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Dan and I will be participating at Open Mic Night at Cappuccino Corner tonight (in Claremore), 7pm!

Plan to debut Crow Road and my Sherwood song.


I don't know if anyone on my friends list is at all interested, but thought  I'd put it out there. ^_^

I have a new song!

I may have posted the lyrics to this somewhere you've seen it--it's an autumn travel song. I'm really happy with the lyrics: I feel like they verge on real poetry. Doing the vocals recording I also felt like I got deep into the song and finally sang really well, too.

Crow Road (click to listen, see full info)

Slowly all the leaves fall from the oaks

A burnished nutshell brown

The wind sings sharp and the note is cold

It makes an uncanny round

 

I'm going up the crow road

Through the wastes and wood

I'm following the flight of crow

And step where no man's stood

 

 

( more of the lyric )

Not-So-Birthday Present Unexpected Success!

When my bro told me he was D.O.N.E. working on our Lord of the Rings fan music, I understood. I just thought there was plenty of room in the project...
Yesterday, though, he came home with an idea for a revamp of our Ents song. The improved version gave me chills.

Entmarch

Best played with bass boost!
Seriously, this made me see that scene of the Entmoot moving out to wreak havoc on Isengard so strong.
And it rocketed to #40 on Soundclick's Goth Rock list...out of 4000, so not a huge deal, but someone's listened to it, right?

So I'm not just plugging my own band, here:

Indie Music Recommendation of the Day:

Heather Dale, whose Arthuriana themed songs I link below because they are great. (If you like, I also recommend her song "Exile")
Mordred's Lullaby
Kingsword


As a third topic,
My Birthday Wish for this Year:
Let's go with...starting to seem like I'm in my 20s to people.
Or at least close, like 18-19.


We can dream, right?

I feel like a real performer now: we played at a coffee shop and had strangers applaud our music. Some of it originals.

While I've performed a lot, it hasn't really been in a place where I was putting upon the public for notice, and it was kinda cool to do this. Of course, we had our groupies, too, most under the age of 16. It's great to be friends with homeschool families, they always triple the crowd, at their smallest. ^_^


I'm prouder about the fact that I forced myself to start again on Mortal Queen and was able to get back into the swing. I'm always afraid that once I've left something for a while it will never be right.

I've petitioned and taken a no-answer as a yes for writing more LotR fan-lyrics for the DunaDan to set to music. Right now I'm working on "Last Homely House" , a tribute to Elrond (see the post title...). If you've never taken a moment to check out our rock-infused fantasy ballads (LOL, as the netchicks and webdudes say), why not flick through our list at Our Soundclick? I'd really appreciate feedback, because we want to grow and do more, better. Hey, you may even have fun getting in a laugh at us, and I'll NEVER KNOW.
The Greymantle Poets

I've launched a MySpace for the band...Greymantle Poets is the new (well, new since last year) name for it, which I'm content with. And hopefully we'll have some music up there so people who wouldn't want to commit to receiving a whole CD can check out a song or two.

For now, I have my first lyric posted in the blog. http://www.myspace.com/greymantlepoets ought to do it.

I'm reading Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks. Awesome.
I was recommended Soon I Will Be Invincible while at Viable Paradise, strongly encouraged to read it.
But I couldn't.
For one thing, all the dialogue was streamlined with narration. I love stories heavy on dialogue, where every new line gets full attention in it's own quote marks.
Also, it's just not my kind of book. I know it was good. The little I read will stick with me, and I probably ought to have done it. But...
Evil Genius is much more my style. And it's challenging for my YA supers story and maybe when I'm done I'll know the next stage of work for refocusing the novel.

Honestly have no idea why anyone would pick up World Domination 101 if they have Evil Genius to read, and the others in similar vein (Avatars, actual comics, any movie on the subject to watch) so it makes picking out the strengths to draw out harder.
I know how my "Aetherling" story was unique. The world concept swallowed up the superheroes idea and spit it out in a way I'm pretty sure I've never come across, even in passing or at a distance. (No, I can't explain what I mean by that, or I'd figure out a better way to say it...)

Do you know how painful it is to know there is a perfectly beautiful little word-meter out there and that I've never been able to use it and likely, likely never will?
{weeps}
I'm at 16448 words as of this evening. That's only 400 behind my own projected average, and since I've been _catching_  _up_ on these workdays, rather than otherwise, 100% ahead.

My brother came home to a very nice surprise today:



That's an acoustic bass with a pick-up. In terms of Ishtari Quest, the band we hope to be eventually, this is excellent because it means we don't absolutely need an amp to do most of our songs. See, he writes them guitar style but with bass fretwork.
[Fretwork has a nice fake-swear sound to it. I shall take note...]