March 2, 2010Henry Baum
There was a nice review of the novel yesterday on Amazon, which singled out the porn section as giving him pause, before realizing that I was after making a larger point. It actually only takes up two chapters of the novel, but it gives me pause as well. The reason is pretty significant: I have [...]
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February 2, 2010Henry Baum
Finally done with this song. Pleased with it – please listen. The story in the novel – World War III is over and the residence of the house in the L.A. hills finally decide to take a trip down south of Sunset Boulevard to see what remains. They’re mortified, of course, and [...]
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January 3, 2010Henry Baum
To set the scene – which contains slight spoilers, but whatever. World War III is over. The survivors of the war are rounded up in a neighborhood in Los Angeles dubbed The New City. Lead character, Eugene Myers, is happy to be alive, as is everyone else, so:
The New City is my [...]
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November 25, 2009Henry Baum
This song is more general, unlike the last one. The scene: the group of survivors of World War III (who the protagonist, Eugene Myers, dreamt about) end up in a mansion together, north of Sunset in Los Angeles, CA. They don’t have much to do but wait out the war and see if [...]
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November 18, 2009Henry Baum
This song gets to where I’m going with this songwriting project. To set the scene – the lead character, Eugene Myers, writer, has been dreaming about people who turn out to be real. He’s so desperate for it to happen again, and wants to avoid the fear of a turbulent plane, that he [...]
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October 26, 2009Henry Baum
And here we go. First song is recorded. An overture, sort of. Except an overture contains parts of the entire piece, and this doesn’t. What I’m writing is not quite a rock opera – partially because I don’t like that term. Some songs will be sung from different characters’ points of view, [...]
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