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intertribalI feel like I need to give a shout-out to Lacuna Coil and my favorite album of theirs, Karmacode. Lacuna Coil is sort of a gothic rock Italian band with two lead vocalists, male and female. The first song I ever heard by Lacuna Coil was their cover of "Enjoy the Silence," which at the time I thought was pretty theatrical but still fun. So I downloaded a couple albums, Comalies and Karmacode. Comalies has some good stuff too - "Heaven's A Lie" and "Angel's Punishment," which believe it or not is not an Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill song - but I prefer Karmacode's overall vibe. It's a later album, and I think it's a bit more complex musically and a bit more diverse in terms of influences. They're tending toward the sort of "Arabia Goth" that Arcana currently pwns, which is fine with me.
As much as I like Arcana, though (they make excellent background music for writing purposes), a very deep place in my heart responds much more to Lacuna Coil. For sure this is where that twelve-year-old on a quixotic quest for romance in DBZ lives. She's silly, but she's a part of me, y'know. I love that Lacuna Coil is theatrical and "dark." I love that they make me feel open-hearted and weirdly weepy. I love that they sort of seem to belong in Hot Topic. I think the feeling that I get listening to, say, "Without Fear" or "Devoted" is the feeling I want to, like, evoke in The Novel, for example. Does it fit conceptually, does it fit the setting or the plot? Not really. Ahahaha, how Twilight-ish do those song titles sound? Following is the video for "Within Me."
I think this goes along with my recent worry/wonder if what I'm really writing is Twilight-esque - and by that I don't mean inspired by Twilight, because the plot was conceived before I heard of Twilight. I mean treading similar paths. I'd change nothing, mind you - it is what it is, and I believe in it - but I just kind of wonder if there aren't superficial similarities. They're probably too superficial for me to worry about, but sometimes the whole humans-and-fabulous-monsters thing pops out at me.
I should also add that this entire entry makes me fail as a "goth" according to various scales (I'm already on thin ice for not liking The Crow or Tim Burton!), but whatever.
As much as I like Arcana, though (they make excellent background music for writing purposes), a very deep place in my heart responds much more to Lacuna Coil. For sure this is where that twelve-year-old on a quixotic quest for romance in DBZ lives. She's silly, but she's a part of me, y'know. I love that Lacuna Coil is theatrical and "dark." I love that they make me feel open-hearted and weirdly weepy. I love that they sort of seem to belong in Hot Topic. I think the feeling that I get listening to, say, "Without Fear" or "Devoted" is the feeling I want to, like, evoke in The Novel, for example. Does it fit conceptually, does it fit the setting or the plot? Not really. Ahahaha, how Twilight-ish do those song titles sound? Following is the video for "Within Me."
I think this goes along with my recent worry/wonder if what I'm really writing is Twilight-esque - and by that I don't mean inspired by Twilight, because the plot was conceived before I heard of Twilight. I mean treading similar paths. I'd change nothing, mind you - it is what it is, and I believe in it - but I just kind of wonder if there aren't superficial similarities. They're probably too superficial for me to worry about, but sometimes the whole humans-and-fabulous-monsters thing pops out at me.
I should also add that this entire entry makes me fail as a "goth" according to various scales (I'm already on thin ice for not liking The Crow or Tim Burton!), but whatever.
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Date: 2010-07-01 01:22 pm (UTC)