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slashfest entries are off to a good start: 1,600 words of Sirius/Remus in a Word document at home (kernel of the story complete), 250 of House/Wilson in an Outlook draft window at work (some key scenes begun), and a sheet and a half -- ETA, ~380 words -- of Spike story scribbled on the receptionist's kindly-provided printer paper while stuck in a waiting room this morning (the opening of the first scene; going to be done in chronological order for a change). Fiction-writing doth a happy ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Plus, this week features back-to-back House reruns, more Odyssey 5 -- post on that forthcoming --, summer travel plan-finalizing, Alexi Murdoch's new album, burritos and a ballet. And there are new RSL photos and a fun little contacts-glasses-or-neither? post athouse_md. And people have been requesting my House/Wilson slash icon! *hugs life* It's enough to make me forget that airline prices are ridiculous and my car wouldn't start and two of my favorite co-workers have quit since Friday.
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Today is June 6; go buy Alexi Murdoch's now-available CD, "Time Without Consequence." How long have we been waiting for it? When I saw him at the Paradise in Boston in 2004, he was taking a weekend break from the recording studio. Music critic Alan Light said on the radio this morning that Alexi remastered the album three dozen times, something he'd never heard of an artist doing, no matter how perfectionistic. Well, I think that's what he said; I only caught the last few seconds of his segment, and I was barely awake. Can't find a transcript of the report anywhere.
Regardless, the CD has finally arrived. Several songs on it were also on his EP ("Four Songs," his only previous release) and most if not all of the rest have been making the rounds on his MySpace site and the online archives of various indie radio stations like KCRW, but it's going to be grand to own a proper copy as soon as I can make it to the store. Like his EP, the new album is independently released, so going out and buying it actually means something.
Will you like Alexi Murdoch? To that I say, Do you like Nick Drake? If so, then yes. The resemblance is uncanny, especially since Alexi claimed in several interviews when the EP came out that he hadn't heard of Drake. If not, you might still like him. If you don't know who Nick Drake is, never mind; he's dead anyway. You can listen to a few of Alexi's songs in their entirety at his MySpace site. The first is kind of boring, but "Orange Sky" is a nice update of his big single -- you probably know it from Garden State or The O. C. or House -- and "Dream About Flying" is a beautiful, beautiful, sad song.
Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning
Actually it's more like most of the time
But every now and then when I am sleeping
I still have a dream that I'm flying
...And I wake up crying
His concert schedule's on MySpace too, if anyone's interested. He was just divine when I saw him live.
slashfest entries are off to a good start: 1,600 words of Sirius/Remus in a Word document at home (kernel of the story complete), 250 of House/Wilson in an Outlook draft window at work (some key scenes begun), and a sheet and a half -- ETA, ~380 words -- of Spike story scribbled on the receptionist's kindly-provided printer paper while stuck in a waiting room this morning (the opening of the first scene; going to be done in chronological order for a change). Fiction-writing doth a happy bironic make.Plus, this week features back-to-back House reruns, more Odyssey 5 -- post on that forthcoming --, summer travel plan-finalizing, Alexi Murdoch's new album, burritos and a ballet. And there are new RSL photos and a fun little contacts-glasses-or-neither? post at
house_md. And people have been requesting my House/Wilson slash icon! *hugs life* It's enough to make me forget that airline prices are ridiculous and my car wouldn't start and two of my favorite co-workers have quit since Friday.* * *
Today is June 6; go buy Alexi Murdoch's now-available CD, "Time Without Consequence." How long have we been waiting for it? When I saw him at the Paradise in Boston in 2004, he was taking a weekend break from the recording studio. Music critic Alan Light said on the radio this morning that Alexi remastered the album three dozen times, something he'd never heard of an artist doing, no matter how perfectionistic. Well, I think that's what he said; I only caught the last few seconds of his segment, and I was barely awake. Can't find a transcript of the report anywhere.
Regardless, the CD has finally arrived. Several songs on it were also on his EP ("Four Songs," his only previous release) and most if not all of the rest have been making the rounds on his MySpace site and the online archives of various indie radio stations like KCRW, but it's going to be grand to own a proper copy as soon as I can make it to the store. Like his EP, the new album is independently released, so going out and buying it actually means something.
Will you like Alexi Murdoch? To that I say, Do you like Nick Drake? If so, then yes. The resemblance is uncanny, especially since Alexi claimed in several interviews when the EP came out that he hadn't heard of Drake. If not, you might still like him. If you don't know who Nick Drake is, never mind; he's dead anyway. You can listen to a few of Alexi's songs in their entirety at his MySpace site. The first is kind of boring, but "Orange Sky" is a nice update of his big single -- you probably know it from Garden State or The O. C. or House -- and "Dream About Flying" is a beautiful, beautiful, sad song.
Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning
Actually it's more like most of the time
But every now and then when I am sleeping
I still have a dream that I'm flying
...And I wake up crying
His concert schedule's on MySpace too, if anyone's interested. He was just divine when I saw him live.
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Date: Jun. 6th, 2006 09:48 pm (UTC)