tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post1640832464628284687..comments2023-07-31T08:55:36.653-04:00Comments on Lauri Meyers .: Song WarpLauri Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-34451689908930904632015-01-31T11:44:12.020-05:002015-01-31T11:44:12.020-05:00Barry White? hmm. Barry White + Lynyrd Skynyrd + C...Barry White? hmm. Barry White + Lynyrd Skynyrd + Chicago is really a curious combination of music types! You always surprise me Erik. :DLauri Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-56281435312831786442015-01-30T16:57:58.545-05:002015-01-30T16:57:58.545-05:00I just like "oldies". :) Barry White, Ly...I just like "oldies". :) Barry White, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, etc. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-34077381607443090842014-07-20T12:46:50.599-04:002014-07-20T12:46:50.599-04:00I don't as long as I can concentrate. Sometime...I don't as long as I can concentrate. Sometime my brain is elsewhere and the music helps contain it. I will listen to certain music when I need to get into a character's mindset. I might put on some Weird Al to get a good boy-voice going or a sad love song to write some dark YA. Lauri Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-64009243677800847272014-07-20T12:43:11.092-04:002014-07-20T12:43:11.092-04:00That darn new-fangled folk music again! That IS fu...That darn new-fangled folk music again! That IS funny to think of S&G as modern. Maybe he was concerned it was going to turn you into a pot smoking, california-running, flowers-in-your-hair type who married a long-haired guy. Didn't it make you want to listen to it more once he said that? :)Lauri Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-25635535179979159622014-07-20T12:38:57.368-04:002014-07-20T12:38:57.368-04:00I think there's inspiration in there. Definite...I think there's inspiration in there. Definitely for a desperate situation, because that's how it feels when your babies won't go to sleep. Babies don't even take bribes. You can't rationalize with them! It would be easier to cut a deal with the mafia than to get your baby to sleep. Lauri Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-1790122741391688022014-07-20T12:36:12.137-04:002014-07-20T12:36:12.137-04:00Oh Coleen that's a special memory. Whenever yo...Oh Coleen that's a special memory. Whenever you have a character who is really soaring with pride you can think of that song. Then of course you have to proceed to tear her world apart, because you are a writer:)Lauri Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-44988252618886359222014-07-20T12:35:01.910-04:002014-07-20T12:35:01.910-04:00I agree - why do I need the words to Blueberry Hil...I agree - why do I need the words to Blueberry Hill still? I'm never going to hear it on the radio, yet there it is crammed in there while I can't remember if I added the baking powder to the muffins. Lauri Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15714245926405732068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-65357372130407079582014-07-18T09:43:20.670-04:002014-07-18T09:43:20.670-04:00The first record I bought with my own money was &q...The first record I bought with my own money was "Weird Al" In 3-D. <br /><br />I remember spending way too much time in my room playing "King of Suede" (a parody of The Police's "King of Pain") over and over in order to memorize the lyrics. That song is still in my noodle to this day -- and it serves no practical purpose whatsoever. <br /><br />In fact, I am convinced that this song is taking up much-needed brain space. I think it is the reason why I can never remember my cell phone number.Mike Allegrahttp://www.mikeallegra.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-12292936704519405282014-07-17T13:22:02.382-04:002014-07-17T13:22:02.382-04:00I never considered playing music while writing. I ...I never considered playing music while writing. I feel like it would be too distracting. Lauri, do you listen to music every time you sit down to write? Maybe I will give it a try. I have tons of awesome CDs I never get a chance to listen to. :)Lauri Fortinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12475916995772334664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-21591637968545173572014-07-17T11:55:19.615-04:002014-07-17T11:55:19.615-04:00The 1978 Grease soundtrack was my first album. Lov...The 1978 Grease soundtrack was my first album. Loved it so much I organized a neighborhood variety show around the music, complete with fridge box backdrop. Only three adults showed up to watch, but one of them was my 4th grade teacher. I remember being so excited that she actually came. :)Coleen Patrickhttp://coleenpatrick.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-75026936408963258882014-07-17T07:50:07.334-04:002014-07-17T07:50:07.334-04:00Well, from your time warp with Copacabana, it show...Well, from your time warp with Copacabana, it shows I'm a bit older than you! lol I was dancing in the discos when that song was out :) And Penny, "Simpleton and Garbage" WAS funny lol<br /><br />There are SO many songs, it's hard to really scoop one out of the fishbowl, you know? Though they don't bring me into a mindset for writing, these two came to mind bringing back special memories of my son: "Saving All My Love for You" by Whitney Houston because my son wasn't an easy one to get to sleep, and for about two weeks this song worked at soothing him, even if it was blasting! lol I would hold him and dance with him, singing this and it worked, but ONLY for two weeks, just like any other solution with him---short lived lol<br /><br />The other is the "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr. Paul LOVED the Ghostbusters cartoon and the movie (though I forgot the one "zipper" scene and when he asked what she--the ghost hovering over Dan Akroyd--was doing, I quickly said, "She's helping him go to the bathroom!"), and we listened to this soundtrack every time we got in the car. I loved it, too :)<br /><br />All special! Thanks for the prompt down memory lane, Lauri :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953622313060163187.post-57563613910316697822014-07-16T20:12:55.397-04:002014-07-16T20:12:55.397-04:00Fun! Thanks for sharing your memories!
Mine: Liste...Fun! Thanks for sharing your memories!<br />Mine: Listening to a 78 album on my record player of Simon and Garfunkel and my dad saying, "Oh, you're listening to Simpleton and Garbage again." He wasn't so fond of the "new" sound and thought he was being very funny :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com