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Thursday 13 – Dave’s Guitar Playlist

17 Mar

I write to music, and I’ve always enjoyed listening to guitar music, but while writing Love Burns and exploring my hero Dave Knight’s character, he expanded my listening horizons, sharing his eclectic love of the guitar through Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Jazz, Classical, Flamenco, and Metal. Here’s a sampling of the playlist from Dave’s story:

  1. Dead End ~ Leo Kottke
  2. Classical Gas ~ Mason Williams
  3. Caminar Solo~ Ottmar Liebert
  4. Solemn Vespers ~ Christopher Parkening
  5. Perfect Moment ~ Peter White
  6. Nothing Else Matters ~ Metallica
  7. Blackberry Blossom ~ The Tony Rice Unit
  8. Riding with the King ~ BB King and Eric Clapton
  9. She Just Wants to Dance ~ Keb’ Mo’
  10. Dueling Guitars ~ Heitor Pereira and Doug Smith / August Rush Soundtrack
  11. Hook ~ Blues Traveler
  12. My Guitar Lies Bleeding in My Arms ~ Bon Jovi
  13. Bad Love ~ Eric Clapton


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Thursday Thirteen – A Musical Mix 2

24 Jun

I enjoyed putting together the little list of songs from my Clear As Day playlist so much back in April, I had to do it again. So here are thirteen more songs for Kay and Nate:

  1. Painted Desert – Pat Benatar
  2. Fortress Around Your Heart – Sting
  3. Wishing – A Flock of Seagulls
  4. Kissing You – Sade
  5. Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
  6. To Make Her Love Me – Rascal Flatts
  7. Heartache Tonight – Eagles
  8. Come Sail Away – Styx
  9. Desperation Samba – Jimmy Buffett
  10. My One and Only Love – Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane
  11. I Just Want to Make Love to You – Muddy Waters
  12. Sailing – Christopher Cross
  13. Corcovado – Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim


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Thursday Thirteen – A Musical Mix

8 Apr

I’ve been hard at work editing/rewriting Clear As Day, adding in Nate’s viewpoint, which has been an interesting experience in itself. I found my writing playlist for this novella had to grow as Nate’s personality came forward. So here are thirteen songs from that playlist, some songs of which surprised me since I’m not a pop music kind of girl.

  1. Pictures of You – The Cure
  2. She – Elvis Costello
  3. Feel Like Making Love – Bad Company
  4. Saving Me – Nickleback
  5. A Taste of Honey – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
  6. Sea of Heartbreak – George Strait and Jimmy Buffett
  7. Don’t Worry, Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin
  8. Slow Like Honey – Fiona Apple
  9. Insensatez – Antonio Carlos Jobim
  10. Aloha Ka Manini – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
  11. That’s What Love Can Make You Do – Government Mule
  12. Coyote Rainbows – Carlos Nakai
  13. Fotografia – Quarteto Malandro Brasil


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Thursday Thirteen – A Time For Love

11 Feb

With St. Valentine’s Day fast approaching, some quotes on love:

  1. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”~Alfred Lord Tennyson
  2. love is a place
    & through this place of
    love
    move
    (with brightness of peace)
    all places
    yes is a world
    & in this world of
    yes live
    (skillfully curled)
    all worlds
    ~ee cummings
  3. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~Lao Tzu
  4. “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” ~Sam Keen
  5. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” –Erich Fromm
  6. “I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.” ~Song of Solomon
  7. “Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.” ~Robert Sexton
  8. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. ~Pearl Bailey
  9. “Make me immortal with a kiss.” ~Christopher Marlowe
  10. “I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
  11. “Thou art to me a delicious torment.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  12. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~Henry David Thoreau
  13. Love is patient, love is kind.
    It does not envy, it does not boast,
    it is not proud.
    It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
    It is not easily angered,
    it keeps no record of wrongs.
    Love does not delight in evil,
    but rejoices with the truth.
    It always protects, always trusts,
    always hopes, always perseveres.
    Love never fails.
    ~I Corinthians 13:4-8

And a fourteenth, because it made me laugh:
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,
you can never tell.” ~ Joan Crawford

Painting: The Abduction of Psyche (1895), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905)

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