June 17
This is last Sunday’s chat. We’re working, we’re working.
We started the chat, Jenny got called away and then came back:
Jenny C. Okay, I’m back.
Jenny C. Did you plot the book?
Krissie O. Hi, babe.
Lani D. We chatted.
Lani D. We need you to say, “Okay. So. Mesopotamia…”
Krissie O. So was that the fertile crescent too?
Krissie O. We could make smutty jokes about Shar’s fertile crescent
Jenny C. GHH, baby.
Jenny C. Okay, so Mesopotamia . . .
Lani D. LOL
Jenny C. I’m so glad we picked Mesopotamia
Lani D. I love it.
Krissie O. I think Shar would do a paper on GHH and the Fertile Crescent.
Jenny C. The comic potential is huge.
Krissie O. I dare you.
Lani D. And all the myth fits so perfectly.
Jenny C. There’s just something about Mesopotamia that cracks me up.
Jenny C. Plus there are the Fertile Crescent jokes.
Krissie O. Too bad the B52 song is so lame
Jenny C. Dog would make a Fertile Crescent joke.
Jenny C. If he knew what the Fertile Crescent was.
Jenny C. Or what a crescent was.
Lani D. Yes, that is a shame about the B-52 song.
Jenny C. I know. It sucks.
Jenny C. We can say that.
Jenny C. They can bond over how much they hate the song.
Krissie O. Certainly.
Krissie O. We need a theme song anyway.
Lani D. That’ll be fun.
Krissie O. And “Mesopotamia†won’t do.
Lani D. I think Kami will especially hate it.
Krissie O. We could ask for suggestions.
Krissie O. I always like a theme song.
Lani D. Me, too, Krissie.
Lani D. I need to send you a soundtrack - I haven’t built the new one yet.
Lani D. You’ll get it with your socks.
Jenny C. Theme song. I LOVED the songs you gave Shar and Sam and Daisy and Jamie on that CD you made.
Krissie O. Ooooh, cool!
Lani D. It’s really fun.
Lani D. Your socks are almost done.
Jenny C. Ooooh, she gets socks, too? Lani makes fabulous socks. Really.
Jenny C. I love mine.
Krissie O. What songs for the others?
Jenny C. Krissie, she gave Sam “The Boy Can’t Help It.”
Jenny C. It was so perfect.
Lani D. They’re very fun. And I think about books while knitting them, so they’re Magic Creativity Socks. Put them on, your book will come.
Lani D. Patent pending.
Krissie O. Can’t wait for magic socks.
Lani D. Fish was listening to it the other day; he loved the Elvis.
Krissie O. I need all the help I can get.
Jenny C. And Jamie’s was this Ben Taylor song that was so perfect for him.
Lani D. Yes, I love that song.
Lani D. Lady Magic.
Jenny C. The Elvis is always good.
Lani D. I need songs for Abby so I can rework it with the new vibe.
Jenny C. I’m not sure what this Shar is, exactly. Sharper, faster, angrier.
Jenny C. The old Char was so fuzzy.
Krissie O. Abby’s a little Cyndi Lauper. Hat full of Stars.
Krissie O. Slightly wistful but in your face.
Krissie O. Which makes a nice combination.
Lani D. I love Cyndi Lauper.
Lani D. Yay! I’ll look it up.
Jenny C. I love Cyndi Lauper, too.
Lani D. Yes, anything musically you can get for Abby and Christopher, send it to me.
Lani D. Who’s Christopher, by the way?
Krissie O. What would be uptight then break free.
Krissie O. Christopher is Guy Pearce in LA Confidential (not in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — though that would be a hoot).
Jenny C. I think Bonnie Raitt is really good for Shar.
Krissie O. I do love androgyny.
Lani D. I love soundtracks.
Lani D. I loved all the Bonnie Raitt stuff.
Lani D. It was fun to find her older stuff.
Jenny C. I’m thinking Nick of Time and Something to Talk About, too
Krissie O. Yup. Older and wiser.
Jenny C. Since Sam will be living with her.
Jenny C. Oh and the Michelle Branch for Daisy and Jamie, too. that was lovely.
Lani D. I love her version of “Since I Fell for You” better than the original.
Lani D. I need to listen to it again. It’s been a while.
Jenny C. What’s the Branch song from Buffy? Goodbye to You. LOVE that.
Lani D. I had that on another soundtrack. I loved that one.
Krissie O. For my last book I had Stevie Nicks and Warren Zevon.
Lani D. Ooooh, fun!
Jenny C. Right on the Since I Fell For You. Raitt is just it for Shar and Sam, i think. Smoky, been there, older wiser stuff.
Krissie O. Because Isobel was a gypsy child before she was almost murdered.
Lani D. Warren Zevon - haven’t thought about him in a while.
Jenny C. I love him.
Jenny C. But I don’t think he’s Christopher.
Krissie O. No, WZ is definitely not Christopher
Jenny C. What’s a “stop being such a tight ass” song?
Jenny C. Oh, how about Dusty’s Breakfast in Bed?
Jenny C. For Abby and Christopher.
Lani D. Okay - I’ve got the soundtrack playing now.
Jenny C. You know, Abby might be a Dusty.
Jenny C. A little retro, a lot voluptuous.
