The music is the key...

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

So, for all you writers out there plugging away this month, what type of music do you listen to while writing your novel?

Are you the type that the music is specific to the genre you are writing in, or, do you just put your iPod / whathaveyou on random?


Give a shout out to what you are listening to!


So far, the music has been leaning towards (for me)...

"The 5th Element" soundtrack
"Blade Runner" soundtrack
"2001" soundtrack
And a mix of "VNV Nation", "Velvet Acid Christ", "Depeche Mode", and "NIN"


NaNo user = "Matrixleap" in Portland, Oregon.

Comments

[honore.livejournal.com]

Self-doubt, and thinking no way would anyone think this believable, even in the remotest sense. And just getting really started. I know once I get into it aways it will be easier... but right now it's like chipping away at a boulder sealing a pharoah's tomb.

[perfectinpart.livejournal.com]

It's the best one. :) We need to buy it on DVD still, but whenever we remember to look for it they only have the "fully restored" version. And it's just not right.

[honore.livejournal.com]

Because they are too lazy to walk them down the stairs. :) I have got some freaky people in my building.

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

Well, Sci-Fi is SUPPOSED to be a "What the f**k?" type of approach. I mean, look at it this way, how many people went "Wtf?" with DUNE? Or any other CLASSIC Sci-Fi novel / short story.


Just run wild...those are the best stories and get the best ideas sometimes.


~D.

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

At the moment, the only way to get the original THX version is if you're geeky enough to own it on laserdisc and rip the laserdisc version and transfer it to DVD.

I, fortunately, AM just that geeky enough.

I have the anniversary edition of the THX version on LD (Before all the crap edits) and I ripped it to DVD. it took a while, but I was able to get it done, and it looks fabulous! it's not in surround, because the audio was stero only.

But yeah...I'm a geek like that.


~D.

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

hmmm....

last night was mostly:
pretty hate machine / nin
the lost highway soundtrack
most stuff off of bad religion's stranger than fiction
a lot of random stuff by the Cure, Stars and Pink Martini




(*and ha. i know you off bellybalt's lj! :p

[perfectinpart.livejournal.com]

We have it on VHS and are considering having one of our friends put it onto DVDs. He has one of those things which converts VHS tapes to DVD.

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

HA! Small world, eh?

=)

You have some really good music choices there. Well done!


~D.

[saltintheoven.livejournal.com]

Today, it's been Off Course - All Time Best. Upbeat enough to keep me energetic, but I can't understand most of the lyrics so I don't get distracted.

[tael87.livejournal.com]

72 song playlist that's about 4.5 hours long altogether on shuffle. The last few bands have been Tori Amos, Cobra Starship, Savage Garden, Prozzak, Olivia Lufkin, Liz Phair, Cascada, Gavin Degraw, HIM, Switchfoot, and currently, Lovex is playing. The next few bands are Fall Out Boy, Great Big Sea, Dropkick Murphys, Lullacry, Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, Paula Cole, and The Rasmus. Yeah, pretty diverse. Lyrics-wise, it almost all somehow completely applies to the story at hand, but the individual songs are pretty varied (so I bounce from Newfoundland traditional to love metal to dance to Irish punk in a fifteen minute time frame. XD).

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

definitely! and having a look at your FL, we have other friends in common too. lol.

thank you... i meant to come back and answer that, yes; i am picking my music based on my chosen genre..etc:)


:)

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

If you can get a hold of the laserdiscs AND a player, I would recommend that.

Players run real cheap on Craigslist and any goodwill.

=)

If not, VHS is still good.


~D.

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

Hehehe...yeah, I noticed we have a few friends in common.

After looking at your user pics ('cause I'm nosey like that) I seem to recal seeing a few pics of you from Bellybalt a couple of months ago.

=)

If I'm thinking of the correct person, you're in the UK, yes?


~D.

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

omgZ! an icon-stalker! lolz.;) <=
yep, that would be me. the now ex.

<O

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

I understand "What works", believe me, I do. I have my certain playlist that just works for me. And when I get stuck writing ALL day, that list is looped thru so many times.


~D.

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

"The now ex"?

Sorry to hear that...I had no idea.

Then again, I've been under a rock, that's in a cave, that happens to be in the Sohm Abyssal because of my work/school schedule, so I've barely had the opportunity to catch up with him. Let alone hang out.

Again, sorry to hear about that.


And no, not a stalker...

;)


~D.

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

-nods- for a week now. it's ok. it's for the best for both of us on a multitude of levels.
(we're still friends!) i dig it about being busy..heh.:)

thank you for that, though. it's kind of you to offer:)


OMFGZ! lol!

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

Hey, any friend of a friend, is a friend of mine.

I'm easy like that.

=)


~D.

[beckyblack]

I usually just have mellow chillout stuff, or nothing at all. But most of what I wrote this afternoon was set in a nightclub. So I've had the ol' hard house banging all afternoon. Just perfect!

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

American and Japanese metal bands, some NiN, and a section of techno/rave dance music. The whole playlist is around ten and a half hours long and was specifically created for a particular series I write. I'm doing the forth book for NaNo.

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

icon LOVE!

[graycatbird.livejournal.com]

aww thank you:)

:):)

[step6error.livejournal.com]

"Iron Man" soundtrack
Ars Arcana - The Savage Tongue
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Skillet - Comatose
Assorted classical
Assorted electronica

You can see my last.fm (http://www.last.fm/user/step6error) here; and if anyone would like some music from my library, let me know and I'll be happy to upload it to MediaFire so you can download it! :)

[sirgimpofbaath.livejournal.com]

I listen to the soundtrack from a fairly obscure, little-known anime called Simoun.

[matrixleap.livejournal.com]

hehe...yeah, I love that one too.

They will be here in a couple of weeks and I so want to go!

I've been a fan since being introduced to them in 1992.


~D.