Welcome to the Blank Pages Virtual Salon, May 16-17, 2020
Pandemic Playlist, or, The Music of Our Lives, or, Whistling in the Dark In its own words, largehearted boy “is a literature and music website that explores that spot in the venn diagram where the two arts overlap.” The site features playlists that authors create for a book they wrote, with a brief explanation for, or riff on, each song. For this month’s salon, you have the choice to create a playlist of up to six songs that complement either a completed written work (your own or something personally significant), a project in progress, or the last six weeks of social distancing. Please tell us why, or tell us something. We're all ears. Submit a response between noon on Saturday, May 16 and midnight on Sunday, May 17. We miss you.
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Suzy Beal
5/16/2020 12:05:57 pm
Morning Workout
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Rebecca Norton Miller
5/16/2020 12:34:40 pm
I apologize for not knowing how to use this forum. I believe I left my submission as a comment, and now I can't find it to take it back...apologies to Suzy. I love your playlist and its chronological tale of your life!
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Rebecca Norton Miller
5/16/2020 12:32:24 pm
Interestingly enough, I wrote a book some years back that included a soundtrack of my own compiling. Neither the book nor its accompanying soundtrack ever saw the light of day, most likely because it was a self-indulgent, overly long piece and getting rights to songs is tricky. At the time, I envisioned a sort of screenplay type thing, and could picture each scene and its accompanying music.. Here is the list with a one sentence line to tell you what's happening in the story. Maybe one day, I can turn this into something, but for now, it's like reading a teenager's diary.
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Scott Stewart
5/16/2020 03:25:02 pm
Good idea, Rebecca, thanks. I’m toying with the idea of how far playing only songs from “Blood on the Tracks” could get me.
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Suzy Beal
5/16/2020 01:01:20 pm
Rebecca,
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Kristin Dorsey
5/17/2020 10:32:32 pm
The lyric "You know you're semi-good lookin'/
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Mike Cooper
5/16/2020 01:40:12 pm
"I have my books
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suzy beal
5/17/2020 09:50:51 am
Talk about FLASH! love that song.
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Scott Stewart
5/16/2020 02:02:23 pm
Chapter 46
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suzy beal
5/17/2020 09:54:36 am
Scott,
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Scott Stewart
5/17/2020 12:36:38 pm
Thanks, Suzy.
Mike Cooper
5/16/2020 02:06:57 pm
“I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
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Scott stewart
5/16/2020 02:15:36 pm
The dreamless sleep of him that dreamed.
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TOM FILCICH
5/16/2020 03:04:01 pm
THE EARLIEST PLAYLIST CAME FR0M MY MOTHERS
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Bob Vancil
5/17/2020 02:04:12 pm
Did you see last week that Little Richard passes away at 87, a true early icon of Rock and Roll. In the summer of 1957 I took my date to a Little Richard Concert for $5.00. The concert was in the National Guard Armory in Walla Walla, Washington. It was a night to be remember and was included in my book.
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Mike Cooper
5/16/2020 03:42:36 pm
“Who chose his words from mouths of
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Randy W
5/16/2020 04:29:18 pm
I have been working on a few poems and these are a few of the songs that seem apropos to them:
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Mike Cooper
5/16/2020 04:34:22 pm
“Staring at the blank page before you
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Aaron
5/16/2020 05:08:09 pm
"If you smile at me, I will understand
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Randy W
5/16/2020 05:59:43 pm
Novel Writing by Monty Python: (Voice of first reporter) But he’s, no he’s down again and writing, Dennis. He’s written "the " again and he’s written "a" and there’s a second word coming up and it’s "sat". "A sat ...", doesn’t make sense, "a satur ...", "a Saturday", it’s "a Saturday", and the crowd are loving it, they are really enjoying this novel. And "this afternoon", "this Saturday afternoon in, in, in know ..., knowvember", November is spelled wrong, ... but he’s not going back, it looks as if he’s going for a sentence, and it’s the first verb coming up, the first verb of the novel and it’s "was"! – and the crowd are going wild. "A Saturday afternoon in November was" – and a long word here – "appro ..., appro ...", is it "approval"? No, it’s "approaching, approaching". "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching", and he’s done the definite article "the" again, and he’s writing fluently, easily with flowing strokes of the pen as he comes up to the middle of this first sentence. And with his eleventh novel well under way and the prospects of a good day’s writing ahead, back to the studio.
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Mike Cooper
5/16/2020 07:39:52 pm
“You'd better slow down
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Irene Cooper
5/16/2020 08:41:30 pm
Spotify Experiment:
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Irene Cooper
5/16/2020 08:42:18 pm
copy & paste!
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Randy W
5/16/2020 10:55:38 pm
That is a very good playlist. I also saw Lyle Lovett in concert.
suzy beal
5/17/2020 09:49:41 am
Loved the playlist. Joan Baez got me through my 20's, but haven't listened to her in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
Kristin Dorsey
5/17/2020 10:21:27 pm
"Like a poem poorly written
Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 09:30:19 am
“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
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Rebeccamiller
5/17/2020 12:06:58 pm
This has been fun! Thanks!
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Dana Clark-Millar
5/17/2020 12:21:14 pm
I wish somebody would have told me babe
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Dana Clark-Millar
5/17/2020 12:23:23 pm
6 songs re: my social distancing time
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Ellen Santasiero
5/17/2020 12:31:53 pm
Pandemic Playlist from Ellen
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TOM FILCICH
5/17/2020 12:44:16 pm
DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES
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Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 01:03:43 pm
Perry Como
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Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 01:04:18 pm
“I'm sick of sittin' 'round here tryin' to write this book
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TOM FILCICH
5/17/2020 01:55:54 pm
LETS PLAY : STUMP THE MASTER (MIKE )
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Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 02:37:46 pm
No need for Google. That's Richard Starkey singing "Act Naturally" from Help! by The Beatles
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Bob Vancil
5/17/2020 03:07:32 pm
This is not a reply but rather an original comment, but probably in the wrong place.
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Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 05:21:38 pm
I had my first pizza at Shakey's.
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Kristin Dorsey
5/17/2020 10:15:29 pm
I miss summer nights, window open, breeze blowing the curtains . . . half asleep, listening to the radio. Waiting for that ONE transcendent summer song.
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Tom Filcich
5/17/2020 05:14:04 pm
I'm gonna act naturally now, and THANk the hosts
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Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 05:23:01 pm
“When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
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Kristin Dorsey
5/17/2020 10:05:46 pm
I pride myself on being a “good girl.” There is a checklist that supports this:
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Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 10:46:48 pm
"Mama, I just killed a man
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Kristin Dorsey
5/17/2020 10:52:08 pm
Well played, Michael Cooper.
Mike Cooper
5/17/2020 10:47:38 pm
Thanks, Everyone. This was lots of fun. And thanks Irene for the prompt.
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