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Music Notes

by Amethyst Angel 💐

Rated: 13+ · Book · Music · #2313403

A blog about music from my unique perspective (also a spot for some poetry I’ve written)

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

This is the poem which earned my blog its green ribbon, courtesy Brian K Compton

"Renewal"

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Sum1

about 20 hours ago
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 3"

As I get used to looking at other's blogs, I'm often amused at some of their thoughts. For this entry, part of what you wrote was, One thing I need to keep working on is patience, both here and in real life. I have the disruptive tendency to panic at the beginning of the month, spinning my wheels knocking as many things off my to-do list as quickly as possible, because I'm afraid something terrible will happen and I won't have a chance to do anything anymore.

I look at that in an entirely different way. Doing all that early on is front loading your schedule. What I mean is, getting things done early on so you can relax, or maybe concentrate on what may require more time, more resources. It can also be thought of as being pro-active, not reactive. Both of those are things I try to do on a day-by-day basis.

Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

about 23 hours ago
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 3"

That's what Wikipedia says. It's not always dead on accurate either.

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Amethyst Angel 💐

about 24 hours ago
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 3"

Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

1993

That’s what comes of using Shazam for metadata. I’ve noticed they don’t always get the year of release correct. Thanks!

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

a day ago
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 3"

You are a very dedicated, super busy person! Good for you keeping up with all those writing contests. I'm just trying to keep up with daily things needing to be done right now. I guess "BARD'S-WITCH Bingo!"

And keeping up with "The Bard's Hall Contest"

blog entries , not to mention crediting "The WDC Angel Army"

is keeping me busy enough so far.

Yes, the songs have a similar voice. Here's what I found:

"Runaway Train" was released in 1993, not 2004, according to Wikipedia. The song "Runaway Trains" by Tom Petty, which is often confused with Soul Asylum's song, is actually an older song.

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StephBee

Jun 9, 2025 at 5:44pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 2"

Thanks for sharing so much about how music has made an impression on your life. I think music speaks to our souls on the same vibrational levels our souls are, so certain music appeals to us, if that makes sense.

For me, I'm a big 80's fan. 80's music and the beats resonate with me. Duran Duran the big one from the 80's. I've enjoyed Stevie Nicks songs, mainly from the 70's and 80's. I really liked Dreams.

I believe musicians should be compensated for the work they produce. My husband has the family on an Itunes account which is great because we can listen to what we want and I think it's a fair price. My favorite is listening to live music - I think that's what really made my trips to Catalina Island for the 4th of July so special, is that USC marching band would open the golf cart parade. When I was stationed in Germany I saw several acts live including Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Guns and Roses and Queenriche. Live music just stirs the soul. When I'm in the car, I like listening to JackFM out here in So Cal.

Back in the late 80's early 90's when I was stationed in Germany it was my mission to build the ultimate stereo set so I'd go to different stores (AAFEES) around the country buying pieces here and there I have a set of Pioneer speakers and Bose speakers that would great and they're over 30-35 years old. I've got a pre-amp, power amp all hooked up to apple device, but I've got a vinyl player, a CD player, and an old cassette player. When I play music through my amps and speakers like that, it still sounds good.

Smiles
Steph

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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

Jun 8, 2025 at 9:20pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 2"

Music has always played a big part in my life. My mother's side of the family were very musical--played instruments, my mother even played the bass.

In the younger days, I loved going to see my favorites on stage with my friends in Boston. Some pretty memorable times indeed. I got to meet some... got guitar picks and even a drum stick.

Souvenirs of days gone by. Now my hearing is fading on me from all the speakers' amps roaring in my ears.

Cool video!

Thanks for this view of a big part of your world.

Sumojo

Jun 7, 2025 at 2:54am
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 1"

Kåre เลียม Enga

Hi Kare, i can’t help but feel concerned when WdC members have cause to be anxious. I can understand it to a degree and do my utmost not to feel obliged/forced/ compelled to enter everything which is offered. WdC can be addictive and we need to understand that. It’s quite refreshing when one decides to have a month off— that is of course not including the Contest Challenge— after all I’ve been doing it for years!

