From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #282 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Monday, March 19 2001 Volume 01 : Number 282 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:09:03 -0600 From: Brent Hugh Subject: [AML] Brent HUGH, _Music of the Human Genome_ on Wired Right now, my recent composition "Music of the Human Genome" is at #32 out of Mp3.com's approx. 1,000,000 MP3 tracks. FWIW, that puts it, for at least one small moment, above such well-promoted "Hits" as "The Way You Love Me" by Faith Hill and "Let's Dance" by David Bowie . . . but still well behind Eric Clapton & Madonna (rats!). On reason "Music of the Human Genome" has been doing well on MP3.com is that it has been getting good press coverage. You can read about it on Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42306,00.html The St. Joseph News-Press (very long URL): http://www.stjoenews-press.com/Main.asp?TypeID=1&ArticleID=13916&SectionID=81&SubSectionID=354&S=0&UID=200403 "Music of the Human Genome" is at http://mp3.com/Brent_D_Hugh or http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/1301/1301401.html - --Brent +++++++++++++++++ Brent Hugh / bhugh@mwsc.edu +++++++++++++++++ + Missouri Western St College Dept of Music, St. Joseph, MO + + Piano Home Page: http://www.mwsc.edu/~bhugh + + Earthquake Fugue: http://mp3.com/stations/MathMusic + +++ Music of the Human Genome: http://mp3.com/brent_d_hugh +++ - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:13:34 -0700 From: Barbara Hume Subject: Re: [AML] Questions for Anne Perry >Anne Perry has agreed to be IRREANTUM's cover interview for our summer 2001 >issue. I've read a little bit about her, but I personally haven't read any >of her fiction yet. I wonder if I could ask for suggestions from anybody on >provocative questions to ask Anne on any broad-ranging subjects appropriate >for IRREANTUM, meaning they need to touch base with Mormonism and/or >literature. I've read a few of her Victorian mysteries. They are dark and horrible in terms of subject matter--some I have been unable to finish. But I see in them a concern for humanity. She goes on and on about the hideous waste of life in the Crimean War because of government stupidity, the waste of talent because of the oppression and restriction of women, and similar subjects. But I see little that's hopeful in the books, and that's why I don't enjoy them, despite her obvious skill. I suppose you can't show things improving when you set your stories in the 1850s, because things were the way things were. Maybe she wants to point out the distasteful aspects of humanity, or perhaps there is nothing didactic whatsoever. But it seems to me that a good writer wants a story to have meaning, not just exist as a narrative. I'd love to know what effect she wants her books to have on her readers. She's wonderful with characterization. One of the most intriguing fictional characters I've ever met is her detective hero, William Monk, who wakes up in hospital after a serious carriage accident with total amnesia. He has to continue his investigation of a brutal murder, at the same time concealing his condition so he won't lost his job, at the same time trying to find out what kind of man he is. He gets only bits and pieces of his memory back. And I thought my life was tough! Another question I'd like to ask her: Does she have it in for the upper classes? I've read only a few of her books, but the villains are always aristocrats who consider themselves higher life forms than the rest of us. Is she generalizing, or does she just like for her villains to be the kind of people who make Monk come round to the back door because he is only a policeman? Maybe the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt books are less dismal. I haven't tried them. I'm kind of afraid to. You all know I'm not a fan of the dark, dreary, dismal, and depressing in literature. barbara hume - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:24:24 -0700 (MST) From: katie@aros.net Subject: Re: [AML] Writing Schedules I know Rachel Nunes has made a kind of science of working writing into her schedule; she even provides an outline of a typical day on her website (www.ranunes.com). But she's got a bunch of kids and still writes multiple books every year. And she says her house is clean, too. My question to Rachel, and anyone else in a similar situation, is: How much time per day, generally speaking, do you spend writing? I'm still trying to figure out how much is enough and how much is too much. It's too easy to keep writing and let other (more important?) things go. I'd be interested in how to deal with writer's block and deadline pressure also. Anyway, hang in there, Linda! - --Katie Parker - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:11:15 -0600 From: LuAnnStaheli (by way of Jonathan Langford ) Subject: Re: [AML] Satire David Letterman--Ah, I remember him well as the sportscaster and sometimes weatherman at my old Indiana home station. Every since I met him in Los Angeles, before he became a "star" I haven't cared for him. Very stuck on himself at even that time. Too bad what fame can do to a person's ego. Amy Chamberlain [MOD: actually Chris Bigelow] wrote: Growing up in the age of David Letterman, I breathe sarcasm and satire, but maybe it gives me spiritual ulcers, I don't know. Wednesdays are my favorite day of the week because it's Onion day--but maybe that delicious satirical website makes my breath smell bad spiritually. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #282 ******************************