apparently she's using a sharpie permanent marker she's a real renaissance gal, author, illustrator and musician, here are two trailers for her books, she illustrated it and wrote the music
A stop-motion book trailer by Maggie Stiefvater for her upcoming novel, SHIVER (Scholastic, Aug 1, 09), about a girl who loves a boy who must become a wolf each winter. The trailer was created with hundreds of paper cut-outs and multiple photographic frames per second. Music composed & performed by Maggie Stiefvater & Kate Hummel.
This is a trailer for my October 1st release, BALLAD, a dark love story about a boy offered a dangerous deal by a faerie muse. I drew several hundred frames and composed the music for the trailer; the music ("Nuala") is played by me on harp, keyboard, whistle, & bodhran & and Kate Hummel on fiddle.
Well, Texas, you sent me searching again. I'll need to search more, however, for All the King's Men.
Love that song by Woody. So Long It's Been Good to Know You is a favorite of mine. Yep, the dust bowl was a terrible thing, and John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" was banned for a while.
Hey, y'all, It's Bob Marley's birthday so here's a tribute to him, followed by one of his songs.
Oops, missed your contribution, dj. Back Later to comment.
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Letty
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Sat 6 Feb, 2010 06:28 pm
@djjd62,
Wow! Maggie is a talented lady. Loved the story about the "wolf in winter", and the strange faerie one is fabulous. Glad that her marker didn't damage her guitar, dj. Thanks for the two songs; they touched a nerve with me, 'cause I loved scary stuff when I was a kid.
I don't know this young man, but today is his birthday. He's Japanese so the lyrics are not translatable. (boy do I miss satt fs).
Glad to see the mooseman is all right and fussing about disco.
From Letty with love and a memory
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Barry The Mod
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Sat 6 Feb, 2010 09:12 pm
G'night Ms Letty,hope you've set your alarm .
Sad news,Sir John (Johnny) Dankworth has passed over.He was inspired to play by Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4T9muPmFH0&feature=related
Two Piece Flower.
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Barry The Mod
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Sun 7 Feb, 2010 03:36 am
Oops,due to cloud cover,which raises the risk of a lightening strike,mission delayed by 24 hours
All the King's Men The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a political reporter who comes to work as Governor Stark's right-hand man. The trajectory of Stark's career is interwoven with Jack Burden's life story and philosophical reflections: "the story of Willie Stark and the story of Jack Burden are, in one sense, one story."[1]
The novel evolved from a verse play that Warren began writing in 1936 entitled Proud Flesh. One of the characters in Proud Flesh was named Willie Talos, in reference to the brutal character Talus in Edmund Spenser's late 16th century work The Faerie Queene.[2]
The version of All The King's Men edited by Noel Polk (ISBN 01-5100-610-5) uses the name "Willie Talos" for the Boss as originally written in Warren's manuscript, and is known as the "restored version" for using this name as well as printing several passages removed from the original edit.
Warren claimed that All The King's Men was "never intended to be a book about politics."[3]
[edit] Characters
[edit] Willie Stark
The central character of Willie Stark (often simply referred to as "the Boss") undergoes a radical transformation from an idealistic lawyer and weak gubernatorial candidate into a charismatic and extraordinarily powerful governor. In achieving this office Stark comes to embrace various forms of corruption and builds an enormous political machine based on patronage and intimidation. His approach to politics earns him many enemies in the state legislature, but does not detract from his popular appeal among many of his constituents, who respond with enthusiasm to his fiery populist manner.
Stark's character is often thought to be inspired by the life of Huey P. Long, former governor of Louisiana and that state's U.S. senator in the mid-1930s. Huey Long was at the zenith of his career when he was assassinated in 1935; just a year earlier, Robert Penn Warren had begun teaching at Louisiana State University.[4] Stark, like Long, is shot to death in the state capitol building by a physician.
In his introduction to the Modern Library edition, Warren denied that the book should be read as either praise for Huey Long or praise for his assassination. However, Warren did not deny that Long served as an influence or inspiration for Stark:
One of the unfortunate characteristics of our time is that the reception of a novel may depend on its journalistic relevance. It is a little graceless of me to call this characteristic unfortunate, and to quarrel with it, for certainly the journalistic relevance of All The King's Men had a good deal to do with what interest it evoked. My politician hero, whose name, in the end, was Willie Stark, was quickly equated with the late [US] Senator Huey P. Long....
This equation led, in different quarters, to quite contradictory interpretations of the novel. On one hand, there were those who took the thing to be a not-so-covert biography of, and apologia for, Senator Long, and the author to be not less than a base minion of the great man. There is really nothing to reply to this innocent boneheadedness or gospel-bit hysteria. As Louis Armstrong is reported to have said, there's some folks that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em... But on the other hand, there were those who took the thing to be a rousing declaration of democratic principles and a tract for the assassination of dictators. This view, though somewhat more congenial to my personal political views, was almost as wide of the mark. For better or worse, Willie Stark was not Huey Long. Willie [Stark] was only himself....
[T]he difference between the person Huey P. Long and the fiction Willie Stark, may be indicated by the fact that in the verse play [Proud Flesh] the name of the politician was Talos " the name of the brutal, blank-eyed 'iron groom' of Spenser's Fairie Queene, the pitiless servant of the knight of justice. My conception grew wider, but that element always remained, and Willie Stark remained, in one way, Willie Talos. In other words, Talos is the kind of doom that democracy may invite upon itself. The book, however, was never intended to be a book about politics. Politics merely provided the framework story in which the deeper concerns, whatever their final significance, might work themselves out.[5]
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edgarblythe
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Sun 7 Feb, 2010 01:06 pm
Bob Marley - Good songs, as usual. Four Freshmen. I didn't know their song. I like James Spader. He was good in Boston Legal.
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edgarblythe
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Sun 7 Feb, 2010 01:08 pm
Its Only Love and Barry and Izzie's songs are good ones, as are djjd's offerings.
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gelled up hair and a rock chiquita and S-boy on air drums 