Right now I'm at home with what some of the Medieval folks would call "the fluxes" and I've spent most of this week down with the cold from hell, courtesy of some of my colleagues who I won't name. In any event, being feverish and congested and now dealing with post-cold digestive fluxes has given me strange bits of inspiration. I blame it on how being sick seems to shift my musical preferences a bit and I think the Test of High Academics did shift me a bit too. To this day, I still can't listen to Erasure without cringing.
Just to give you a sample of what's inspiring me these days, particularly with respect to the academics & sorcery story (The Shadowhawk), here's a few video clips that are giving me new ideas. I'll let you come to whatever conclusions you want to but suffice to say, I'm steering a bit away from the usual stuff that's inspired my writing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pkLDEEs20U (Ohne Dich: "Without You")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXsKWi9FIjY (Du Riechst So Gut: "You Smell So Good")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW03c4Vmr0k (Bueck Dich: "Bend Over" -- watch out, things get really amusing about 3 minutes in, not for the easily offended)
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