Jenny C. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me?
Lani D. I’m trying to launch the music store now so I can pull these songs up as we talk about them.
Lani D. I love Dusty.
Krissie O. Well, a couple of pop-y songs that I’ve been playing a lot are Collide by Howie Day and Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.
Krissie O. Oh, me too.
Jenny C. Are they good for Abby?
Jenny C. As a theme?
Krissie O. But Dusty takes what she wants. I’m not sure Abby does.
Jenny C. As far as something to play when you want to know what Abby’s like?
Jenny C. Or something we could play?
Krissie O. She doesn’t take shit, but she also doesn’t just grab the man by the scruff of his neck and say, c’m here, sweetheart.
Lani D. Okay - you wanted a Cyndi Lauper?
Jenny C. Plus all of that “Fuck you” in her voice.
Krissie O. Yup.
Lani D. I love Raitt.
Lani D. She’s perfect for Shar.
Krissie O. Dusty with the fuck you.
Jenny C. I keep thinking she’s a throwback to the sixties, but that’s not right. That’s Gracie.
Krissie O. And who’s Daisy for music?
Lani D. OMG, Cyndi Lauper did a version of Until You Come Back to Me!
Lani D. Sorry.
Jenny C. But we need a girl singer there.
Lani D. Um, yes, there’s Elvis for Daisy
Jenny C. Michelle Branch?
Lani D. I don’t usually connect to one artist for energy.
Lani D. I like Michelle Branch.
Jenny C. She’s calm but nobody’s patsy.
Jenny C. And Goodbye to You would be great for when she dumps Jamie.
Jenny C. I LOVE that song.
Krissie O. Yeah, Michelle Branch is Daisy-ish
Lani D. I love that song, too.
Lani D. Yeah, I definitely think so.
Jenny C. So Bonnie and Michelle and . . .?
Jenny C. From now on, we must name our characters after their singers.
Jenny C. So much easier.
Lani D. Right. 
Jenny C. Ohh, I know.
Lani D. Oh, I’m listening to “Hat Full of Stars” now. Sounds cool.
Jenny C. Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Lani D. You want it, Krissie? For Abby?
Krissie O. Maybe.
Krissie O. I love MCC
Jenny C. I Feel Lucky.
Lani D. Ohhhh. MCC!
Jenny C. “Lyle Lovett’s right beside me with his hand upon my knee.”
Jenny C. Passionate Kisses.
Krissie O. Why walk when you can fly
Krissie O. Gotta dig out my MCC cds
Jenny C. Oh and she did a WONDERFUL cover of “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again” for My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Krissie O. Speaking of Lyle Lovett (sigh)
Lani D. Well, Krissie, you let me know what you want, and I’ll get it in the soundtrack.
Lani D. Oh, Lyle. OH, Lyle. Love him.
Krissie O. I saw Bonnie Raitt with Lyle Lovett.
Lani D. Sexiest voice EVER.
Jenny C. Somebody asked him what he thought of MCC putting him in that song, and he said, “That was right nice of Mary Chapin.” Smooch.
Jenny C. OMG.
Krissie O. Indeed.
Jenny C. TOGETHER?
Jenny C. Now, I’m jealous.
Krissie O. Yup.
Lani D. Me, too. Must have been amazing.
Krissie O. They did separate sets but then sang together.
Jenny C. And you didn’t take me.
Krissie O. It was. Fabulous
Krissie O. Before I knew you, my dear.
Jenny C. I love his “God Will,” too. You told me about that one, Krissie, in NYC once.
Jenny C. Oh.
Jenny C. Okay, then.
Krissie O. Love God Will.
Lani D. Could Lyle be Christopher? LOL. Probably not, but I do love him so.
Krissie O. Love If I had a boat.
Jenny C. I’m playing MCC’s Never Fall in Love Again. I think it’s the best cover of that song I’ve ever heard.
Jenny C. You know, he might be.
Jenny C. Lyle’s really low key.
Jenny C. But hot.
Krissie O. Man, I need to do a Lyle character.
Lani D. OMG, I just love his energy.
Krissie O. Yes, low key, snarky, hot and smart.
Lani D. Yeah, me too!
Jenny C. And it would be so cool if Christopher’s dirty secret was that he was a country fan.
Lani D. Or he line dances. Well. Maybe not.
Lani D.
Krissie O. Hmmmm.
Jenny C. And he LOVES MCC.
Krissie O. That has possibilities.
Krissie O. He’d be so ashamed.
Jenny C. But it would be so telling.
Krissie O. Yes, and MCC is a little zaftig and I’d like Abby to be robust.
Jenny C. All that unashamed passion in country.
Lani D. Stuffed between his Beethoven cds is… MCC.
Jenny C. I love country.
Krissie O. And Lyle.
Jenny C. Lyle. Roseanne. Faith Hill.
Lani D. I have to say, I think MCC has a great Abby energy.
Krissie O. I think MCC and Lyle are good music for Christopher and Abby.
Jenny C. And Johnny.
Jenny C. He’d have to have Johnny.
Krissie O. Merle.
Jenny C. I like that a lot.
Krissie O. Merle rules.
Jenny C. Absolutely. And some Patsy.
Jenny C. You ain’t country unless you love Patsy.