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Jun 6, 2025 at 10:00pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 1"

I feel overwhelmed by contests this month so I'll have to be more careful of deadlines.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Jun 6, 2025 at 9:45pm
In response to "Rude (synopsis inspired by song)"

I'd never heard of the song. Very catchy. Video well done. Simple lyrics; simple song.

I seldom do these challenges because 1. I don't hear about them in time or 2. They don't force me to write and I need to be inspired if there's a deadline. And lastly, 3. I write so much regardless.

Amethyst Angel 💐

Jun 5, 2025 at 3:02pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 1"

Sumojo

Ah, but I already knocked three of those off my list since I posted this

June 12, 2025 at 7:29am

#1091312

The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 3

Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ

StephBee

"The Bard's Hall Contest"

As I begin prepping this blog post, I'm sitting in a Walmart parking lot, waiting on an order. The din of noisy vehicles and clashing carts only slightly masks the music filtering down from the wall-mounted store radio, which is currently playing the “wrong way on a one-way track” song.

Every time I've heard that over the years, I think it's Tom Petty's voice and style. It isn't. It's from Soul Asylum, a 2004 song called Runaway Train. I haven't heard it in a long while, so I fell into the same delusion this time as well until I remembered it.

My idea today (at posting time, this means yesterday…) was to write a goals check-in, to let y'all know how I'm doing with that hefty to-do list I ran down at the beginning of the month. So…

I'm halfway through Rachel's Beatles Challenge, having written fourteen drabbles (really thirteen and one slightly longer poem.) I completed Merit Badge Magic, Cubby's Writing 4 Kids, and the 48 Hour Media Prompt Challenge. I'm up to date on Promptly Poetry, though nervous at the thought of composing a poem with unspecified iambic meter…

I wrote one out of the five remaining "Reflections"

tracks. And I've completed Hook of the Book.

Most of these are “small fry” for me, bits of writing under 1k words that get added to a book item or my blog, or in the case of the Book Hook, go solely to a forum. I have potentially three other, more important contests I want to combine the last of Reflections with: Kit’s Share Your Faith, Light in Mind’s Grill a Christian, and the Official WdC contest, which is Quotation Inspiration this month.

Last time I entered Quotation Inspiration, in February, I didn't take it seriously enough and ended up shoehorning the offered quote into something which, although a perfectly good story, did not meet the judges expectations. So this month I wanted to either take it seriously, or maybe on the flip side, just relax and have fun writing what I want, without the pressure. It seems like a flexible quote that could lend itself to the final story of Reflections.

I thought of bragging about the compliment I received from my new friend Kazi yesterday on "I Get Carried Away"

, or how my old friend Jack was impressed with "The Man in the Hat"

and will review it today, or being featured in two newsletters this week, but I don't want to be vain or tedious. If there's anything I learned from the kerfuffles last summer, it's an awareness of my tendency to be an obnoxious brat, and that's never a good way to behave.

I also thought of chattering excitedly about the process of writing Reflections, because I shared some of that with Brian K Compton in a review earlier, but… it ain't over yet

I would rather look back on it than try to analyze it for others while still in progress. And besides, that should be a separate (lengthy!) entry, which I should probably crosslink with the folder intro… which will need to be rewritten as a proper introduction to what I’ve created, rather than merely an explanation of why I chose that album.

One thing I need to keep working on is patience, both here and in real life. I have the disruptive tendency to panic at the beginning of the month, spinning my wheels knocking as many things off my to-do list as quickly as possible, because I'm afraid something terrible will happen and I won't have a chance to do anything anymore. For whatever reason, I fear the fragility and instability of life. This relates to a lack of faith and a tendency towards cynicism and nihilism. I need to find peace and take one day at a time, without anxiety for the future.

Here's the Tom Petty sound-alike song to conclude with. I've never listened to it with earbuds, only heard it in my surroundings, so I don't know how much it really resembles Petty's music “up close and personal.”

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