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December 17, 2012
Ascending Hearts Cover Art!
Keira and I are totally thrilled with the cover for our next novel Ascending Hearts! The marvelous Dar Albert is responsible for it and we could not be more pleased with her work! This is the Pinterest Board we sent her for inspiration and we think she did an amazing job capturing the spirit of it! Thank you, Dar!
More details about our upcoming release soon!
The gay '90s
Imagine, if you will, that there are these Atlanta cops, and they find out there are drugs possibly being dealt at this gay bar, so they go to bust up the bar…
…only to fall in love.
Real life? No, we’re talking about In the Flesh, an independent gay film shot in 1997 Atlanta.
It is so gay, it is so ’90s, it is so Atlanta.
How did I not know about this movie?
December 16, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 15: Silent Night (Variations)
After what happened this past week, I’m feeling so down and blue, I’m not sure that I’m going to keep this up. I might and I might not. I suppose the right thing is to continue on with it and not let it get the best of me. At this point, though, I just want to hold my kid tight and rock her back and forth. Posting holiday tunes seems wrong right this second. Silent Night, though, still seems okay.
You can buy most of these through Amazon or other vendors.
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 14: Calling On Mary
Yes, yes, I’m doing less of a write up. I’m crazy for having attempted this daily post thing during Christmas!
December 14, 2012
Once Upon a Time, Adoptions can end happily ever after, too.
Reblogged from A Faded Ginger:
I love fairy tales. Always have. My favorite books as a small child were filled with them. Snow White and Rose Red, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel – those topped my list, but I enjoyed them all and never outgrew them. I liked the old versions. Eyes gorged out, villains dying, lazy pigs eaten, romantic happy endings.
So, last year, when I heard about ABC’s Once Upon a Time, I knew I wanted to see it.
I have to agree with this blogger's problems with how adoption has been presented on the show Once Upon a Time.
December 13, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 12: Sister Winter & Fanwork Friday
More Sufjan original Christmas songs at this link.
You might be asking yourself, “What does the tv show Supernatural and Sufjan’s Sister Winter have to do with each other?” Let Lola explain it to you in the awesome fanvideo below. I think you’ll love it as much as I do even if you don’t watch the show…which, uh, I don’t.
I’ll probably say it again in another post with a Sufjan Steven’s christmas song, but the dude is really into Christmas, okay?
No, really, he’s super duper into Christmas.
People seem to really like his original compositions as well as his nutball covers of standards/traditional hymns. And a lot of his original Christmas songs are already being covered by some pretty well known people, like Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl fame. (And I miss you…like the deserts miss the rain! And I love Traceyyyyy, yeah, like the deserts love the rain!)
And here is a lovely little cover from some internet folks named Leia and Pat.
I actually really love the above cover when I just listen to it and don’t watch it. For some reason watching takes away some of the magic for me, but it’s really lovely when I’m just listening.
You can buy Sufjan’s original or Tracey Thorn’s cover HERE.
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 11: O Holy Night (Variations)
My favorite traditional song by a number of folks, though none of them as good as this local performance I saw when I was about 16 years old that dissolved me into tears. That was one amazing pair of pipes on that woman. I’ve never heard the like again.
According to Donna Summer, the world was in sin and error whining. I’m down with that.
Shush, David Archuleta is made of tiny magic, okay?
Rhiannon from Carolina Chocolate Drops
This isn’t really my preferred style of singing, but I for some reason I couldn’t stop listening until it was over.
And a live Sufjan Stevens sing-a-long from a few nights ago. Very charming until the noise of the end overpowers the microphone on the recording device.
You can find any of these artists except the mom and daughter on Amazon, okay? I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by life, so please feel free to look them up there. *shifty eyes* Sorry! This is a link to Amazon! Use it well!
December 12, 2012
The Last Airbender Christmas Fanvids
Yes, I know that it says 2011 and it’s 2012, but the fanartist, Hoodsun, made it last year. So, just ignore the date and admire the utter perfection of this in all other ways.
So, I couldn’t really couldn’t find what I was looking for–a Last Airbender fanvideo with a song that I loved to use on Friday. But the fanvideos I did find for The Last Airbender were so cute, I decided to share them anyway. I was surprised by the sheer number of Christmas videos for The Last Airbender, too, given that there is no canonical Christmas on the show itself.
A cute Aang/Katara video with some nice fanart in the mix. Santa, don’t you know that Aang only has eyes for Katara?
This seems like a very legitimate representation of what Christmas would be like for Zuko.
And an Avatar in an iceberg!
A nice selection of fanart.
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 10: That Was The Worst Elf Boogie Ever
As you can see, Sufjan Stevens is way into Christmas. If the photo isn’t proof enough, perhaps his multiple Christmas albums will convince you.
Here are a few of his original compositions that I enjoy. He also does Sufjan-y versions of standards which I might link in other posts.
A Christmas film short set to the music of Sufjan Stevens. Created by John P. Gelety.
A live version complete with Sufjan-wings.