Lani D. Oh, there’s a song by Lyle called “Big Dog.”
Lani D. I must have it for the soundtrack.
Krissie O. And Loretta. Don’t come home a drinking with loving on your mind.
Jenny C. Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down. Emmylou.
Jenny C. That’s what Pat had played at her funeral
Krissie O. Fabulous song.
Jenny C. That time I killed her with my critique.
Krissie O. LOL
Lani D. I just bought “Big Dog.” Too cool.
Lani D. Oh, with the purple chiffon? Sounds like a lovely funeral.
Jenny C. I’m sure it was. I wasn’t invited.
Jenny C. Sigh.
Lani D. Trust Pat to have great taste even from Beyond.
Lani D. Well. You did kill her.
Lani D. I mean…
Jenny C. I know I KNOW I KILLED HER.
Jenny C. But she comes back for more.
Jenny C. Sam.
Jenny C. You know, Sam might be Elvis.
Jenny C. The King.
Lani D. I think all I had for Sam was Elvis.
Jenny C. I think that’s good.
Lani D. Oh, no, I had “The Boy Can’t Help It.”
Jenny C. Now that I’ve circled around again.
Lani D. I loove that for Sam.
Krissie O. Sam and Elvis feel right.
Jenny C. That’s okay.
Jenny C. I have enough Elvis here to find Sam.
Jenny C. There’s so much good stuff.
Lani D. I love the soundtracks. They really help me get the energy of the characters.
Krissie O. Yup. But sometimes it’s a random song you don’t expect that you just hear and it makes something click
Krissie O. And suddenly you know a whole lot more about the character
Lani D. Yeah, I spend days sampling stuff in iTunes to find what I want exactly.
Jenny C. I’m getting serious now, I went and got my CD albums.
Lani D. And sometimes a random click gets me where I need to go.
Jenny C. I have Elvis’s fifty greatest love songs.
Lani D. I just bought “God Will.”
Lani D. I love Lyle.
Krissie O. Great fucking song.
Jenny C. “God Will” is my favorite.
Jenny C. Great fuck-off song.
Jenny C. Elvis:
Jenny C. Can’t Help Falling In Love
Jenny C. How perfect is that for Sam?
Jenny C. Giving up polygamy.
Krissie O. You were always on my mind?
Jenny C. Oh, and “I’ll Remember You” before he goes off to die?
Lani D. Can’t Help Falling in Love is great.
Lani D. I’ll Remember You - Elvis? I don’t know that one.
Jenny C. It’s beautiful. Maybe too soft for Sam, but beautiful.
Krissie O. Burning love for the sex scene
Jenny C. I didn’t know Elvis did a cover of “You Don’t Know Me.” One of my top fave songs of all time.
Lani D. Well, Sam’s gonna have soft moments. Or, moment.
Lani D. You Don’t Know Me - oh, love that one.
Jenny C. Excuse me? My hero never has soft moments.
Krissie O. Well, not soft exactly.
Jenny C. Stop taking him for granite.
Krissie O. Let’s hope not.
Jenny C. A hard man is good to find.
Lani D. OMG.
Lani D. The strong and sedimentary type.
Jenny C. You know what other song makes me crazy with happiness? Not for this book, just in general?
Krissie O. Behave yourself.
Lani D. We got a million of ‘em.
Jenny C. Concrete and Clay.
Jenny C. Actually, that’s not bad for Sam.
Jenny C. Bas Relief Guy.
Lani D. Concrete and Clay? I don’t know that one.
Lani D.
Krissie O. LOL
Jenny C. It’s an old one and it’s WONDERFUL.
Jenny C. British invasion stuff.
Krissie O. What is it. Unit Two plus 4 or something like that?
Krissie O. I’ve got it, Lani. I can send you the file or you can get it off itunes.
Lani D. Oh, my media player is crashing. Poo.
Lani D. I’ve got my store up now, and am pulling the songs down as we talk about them.
Lani D. Except it’s getting pissy with me now.
Lani D. Damn prima donna software.
Jenny C. It’s on the Rushmore soundtrack, too.
Krissie O. One of my favorite happy songs is “I’ll Do Anything” by Dusty.
Jenny C. What is it . . . The ground beneath my feet begins to crumble, but love will never die, because I’ll see the mountains tumble, before we say good-bye,
Jenny C. Wait a minute. I think that IS their song.
Lani D. What? “I’ll Do Anything”?
Krissie O. My love and I will be in love eternally
Jenny C.
The concrete and the clay beneath my feet
Begins to crumble
But love will never die
Because we’ll see the mountains tumble
Before we say goodbye
My love and I will be
In love eternally
That’s the way
Mmm, that’s the way it’s meant to be
Krissie O. Perfect.
Jenny C. Concrete and Clay.
Lani D. All I’m getting for Concrete and Clay is an album by Eddie Rambeau; that’s not it, is it?
Jenny C. Sorry. Having a moment here.
Jenny C. Go look at the Rushmore Soundtrack.
Lani D. Okay, I’m gonna open iTunes becase my crap media player doesn’t have it.
Jenny C. Evidently They Might Be Giants did it, too.
Krissie O. Yup, it’s there
Lani D. Okay, the Eddie Rambeau version had the same lyrics, but I’m trying to find the one you’re talking about.
