This is the last selection before HIDE FROM EVIL hits the shelves! So tonight I leave you with another selection from Alice in Chains, and tomorrow to commemorate the release I’ll post the entire playlist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMm0bpbOOkU
I can’t really explain why I liked this song for my playlist. Just like I can’t really explain the lyrics to this song, FLYING DUTCHMAN by Tori Amos.
Rain from Patty Griffin’s 1000 Kisses album still makes me choke up every time I hear it. How could I not, with lines like:
It’s hard to listen to a hard hard heart/beating close to mine/pounding up against the stone and steal/walls that I won’t climb
easy to see how it made me think of Sean and Krista, right?
I first heard this song, A WARM PLACE on the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack. It is the perfect backdrop for writing an angty, emotionally intense scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6sfJ1qFQg
Once again, life got in the way of my regular posting. But here are two more that helped inspire me as I wrote Sean and Krista’s story.
More of a mood setting song…
Those of you who know the history between Sean and Krista will understand.
Oh Krista, you bad, bad, girl
I’m not a juge fan of the Fray or Kanye West, but somehow, I find the Fray’s cover of Kanye’s “Heartless” is close to perfection. Plus, the almost mournful delivery by Fray lead singer Isaac Slade perfectly suited the mood of this book.
As I was delving into Hide From Evil, commercials for the third Twilight movie was in heavy rotation, featuring LETTERS FROM THE SKY by Civil Twilight. Though I’m not usually one for this flavor of emo music (I like my emo a little edgier, ala NIN), I couldnt’ stop thinking about this song as I was starting Sean and Krista’s story. Especially these lines, which I think sum up Krista and Sean’s connection despite everything that has happened in the past:
You and I were made for this/I was made to taste your kiss/we were made to never fall away
What can I say? Sean loves him some classic grunge. Can’t blame him. He is from Seattle after all and regularly wears flannel. 🙂