Sun Comes Up, It's Early Mornin'

500 words straight out the gate. I feel remarkably better, probably because of getting at least eight hours of sleep; sort of sick how that's the extreme exception, rather than the rule.

In and between, I also just finished Rob Thurman's Nightlife, a Jim Butcher-by-way-of-Supernatural urban dark fantasy which has some fun world-building, but unfortunately suffers from an early Butcher-esque surfeit of what I like to call "reflexive rimshot syndrome"...ie, really horrible things are happening, and yet our protagonist feels the need to continually crack wise in a truly annoying fashion. This is particularly annoying when said awful things are being done by the protagonist, who spends the latter half of the book possessed. Still, I may check out the sequel, if I can find it for cheap/through the library. As I know some people do.;)

Anyhow...I need to get dressed, eat something, then go off to BodyFlow. But yeah! Good morning, so far.

Amended to add: And--once again, you knew it was coming! At 8,000 words plus, Chapter Nine becomes Chapters Nine and Ten.1. Off to the usual sources. Enjoy.;)

More Fun With Coffins

Today, I paid my Mom $20.00 for the privilege of using her iTunes to buy 16 Horsepower's Secret South and Low Estate. May I just say, HAY-ell yes.;)

Here's the most fun track I've heard as yet, off Low Estate:

Ditch Digger

I dug on down - for to see my true love
She is the only - girl I will speak of
Yes I went on down for to get my girl
An' free her from the Devil's World

I hear the sound of her heart a-poundin'
Fear was the hole, boy, that she were found in
The tears of my Lord,
Yes they run to the ground
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound

Yes I went on down for to see my true love
Yeah, an' I found trouble there
But even so, I thank the Lord forgivin' me
And givin' one so fair.

Rock on, you crazy Protestant hillbillies!

P.S.: Looked up 16 HP's other video, "Haw", on YouTube. It reveals that Edwards looks spookily like Jared Padalecki from some angles, particularly when he's playing the Devil (Edwards, not Padalecki. Not YET.;))