Lani D. OH, TMBG! I love them!
Jenny C. It’s on the Rushmore soundtrack by Unit 4+2.
Krissie O. It’s the first one listed
Lani D. I’ll find it, no worries.
Jenny C. You know, I saw a beer commercial when I was in Ireland with it
Jenny C. and it was the best commercial I’ve ever seen.
Jenny C. And the music was PERFECT for it.
Krissie O. Oh, hell, there’s a karaoke version of it, Jenny.
Jenny C. Just keep walking there, missy.
Lani D. How have I missed this song? LOL.
Krissie O. I think we need to do karaoke in NY. In the apartment.
Krissie O. (I know, shoot me now)
Lani D. OMG, you guys haven’t suffered until you’ve heard me do karaoke.
Lani D. And I will be serving mojitos…:)
Jenny C. Ooooh, Kook-aid.
Krissie O. I have very few inhibitions
Jenny C. MY fave.
Krissie O. Kook-aid
Krissie O. That’s for quirky kids?
Lani D. Okay, I got concrete and clay.
Jenny C. Like us.
Jenny C. You’re gonna love it.
Jenny C. It just makes me happy.
Lani D. I do; I’m listening right now.
Jenny C. And it’s SO Shar and Sam.
Lani D. I love it.
Jenny C. It’s so retro. Shar’s retro.
Jenny C. And Sam’s REALLY retro.
Lani D. OMG; I always get one happy song to end the soundtrack. I think this’ll be it.
Lani D. Sam was retro before retro was cool.
Krissie O. If she gets emo you could put “don’t let the sun catch you crying.”
Krissie O. Or ‘the sun ain’t gonna shine anymore”
Krissie O. Two great retro weepers
Krissie O. I gotta get the sun ain’t gonna shine any more
Lani D. I love this song!
Jenny C. Oh, God yes, The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.
Jenny C. That’s so perfect for the end.
Krissie O. Wouldn’t that make it a depressing end?
Jenny C. No, when Sam goes off to be sacrificed.
Jenny C. I can play it and weep while I write it.
Jenny C. I’m downloading it from iTunes now.
Krissie O. Oh, perfect.
Lani D. Okay, which version do you want?
Krissie O. the original was the Walker Brothers.
Jenny C. I’m listening now. They’re not on there.
Krissie O. I’d like Alan Rickman and Juliet Stephenson but I doubt that’s available
Jenny C. Oh, that was lovely.
Jenny C. What a great movie.
Jenny C. They were so in love.
Lani D. There’s a Neil Diamond version.
Lani D.
Krissie O. Yuck
Jenny C. I don’t see Neil.
Krissie O. No Neil Diamond in any book I am in any part of.
Krissie O. Shit, no.
Jenny C. But Frankie Valli has one.
Lani D. It’s in iTunes and it’s… Neil.
Krissie O. Hate Frankie Valli too.
Jenny C. Yeah, it’s a really vanilla sound, too. No Frankie.
Lani D. There’s a woman singing - Mel Vondrau.
Jenny C. We need somebody who’s going to sing the hell out of it.
Krissie O. God, there’s an awful karoakie version of it.
Krissie O. Let me look elsewhere.
Jenny C. Lani, she’s fantastic.
Jenny C. What a voice. Who is she?
Lani D. Oh! A reggae version! Winston Francis!
Jenny C. Whoops, never mind.
Lani D. I have no idea - she was just there.
Jenny C. She ooooohs later.
Jenny C. Forget her.
Lani D. It’s hard to find just the right version.
Jenny C. Click on Cat and Boots. They so don’t get this song.
Lani D. I know! I think Jay Black might be the best, but all I can hear is the open.
Krissie O. Found it. Over on Rhapsody.
Jenny C. Me, too.
Jenny C. What’s Rhapsody?
Krissie O. It’s Best Buy’s Digital music store.
Lani D. Found what?
Krissie O. It’s sounding good.
Jenny C. My GOD there are a lot of bad covers of this song.
Krissie O. The Walker Brothers. They’re the ones who did it originally
Lani D. I know. There are a lot of bad covers of almost every song. It’s a little depressing.
Jenny C. I searched for them on iTunes but they didn’t have the song.
Jenny C. Okay, but we know we want this one. And Concrete and Clay. And you nailed Sam with The Boy Can’t Help It. And I think Shar’s is Nick of Time and Something To Talk About. Happy songs.
Krissie O. Rhapsody is a free, downloadable music program, like Itunes.
Jenny C. And I’ll get some Elvis for Sam.
Krissie O. The good thing is you can hear 25 songs a month for free (not just snippets).
Jenny C. I have about eight albums of his.
Jenny C. This is so good.
Jenny C. I’m so glad we’re doing this.
Krissie O. But I’m having trouble moving the stuff to my itunes.
Lani D. Oh, it’s hell trying to get one version to play in another player.
Lani D. You have to burn to CD and rip it back.
Jenny C. I bought the Jay Black version until I can find a better one.
Jenny C. The music’s a little thin.
Jenny C. I’ll have to find the Walker Brothers.
Jenny C. Yeah, we need the Walker Brothers.
Lani D. It would be great if the girl didn’t “ooooh.” And she sounds a lot like Cher, which I don’t think is good. YMMV.
