Because the Doc Wilde Adventures Kickstarter is going really well and I’m feeling celebratory…
Tag Archives: Song of the Week
The Warrior (Song of the Week, 4/3/2012)
Because The Astonishing Adventures of Doc Wilde happens to be kickin’ ass on Kickstarter so far…0 to 62% of our funding goal in four days flat. (That’s our minimum goal to succeed, mind you; once we reach it, we’re still not done).
(A huge thank you to you folks who’ve pledged your support!)
Back In The Saddle (Song of the Week, 3/28/2012)
After lots of scrambling and last minute concerns, the Doc Wilde Kickstarter project is ready. Now I just have to click the launch button at noon on Friday and we’ll be live.
Year of the Dragon, baby.
A Supernatural Song of the Week (3/22/2012)
I’ve been mainlining Supernatural on Netflix the past several weeks and am about halfway through the sixth season now. And you know what? Officially one of my favorite shows ever.
Where other shows with complicated mythologies dig themselves deeper and deeper and ultimately flounder (and sometimes go out not with a whimper, but with a Hallmark card, like Lost), Supernatural dances with its mythology. Six seasons in and they’re still surprising me, still coming up with twists that work, still creeping me out, still making me laugh (thank you, Ben Edlund!), still making me care more and more for Sam and Dean and their oft-doomed cohorts.
Other than Firefly and Fringe, I can’t think of many shows that have delivered unto me so much delight since Buffy and Angel went away.
This week’s tune is for my fellow Supernatural junkies. If you haven’t watched the show, do not watch this, as it is jam-packed with spoiler. There are plenty of other videos on YouTube of “Carry On My Wayward Son” you can watch without ruining the show for yourself if you’re in the mood for Kansas…
(UPDATE: Goddamnit. Embedding disabled. Assholes. Oh well, it’s worth the click through…FURTHER UPDATE: Adding another video below for folks who don’t want to spoil the show…)
Don’t Fear…The Banjo? (Song of the Week, 3/12/2012)
In honor of Doc Wilde and The Mad Skull (the second of the three pulp adventure novels encompassed in my upcoming Kickstarter project), which I will be posting an excerpt from today at 2 pm EST, here’s some deathly bluegrass, Cornbread Red covering Blue Oyster Cult’s classic “Don’t Fear The Reaper…”
In Constant Sorrow Through His Days… (Song of the Week, 3/8/2012)
Strugglin’ on…always laughing…
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
(Tennyson)
A Really Wonderful Song of the Week, 2/28/2012
The wonderful Christina Perri does an enchanting cover of the classic “Be My Baby.”
You’re welcome.
Safe & Sound (Song of the Week, 2/20/2012)
Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars present this hauntingly lovely ballad that seems straight out of old-time Appalachia. It’s the theme song from the upcoming Hunger Games movie, but very much to the makers’ credit the melancholy and beautiful video avoids resorting to film footage.
For the record, I’m a big fan of Suzanne Collins’s series of books and am really looking forward to seeing the film.
America (Song of the Week, 2/2/2012)
Thinking about my trip to New York, and the long train ride there and back, lonely, watching the landscape flash past in the darkness, brought this song to mind…
Kathy, I’m lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I’m empty and I’m aching and I don’t know why
Countin’ the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
They’ve all come to look for America, all come to look for America…
Don’t Let Me Die Young (Song of the Week, 1/26/2012)
I always wanted to use this tune as background for a balls-to-the-wall fight sequence in a movie.
From 1987, Duran Duran’s guitarist Andy Taylor (backed up by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols) shows he can take off the mascara and crank out some actual rock.
Little Star (Song of the Week, 1/17/2012)
Last night, Stevie Nicks’s cover of “Not Fade Away” cycled up on my musical playlist and my son and I were bop-bop-bop bop-bopping around the Byrdcave, having fun. I told him it was a Buddy Holly song, so that sent us looking for Holly tunes, then we expanded out and started listening to some other early rock and roll greats.
It was only after I started playing it that I remembered how I used to sing the Elegants’ “Little Star” to him as a lullaby when he was a baby, probably the only lullaby I ever sang to him other than Springsteen’s “Pony Boy.”
A Cool Yule To All Y’all (Song of the Week, Xmas 2011)
Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever their faith or lack thereof. Let’s be nice to each other out there, okay?
Hot Violin (Song of the Week, 12/16/2011)
I want.
Bewitching Kate (Song of the Week, 11/29/2011)
I’ve always loved Kate Bush.
Here she passionately performs one of her biggest hits, with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour adding some blistering guitar that really sets things on fire…
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Dying Day (Song of the Week, 11/7/2011)
I think I’m rapidly reaching the point where my love for Brandi Carlile becomes infinite…
And the official video (with the studio version) after the jump… Continue reading
Happy Hallowe’en (and the Song of the Week, 10/31/2011)
Halloween/Samhain has always been my favorite holiday. To celebrate, here’s Springsteen channeling the raging ghost of Howlin’ Wolf with a perfect Halloween song…
For the interested, here are some posts from back in my blog somewheres related to Halloweeny goodness…
5 Classic Horror Flicks to Goose Your Bumps
…for those who might like to watch something scary and good, I figured I’d throw you a few bones. Collect ‘em all and you can build a skeleton.
These are just five classics, not my all time favorites or anything with that much thought behind it, not in any particular order. All of them are first rate.
5 New Classic Horror Flicks You Might Have Missed
Some more contemporary works that many people haven’t seen, and everybody who loves a good scare needs to.
Saturday Night With Cthulhu
Sebastian’s Voodoo (A Great Short Film)
A wonderful short animated film by UCLA student Joaquin Baldwin. It’s visually amazing, and the story is very moving.
“The Show Is Over” by Nora Keyes
Last Halloween’s Song of the Week, Nora Keyes gettin’ her serious creep on.
Do Ya? (Song of the Week, 10/17/2011)
A sunny day* deserves a song that evokes the fullness of life…
*And if your day isn’t sunny, you can have some of mine.
Further On Up The Road (Song of the Week, 10/10/2011)
“Now I been out in the desert, just doin’ my time
Searchin’ through the dust, lookin’ for a sign
If there’s a light up ahead well brother I don’t know
But I got this fever burnin’ in my soul
So let’s take the good times as they go
And I’ll meet you further on up the road…”
Roads are forking, taking a beloved friend from my life. This is for that friend.
I’m going to miss you.
“One sunny mornin’ we’ll rise I know
And I’ll meet you further on up the road…”
Again Today (Song of the Week, 10/5/2011)
Not for the first time, Brandi Carlile sings my soul.
And though the footage is nicer in the above, this one has the end of the song, so I’m putting both…
I’m The Answer (Song of the Week, 9/26/2011)
Tim Byrd's Doc Wilde, Art by Gary Chaloner
Pete Townsend’s brother, Simon, with my theme song. Of the week.
Under An Outlaw Moon 