Quiz Time

You are a Rocker Girl!

If you don't have musical talent, you've got a talent for picking out great CD's. Music rules your life - and you've got the best MP3 collection of anyone you know. Many guys find you intimidating, but a select few think you're the catch of a lifetime. Start hanging out in more used record stores, and you'll find love with a fellow rocker!

What Kind of Girl Are You?

Calgary Area Musicians Wanted!

For those who don't know it, I'm on the $100 Film Festival committee for the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF). Each year at the festival, they organize a series of Film/Music Explosions! What is a Film/Music Explosion! you might ask? Well, it's a collaboration between a local film artist and a local band, creating an original film for one of the band's songs. When the completed piece is screened at the festival in March, the band plays LIVE with the film. It's loads of fun and generates lots of excitement and anticipation during the film festival.

So if you're a local band or musician, the CSIF wants your proposal to create a film based on an original song! All styles accepted, no entry fees required. Proposals MUST include: concept or short film idea with rough script / storyboard & song demo.

Deadline: Friday, December 14, 2007

For more information, check out the $100 Film Festival MySpace page.

A Curious Birthday

For those of you who don't know this, today is my birthday *pauses while waiting for the cheering and applauding to subside*. Well, I got a nice little birthday surprise from one of my MySpace friends: a very talented singer whose name is Curious (yes, that's her real name). She gave me a song. She told me to pick my favourite song of hers and she would email me the mp3. So I picked "Rain" ("Goodbye" is another of my faves, but I'm planning on buying the single for that one) and she sent it to me and I've been listening to it ever since. If you want to hear it, check out her profile player. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Deezer (formerly known as BlogMusik)

FYI, those very cool single song widgets that I was embedding in my blog posts don't seem to work anymore. I've emailed Deezer and posted on their forum and hopefully the mini-widgets be working again shortly, but for the moment we're SOL. (By the way, is it just me or is the name "Deezer" way sillier and far less relevant than "BlogMusik"?)

NaNoWriMo Soundtrack

You may start out by wondering what NaNoWriMo is... well, it stands for National Novel Writing Month which happens in November, so it started today. Next you may wonder why I'm posting about writing a novel on a music blog. Well, actually I'm not writing a novel, I'm working on my screenplay but that explanation is over at Weirdgrrl's Words so I won't bother repeating it here. But I digress...

Whenever I write I use a soundtrack. Each scene has a song associated with it in my head, so that even when I'm not sitting at my computer or with pen and paper in hand... that song comes on and I'm living in the scene and working out how things should unfold. That way, when I do actually sit down to write, the words just pour out like liquid thoughts and form themselves into a finished scene. So here's part of the soundtrack that I'm using this year:

My soundtrack is 16 songs in total at the moment. If nothing else, I highly recommend listening to the Marilyn Manson version of "Working Class Hero"; it has a much greater impact than the current insipid Green Day version... at least IMHO.

And based on the majority of my song titles, I'll give you three guesses as to the theme of my story... and the first two don't count!