Jenny C. This is such a great song. Why hasn’t somebody done a great cover?
Jenny C. Yeah, she started strong and then went south.
Jenny C. Still better than that girl group. Hello Kitty does a CHEERFUL Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine.
Jenny C. Oh, god, we DEFINITELY need the Walker Brothers.
Jenny C. This is not a good cover.
Jenny C. Probably the best one on iTunes, though.
Jenny C. There’s no richness here at all.
Lani D. Yeah, we’ll find it.
Lani D. There’s gotta be a good cover of it somewhere.
Jenny C. Loved the original, though.
Lani D. I’ll look in Windows Media Player later and see; it keeps hogging up my resources so it’s hard to do while doing anything else.
Krissie O. I’ll see if I can send it to you guys later.
Lani D. I’ll see if I can find the Walker Brothers.
Krissie O. Windows Media Player has songs?
Jenny C. So perfect. Thank you, Krissie!
Lani D. Krissie - if you burn to cd and rip back, you can upload it to Backpack or Google Groups.
Krissie O. I’ve got three different programs — a sonic one, itunes and rhapsody.
Krissie O. Yup, that’s what I’ll do.
Jenny C. So are we using Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine for everybody at the third TP?
Lani D. WMP has a service called Urge, which I think is a bad choice of company name, but…
Jenny C. LOL
Krissie O. It’s a perfect dark moment song.
Lani D. It is great.
Jenny C. I think so, too.
Lani D. And I love the generally retro feel of the soundtrack.
Lani D. I’ve got some new stuff in there, but most of the Raitt is older, Elvis, etc.
Lani D. It’s great.
Jenny C. It really is.
Jenny C. Ben Taylor is GREAT for Jamie.
Krissie O. I’m gonna drag out Lyle and MCC and see what speaks to me.
Jenny C. I heard that song and I knew Jamie.
Jenny C. Perfect.
Lani D. I love Ben Taylor.
Jenny C. And I love Michelle Branch for Daisy.
Krissie O. I haven’t heard him (he’s JT’s son, right?)
Lani D. He’s so soulful and fun.
Lani D. Yeah, MB is great for Daisy.
Jenny C. All that repressed passion.
Lani D. Yes, and he sounds a lot like JT, but he’s funkier.
Krissie O. Ooooh, I love repressed passion
Jenny C. MCC for Abby is genius if I do say so myself.
Jenny C. That would be Christopher, Krissie.
Krissie O. Absolutely.
Lani D. I think the song I used is up on Backpack. I’ll put it on Google for you.
Jenny C. God this is a great song.
Jenny C. Emptiness is the place you’re in.
Jenny C. WHEN YOU”RE WITHOUT LOVE !!!!!!!
Jenny C. Sorry.
Jenny C. Love this song.
Jenny C. Gotta find somebody who SINGS it, dammit.
Krissie O. You know who should have sung it? The Righteous Brothers produced by Phil Spector. That would have shaken the rafters of heaven (or however that line goes. Very pillars of heaven?)
Jenny C. I will karaoke to this song.
Jenny C. WHY didn’t they?
Jenny C. This is so their song.
Lani D. I love that song.
Lani D. Oh, the Righteous Brothers.
Lani D. Somewhere out there is a great cover of that song. It has to be.
Jenny C. Lady Magic is wonderful. And it IS Jamie.
Lani D. Oh, I just found another perfect Ben Taylor song!
Krissie O. Of course, Phil Spector is hard to think of nowadays. Except we always knew he was crazy.
Krissie O. We just didn’t know he was lethal.
Lani D. It’s called “Safe Enough to Wake Up” and it has lyrics about a magical potion.
Jenny C. Ooooh.
Lani D. “Everyone’s floating on some old-school magical potion.”
Lani D. Fun little song.
Jenny C. Oh, it’s fabulous.
Jenny C. And it’s Jamie again.
Jenny C. Very laid back sexy.
Krissie O. Actually Christopher would be a little Richard Thompson-ish.
Lani D. “It would be a shame if you forgot to wake up.”
Lani D. “Please don’t be afraid.”
Lani D. I love it.
Jenny C. I’m downloading it now.
Krissie O. Not ultra dark but the nightmare song “I can’t wake up to save my life”
Lani D. I love Ben Taylor. Just love him.
Krissie O. Because Abby’s a bit of a nightmare to him.
Lani D. I wish he’d come out with a new album.
Jenny C. I like Christopher dark.
Krissie O. He’s on a tribute album
Krissie O. To his father, I think.
Jenny C. Lani, this song is brilliant.
Krissie O. Or maybe it was the John Lennon tribute.
Lani D. Isn’t it great?
Jenny C. It’s wonderful.
Lani D. He’s very Jamie.
Krissie O. OK, I want to leave you and go investigate music.
Jenny C. And it’s very D&G.
Lani D. Isn’t it fun?
Jenny C. The words are great.
Krissie O. Christopher is dark.
Krissie O. Brooding.
Krissie O. Dour.
Lani D. I love the soundtrack phase of every book.
Krissie O. Needs to cheer up and get laid.
Jenny C. Tom Waits
Krissie O. Because one he lets go he really lets go.
