PSA Update

[icarus]

Pimping this around...

PSA has a long list of authors she needs to hear from in order to reload their stories... Minx, Resonant....

But yay! The PSA is going back up.

In other news, I can't believe it, I'm actually writing Lucius Gen: The Metronome.

The spoiled young Malfoy heir finally meets someone who's not impressed.

Just completed the outline in chat, running it by electricandroid. Now I'm tempted to correct the murdering of Luna's fanfic characterisation. Plus there's the Percy/Snape that's been driving me mad, and another Snape/Peter, I still need to upload stories to the Percyness site, then the sleeping hulk of Snape Manor has been shaken yet stirred by Half-Blood Prince... and I have to be at work tomorrow and must do laundry. *fanfic pipe explodes*

*calls a fanfic plumber, phone rings insistently*

"Hello? Yeah, um... I've got all these stories I tried to cram through, and, um... which should I work on? Because it's, well, I'm up to my knees at this point."

The Metronome is entirely goseaward's fault. We started talking about classical music... Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor... The Firebird Suite... Rhapsody In Blue (in its original form, thank you Goosey, I didn't realise it was originally a player piano piece). *sighs* Takes me back.

I'm surprised how many on my flist are musically talented. cyanei, goseaward, electricandroid. Who else?

ETA: kaci_2005_tide, webbapettigrew, venivincere, juice817, and els_chan are among the musicians (and singers!).

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh this is fun! I'm glad I asked.

I sing, too. I used to have a professional quality voice, but that requires at least an hour of practice a day (which I used to do while stuck in rush hour traffic *g*).

Requiem is probably my all-time favourite piece. God. So beautiful and moving.

The autoharp? Oh wow. A few teachers of mine played it, but I was too little back then to do more than twang a few notes. I did occasionally play with my mother's Celtic harp, but that was something where I didn't know what I was doing.

Icarus

[venivincere]

I fell in love with John Cleese again when I saw him play the autoharp in "A Series of Unfortunate Events." I want to get the chord chart for that song and the words and then sing it to my son.

I like the Mozart Requiem, and it's going to be the most difficult piece I will have sung (to date, that title has been held by Handel's "Messiah" which we sang a couple years ago). But the most beautiful Requiem I have ever sung was the Durufle. If you haven't heard it (and I'm guessing you may already have) it's often recorded with the Faure Requiem, which I like but don't feel has the same reverence, sincerity and grace as the Durufle.

Where and what did you sing? Are you still singing anywhere?