Music Monday: A Different Danse Macabre

And now for something completely different... 
The inspiration for choosing this for our Music Monday this week is twofold: 
1. It's getting toward the end of summer, which means it is pre-spooky season for those of us who love a cold snap and a jump scare. I am firmly in the first camp, but the writer in me is constantly looking for spooky and paranormal things once it stops feeling like the surface of the sun outside.
2. This is definitely for my adopted brother Tony, who is ALL IN for scary, horror, etc. He talked me into watching Sinners, recently, which you will know from my previous Monday's post was life-changing for me as an author...
The lyrics are below because on my screen the captions were tiny and, sadly, auto-generated. I love you Duran Duran, and have for years, but for the love of all that is unholy and goes bump could you PLEASE caption your videos? Ta very much. Now, run along and get ready...Halloween is just (2 months and change) around the corner...

Danse Macabre

by Duran Duran

Halloween girl seize the fray

Brothers and sisters, lead the way

Shackled to the rhythm, your soul is weighed

So you better get down on your knees and pray

Comin' up for The Hawsker Mad-Bull

Jumpin' on the hot seat, lyin' in the dead pool

Delivery quake, expensive mistake

The damage, the damage, the damage, the damage

Hey, no way

Some ghost jive in an AC Cobra

Auto-da-fé

Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

Hey, no way

I had you down for the cat's pyjamas

Auto-da-fé

Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

Heaven sake, don't blow your karma

Liberate your Danse Macabre

Zombie in the back room, nuns in the bed

Kids in KISS makeup, toasting the bread

An Elvis' moans a lone Natty Dread

With death in the living room, offering a head

Are you watching? Are you watching?

Collars and chains and cuffs are matching

Kami-kaze stag-do, twist and shout

At Sudan Archives on a girls' night out

Hey, no way

Some ghost jive in an AC Cobra

Auto-da-fé

Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

Hey, no way

I had you down for the cat's pyjamas

Auto-da-fé

Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

(Liberate your Danse Macabre) if you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

if you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

(Liberate your Danse Macabre) if you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind

Music Monday: I'm Back!

 Wow, a lot of things have happened since I last posted. I am done with my active cancer treatments and reconstruction surgeries. I managed to survive Satan's Spanx (don't ask). I've been to three shows to sell and sign books. And since January, the world has blown up over and over again.

I chose Ordinary World for today because of this line: "Where is the life that I recognise? Gone away." In a lot of ways, personal and professional, this line resonates. But in terms of my writing, I'm closing in on publishing a novella (I know! I had no idea I could write a short book either!) that covers Taeben's back story or, as the kids say nowadays, his villain origin story. I have a reader who felt that he was a bit two dimensional and basically a few clicks away from tying Gin to the train tracks and twisting his moustache. So I started exploring how he got to be who he was in the trilogy and Darkness, and this novella became my last ever NaNoWriMo. 

Ah, yet another thing that has changed. I'm pretty mad about that whole thing but that is a topic for another day. Anyway, Taeben's origin story deals with a lot of frustration over plans that were never realized or not realized in the way he wanted...and so this song seems perfect. "But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find..."

(Lyrics in the video.)