I feel like crap. Have way to much to do than be sick. I was fine when I got up today. Got really cold at lunch- restaurant was like an iceberg . Nose started running before I left there. Sore throat hit around 2:00 p.m. back ache at 4:00. came home at 5:oo and took some meds. now it is 6:45 and the old nose is pouring. Can hardly swallow. Gotta get on top of this, NOW.
I’m ready, I think, to make the Soundtrack CD for my newest WIP. This is a story about a lawyer and an Interpol Agent- who is not exactly what he seems. Here are the songs I’ve chosen. Couldn’t resist the Interpol one called NYC as the story takes place in New York City (or starts there, anyway).
Howard Jones : Things Can Only Get Better; Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky; 10CC: I’m Not in Love; Pink: Do What You Do; Pink: Waiting For Love; Stevie Wonder: Boogie on Reggae Woman; Dan Hall: Never Thought; Pete Townshend: Let My Love Open the Door; Yardbirds: For Your Love; Turtles: Happy Together; Blood, Sweat and Tears: You Made Me So Very Happy; Walter Egan: Magnet and Steel; Dell Shannon: Runaway; Steely Dan: Rikki Don’t Lose That Number; Interpol: NYC
Just for fun, here is a picture from one of my trips to NYC
The subway had a fire as we sat in Juniors eating lunch – we got to see all the action- AND some pretty cute firemen. Why is it that all firemen are handsome?
Those of you who know me know I claim some psychic ability. See, I can predict things on occasion. Can’t contol it. It just happens – a lot of the time, it has to do with someone having a medical issue but sometimes, its just strange how I can have a thought or mention something and things happen. My sister used to say I channeled things in the air through my fillings.
One of my friends and I plan to go to Psychic boot camp soon in New Orleans to see if we can learn to channel our gifts. Lois is a ghost magnet. She has been on ghost hunts and has caught come great EVPs and photos. So, should be fun.
Anyway, I say this as I am listening to Accuradio here at work. We just had a conversation about the sexiest songs on Earth and my comment was what about Me and Mrs Jones? I think it is drop dead sexy. So, what did Accuradio play the very next song???? You guessed it. Freak me out!
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Cynthia is an awesome person. I am lucky to call her friend.
This is the song list for the manuscript Solo Honeymoon. Finding a title for this one just about kicked my butt. It was called The Italian Novel in my head for months til I landed on the real title. The heroine finds her fiance in the middle of the floor in flagrante with one of her bridesmaids. Rather than stay home and face the shame, she flees on her honeymoon trip with her best friend instead of the fiance. She falls for a sexy Italian dude. And then the fiance follows her to Italy and eventually to New York City for the denouement. Here are the songs:
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive; Dean Martin: Mambo Italiano and That’s Amore; Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For a Hero; Weather Girls: Its’s Raining Men; Arsenium: Love Me, Love Me; INXS: Need You Tonight; Pink: Oh My God; Texas: In Demand; Daughtry: It’s Not Over; Aerosmith: I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing; Secondhand Serenade: It’s Not Over.
I DO know I have two songs called It’s Not Over but they both fit the mood of the manuscript. Here is my inspiration for the hero, Dario:
His name is Edoardo Costa. Very Nice, Hey?
As promised, here is the soundtrack for my book called Redemption for the Devil: This is a story of an Irish Republican Army bomber, (Protestant- yeah- I know most of them were Catholic but he rebelled against his family), masquerading as a bartender, that falls in love with a nice Catholic girl. They are on the ship, the Mauretania, in late 1919. He is supposed to blow it up but has a hard time doing it because he will kill this Irish lass he has fallen for. What a dilemma. She is the singer on board in the first class lounge so some of the music is pretty old.
so, here are the songs: Three Dog Night: One; Paul Anka: Lonely Boy; Nat King Cole: Stardust (and yeah- I was gonna have her sing it but it was written after my time period- dang!); Harry Connick, Jr.: Danny Boy; John McCormack: Wild Irish Rose; Chris Isaak: Yellow Bird; Tom Jones: She’s a lady; Billy Joel: Always a Woman, The Stranger, and Only the Good Die Young; Back Street Boys: Bad Boy and Don’t Wanna Lose you; George Michael: Kissing a Fool and One More Try; Soundtrack from Poseidon Advanture: Morning After; and Pink: Stop Falling.
