 - You're the Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
3 - Southside -Moby with Gwen Stefani
4 - Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
5 - Battle Without Honor or Humanity - Tomoyasu Hotei
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Closing in on the final two decades of my look back at recorded popular music, starting with the 1920s - let's drop in on the 1990s.
The 90s were a Best of Times / Worst of Times decade for me. In the fabulous category, I married Brad, went to film school and got my degree, worked at the theatre where the National Ballet of Canada performed and lived so very happily in the bustling Big City of Toronto.
These were my late 20's and early 30's, a time when reality closed in on cherished dreams. Life plans were hijacked by health issues, and I had to dig down deep - so very, very deep - to hold onto joy.
Of course, having come through the other side of this crucible, I wish there was some way I could have told that 20's and 30's me that it would all work out eventually. But that's the whole thing about life. You have to live it, a day at a time. And there's no other way to discover what you're made of, is there?
1 - Groove is In the Heart - Deee-Lite - 1990
The chills that you spill Up my back Keep me filled With satisfaction when we're done Satisfaction of what's to come
I couldn't ask for another No, I couldn't ask for another
Your groove I do deeply dig No walls, only the bridge My supper dish My succotash wish
2 - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C & C Music Factory - 1990
Jump to the rhythm Jump, jump to the rhythm, jump
And I'm here to combine Beats and lyrics To make you shake your pants Take a chance Come on and dance
Guys grab a girl Don't wait, make the twirl It's your world And I'm just a squirrel Trying to get a nut
To move your butt To the dance floor So yo what's up Hands in the air Come on say yeah Everybody over here Everybody over there
The crowd is live And I pursue this groove Party people in the house Move
Left to right Work me all night Come on let's sweat Baby Let the music take control Let the rhythm move you Sweat Sweat Let the music take your soul Let the rhythm move you
Why do you smile Like you've been told a secret Now you're telling lies Cause you're the one to keep it
But no one keeps a secret No one keeps a secret Why, when we do our darkest deeds, do we tell? They burn in our brains Become a living hell Cause everybody tells Everybody tells
If I show you Then I know you Won't tell what I said Cause two can keep a secret If one of them is dead
Champion of the Arts - I write historical and paranormal fiction, as well as poetry. I love to showcase creative works by artists of all stripes. Blogging from Nova Scotia, Canada
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