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Managed to get hold of a really warm, comfy and well-made new monkey-costume for Cal on my way back from Surrey Place yesterday, so he's basically set for H-Day, as long as he doesn't grow substantially in the intervening weeks (it's just a tad short in the crotch, because he's such a beanpole). Am I a bad mom for risking his testicles this way? Maybe. But damn, does he look cute in it.
Now I'm working on Chapter Four again--just finished section one, which clocked in at over 3,500 words, and am spinning straight into the heart of an action sequence joined already in progress, which I think will have to be kept fastfastFAST just in order for the overall chapter not to push 8,000 or so. It's a challenge, for sure, but being really vicious and stringent with not letting the Rev over-think stuff will definitely help. Dude's the king of evil/depressive rumination, which does tend to slow shit to an absolute crawl.
As a sidebar, meanwhile, I'm both consolidating the final Tree playlist and compiling a genuine Hallowe'en one. The latter goes back and forth between stuff I find genuinely disturbing vs. dark-themed but fun stuff, ie the equivalent of excerpts from the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, without actually containing any of those excerpts. (Let's face it, there's no shortage of places to find "This is Hallowe'en" et al, if you want to.) So we end up with two fairly consistent streams, barring stuff which I'm not sure about...for example, where do you put something like Cannibal Corpse's "Skull Fragment Armour", which takes itself so incredibly seriously, but is so incredibly funny? I think I'm pretty much going to have to slap it on at the very end, like a particularly gruesome rim-shot.
That said, much as it amuses me, I don't think I'm going to subject anybody to the spectacle of Sir Christopher Lee singing about "The Bloody Verdict of Verden" from Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, because--shedding the blood of 3,000 Saxon men aside--it's really just goofy. Whereas Thomas Dolby's "The Devil is an Englishman" (from the Gothic soundtrack), while it has it goofy moments, also has some provably freakish ones...all the dialogue samples, plus the way he starts to deform the back-up singers' voices by the end. (Not to mention that any song whose chorus begins: "A nest of tiny scorpions/Are breeding in my cranium..." gets all my votes, forever. Full stop.)
Now I'm working on Chapter Four again--just finished section one, which clocked in at over 3,500 words, and am spinning straight into the heart of an action sequence joined already in progress, which I think will have to be kept fastfastFAST just in order for the overall chapter not to push 8,000 or so. It's a challenge, for sure, but being really vicious and stringent with not letting the Rev over-think stuff will definitely help. Dude's the king of evil/depressive rumination, which does tend to slow shit to an absolute crawl.
As a sidebar, meanwhile, I'm both consolidating the final Tree playlist and compiling a genuine Hallowe'en one. The latter goes back and forth between stuff I find genuinely disturbing vs. dark-themed but fun stuff, ie the equivalent of excerpts from the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack, without actually containing any of those excerpts. (Let's face it, there's no shortage of places to find "This is Hallowe'en" et al, if you want to.) So we end up with two fairly consistent streams, barring stuff which I'm not sure about...for example, where do you put something like Cannibal Corpse's "Skull Fragment Armour", which takes itself so incredibly seriously, but is so incredibly funny? I think I'm pretty much going to have to slap it on at the very end, like a particularly gruesome rim-shot.
That said, much as it amuses me, I don't think I'm going to subject anybody to the spectacle of Sir Christopher Lee singing about "The Bloody Verdict of Verden" from Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, because--shedding the blood of 3,000 Saxon men aside--it's really just goofy. Whereas Thomas Dolby's "The Devil is an Englishman" (from the Gothic soundtrack), while it has it goofy moments, also has some provably freakish ones...all the dialogue samples, plus the way he starts to deform the back-up singers' voices by the end. (Not to mention that any song whose chorus begins: "A nest of tiny scorpions/Are breeding in my cranium..." gets all my votes, forever. Full stop.)
