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Play List #2: Making Out During Fireworks During the 1980s

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One of my many quirky hobbies is dreaming up very specific scenarios then prescribing a soundtrack for that very brief moment — as you can tell from the title of this post. As I’d said before, smaller play lists, specific themes. After much deliberating, I’ve narrowed down the ideal track listing for such an occasion:

Play List Title: “Making Out During Fireworks During the 1980s”

Mood: A summery night, fireworks exploding over your heads. You’re away from the crowd, somewhere up on the hill on a some well-worn, much-loved Coca Cola-print bed sheet, putting your lips to good use.

Tracklist:

  1. Blondie “Union City Blue” / Blondie “Dreaming”
    Note: It’s no use. I really can’t choose between the two. It’s the Libra in me.
  2. Journey “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’”
  3. The Outfield “Your Love”
  4. REO Speedwagon “Keep On Loving You”
  5. Talking Heads “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”
  6. The Cure “Just Like Heaven”
  7. Big Country “In A Big Country”
  8. Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over”

So should a time machine arrive and zip me back 21+ years to the Fourth of July, I’m ready!

-Lux Zakari.

Racy Pages iPod Shuffle Contest

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Just another benefit to reading: Writing an entry about why you enjoyed one of the stories in the Racy Pages Surprise anthology (in which you can read my work Midnight Rodeo!) can put you in the running for a sweet iPod shuffle. Check out contest details here.

-Lux Zakari

Two of Three Rule, Part II

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Recently, I did a guest blog spot on Toni V. Sweeney’s blog about how an author can only be, at most, two of the three following adjectives: prolific, communicative or good. My friend Scott was the one who told me about this theory before, and I asked him where he’d heard it and he had no recollection of ever having this conversation with me, insisting that his memory loss can be blamed on the fact “MY BRAIN CELLS HAVE LONG BEEN BURNED OUT OF MY HEAD DUE TO DRUG USE” (emphasis not mine).

I reiterated the theory to him, and he asked what being “communicative” meant, and I explained it was taking advantage of social networking sites, blogging and undergoing all sorts of marketing antics.

Scott said, “Oh! You meant being commercially successful!”

YES! I do. I’d misspoken.

Now that mess has been cleared up (further proving the importance of utilizing the correct words and terms!), has anyone any thoughts on this Two of Three hypothesis? Can a writer be prolific, good and commercially successful all at once?

For the first post, visit the post at Toni V. Sweeney’s blog.

-LZ.