S is for soundtracks
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I write to music, and all my projects grow soundtracks. Usually songs get picked by theme, or imagery, or because they remind me of characters, or out of some vague sense of this feels like a song for X. Sometimes I pick up bits of plot from the songs. Since my normal habit is to put a project's playlist on repeat while I'm working, the longer it is the better.
Today I worked on Dreams, when I wasn't taking St. Gretchen to the vet or waiting for the AC repair people. (Only the climax and denouement left to revise! Two more chapters!) So here is its soundtrack, all five and a half hours of it.
All My Faith Lost - Sleep Now
And One - Für
Android Lust - The Want
Ayria - Horrible Dream
Ayria - Kiss Me Goodnight As I'm Falling Asleep
Bat For Lashes - A Forest
Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone
Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream
CocoRosie - Terrible Angels
Cocteau Twins - Hitherto
Cocteau Twins - Beatrix
Course of Empire - Blue Moon + Anonymous Call
The Crüxshadows - Ariadne
The Crüxshadows - Eurydice (Don't Follow)
The Crüxshadows - Orphean Wing
Culture Club - Church of the Poisoned Mind
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
The Cure - Splintered In Her Head
The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Das Ich - Grund der Seele
Das Ich - Re_Animat
David Bowie - We Prick You
Dead Can Dance - Host of Seraphim
Delerium - Incantation
Die Form - Radiomorphism 2
Ego Likeness - The Devils In The Chemicals
Ego Likeness - Everything Is Poison
Gary Jules - Mad World
Gary Numan - Dead Heaven
God Module - Let's Go Dark
God Module - Perception
God Module - Image
God Module - Still So Strange
God Module - Winter Torture
Haujobb - Penetration (Floormix)
Haujobb - Dream Aid (Filtered thru Assemblage 23)
HMB - This Fire
HMB - The Metro
How To Destroy Angels - Is Your Love Strong Enough
Johnny Hollow - Human Lullaby
Johnny Hollow - Dark Thing
The Joy Formidable - Whirring
La Floa Maldita - Sorciere
Laura Marling - Night Terror
Lost Signal - Torment
Lost Signal - Strain
Marilyn Manson - The Speed of Pain
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Mentallo and the Fixer - Tachyon
A Perfect Circle - Sleeping Beauty
Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
Placebo - Running Up That Hill
Portishead - Wandering Star
Skin Area - Choose Art...Not Life
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate
Skinny Puppy - Addiction
Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Red Version)
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
The The - Love Is Stronger Than Death
Tom Waits - The Earth Died Screaming
Trespassers William - Different Stars
Velvet Acid Christ - Dial8 (Bound & Gagged)
Wolfsheim - Sleep Somehow
:Wumpscut: - She's Dead (Kirlian Camera remix)
:Wumpscut: - Wreath of Barbs
:Wumpscut: - Die In Winter
And if you read all that, you can probably guess what the book is about.
Because a) I've been writing this book for nine years and b) picking music is easier for contemporary characters, I also have (shorter) playlists for the three main characters. Although after nine years and updating the chronology a bit, what was once the music of their adolescence has become the music of their childhood, or before.
That's right, people. There are now teenagers in this world to whom Marilyn Manson is their parents' music. I will be in the corner keening and rocking.
I write to music, and all my projects grow soundtracks. Usually songs get picked by theme, or imagery, or because they remind me of characters, or out of some vague sense of this feels like a song for X. Sometimes I pick up bits of plot from the songs. Since my normal habit is to put a project's playlist on repeat while I'm working, the longer it is the better.
Today I worked on Dreams, when I wasn't taking St. Gretchen to the vet or waiting for the AC repair people. (Only the climax and denouement left to revise! Two more chapters!) So here is its soundtrack, all five and a half hours of it.
All My Faith Lost - Sleep Now
And One - Für
Android Lust - The Want
Ayria - Horrible Dream
Ayria - Kiss Me Goodnight As I'm Falling Asleep
Bat For Lashes - A Forest
Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone
Bat For Lashes - Pearl's Dream
CocoRosie - Terrible Angels
Cocteau Twins - Hitherto
Cocteau Twins - Beatrix
Course of Empire - Blue Moon + Anonymous Call
The Crüxshadows - Ariadne
The Crüxshadows - Eurydice (Don't Follow)
The Crüxshadows - Orphean Wing
Culture Club - Church of the Poisoned Mind
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
The Cure - Splintered In Her Head
The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Das Ich - Grund der Seele
Das Ich - Re_Animat
David Bowie - We Prick You
Dead Can Dance - Host of Seraphim
Delerium - Incantation
Die Form - Radiomorphism 2
Ego Likeness - The Devils In The Chemicals
Ego Likeness - Everything Is Poison
Gary Jules - Mad World
Gary Numan - Dead Heaven
God Module - Let's Go Dark
God Module - Perception
God Module - Image
God Module - Still So Strange
God Module - Winter Torture
Haujobb - Penetration (Floormix)
Haujobb - Dream Aid (Filtered thru Assemblage 23)
HMB - This Fire
HMB - The Metro
How To Destroy Angels - Is Your Love Strong Enough
Johnny Hollow - Human Lullaby
Johnny Hollow - Dark Thing
The Joy Formidable - Whirring
La Floa Maldita - Sorciere
Laura Marling - Night Terror
Lost Signal - Torment
Lost Signal - Strain
Marilyn Manson - The Speed of Pain
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Mentallo and the Fixer - Tachyon
A Perfect Circle - Sleeping Beauty
Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
Placebo - Running Up That Hill
Portishead - Wandering Star
Skin Area - Choose Art...Not Life
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate
Skinny Puppy - Addiction
Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Red Version)
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
The The - Love Is Stronger Than Death
Tom Waits - The Earth Died Screaming
Trespassers William - Different Stars
Velvet Acid Christ - Dial8 (Bound & Gagged)
Wolfsheim - Sleep Somehow
:Wumpscut: - She's Dead (Kirlian Camera remix)
:Wumpscut: - Wreath of Barbs
:Wumpscut: - Die In Winter
And if you read all that, you can probably guess what the book is about.
Because a) I've been writing this book for nine years and b) picking music is easier for contemporary characters, I also have (shorter) playlists for the three main characters. Although after nine years and updating the chronology a bit, what was once the music of their adolescence has become the music of their childhood, or before.
That's right, people. There are now teenagers in this world to whom Marilyn Manson is their parents' music. I will be in the corner keening and rocking.
