2 posts tagged “hair bands”

1. "D.T." - AC/DC
2. "Rag Doll" - Aerosmith
3. "Love and Affection" - Def Leppard
4. "Gypsy Road" - Cinderella
5. "Crazy, Crazy Nights" - Kiss
6. "Nothing but a Good Time" - Poison
7. "Ride Cowboy Ride / Stick to your Guns" - Bon Jovi
8. "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
9. "Wild Side" - Motley Crue
10. "Mony Mony" - Billy Idol
11. "Pour Some Sugar On Me" - Def Leppard
12. "Magic Touch" - Aerosmith
13. "You Shook Me All Night Long" - AC/DC
14. "Finish What Ya Started" - Van Halen

There. If that isn't a nice slice of 1987-1988-smalltown-Alberta-walkman-and-truck-stereo-with-Dolby-B-noise-reduction goodness, I don't know what is. :-)

My word count is about 37,500. I hope I can get it somewhat close to the magical 40,000 mark by tonight (as I only have two and a half days left to hit 50,000) but I have a band practice tonight, so we'll see.

Cooltapes

This is how cool I am. ;-)

I ride the bus, writing on a cheap and gigantic Dell laptop, and crankin' the tunes. I'm talking about cool tapes (but not, you know, Cool Tapes, more like Limozeen). That's right, on a bus full of iPods (seriously, if there's 30 people on the bus, 15 of them have iPods, and four others are using crappy little non-Apple flash MP3 players), I'm using my wife's vintage '80s "S-T-E-R-E-O" portable cassette player. You know, the kind that's so awesome, they didn't even NEED to add a "rewind" button?

It's part of getting into the spirit of writing the novel. Nanowrimo founder Chris Baty highly recommends writing to music, and as this month rolls along, I tend to agree.

My novel (have I mentioned this yet? I don't think so) is about a guy who plays Junior B hockey in the boondocks of rural Alberta. The book is set in around 1987, so to get me in the right frame of mind, I pulled out a box from my basement, dusted off my old junior high tapes, and pulled out some beauties to listen to this month. Def Leppard, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Kiss, Cinderella, Poison, Bon Jovi, they're all here. Another day, I'll actually list my official "(Whatever I Call My Novel) Soundtrack Mixtape/Playlist". Some of the music, to be honest, well, there's a reason why I haven't listened to it in 20 years, but some of it is absolutely perfect as the soundtrack to this novel.

Even if I get weird looks, standing at the bus stop going home, pulling out a walkman and flipping the cassette over.

BTW - my word count is just over 28,000, should be over 29,000 by the time I get home tonight and if I get a chance to do some more writing tonight, I could reach the 30,000-mark with one week to go.