Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: groggy
  • Music: Counting Crows, "Rain King."

A few quick footnotes for the floor.

1. The Rosemary and Rue ARC giveaway is still running, from now through Whenever I Happen To Get Up Tomorrow Morning. So assume that I'll be announcing the winner sometime between five and eight AM PST (which is when I'll be coherent enough to deal with complex things like "the random number generator" and "counting").

2. Because I'm doing the drawing so early in the day, if you win, and you're able to get me your mailing address with reasonable alacrity, your ARC may actually go out in tomorrow's mail. I'm just saying.

3. Late Eclipses continues to be finished, which has me rather at lost ends. I figure I'll finish this zombie short story that I'm working on, and then crack open Discount Armageddon, see what Verity and the gang have been up to while I was away. Nothing says "relaxation" like "getting straight to work on a different book."

4. I am officially sick. Thank you, coughing people on my plane and annoying small child whose parents refused to make you stop kicking the back of my seat. Thank you so much.

5. My play list consisting of nothing but versions of the song "Rain King" by the Counting Crows is now two hours long, and incredibly soothing. If you've ever wondered why that song was my current music so much of the time, well...this is why.

6. Zombies are still love.
Tags: discount armageddon, giving stuff away, late eclipses, medical fu, promotion, rosemary and rue, writing, zombies
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tikiera

May 8 2009, 04:30:00 UTC 8 years ago

Re # 5 - I find myself collecting covers of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Sadly, I can't find a faster cover of his original lyrics, just the covers of the Jeff Buckley version. But I understand the long playlist of just one song.

seanan_mcguire

May 8 2009, 16:21:34 UTC 8 years ago

I wonder if such a cover exists. Huh.

tikiera

May 8 2009, 16:48:35 UTC 8 years ago

I hope there is. The Cohen version is a totally different song - the extra lyrics spin the song into a different direction. But it's very slow, and not good to walk to.

seanan_mcguire

May 10 2009, 16:39:41 UTC 8 years ago

What verse are you specifically trying to find?

tikiera

May 10 2009, 17:24:41 UTC 8 years ago

These two are the Cohen lyrics that none of the others have -

"You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah



I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"


It gives it the "love is worth trying for feel" versus, well, that just sucked feel of the Wainright versus.

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jerusha

May 12 2009, 15:01:04 UTC 8 years ago

Wild Mercy covers the song on their second album, Furious Fancies. I know they include the first of those two verses, and I'm pretty sure they cover the second. (Album link is to the page on CDBaby.)

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seanan_mcguire

May 12 2009, 15:04:44 UTC 8 years ago

Helpful cat is helpful! Yay!

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tikiera

May 12 2009, 15:54:57 UTC 8 years ago

Today, you are my hero!

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jerusha

May 13 2009, 02:35:31 UTC 8 years ago

<blushes bashfully>

Aw, shucks, 't weren't nothin'.

Besides, which, somebody obviously is watching their trackbacks, so have not only a rec but the lead singer! <points down at tollers>

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tollers

May 13 2009, 04:58:22 UTC 8 years ago

Seanan gave me a heads-up about the thread, so of course I had to bop over and see what was up.

Thanks for the recommendation! :-) See you at Duckon?

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tollers

May 12 2009, 18:40:29 UTC 8 years ago

Yep, we do both of those verses. :-)

Heh... and now it's stuck in my head, 'cause I had to pull the recorded version up and make sure we'd actually recorded those two. (We did.)

I don't know how to sing that song other than at the top of my lungs, so I think I'll go scare the neighbors while I work in the flower beds...

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tollers

May 12 2009, 18:41:38 UTC 8 years ago

Aaaaand that's _so_ not the CD cover icon I meant to pick. Apparently I should be more careful what I name my icons!

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tikiera

May 13 2009, 04:53:28 UTC 8 years ago

Media money will go there this month.


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tollers

May 13 2009, 05:00:10 UTC 8 years ago

Yay! This makes me happy. :-)