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(originally posted to Diaryland.com, 2003-09-04 - 2:05 a.m.)
Well, it's all over but the burning of the CDs -- the last pages of "Girl Genius" have been approved by Phil and Kaja Foglio, and I'm prepping the pages to send off tomorrow. The whole job was 47 pages, and I think it's some of the best work I've ever done; our styles really seem to mesh well, or I think so anyway. Phil might have a different opinion ;-), but if so, he hasn't voiced it to me directly.
When I'm down to the last hours of hard work on an art job, the choice of music becomes ESSENTIAL in keeping up my energy levels so I don't just crash and burn. I have several specially-made CD mixes of high energy music, funky music, romantic music, und so weiter, but when the pressure's on, the groove that REALLY gets me through that gee-I've-been-up-for-30-hours-now burn comes down to the following favorites (with representative tracks):
1) The Village People's Greatest Hits (including that always-makes-me-happy track "YMCA"... there's nothing like being short on sleep and getting re-energized by dancing around the studio making those Y-M-C-A arm movements...)
2) The Nightriders: 20 Famous Trucking Songs ("Convoy", "Rubber Duck", "Truckin' Man Type Motel" and "Eighteen Wheeler")
3) Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits Volume 1 AND 2 (I've never seen my husband grow paler than the day I brought those home and threatened to play them out loud in the studio in his presence!)
4) "Weird Al Yankovic": Alapalooza ("Jurassic Park", "Achy Breaky Song", and "Talk Soup"... this album doesn't include my all-time favorites, though: "One More Minute" and "This Is The Life", which are Weird Al at his most delightfully demented)
5) The Very Best Of Country Line Dancing ("Achy Breaky Heart", "Boot Scoot Boogie", and "Cadillac Ranch")
6) Prince: The Batman-Inspired Album ("The Future", "Electric Chair", and "Lemon Crush")
7) The Backstreet Boys: Millennium (I know, I know -- don't kill me! This album goes to prove that I'll listen to stuff when I'm stupid-tired that I wouldn't go within ten feet of when I'm awake and sane)
8) Shamen: Boss Drum (I don't usually like techno, either, but this stuff KICKS ASS)
9) Traci Lords: 1,000 Fires ("Control" is seven minutes long and could, no word of a lie, raise me from the dead if necessary)
10) 20 Great Love songs of the 50's and 60's ("Downtown", "Oh, Lonesome Me", "A Teenager In Love", and "Please Don't Tell Me Now")
Okay, enough about my taste in music when I'm delirious from built-up brain toxins. Some day, I'll tell you about other music I find appealing... some day when I've had more sleep, that is. Goodnight!
Well, it's all over but the burning of the CDs -- the last pages of "Girl Genius" have been approved by Phil and Kaja Foglio, and I'm prepping the pages to send off tomorrow. The whole job was 47 pages, and I think it's some of the best work I've ever done; our styles really seem to mesh well, or I think so anyway. Phil might have a different opinion ;-), but if so, he hasn't voiced it to me directly.
When I'm down to the last hours of hard work on an art job, the choice of music becomes ESSENTIAL in keeping up my energy levels so I don't just crash and burn. I have several specially-made CD mixes of high energy music, funky music, romantic music, und so weiter, but when the pressure's on, the groove that REALLY gets me through that gee-I've-been-up-for-30-hours-now burn comes down to the following favorites (with representative tracks):
1) The Village People's Greatest Hits (including that always-makes-me-happy track "YMCA"... there's nothing like being short on sleep and getting re-energized by dancing around the studio making those Y-M-C-A arm movements...)
2) The Nightriders: 20 Famous Trucking Songs ("Convoy", "Rubber Duck", "Truckin' Man Type Motel" and "Eighteen Wheeler")
3) Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits Volume 1 AND 2 (I've never seen my husband grow paler than the day I brought those home and threatened to play them out loud in the studio in his presence!)
4) "Weird Al Yankovic": Alapalooza ("Jurassic Park", "Achy Breaky Song", and "Talk Soup"... this album doesn't include my all-time favorites, though: "One More Minute" and "This Is The Life", which are Weird Al at his most delightfully demented)
5) The Very Best Of Country Line Dancing ("Achy Breaky Heart", "Boot Scoot Boogie", and "Cadillac Ranch")
6) Prince: The Batman-Inspired Album ("The Future", "Electric Chair", and "Lemon Crush")
7) The Backstreet Boys: Millennium (I know, I know -- don't kill me! This album goes to prove that I'll listen to stuff when I'm stupid-tired that I wouldn't go within ten feet of when I'm awake and sane)
8) Shamen: Boss Drum (I don't usually like techno, either, but this stuff KICKS ASS)
9) Traci Lords: 1,000 Fires ("Control" is seven minutes long and could, no word of a lie, raise me from the dead if necessary)
10) 20 Great Love songs of the 50's and 60's ("Downtown", "Oh, Lonesome Me", "A Teenager In Love", and "Please Don't Tell Me Now")
Okay, enough about my taste in music when I'm delirious from built-up brain toxins. Some day, I'll tell you about other music I find appealing... some day when I've had more sleep, that is. Goodnight!