Lani D. Oooooh… Tom Waits.
Krissie O. Yum
Jenny C. Hang on, Christopher.
Jenny C. This is your lucky book.
Lani D. I don’t want to fall in love with you…
Lani D. What’s that song?
Jenny C. Sorry, i’m deep in Ben here.
Jenny C. I love the change up in the music. It’s really Jamie.
Lani D. I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You.
Lani D. I love that TW version.
Lani D. Yeah, isn’t BT great?
Jenny C. Oh, that’s perfect for Christopher.
Lani D. I love that energy.
Jenny C. Hootie did a cover of that.
Jenny C. And it’s good.
Lani D. There’s a song from TW called “Hang On St. Christopher.” It’s funky.
Jenny C. Very country.
Lani D. I like it.
Krissie O. I’ve been thinking of looking into Rufus Wainwright.
Krissie O. I don’t know if he works for this book but I love what I’ve heard.
Krissie O. There’s that androgyny thing again.
Krissie O. I think a book might come from Rufus but not this one
Jenny C. You know, listen to the Hootie and the Blowfish cover of I Hope I Don’t Fall. It’s good.
Lani D. Is it?
Jenny C. If Christopher’s a secret country fan.
Krissie O. I’ll check it out.
Jenny C. It’s a really lonely, plain rendition.
Jenny C. I know what you mean about Rufus. I’m going to do a book with Imogen Heap sometime.
Jenny C. Goodnight and Go is so gorgeous.
Krissie O. Too many songs, too little time
Lani D. You’re right. The Hootie version is good.
Jenny C. Nicely stripped down.
Lani D. Well, Krissie, you listen around and let me know what you want for the soundtrack.
Jenny C. No fancy stuff. Just good voice.
Lani D. You, too, Jenny if you come up with anything else.
Jenny C. Okay we need a theme for each character, a love theme, a break up theme and then the overall song, right?
Krissie O. I’m going to have to cogitate
Lani D. I’ve also got those middle eastern songs for flavor - you guys still want those? They’re more flavor than anything else.
Jenny C. Overall is Concrete and Clay?
Krissie O. Yup, that seems right.
Jenny C. Oh, hell, Kammani.
Jenny C. Forgot about her.
Jenny C. If we’ve got a character theme for each one, and maybe a love them for each one to distinguish the romances?
Jenny C. Is it too much for them each to have a love theme
Jenny C. Because I’m trying to get a feel for how they’re all different.
Krissie O. No. I’m gonna have a love theme.
Jenny C. Shar says no for a long time but when she falls, she’s giddy with it.
Jenny C. Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About, Concrete and Clay.
Jenny C. She’s gonna be singing in the bedroom.
Krissie O. And how’s Daisy? Rambunctious sex?
Jenny C. Chaos.
Lani D. Daisy gives in, goes wild, regrets, gets angry.
Lani D. I like Goodbye To You.
Krissie O. Seems to me it’s gotta be pretty energetic with Daisy.
Jenny C. It’s funny, I can so see Daisy’s break-up song as Goodbye To You.
Lani D. I had another one on there, can’t remember, also liked it.
Jenny C. It’s really perfect.
Jenny C. The other Branch was “It’s You.”
Krissie O. I’m thinking that Christopher and Abby might be very “slow hand” “would you just lay here” kind of sex.
Krissie O. Sexual healing.
Jenny C. Slow Hand is always good.
Lani D. Oh, yeah. I think that was their love theme. I need to find my cd.
Krissie O. Let’s get it on.
Krissie O. Slow, steamy sex.
Lani D. Oh, I love “Let’s Get it On.”
Jenny C. You know what song always makes me happy? It’s Raining Men. Not for this book, just in general. Never mind.
Jenny C. Oooh, Let’s Get It On. Go for it.
Lani D. It’s a great happy song.
Krissie O. You bet. Love that song.
Jenny C. I think Shar and Sam are more bouncey sex.
Jenny C. Lots of laughing and rolling around.
Jenny C. And doing it on the dining room table.
Krissie O. Abby and Christopher are intense, powerful sex. Slow and hypnotic.
Krissie O. Well, my guys are going to do it on the bar.
Jenny C. Which leaves Daisy and Jamie doin’ it against the wall behind Gracie’s.
Krissie O. But it’ll stll be slow and sensuous
Jenny C. And good for them, I say.
Lani D. Right.
Lani D. Daisy and Jamie are going to be wild with it.
Jenny C. Wild and crazy sex.
Krissie O. Beastie will guard the door.
Lani D. Just out of control.
Jenny C. That’s good.
Jenny C. We’ve got Abby slow, Daisy crazy, and Shar laughing.
Jenny C. That’s a nice range.
Jenny C. I am so lucky to be working with you two.
Jenny C. I’m happy all over again.
Krissie O. Crazy works for chaos, and laughing works for ecstasy.
Lani D. Oh, it’s great. I love our energy together.
Lani D. So much fun.
Krissie O. I’ve got to make slow work for lust.
Krissie O. It’s that kind of deep, burning lust.
Krissie O. It’ll work.
Jenny C. Well, slow would work for lust. The slow hungry build.
Krissie O. Yup. That’s it.
Jenny C. It’s like smelling the cinnamon rolls and getting hungry.
