Music Monday

Author: Dia

Sometimes I can’t reconcile these two sides of myself, you know? One side is moved almost to tears by old school Al Green.

 

(And note that he’s not lip-synching, which is typically the norm on Soul Train, even way back in the day.)  But the other side loves the awesome battle rap that is “Top That”.

(I especially love the guy rocking the capris and all those sweet sweet dance moves.)

I’m not sure how the two sides of my self are able to coexist, but they do. I should work at the UN and school warring nations on how to live in peace. If I can do it, everybody should be able to.

Tenners’ Slideshow

Author: Dia

Suzanne Young of The Naughty List fame, made a cool slideshow of all the Tenner books that have covers so far. It’s down there on the left somewhere. And speaking of left, I was talking to someone the other day about how long it takes me to differentiate my left from my right. I don’t guess I learned that lesson very well in elementary school. :(

(Children and pregnant women should not watch the following clip.)

Tuesday Teaser

Author: Dia

From STRANGE FRUIT:

“After we kill Franken,” said Kit as she and Fancy set the table, “I’m gone put his tongue in a jar too. Just like that old man’s. I’ll start a collection!”

“I hope you hid that thing real good,” Fancy hissed when Madda came back into the kitchen. “Last thing we need is Madda finding it.”

“She won’t.”

“And we are not gone kill Franken. How many times I gotta tell you?”

“You don’t even like Franken. All you do is complain about him. You can’t still be worried about the police.” Kit pinched Fancy’s cheek. “Not after what you did to that old man.”

Fancy slapped her hand away. “That was different.”

“What’re you girls whispering about?” asked Madda, eyeing her daughters expectantly as she fried the tomatoes.

“Nothing,” the sisters trilled in unison, smiling their brightest good-girl smiles.

 

And because I’m nice, here’s a teaser from BLEEDING VIOLET:

I wriggled free of the queen, covered in goo and trying not to stumble in the loose piles of animal bones, wet rock, and mounds of hardhead eggs. Wyatt bounded over to me, dodging long pillars of color where the stalagmites and stalactites had grown together.

“So how was it?” he asked.

I puked.

Wyatt and Shoko laughed.

“Yeah,” he said. “It’s intense, right?”

Shoko swatted me on the back. “Especially once you get past that first stomach.”

Monday Music

Author: Dia

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but if you know me, then you know how much I loathe blogging–I can seriously never think of anything to say. So why blog, you ask? Cuz this WP theme came with one. When I’m a big, grown-up writer, I’m gonna have a Web site built without a blog. That’s when you’ll know I’ve truly arrived.

Now on to the music. I’ve gotten into this Brit group called the Arctic Monkeys–how geeked out is that name?–and this song they have called “My Propeller”. I have three of their CDs and “My Propeller” is the best thing they’ve done, imho.

Pump Up the Volume is one of my favorite movies. Maybe even in the top ten. It’s clever and subversive and provocative. I was thinking about what I’d blog about today when I remembered Hard Harry from the movie and how sometimes he’s on air for five hours, but sometimes he’s only on for five minutes. I’m not feeling very bloggy at the moment so consider this my five minutes. But I thought I’d present you with a taste of the awesomeness that is PUtV (this clip also summarizes how I feel about my own writing; take that however you want to :p).

The manuscript I’m working on now–and nearly finished with–is called Strange Fruit. I wrote it during NaNoWriMo 2008, and it’s about two outcast sisters–daughters of a notorious serial killer–who decide to put their murderous genes, and latent powers, to good use by only killing people who deserve it. Kinda like Dexter but with young girls. :)

Kit is the oldest (17) and Fancy is her little sister (15). Fancy keeps a dream diary, and here’s one of the dreams she has:

Kit was running ahead of me through the woods on a path made of pink glass. I tried to keep up but my legs weren’t as swift as hers and the glass broke under the weight of my feet, bloodying them, but Kit still wouldn’t slow down. When I fell, the glass shattered all around me and cut me into seventeen pieces.

Each chapter of Strange Fruit starts with one of Fancy’s dreams. The story is told from her point of view, and the dreams are a way to delve into her emotional landscape, which is usually…let’s call it eccentric. ;)

I got to thinking about this after fellow Tenner Josh Berkman (he’s @joshberkbooks on Twitter; go bug him) tweeted about pulling up to some gangstas when his car stereo sadly started blasting this:

 

So I started thinking of other songs that I like, but wouldn’t be caught dead listening to. Here’s a few good’uns in no particular order:

Sunshine Day – The Brady Bunch Kids

Afternoon Delight- Starland Vocal Band

We’ve Only Just Begun – The Carpenters

Feelin’ Kinda Sunday – Frank & Nancy Sinatra

Brand New Key – Melanie

Good Morning Starshine – Oliver

Sunshine on My Shoulders – John Denver

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. My music collection is full of wuss songs like that. But that’s because I’m musically tolerant. For me there’s almost no such thing as bad songs, only songs I refuse to admit I like. :p

Hello world!

Author: Dia

Eventually this place’ll be full of content. But today is not that day. :p Really, the only reason I started this site is because a blogger emailed me that she had a hard time finding a way to contact me. So hopefully this will make it easier.

More when there’s more!

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