{"id":123,"date":"2013-06-25T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seth-swanson.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-06-25T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:58:11","slug":"writing-fuel-music-for-wordmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/25\/writing-fuel-music-for-wordmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing fuel: Music for wordmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eppic feat. Lindsey Stirling - By No Means (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CTTC7JzF77s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t hit play on the video above, I&#8217;d advise you to click play. \u00a0I&#8217;ve listened to the above&#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230; fifty times? \u00a0More? \u00a0What you&#8217;re listening to is one of the main themes for Impervious. \u00a0Yeah, if you&#8217;re listening to the lyrics, you might notice a common word in there. \u00a0I&#8217;m not a big fan of rap normally, but there&#8217;s something about <em>Eppic<\/em> that I really like. \u00a0Combine that with the awesome violin skills of <em>Lindsey Stirling<\/em> and it couldn&#8217;t help but be writing fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Any given story that I&#8217;m working on has its own playlist. \u00a0<strong>Impervious<\/strong> is heavily fueled by <em>Abney Park<\/em> (example forthcoming), but there are also additions like &#8220;By No Means&#8221; and \u00a0&#8220;Some Nights&#8221; by <em>Fun<\/em>. \u00a0What makes a song right for a particular story can vary from lyrics, to the overall feel. \u00a0What&#8217;s really important are the images that it conjures. \u00a0City of the Sorcerers featured a lot of Nightwish, Within Temptation and other symphonic metal (my favorite genre of music). \u00a0Done with &#8220;By No Means&#8221;? Here&#8217;s some Abney Park and their &#8220;Steampunk Revolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steampunk Revolution by Abney Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yeEI-hh3MG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t, can not, write without music. \u00a0Hell, I&#8217;ve got a playlist for just about everything I do, but I need music to get the creative juices flowing. \u00a0Edge has even gotten its own playlist lately, featuring a lot of<em> I Fight Dragons<\/em>. \u00a0Not familiar with them? \u00a0I suggest you look them up or at least listen to the last video I post here. \u00a0I absolutely love that some many independent artists are able to bring their music to the masses through the internet. \u00a0Also, suck it RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? \u00a0What music gets the creative juices flowing? \u00a0I&#8217;ll leave you with a little bit of <em>I Fight Dragons<\/em>. \u00a0I may or may not have posted this in a previous blog&#8230; Oh well.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I FIGHT DRAGONS - The Geeks Will Inherit The Earth [LYRICS VIDEO]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Do61etbvpa4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t hit play on the video above, I&#8217;d advise you to click play. \u00a0I&#8217;ve listened to the above&#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230; fifty times? \u00a0More? \u00a0What you&#8217;re listening to is one of the main themes for Impervious. \u00a0Yeah, if you&#8217;re listening to the lyrics, you might notice a common word in there. \u00a0I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sswanson-001-site2.gtempurl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}