Tagged!

The music meme is making its way around the blogosphere: Renegade Evolution tagged Natalia Antonova tagged Parallel Sidewalk tagged moi with the following:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

Parallel added:

I think she should include notes on what she listens to while working, like Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan do

I don’t typically listen to music while I work, but I listen to a ton of music at the gym in the morning while gearing up to work. What I play sets the tone for what I write that day, and as a result I closely associate certain songs with certain projects.

Right now:

Coldplay: Viva La Vida. Yeah, I know, it’s Coldplay, but this song could be a rock opera.
Delerium: Consensual Worlds. Minute 5:25 through 6:43 is a musical analog for AIR #1.
Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek. Sad for sad moments.
Iggy Pop: The Passenger. This is one of my personal anthems.
Wolfsheim: The Sparrows and the Nightingales. German gothpop.
Dead Can Dance: Ullysses. This is a good song for transitional moments.
Massive Attack: Teardrop. You’ve heard a sample of this song if you’ve heard the House theme music.

I tag Aziz, Fatima, and Borbor-Chan. It’s not seven but it’ll do for now.

You and Natalia have a song in common

The Passenger is my favorite song of all time. The original is the best, but Siouxsie’s version is gorgeous too. Like everything else there too, except Delirium (haven’t heard). Writing anything right now?

Yeah everybody’s listening to Viva La Vida and shaking their heads. Delerium (the e is on purpose; no idea what the deal is there) is good old-school gothtronica that has recently morphed into something clubbier.

Right now I’m about to launch into a Secret Project with one of my editors, waiting for edits on The Butterfly Mosque, working on the next story arc for AIR, and fleshing out the plot of a novel. Oh yeah, and the Unannounced DC Miniseries.

I work a lot.

ok, I’ll bite. Will reply at Haibane.info

Salaam Alaikum,

You’ve probably heard about this already, but just in case you haven’t:
http://muslimmatters.org/2008/06/24/niqabi-superhero/

Alaikum salaam Safiya,

Thanks for the link! Dust is actually a fairly seasoned character--I think she was invented in the 90’s by Grant Morrison--but I’m glad they’re bringing her to the forefront again. She’s one of the more responsibly-represented Muslim characters out there.

One of the members of Checkmate, DC’s spy vs. spy superhero series, is also a Muslim (this one is a man) and portrayed in a nicely complex way.

Hey thanks for stopping by and commenting on my entry!  I think it’s so exciting that you’re a graphic novelist!

“Cairo” sounds really interesting, and I plan on reading it as soon as I can get my hands on it

Dust was a cool character in a lot of ways but the cultural handling of her was still kind of embarrassing sometimes. They’d refer to her ‘burqa’ which was actually a niqab and abaya, and then it was often drawn as the most like, formfitting niqab and abaya ever. It was like when I watched The Seige and some of the Muslim characters were sympathetic and I was like “Wow....A little clumsy and wince worthy, but real progress.”

AW! Imogen Heap, YES!