@Darcs

I approve of 'dis fuckin' motion!

-Castalia Goon

I am so sorry. And at the same time, I am not.

MWahahahaha!

Good posts guys. I'm off to write myself.

But while I write, I hath a question for you.

What song do you find yourself listening to the most when writing? If at all.

@Aeonumbra

I tend to listen to a playlist rather than a single particular song.

But I suppose one song I'm fond of listening to while writing is this.

The Price of a Mile

I listen to violins mostly (though I did have a few months where I couldn't stop listening to queen)

But I do have a love for metal and all its children. The only problem is if I listen to metal while writing I will try to destroy everything.

@AeonumbraI couldn't answer that question, music is practically a necessity for me when I'm writing, and I tend to just go through a lot of stuff, usually albums at a time.

I like my avant garde jazz, but I also like my abstract hip-hop, dark jazz, muh freeform jazzy jazz, baroque pop, 80's, witch house, Japanese experimental classical? Whatever Midori is-- in that vein, <3 Bjork and FKA Twigs, Spaghetti western scores, FlyLo and like, TOKiMONSTA... I make sojourns into noise and like, vaporwave.

I don't know, does that sound pretentious? I just mean to say, that there is a lot of music, and I like a lot of it and I want to find even more that I like?

I CAN say solidly that right now; I've got a big El-P fixation, my fave albums right now are Funcrusher Plus - Company Flow and High Water - El-P and the Blue Series Continuum.

All time wise; I listen to a lot of Amy Winehouse, my favorite song easily being 'Take The Box'

And Recently; I listened to 'Come on! Feel the Illinoise!' off of what might be Sufjan Steven's magnum opus, Illinoise, like 50 times because I felt really inspired by it. I literally laced it and it's themes into a kind of trippy, time jumpy, heavily backstory involved post.

I do get like that sometimes, where I'll just become obsessed with listening to the same song over and over again when writing something. For Lucania's backstory and first post it was 'Blue Velvet' and 'The Real Folk Blues.'

Hope that answers your question...! Or, at least, like, I don't know, assuages some curiosity? Sorry if it's tmi

#pretentiousnonhipster

@Aeonumbra

I've listened to orchestral when I write, and my writing ends up mired in purple prose, if it gets anywhere at all.

Then I started playing metal and suddenly I could write without keeping the thesaurus open at all times for the prettiest word.

@Darcs@Monochromatic Rainbow

I can't multi music, i mean, depending on what's happening I may change songs. But I'm a very one song kinda guy, PERHAPS, rarely, two.

I use somber violin music to keep me focused, paced, and relaxed. Which helps me refrain from just blowing shit up. That's what I use metal for.
Action scenes are typically a more upbeat song, or violin, but not too heavy. Chaos, death, and destruction are where the heavy metals, death metals, etc. come in.

I can't really do anything with words, as I tend to start listening and stop focusing on writing. And hip hop is just too sporadic, it plays with my emotions! XD

I actually use epic orchestra for big action-esque scenes.

Also just to hype ya'll up a bit more. Expect a new document from 'The Watcher' Soon.

@Aeonumbra

Hype-r drives engaged.

Depends on what I'm writing. For Bento I've been listening exclusively to like new like folky bluegrass stuff like Greensky Bluegrass, The Punch Brothers, and maybe Deer Run Drifters if I'm going hardcore moonshiners... I really like listening to Alcest too, which is super melodic French post-blackmetal, cause that just has this great vibe. But overall I listen to tons of stuff, rap, metal, folk, indie, whatever.

I'm a wide genre of casual music kinda guy too.

But writing is a whole 'notha ball game.

@Aeonumbra

Hype-r drives engaged.

Meh. Got 6 pages for Jon done.

Must.

Take.

Break.

(even though I started my break a few hours ago)

....

Post finished tomorrow. Little longer than I anticipated.

Hmm... What do I listen to?

I guess I'm much like Aeon where it depends on what I'm writing. For example, I specifically sought out an up-beat song for my most recent post because I knew what would happen. Sometimes I don't use music at all, but often times I do use something to set the mood.

Also: No comments about my shamelessly--or not so shamelessly--reference/rip-off? Aaaw :<

@kapuchu It was amusing. One side of me was like, how dare he. But the bigger, larger side of me loves dragon ball z and punched my other side in the face.

Through a couple of mountains.

Ending in a three mile skid.

Through the earth.

Killing scores of trees.

That was pretty much my aim, getting that "How dare he" feel xP

It made me think a lot back on dragon ball. And there are just some things you can't forget. Like when Goku bites Buu. Oh god xD



And Frieza



And King Piccolo



And that rock.



Ah, the good times.

Fun fact: Cell is the only major villain Goku has not bit in a fight.

Fun fact: Cell is the only major villain Goku has not bit in a fight.

I hardly think that is entirely accurate :P.

I don't remember him biting Vegeta.

I assume we're only talking about the original, first arc?

The one written by Akiri Toriyama, the Manga, yes. I'm fairly certain he does bite him at one point, though.