So, a bit eclectic this one, huh? Anyway, I found this picture on the net and it seemed appropriate as Liam is a bartender and Peg is the lounge singer.
Does anyone else make a soundtrack for their work in progress? I do. One of the things I like to do is brain storm songs that would fit my story line and make a cd to listen to get me in the mood to write. I know, I could be spending that time to actually write but I think it helps me make the story come alive. I’m gonna share three soundtracks with the old blog over three posts. The first one is for the novel Doctor, Lover, Baronet:
1. John Parr: St. Elmo’s Fire; 2. Kool and the Gang: Celebration; 3. Club Nouveau: Lean on Me; 4. Cyndi Lauper: Girls Wanna Have Fun; 5. Billy Idol: White Wedding; 6. Duran Duran: Is There Something I Should Know; 7. Dionne Warwick: That’s What Friends Are For; 8. The Cars: Shake it Up; 9. Journey: Open Arms; 10. Madonna: Open Your Heart; 11. Robert Palmer: Simply Irresistible; 12. George Harrison: I’ve Got My Mind Set On You; 13. OMD: If You Leave; 14. Prince: When Doves Cry; 15. Fine Young Cannibals: She Drives Me Crazy; 16. The Human League: Don’t You Want Me; 17. Modern English: I Melt With You.
So, there you have it. The soundtrack to Doctor, Lover, Baronet. I chose 1980s songs for it as the hero is a pop culture fanatic and quotes lots of 1970s and 1980s pop culture references. #2 son asked me if I was going to sell cds with my books and my response was that I need to find a book publisher first and not worry about the music so much!
one of the scenes in this novel takes place on the grounds of Rockingham Castle. Lovely spot. Dickens even wrote some of Bleak House there. So, it is a writer’s place, after all.
So, I went with #1 son to see Sherlock Holmes. It was awesome. Now, I am a MAJOR fan of the Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Read them all over and over as a kid. Love Basil Rathbone as Sherlock- to me he was the epitome of the character- No Jeremy Brett for this gal- now, I DID watch the Jeremy Brett ones and they were ok but he just wasn’t Rathbone. I also enjoyed the one that was called The Young Sherlock Holmes. He was a teen in that one and it was an action adventure almost reminiscent of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at the end. AND who could forget Gene Wilder in the crazy Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother.
I say all this because I have read some of the on line reviews that talk about how unrealistic this new adaptation is. Seems to me that the “Sherlock snobs” didn’t realize that they were going to see a GUY RITCHIE film. If they wanted a true adaptation, they should have rented a Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett movie. THIS WAS GUY RITCHIE, People! You won’t get a staid drawing room flick from this man- Know your director before you go and then grouse all over the internet that you didn’t like it. Please! Geez. Anyway, the only thing I didn’t really care for was the casting of Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. She just didn’t fit. The actress that played Mary, Watson’s future wife, was spot on. All in all, a good, fun picture.
When Holmes meets Mary, she talks about liking detective stories. She mentions Wilkie Collins and Poe. The detective story was new in that era and Edgar Allen Poe actually wrote the first- The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Moonstone was by Wilkie Collins and was one of the first, if not the first, to be written in London. My son said I was probably the only one to catch that line in the film. I hope not. But, after all, I am the queen of arcane facts.
Here’s a pic of our boy: The irrepressible Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes, a fun romp of a flick.
I’ve read some of his books that were mildly disturbing and dark. He is a wonderful writer and I’m thrilled that he has chosen lighter fare for his latest release. I have bought the crap out of it for Christmas gifts this year. His royalty check is going to be significantly higher this quarter due to my purchases alone. This is a wonderful story, very well crafted and written. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest store and grab one or twelve. 
Posted today on my other blog – why do I keep my commitment to that group one and not this one? Peer pressure? Or maybe because someone actually reads that one? Besides me? Anyway, thought I’d share Mark Harmon here too because a girl can never have too much Mark, right? 
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