PLAYLIST FOR
I write to music a good share of the time, and so I always put my playlists in the back of each book so you can see which artists/songs I listened to during the writing. Here’s the playlist for
A.J. Roach: “Devil May Dance”
Adele: “Rumour Has It”
Air: “Napalm Love; Playground Love”
Al Stewart: “Life in Dark Water”
Alice Cooper: “Welcome to My Nightmare”
Android Lust: “Saint Over,” “God in the Hole,” “In the Arms of the Heretic,” “Here and Now,” “When the Rains Came,” “Vereor,” “I Need to Know”
Asteroids Galaxy Tour: “Lady Jesus,” The Sun Ain’t Shining No More,” “Sunshine Coolin’”
Awolnation: “Sail”
Beck: “Que Onda Guero,” “Hell Yes,” “Black Tambourine,” “Elevator Music”
Black Mountain: “Angels”
Blue Oyster Cult: “The Reaper”
The Bravery: “Believe”
Broken Bells: “The High Road,” “Your Head Is On Fire,” “The Ghost Inside,” “October”
Cream: “Sunshine of Your Love”
Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Run Through the Jungle”
David Bowie: “Golden Years,” “I’m Afraid of Americans,” “Without You”
Dizzi: “Dizzi Jig”
Don Henley: “Dirty Laundry”
Dragon Ritual Drummers: “The Fall”
Eastern Sun: “Beautiful Being”
Eels: “Souljacker Part 1”
Everlast: “Black Jesus,” “Ends,” “What It’s Like”
Foster the People: “Pumped Up Kicks”
Gary Numan: “Petals,” “Sleep By Windows,” “Hunger,” “I Can’t Stop,” “My Dying Machine”
Gorillaz: “Kids With Guns,” “Clint Eastwood,” “Feel Good, Inc.,” “Stylo”
Gotye: “Somebody That I Used To Know”
Hanni El Khatib: “Come Alive”
Heart: “Magic Man”
Julian Cope: “Charlotte Anne”
Lady Gaga: “Paparazzi,” “Born This Way,” “Teeth”
Ladytron: “Black Cat,” “Predict the Day”
Leonard Cohen: “I’m Your Man”
Lindstom and Christabelle: “Lovesick”
Lou Reed: “Walk On the Wild Side”
Mark Lanegan: “Bleeding Muddy Water,” “Riot In My House,” “Phantasmagoria Blues,” “Wedding Dress, “Methamphetamine Blues,” “Like Little Willie John,” “Riding the Nightingale,” “Miracle”
Neil Young: “Cinnamon Girl”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: “Red Right Hand”
Nirvana: “Come As You Are,” “Lake of Fire”
Offspring: “Come Out and Play”
Pearl Jam: “Jeremy”
Radiohead: “Creep”
Screaming Trees: “All I Know,” “Dime Western”
Soundgarden: “Superunknown”
Suzanne Vega: “99.9F,” “Blood Makes Noise,” “In My Movie,” “Solitude Standing,” “Straight Lines”
Talking Heads: “Burning Down the House,” “Life During Wartime,” “Take Me to the River,” “Girlfriend Is Better”
Tangerine Dream: “Grind,” “Burning Bar,” “Dr. Destructo,” “Gaudi Park,” “Three Bikes in the Sky”
U2: “Elevation,” “Vertigo”
Zero 7: “In the Waiting Line”
EXCERPT FROM
The sky was clear for once, though rain was forecast before morning. The moon glimmered, her faint sliver shining down over the cemetery. Soon she would be new, dark, and hiding her face. A steady flurry of gusts rocked the trees, the silhouettes of their boughs shaking like tall sentinels sounding the alarm. It was the perfect night for a funeral. A funeral none of us wanted to be at.
We were gathered at the Seryph Point Cemetery, around the open grave. A small group we were, not many there to send off our friend to the afterlife. There was me, Menolly, and my wife, Nerissa. My sisters Camille and Delilah stood beside us. Derrick Means was there—my bartender. And Tavah, Digger, and Kendra—all from the Wayfarer. Chase had joined us, as did Mallen. We had asked our men to stay home, to watch over the house. As I said, we were just a small group, but everyone here had cared, everyone was here because they wanted to be.