Jenny C. You don’t want to rush it.
Jenny C. I cannot wait to read your scenes.
Jenny C. This is another part I love about collaborating, I get to read stuff in my book I didn’t write.
Lani D. It’s gonna be fun. I’m excited to write those scenes.
Krissie O. Me too. Gotta earn the privilege though.
Lani D. I know, I love it when you guys have new stuff for me.
Krissie O. Reno time first, then Abby.
Jenny C. The music will put me there.
Jenny C. I can really see them together now. Before, I wasn’t sure.
Jenny C. Shar and Sam, I mean.
Lani D. Oh, yay! Yeah, soundtracks do so much for me.
Jenny C. I knew it would come eventually, but the music does it.
Krissie O. Yeah, I think you’ve got a much better handle on it than when I first arrived.
Lani D. It’s nice, too, because having music for your characters helps me know them.
Jenny C. These chats help, too.
Jenny C. I want to make a list of the songs we’ve got here and double check them with you but this chat is not the place to do it. If I do a list and send it to you, will you fix the things I got wrong?
Lani D. Yes, absolutely..
Krissie O. yup.
Lani D. I’ll compile it and get it together once we’ve decided what we want.
Lani D. Then ship it out to you guys. Along with Krissie’s Magic Socks of creativity.
Krissie O. Gonna pee and go to bed.
Krissie O. I think we should probably always end with Krissie having to pee
Jenny C. Ah, tradition.
Krissie O. See ya tomorrow.
Lani D. Yes. It’ll be a tradition.
Jenny C. Goodnight.
Lani D. Smooches. Night.
Krissie O. has left the room
Lani D. has left the room
Jenny C. has left the room
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You should consider selling the soundtracks to your novels. I want to hear them all. They make movie soundtracks, why not cross market for books?
This was so much fun to read. I want to hear it too.
We’re doing it as an iMix on iTunes, but it’s not done yet. We update it as we work, but it’ll change all the way through the book.
I still don’t have Shar. But I did get Kammani’s Love Theme: Bleed to Love Her by Fleetwood Mac. Seriously, it’s great.
“Lani D. OMG, you guys haven’t suffered until you’ve heard me do karaoke.
Lani D. And I will be serving mojitos…:)
Jenny C. Ooooh, Kook-aid.”
My first thought was “Kook-Aid: the musical telethon for the slightly strange.” It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking anything or I would have spit it on my monitor.
Mojitos will work very well as an aid for kooks though.
There’s a reason I only check this from home when my boss is in the office.
Just out of curiosity, could you guys have come up with this breadth of music before stuff ike iTunes and Rhapsody? I’ve always had pretty catholic tastes, but to be exposed to so much stuff, seems like it would be impossible.
Ooh iMix FASTER!
Lani, the man and I will be in your neck of the woods in a few weeks… where can we take you for mojitos and karaoke?
I am so looking forward to this. And I will check for the iMix, because these songs, all together? Perfect!
(-: Oh, wow, I’d buy a book/soundtrack boxed set, too!
Belly-dancing is kind of Mesopotamian, isn’t it? I’ve got exactly one belly-dancing CD called the Brothers of the Baladi (and it’s a great album!) and they do a cover of Paint It Black. Would that work for Mina? Or is she a different kind of death? Heck, the Rolling Stones original has that middle Eastern flavor, too.
For some reason, “Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life” reminded me of Dog Essen. (-: I suddenly thought of him as a fundamentalist football player, suddenly surrounded by Mesopotamian goddesses.
For goodness sake — y’all’s book is takin’ over my mind!
Oh well, maybe I’ll check out some of these songs I haven’t heard — great taste in music here.
On-line music makes it a lot easier to find music, but I’m a music wonk. I know just about everything about rock from 1966 to 1972, and I love every form of music. From country to polka to opera to hip hop. Not all of it, of course. I like Puccini and DMX and Gary Burton (modern jazz) and everyone knows my passion for Japanese rock. Not to mention French rock. And African pop. And …
Fortunately I have satellite radio in the car so I can track down stuff that interests me.
I’m a music idiot.
But, as idiots everywhere say, I know what I like.
There’s a female folk singer in Colorado named Cosy Sheridan. Very good stuff. It might work here. It occurs to me that she has a dog song about Waldo the dog’s trip to the vet “they call him fixed but he’s feelin’ broke”. If you can find the song about the Mustang Ranch, that’s a must listen… as well as a song about being the size you are and not too tiny. Don’t know if she’s on iTunes, but I hope so. I have a CD from a concert. The discussions of Abby made me think of her. Plus she has crazy curly hair. http://www.cosysheridan.com/cosyhome.htm
oooh! There are pictures of dogs under “whimsicals”. Fate, I tell you. Fate.
Ok, so I haven’t checked out Cosy’s stuff in a while, but she apparently has been performing a show she wrote about learning to live in your woman’s body, called “The Pomegranate Seed” with lots of classical references. How totally appropriate for this audience! Really, I love her. And the songs I mentioned in my last comment are available for a quick listen if you click on her CD One Sure Thing with the full body shot of her sitting on a rock in the desert. Must go shopping now…
Sorry to be a comment hog, but I’m grooving to my iTunes right now and the slow powerful scenes made me think of the band Morphine’s lyric “I can tell you taste like the sky ’cause you look like rain”. Might be way off, but also “You speak my language” which is a little faster. They would work for my mental Sam too because just about every song has a different woman’s name in it.
