How It Starts

[handful_ofdust]

...always, is with music. Which means:

A Rope of Thorns Playlist (Take One)
"Blackest Crow", Angi West
"Pharoah", Crooked Still
"Ash", Murder by Death
"I Was a Photograph (Blake’s Song)", Kasey Anderson
"Temazcal", Monsters of Folk
"Cross Bones Style", Cat Power
"Black River Killer", Blitzen Trapper
"The Bachelor", Patrick Wolf
"This Night", Black Lab
"Dust", Augustana
"Coo Coo", Janis Joplin
"The World is Falling", Mirah
"A Forest", Bat for Lashes
"Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin’-Geddon", Marilyn Manson
"Howl", Florence and the Machine
"Sin for a Sin", Miranda Lambert
"Noon as Dark as Midnight", Lucero
"From a Shell", Lisa Germano
"Until the Night is Over", Timber Timbre
"Story of Isaac", Suzanne Vega
"For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti", Sufjan Stevens
"Train to Jackson", Jeffrey Foucault
"Big Black Nothing", Connor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band
"One More Cup of Coffee", Bob Dylan
"Poison Girl", Chris Whitley
"Undone in Sorrow", Crooked Still
"Horse Head Fiddle", 16 Horsepower
"Oh Death", John McCutcheon
"Damned to Hell", John Butler Trio
"The Desert is on Fire", Murder by Death
"I Still Love You, Judas", StillWater
"Sweet Religion", Imogen Heap
"Two Silver Trees", Calexico
"Tiger Mountain Peasant Song", Fleet Foxes
"Troubled Water", Cat Power
"Just the Right Bullets", Tom Waits
"Dirty Hands", Bear McCreary
"Sinister Grains", Anoushka Shankar
"Freedom Fighters (Choir)", Two Steps from Hell
"New Divide", Linkin Park
"Remember Me as a Time of Day", Explosions in the Sky
"Consecration 448t", Wovehand
"And Then You", Greg Laswell

Went back over the last couple of chapters of A Book of Tongues, too, trying to hammer out an accurate profile of where Chess is, exactly, at the end of that whole stagecoach-wreck. I'd vaguely thought about doing a time-jump, say a year in the future, so that we could emerge into a startlingly different world of cults and anti-cults, but...no, I think that'd risk losing momentum, and I need to capitalize on all Chess's immediate vengeance-bent energy, before cutting the legs out from beneath him and showing him how counterproductive it is. Like I said to sovay, a big part of this book has to be about Chess being forced to take responsibility for the fact that all he ever creates is collateral damage, deal with his various Bad Mommy/No Daddy issues, and damn well grow up--in and around the whole "saving the world as we know it" part, of course. As ever.

Also: It's official--Monday (not Tuesday), I go into the hospital. 11:30 AM. Which should be real fun, coming as it does immediately after a day-long trip to Sudbury and back, but fuck it, such is the kingdom. It's in motion, and by this time next week...

Etc.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love "blackest crow" so much. I sing it to myself in the woods, imitating her. I just love her voice and how she sings it.

Will you be in overnight? How long will your recovery be? .... Ouchie....

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll be in overnight. Recovery time goes like: Two weeks in bed, one month 'til my bandages come off, three months 'til I can raise my arms above my head, six months 'til I can get pregnant, one year 'til they look roughly the way they'll look for the rest of my life (God wiling and the creek don't rise).

I'll upload the other tracks and add links sometime over the weekend, hopefully. 'Cause I can do that, now.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Six months til you can get pregnant? Oh, because the hormones would be trying to do things to the tissues as they were recovering, I guess?

Are there levels and levels of breast reduction? I mean, I guess they have to tailor what they do to the person, right? But some people might only want a little bit of a reduction and others might want a whole lot. So is your surgery really radical reduction or just somewhat?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

At the moment, I've got 38Is. Where I'd like to end up (and where he's told me I will, after the swelling goes down) is with 38Cs. You have to take proportion into account, so although it'd be nice to be, say, an A of some type, it ain't likely to happen and wouldn't look good if it did. But what I really look forward to is simply being able to go into a store and buy comfortable bras off the rack for relatively normal amounts of money. To not have to shop specialty ALL the time, or only wear XXL above the waist.

[baggyeyes]

I hope you have an easy recovery. Take care.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I appreciate it.;)

Soundtrack

[kelpqueen.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I wants me that soundtrack!!! : )

Re: Soundtrack

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Well, then you shall have it! I'll burn a couple of CDs for tonight.

[baggyeyes]

That does sound like quite a soundtrack.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

You could have it too, of course...

[sovay]

It's official--Monday (not Tuesday), I go into the hospital.

I'm sure I'll talk to you before them, but be well.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

Ignore the guy in my icon. Or be inspired by him, whichever works.

[baggyeyes]

Did you make one for Book of Tongues?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did...it's changed a bit since the beginning, but it's still in rotation. Email me, and I'll send you the list.