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zdashamber) wrote2006-09-26 11:17 pm
zdashamber) wrote2006-09-26 11:17 pm
Vignettes from the z-amberhame, Musical Plot
Bread mold isn't toxic, right? Oh well, I guess I'll find out.
I bet my housemates wonder why I get taxidermy catalogs. Heh. Heh heh heh.
Naw, really, it's for my art.
...I'm not sure that explanation holds succor.
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stealthmuffin (via Making Light's Particles) I find The Musical Plot Generator! Set your music player to "shuffle" and your writer's block will vanish as your MP3s answer these questions...
Our story begins with:
Beatles - Within You Without You
A guru, depressed over a failing love affair.
who is living in:
Eagles - Hotel California
A seemingly inescapable mystic desert.
and spends time:
Beethoven - 6th Symphony Allegro2
Cowering from the terriflying storms that rip through.
while longing for:
Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
The girl he left behind, out in the world, years before he was trapped.
(Change the pronouns to whatever fits your story) In his troubled past, he:
Tchaikowsky - 1812 Overture
Defended his country as an artilleryman in a ghastly war of invasion.
and since then, he has:
Cinderella - Ten Minutes Ago
Lived a glamorous life as a socialite, attending balls and falling head over heels in love with inappropriate people.
leaving him conflicted over:
Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Being now trapped away from the girl he fell for hardest, and the whirl of emotion that kept him from having to remember.
On this fateful day, our hero:
Barenaked Ladies - Call And Answer
Sends out a desperate message to her, and hears something back.
which causes this conflict or risks this loss:
Muppets - Statler And Waldorf (they move from Boo! to More! "There were parts of it I kinda liked!")
He tries harder and harder to get through, risking pissing her off or destroying the reality he's stuck in.
He resolves to:
2things.wav (This is from a movie I've never seen and don't remember the name of. "Now listen up, Strebeck ... Don't drag me down into your private Hell."
Let it go, finally, so he won't drag her into the trap.
but fails to:
Kermit the Frog - The Rainbow Connection
Allow for her feelings towards him, and curiousity about his situation.
intensifying the conflict by:
The Music Man - The Wells Fargo Wagon
Seeing her delivered into the trap as well.
Pressures build until:
Steven Brust - If I Should Happen To Leave
She's irritated enough that she pulls herself out of the trap.
At this crucial point, he chooses:
Eagles - New Kid In Town
To grab onto her and go with, no matter the cost to either.
and the story resolves with:
Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
Her forgiving him and teaching him the ability to come and go from the mystic desert.
Huh. I'd have to shape that a bit, bang off a few corners, but it has something to it. Fun meme, like building a character.
This took longer than I expected because many of my MP3s are excellent and I want to listen to them through all the way... Also, I spent the whole 1812 Overture reading Wikipedia to learn about its provenance. Not, in fact, about America's ill-fated attempt to kick Canada while Britain was down, as I'd thought... Got Tchaikovsky a little mixed up with de Toqueville. The 1812 Overture is about Russia's defeat of Napoleon's invasion. Also, turns out that Tchaikovsky was probably gay, and may have killed himself rather than be blackmailed about it. God, what a loss to the world homophobia has wrought on us for so long.
I bet my housemates wonder why I get taxidermy catalogs. Heh. Heh heh heh.
Naw, really, it's for my art.
...I'm not sure that explanation holds succor.
From
stealthmuffin (via Making Light's Particles) I find The Musical Plot Generator! Set your music player to "shuffle" and your writer's block will vanish as your MP3s answer these questions...Our story begins with:
Beatles - Within You Without You
A guru, depressed over a failing love affair.
who is living in:
Eagles - Hotel California
A seemingly inescapable mystic desert.
and spends time:
Beethoven - 6th Symphony Allegro2
Cowering from the terriflying storms that rip through.
while longing for:
Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams
The girl he left behind, out in the world, years before he was trapped.
(Change the pronouns to whatever fits your story) In his troubled past, he:
Tchaikowsky - 1812 Overture
Defended his country as an artilleryman in a ghastly war of invasion.
and since then, he has:
Cinderella - Ten Minutes Ago
Lived a glamorous life as a socialite, attending balls and falling head over heels in love with inappropriate people.
leaving him conflicted over:
Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Being now trapped away from the girl he fell for hardest, and the whirl of emotion that kept him from having to remember.
On this fateful day, our hero:
Barenaked Ladies - Call And Answer
Sends out a desperate message to her, and hears something back.
which causes this conflict or risks this loss:
Muppets - Statler And Waldorf (they move from Boo! to More! "There were parts of it I kinda liked!")
He tries harder and harder to get through, risking pissing her off or destroying the reality he's stuck in.
He resolves to:
2things.wav (This is from a movie I've never seen and don't remember the name of. "Now listen up, Strebeck ... Don't drag me down into your private Hell."
Let it go, finally, so he won't drag her into the trap.
but fails to:
Kermit the Frog - The Rainbow Connection
Allow for her feelings towards him, and curiousity about his situation.
intensifying the conflict by:
The Music Man - The Wells Fargo Wagon
Seeing her delivered into the trap as well.
Pressures build until:
Steven Brust - If I Should Happen To Leave
She's irritated enough that she pulls herself out of the trap.
At this crucial point, he chooses:
Eagles - New Kid In Town
To grab onto her and go with, no matter the cost to either.
and the story resolves with:
Stampeders - Sweet City Woman
Her forgiving him and teaching him the ability to come and go from the mystic desert.
Huh. I'd have to shape that a bit, bang off a few corners, but it has something to it. Fun meme, like building a character.
This took longer than I expected because many of my MP3s are excellent and I want to listen to them through all the way... Also, I spent the whole 1812 Overture reading Wikipedia to learn about its provenance. Not, in fact, about America's ill-fated attempt to kick Canada while Britain was down, as I'd thought... Got Tchaikovsky a little mixed up with de Toqueville. The 1812 Overture is about Russia's defeat of Napoleon's invasion. Also, turns out that Tchaikovsky was probably gay, and may have killed himself rather than be blackmailed about it. God, what a loss to the world homophobia has wrought on us for so long.
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God, what a loss to the world homophobia has wrought on us for so long.
Yeah, I get annoyed anew every time I think what happened to Turing.
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Neat idea, but I fail to see the time-travel aspect there. Tell us more!
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(Anonymous) 2006-09-28 03:53 am (UTC)(link)I wonder if a modern person would have resistance to a 1917 flu strain. I suspect they would, but couldn't back that up with any data.
(This is Mike S.)
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Just for you:
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(Anonymous) 2006-09-28 11:14 am (UTC)(link)no subject