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    MUSIC MONDAY: Too Sweet by Hozier

    April 8, 2024 / 1 Comment

    Pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday.

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    SOUNDTRACK: Run by Hozier

    May 7, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Venetian and The Rum Runner by L.A. Witt

    I chose this Hozier ballad for a book about an Irish gang working for an Italian mobster because the singer explained that this is a song based on a James Joyce quote about Ireland. I also relate the lines “Rare is this love, keep it covered / I need you to run to me, run to me, lover / Run until you feel your lungs bleeding” to Danny being magnetically drawn to the Italian mobster despite all that he stood for and Carmine offering protection to the hostile Irishman who made his heart beat faster.

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    May 7, 2021 / No Comments

    Rare is this love
    Keep it covered
    I need you to run to me, run to me, lover
    Run until you feel your lungs bleeding

    Oh but the farrow know
    Her hungry eyes, her ancient soul
    It’s carried by the sneering menagerie

    Know what it is to grow
    Beneath her sky, her punishing cold
    To slowly learn of her ancient misery

    To be twisted by something
    A shame without a sin
    Like how she twisted the bog man
    After she married him

    Rare is this love, keep it covered
    I need you to run to me, run to me, lover
    Run until you feel your lungs bleeding

    But in all the world
    There is one lover worthy of her
    With as many souls claimed as she

    But for all he’s worth
    He still shatters always on her earth
    The cause of every tear she’d ever weep

    Rushing to shore to meet her
    Foaming with loneliness
    White hands to fondle and beat her
    Give her his onliness

    Rare is this love, keep it covered
    I need you to run to me, run to me, lover
    Run until you feel your lungs bleeding
    Rare is this love, keep it covered
    I need you to run to me, run to me, lover
    Run until you feel your lungs bleeding

    Rare is this love, keep it covered
    I need you to run to me, run to me, lover
    Run until you feel your lungs bleeding
    Rare is this love, keep it covered
    I need you to run to me, run to me, lover
    Run until you feel your lungs bleeding

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    SOUNDTRACK: Someone New by Hozier

    January 22, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Brothers Grime: Jack: Grime And Punishment by Z.A. Maxfield

    Someone New for Jack who moved on from a dead lover to find new love in a crime scene.

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    MAY 2021 PLAYLIST + WRAP UP

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    January 22, 2021 / No Comments

    Don’t take this the wrong way
    You knew who I was with every step that I ran to you
    Only blue or black days
    Electing strange perfections in any stranger I choose

    Would things be easier if there was a right way?
    Honey there is no right way

    And so I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit
    Every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new

    There’s an art to life’s distractions
    To somehow escapes the burning weight, the art of scraping through
    Some like to imagine
    The dark caress of someone else, I guess any thrill will do

    Would things be easier if there was a right way?
    Honey there is no right way

    And so I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit
    Every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new

    I wake at the first crink of morning
    And my heart’s already sinned
    How pure, how sweet a love, Aretha, that you would pray for him?

    ‘Cause God knows I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit
    Every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day

    Love with every stranger the stranger the better
    Love with every stranger the stranger the better
    Love with every stranger the stranger the better
    Love with every stranger the stranger the better

    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new
    I fall in love just a little ol’ little bit every day with someone new

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    SOUNDTRACK: Blood by Hozier

    November 12, 2019 / No Comments

    Soundtrack to The Vampire’s Club 4 by X. Aratare

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    November 12, 2019 / No Comments

    Tryin’ hard to recognise
    Some pure motive inside of me
    A creature that would horrify
    Any child that I used to be
    Oh, give no faith to show
    Started to smile so I showed my teeth
    No more than flesh and bone
    Doin’ so much just to watch someone bleed

    But I love the very blood of you
    It keeps its heat in spite of you
    Oh, the heart that beats
    To keep you here with me always

    Tryin’ hard, I nearly find
    Innocence in spite of me
    Oh, creature that would terrify
    Any child left inside of me
    Oh, that’s a cold insight
    Nothin’ above us and nothin’ below
    Ahh, but you might be right
    If there is no heaven and there is no soul

    I just love the very blood of you
    It keeps its heat in spite of you
    Oh, the heart that beats
    To keep you here with me always
    Always, always, always
    Oh, I love the very blood of you
    It keeps its heat in spite of you
    Oh, the heart that beats
    To keep you here with me always
    Oh, I love the very blood of you
    Leaks and squeeks you black and blue
    Oh, the heart that beats
    To keep you here with me always

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  • song,  Uncategorized
    August 15, 2018 / No Comments


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    Soundtrack to Antisocial by Heidi Cullinan

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    NEW RELEASE: Demon Rodeo by Genevive Chamblee (Giveaway)

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FLICKer: Orange Cheesecake #shortfilm

Joe is invited for dinner but throughout the night tensions rise as his dad’s true intentions are revealed…

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Neither Richard nor Lucas want a relationship despite their attraction, but destiny already has them in her sights.

NEW RELEASE: Charmed by Destiny by Jessamyn Kingley (Excerpt)



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