1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Go to a Random Article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. If the first article you hit is short, hit Random Article two more times. (My first two hits were biographies, so I had to go a third time.)
2 – Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
After a punishing massage, I indulged in a roam through Staples and a sit down at the Starbucks in the nearby grocery. I needed a notepad for rewrites of my current novel and a change of scenery.
Since mid-winter I have been avoiding going into town unless I had no other choice. It gets tiring, the in and out of the truck, trudging through snow, shielding from the prairie wind, and tip-toeing over ice, but now that spring is stubbornly muscling her dainty self onto the scene like Tinkerbell on steroids, the cooped up feeling is pushing me out of the house.
As usual, I lost track of the time and had to hot-foot it home to get lunch for Rob. He comes home most days, but today as I was finishing the food prep, he called to say he wouldn’t be able to make it because a meeting was scheduled unexpectedly and he wouldn’t have time. Disappointing, but it happens.
So there I was with lunch and no table-mate and no real urge to gobble in front of the computer screen. Surfing is provoking a “meh” feeling lately.
Mad wrote a Buffy the V post recently that has run around in my mind ever since and it occurred to me that perhaps I could watch a bit of Buffy with my lunch and peruse the episode guide. Yeah, I am a geek like that.
And that is what I did. I pulled out my favorite season – six – and put in a disc then settled back with my soup for about a half hour of paranormal deliciousness.
Season six is my favorite. It’s dark, angsty and full of character evolution. It is everything that good story-telling is, including being experimental. The episode, Once More with Feeling, is actually a musical and I love me some bursting into song on a moment’s notice. I wouldn’t mind at all if real life was like that.
There was a time when I strongly identified with this collection of work. I still admire the craft that went into the creation and it was interesting to connect with it again.
Once is a little film out of Ireland that won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2007. I found it during a visit to the book mobile last week. It bills itself as a musical, and I would have to agree with this assessment. The songs the two main characters write and perform tell their story as much as the action and dialogue.
It’s a small film. The camera work is documentary style and the two lead actors are songwriter/musicians, one of whom had never acted before this film. And it’s a simple story. Boy meets girl. They discover a shared love of music. They get to know each other, share music and a strong attraction.
The leads wrote and performed the lion’s share of the music, which is not presented MTV style but in it’s entirety and as part of the story.
If you have 86 minutes sometime, this film is worth every minute.
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