Rick Dean - Dinosaur's Notebook

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Well, after spotting everyone else a month's head start, I finally found an album for "Musicology Anthology" . I don't know how many I considered, or even started and stalled.

I considered Born in the USA - a project which has been on my ideas list since the last century, but Bruce has become such a crotchety old man that I just couldn't muster any enthusiasm for the idea. I wish I could celebrate what he was, not what he is.

I considered Operation: Mindcrime - but the media is already doing its damnedest to normalize the idea of political assassination so a story about killing political and religious leaders, while timely, doesn't really help things. That and I'd done a metal album last year and wanted to mix it up.

I considered Joe's Garage - and I still love the idea of horrifying people when they scroll through and see titles like "Wet T Shirt Nite," and "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" but as much as I love Zappa, he kinda loses the plot halfway through. That and a sci-fi story about having sex with robots just doesn't do it for me. Call me old fashioned but I still prefer the temptations of actual human flesh.

I looked into Jimmy Buffett but he's already turned the best of his stuff into books.

I looked into Tom Waite - Small Change - and maybe some other year but this time it just wasn't happening.

I started on Nick Cave - Murder Ballads - but that fairly quickly lost steam. Again, maybe some other year.

I started on Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera, but a story about the struggles of a Southern Man would likely be lost on most, especially when told through the prism of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Too many preconceived notions that aren't worth fighting.

The list keeps going, Volbeat, Social Distortion, Willie Nelson, you name it.

So after all that, what did I pick? I ended up going back to metal after all. Sort of. In two months, the would should get its next pirate yarn! I opted for Alestorm - Captain Morgans Revenge.

I'm sure at least two of you can't wait.
tuozzo - I wish the album was as consistent as you suggest. I tend to strive for accuracy in my historical fiction, and Alestorm are much more interested in the mythos. So what to do when the source material gets the details wrong?

Also, 9 of the songs fit neatly into the Golden Age of Piracy, and the other is 1315 Scotland. Creating a consistent narrative while weaving in that song is the first challenge.
rickdean2 - Ah, see, I just saw boats and pirates. *Laugh*
tuozzo - sometimes boats and pirates is enough! The world can always use another pirate tale.
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It's time to release my newest story into the wild. I set it in a real place. It isn't ever named but there's enough clues that an attentive reader may be able to figure it out. Also, the title needs work. Suggestions welcome.
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Prospector Panic  (E)
An old prospector investigates a mysterious glowing purple stone, but he isn't alone.
Breaking - shots fired at the White House Correspondents dinner. Trump rushed offstage.
The company I work for blocked w.c today. It's no longer allowed behind the company firewall.
Did they give a reason, or was it random?
enga - LOL - it doesn't work like that. I work for a large (Fortune 100) company with over 200,000 employees. There's not going to be any communication on something like this.
enga - A company that large doesn't make their own banned lists. They outsource them to a third party vendor and get periodic updates, so no one in the company likely has a clue why a particular site is no longer accessable. And asking why is just going to get questions thrown your way, like why are you doing this on company time?
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Llamas. Crop dusting. Handsome DIck Manitoba. Glorious chaos!

OK, there is all of that, but the real truth is I've been trying to get started on Musicology Anthology and have had two different album/story projects stagnate. As a one-off to prime the creative pump I wrote this tonight. It's not trying to change the world, but most importantly, I had fun writing it:
 
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Fire & Hoses  (13+)
Will the largest rock concert in history proceed without a hitch?
Norman Paperman wasn't insane.
Finished! Not just 28, entries, but 29! , "The Soundtrack of My Life" :
         "The Soundtrack of My Life - Leap Day 29-ish" 

And for the eight of you who have read, or at least clicked on, this journal, thank you. Therapy not included.
I'm up to day 26 now. "The Soundtrack of My Life" :
         "The Soundtrack of My Life - Day 26" 

Everything from punk/country fusion to metal to Mongolian folk music and maybe even a little bluegrass.
I'm now up to day in: "The Soundtrack of My Life" :
         "The Soundtrack of My Life - Day 22" 

New entries for the offbeat, we've gone from funky to punky to country to 50s.
I've added two more entries to my blog, "The Soundtrack of My Life" :
         "The Soundtrack of My Life - Day 15" 
         "The Soundtrack of My Life - Day 16" 

The Man Comes Around and The Last Guitar Hero
I've added three new entries to my Soundtrackers blog, "The Soundtrack of My Life" :

Tales of P-Funk, The Ramones, and Molly Hatchet

         "The Soundtrack of My Life - Day 14" 

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The Soundtrackers Group is running it's The Soundtrack Of My Life event this month. Write a blog entry a day describing a specific song that was part of your musical journey. I got a late start but added the first 11 entries today. So if you're interested in a musical journey that intersects with pop about as often as Neil Young does (maybe less!), here you go. Further entries to follow...

 The Soundtrack of My Life  (13+)
A lifetime's musical journey
Looks like I picked the right day to check my inbox. I knew (and I'm still some mixture of stunned and grateful) that my story "Jomsviking"  had been nominated for a Quill award. Today I learned that it had been nominated in not one, but FOUR(!) categories! Not only that it is a finalist in 3 of them! Now I need to go read the other finalists...

 
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Jomsviking  (13+)
A Norseman, a murderer, an exile, and a warrior bent on revenge. 2025 Quill Award Finalist
I confess I'm curious... I entered the writers cramp on a whim today, something I rarely do. It was a slow day at work, so I knocked this out in an hour or so. I'm wondering how the judges evaluated it's merits - or lack thereof - without actually looking at it.
Is it marked private? Looks like it has red around it.
mwayne - good catch. That would explain how nobody read it.
We all have that one friend. The one who talks too much. The one who makes a short story long. Those friends tend to get annoying if not taken in small doses. Yet they're the storytellers of the world. In generations past, they would have been revered shaman. Today they're a minor annoyance. I started playing around with that concept and realized I was being a storyteller telling a story about a storyteller telling stories. Our modern storytellers - the ones we listen to anyway - are singers. They're storytellers but we call them rock stars. This is a tale about a singer who didn't quite make the big time. Enjoy:
 
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Storyteller  (13+)
A renegade singer risks the wrath of the bar owner by playing original music.
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