Please let us know the final soundtrack list. I would buy it for money and everything based on the chat so far. (yes, even without including my comments.)
The list in progress is on iTunes as an iMix called Dogs and Goddesses, but we’ll be adding to it and changing a lot of it as we go through the book. So every now and then we’ll update that. Krissie hasn’t weighed in on Abby and Christopher yet, and Lani’s still looking for Daisy and I’m not at all sure about Shar’s sound. So we’ll keep looking and when we find it, we’ll know it.
I don’t know if it would work for any part of the book, but you should check out Bonnie Raitt singing the song “Feels Like Home.” On itunes, it actually lists Randy Newman as the artist, because it’s from Randy Newman’s “Faust.” It’s also on the soundtrack to the movie “Michael,” but I don’t see that on there. GREAT song.
I never realized that that song’s name was Concrete and Clay. Love it! I never paid that much attention to the songs of my youth - the titles, word, artists are all a big blur to me - until I hear it! This has been fun.
I couldn’t find it on iMix. It keeps asking if I meant does and goddesses. Huh? Not unless one of you made a typo.
Maybe try D&G. That’s what I called the playlist on my iTunes.
But I could have sworn I made it Dogs and Goddesses.
I checked the actual iMix and it says Dogs and Goddesses.
No luck. Maybe because I’m Canadian…
I’m sure that’s it.
You know, I don’t know how to search iTunes for iMixes (and yss, that whole “i” thing bugs me, too).
Anybody know how to find iMixes on iTunes? iDirections?
Here’s the list so far, but it’s really, really, really tentative. As in, it’s gonna change a lot:
Safe Enough to Wake Up (Ben Taylor)
I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You (Hootie)
Lady Magic (Ben Taylor)
It’s You (Michele Branch)
You Belong to Me (Taylor)
Nick of Time (Bonnie Raitt)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Elvis)
One Night (Elvis)
Something To Talk About (Raitt)
Concrete and Clay (Unit 4 + 2)
Bleed To Love Her (Fleetwood Mac)
Goodbye to You (Branch)
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore (Walker Bros.)
I just entered Dogs and Goddesses into the iTunes search engine. The sad reality is that there are some functions I cannot access because of my nationality. I have no idea why that is so.You should see me try to post pictures on the CB Bar and Grill. Bryan always has to go in - do exactly the same thing I did - and post them for me. Frustrating.
Well hello there,
Coming out of the shadows of lurkdom to share how to find an iMix listing.
On the iTunes homepage, clink on the music store link in the top box on the left. On the music store homepage, click on the iMix link in the second box down on the left. This will take you to the iMix homepage, where there is a search box.
Love the site! But I miss the pop-up dog that was in the corner; he cracked me up everytime I saw him!
I know you can’t just put it into the search box (I got Does and Goddesses when I tried that too). I don’t have iTunes on this computer, but I did manage to find it through iMix this weekend.
Once you go into the music tab of the store, there should be an iMix link there (not celebrity playlists, it’s called iMix). From there you can find the Dogs & Goddesses list. I can look for more specific directions when I get home tonight if that’s not enough.
I tried going through iMix. Nothing came up for Dogs and Goddesses. I even tried just dogs,then simply goddesses, hoping I could trick it. Nada. Perhaps the hot little Mac guy from the commercials will come help poor poor Canadian me(not Me, she’s the genius)
Does this link get you there? I published it to an RSS feed, and this is the link for that.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=258374858&s=143441
Yep. Good job, Jenifer.
Yep it’s because I’m Canadian. It actually said so when I clicked on the link that the wonderful Jenifer posted. I appreciate the help.
Sheryl - Here’s one idea for a workaround. That link I posted is an RSS feed that will tell you when the mix is changed. If you don’t already use an RSS reader, try one like http://www.bloglines.com You can put that link in as the feed you want to track. The first time you read it, you can just mark each song as “keep as new” (there’s a check box in the lower right corner for each song), so you’ll have the list handy there.
I don’t think that doing this would access iTunes in any way, so it shouldn’t matter where you’re from.
That’s pretty rotten about iTunes Canada. I can’t buy stuff on iTunes Japan because I don’t have a mailing address in over there. I really wish they wouldn’t have all those annoying protocols — I think dvds should be region-free as well.
But we’ll post the update on our songs so you can find them yourselves.
Thank you. That means a lot. I don’t understand why it’s an issue with iTunes but otoh, it’s nice to finally find a flaw with Apple
Okay, this is all on the INTERNET, right? What freaking difference would it make if Sheryl is in Canada?
Sorry, but that makes NO sense. It’s not like they’d be shipping you anything.
Grrrr.
We’ll keep the list here. Probably should put up a post as soon as Krissie picks her music. Not that I’m hinting or anything.
Wow, I’m like a month behind on the times, and I don’t know if you go back to this often or not but I was reading the chat and a song popped out at me from my collection…now all I know from the characters and the novel is what I’ve read here but I wanted to recomend this to you. Gorecki by Lamb it’s on iTunes check it out.