Take a Survey

And silence the Christians. (gacked from valarltd)

http://www.silencingchristians.com/
Pause the video. Believe ME you really don't want to watch it. It's vile.

Go and tell them what you think on their survey - do homosexuals deserve: "special rights just like African Americans and other minorities!"?

I have to say, that in line with fairness, I don't believe that courts should be forced to elect judges who are more sympathetic to gays, and that employers should be FORCED to employ gays - so I said no to those, but I disagree that they should be discriminating against employing a person because he is gay which is a different matter entirely--ain't it great how concepts can be skewed. not.

When I was at Steeles a questionnaire came around asking us for our sexual orientation - because they were supposed to show that they were employing "a certain number of homosexuals" or something like that - and I told them to mind their own bloody business.

Dark or what?

I've just realised that Apocalyptica suits my writing very well--the infamous Seph-Satinvalkyrie introduced me to them when I was writing Transgression, and I've just been replaying some of it. It really fits the dark mood of the book I'm writing, even though the time-frame is completely wrong. I think it's the combination of the tooth-grating edge of the strings together with the depressing riffs. (And yes, that's the sort of thing I really like!)

I get very writing-inspired by pieces of music and remember having to stop the car one day when I heard Sospiri op.70 by Elgar. It struck such an immediate chord with me and I thought "Yes! That's EXACTLY how Edward feels in Junction X when...."

I tend to have Musicovery on while I write which is such a great online radio station--I pick "classical" and generally "dark" or "calm" or somewhere around the middle. I'm rarely "positive" or "energetic"! That pumps out some great mood pieces.

I don't think I could ever do a "Soundtrack" to Standish, or anything like that though. Amusingly, one of the most played albums I was listening to when I was writing that was Billie Holiday's greatest Hits. Hardly the write time era, but perhaps it was the blues that helped with the tone.

I must compile a list of my inspirational pieces, perhaps with downloads, and do a list on The Macaronis.

What about you? What music inspires you? (I'll not have heard of it, of course, because I don't really know anything about music after 1989....) Do you have music playing when you write? Do you ever hear a piece of music that EXACTLY describes a scene in your books?

GRUMPY

OMG -

Angel Series Four is going in all sorts of directions I wasn't expecting.

ARGH! Great idea - I mean - OMG - Jasmine!

But also....Including into the crapper scriptwise.

What, pray, was the brainwavey idea of making the script "Angel for Dummies"? 

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