“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

When you think of sin, you think of the top seven; wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. No matter how often or rarely you think about it, everyone in this planet is a sinner. EVERYONE. Everyone says that children and small infants are still pure of heart and do not commit sin but does a young child not want something another child has at some point in time or another? Everyone could choose to be a saint (exact opposite of sinner) but it is not possible, not in any way, shape or form. I was raised in a Christian family so I think I’m going to take a minute and take this to a religious place. In the Christian religion, Christians are taught that they were created in the image of God. Most people think God is sinless but is he not a jealous God? Does he not display wrath when wrath is needed? Therefore; we are meant to be sinners.

This week i got a new book from B4B called Empire of Sin by Gary Krist. This is a book of sex, jazz, murder and the battle for modern New Orleans. Now, I really dont know much about New Orleans except they have amazing food, the are home to the New Orleans Saints (ironic), and you will hear some of the best jazz music in existence there! I thought this book might be worth a shot, I’m always down for a deeper history lesson!

Synopsis;

Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city’s Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.

My take on this book, this is probably the best told mix of culture and the events that take place in one area of the us, around! I love how the book is divided into multiple parts to show the difference in culture through the years ( 1890-1891; mid 1890s to 1907; 1907-1917; 1917-1920). The author brings old stories and people, (that you learned about in school) and adds them to the story, combining it with just the right amount of fiction to feel like you are actually taking a brief look into their lives. I love feeling like i can be apart of the characters life and relate to them in some way.

Also, I am a huge, huge, HUGE fan of music. So where they disscuss the characters the author shares equal parts jazz and music history. The author goes about explaining how jazz music came about and how those with less education turned to music and made money in that way. I highly suggest this book be read by any fan of historical fiction and music fans it’s well worth the time to read it, not that it should take that long. I found it so easy to live in the book till i read the very last word!

Amazon Buying Link:

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Sin-Murder-Battle-Orleans/product-reviews/0770437060/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_five/182-1324192-0080213?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addFiveStar&showViewpoints=0

To lose someone close to your heart… SONG OF THE WEEK!!!

  This week my family and I lost a dear member of our family. Lou McCumber, my grandfather passed this past week and my heart is breaking. Since I moved out of California I do have to say I spoke to my grandparents more now then I did in California.
  My grandfather use to take me on the weekends to spend time at his house with them and my cousins. He was the one who took me to Hawaii, showed me the life there, introduced me to the culture. And even though it was a failed marriage he gave me away at my wedding.
  This man was a strong man, religious to the core, with a huge heart for anyone who wanted to better themselves. Above all he lived for children. To see him with an infant would be like knowing what love at first sight. The passion he showed in everything he did brings me to tears.
  My song of the week is ” when the sand runs out” by Rascall Flatts. My grandpa loved with all his heart and not only did he make his mark on the people in his life but the world. I love you grandpa! All my heart!

Bringing music and books into the same spectrum

Last night I was looking around online for some form of blog topic. I haven’t done much on music and I thought what about combining the two together. When you think about it what makes a movie, a movie? I mean besides the plot and the characters and the setting and…. well…. you get the picture… but in one of my newer favorite movies they actually touch on this subject. The music makes the movie.
If you are watching a horror movie like Halloween, you are hearing the director John Carpenter throughout almost the entire movie and no one ever realizes the damn director is about to make you piss yourself without even being in the movie. Then you get into more advanced songs like “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult. Or you despise horror flicks and prefer comedy movies like Ride Along which features songs by yelawolf, (one of my new favorite artists), Envy, Cypress Hill and Bubba Sparxxx, THE MUSIC MAKES THE MOVIE!!!
Now what about movies based off of books? Hunger Games, Harry Potter, The Fault In Our Stars, Twilight all based on the books and those who don’t read don’t understand the power words have in a book until music is adapted to the movie!. Last night i found a list of songs that were written based off of books and i sit back and think how many non-readers listen to these songs and they don’t even know!!!! So here is a list of all of these songs for those who are intrigued.

0–9[edit]
“1984” by David Bowie is one of many songs he wrote about George Orwell’s 1984, meant to be a song in a 1984 musical.
“20 000 ljööd vee all” by Vennaskond about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“2+2=5” by Radiohead about George Orwell’s 1984.
“2112” by Rush, is loosely based on the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand
“40” by U2 is based on the 40th Psalm.
A[edit]
“Abigail” by Motionless In White retells the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
“Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts” from the Manowar album The Triumph of Steel is a retelling of the fight between Hector and Achilles in the Iliad. “And Then There Was Silence” by Blind Guardian is also based on the Iliad.
“Afternoons and Coffeespoons” by Crash Test Dummies is based on the T. S. Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.
“Adam’s Apple” by Aerosmith retells the biblical story of Adam and Eve.[1][2]
“Ahab” by MC Lars retells the story of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville from the perspective of Captain Ahab.
“Alone” by Green Carnation is based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same title. “Alone” by Arcturus is based on the same poem.
“Altair-4” by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
“All is Not Well” by Hannah Fury is based on the romance of Elphaba and Fiyero from Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
“Among the Living” by Anthrax is about Stephen King’s The Stand.
“And Your Little Dog Too” by Hannah Fury is told from the point of view of Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
“A Man for All Seasons” by Al Stewart was based on Robert Bolt’s play.
“A Picture of Dorian Gray” by The Television Personalities is about Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
“Animal in Man” by dead prez is a retelling of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. “Animal Farm” by Hazel O’Connor also re-tells the story.
“Annabel Lee” by Stevie Nicks rewrites the eponymous poem by Poe. Tiger Army’s song of the same title is also based on the poem.
B[edit]
“The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” by Leonard Nimoy retells J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. “The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit)” by Blind Guardian also retells The Hobbit.
“The Ballad of Skip Wiley” by Jimmy Buffett is a song about the character from Carl Hiaasen’s novel Tourist Season.
“Banana Co.” by Radiohead is based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
“Barefoot Children in the Rain” by Jimmy Buffett partially retells Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
“Las Batallas” by Café Tacuba retells José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto.
“Beneath These Waves” by Demons & Wizards retells the story of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick from Captain Ahab’s perspective.
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by The Divine Comedy is based on the short story of the same title by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Big Brother” by David Bowie is one of many songs he wrote about Orwell’s 1984.
“Billy Liar” by The Decemberists relates some of the adventures of the title character of Keith Waterhouse’s novel of the same name.
“Black Blade” by Blue Öyster Cult is based on Elric of Melniboné stories by Michael Moorcock.
“Bowling in the Hills” by Eddie from Ohio retells Washington Irving’s short story Rip Van Winkle.
“Brave New World” by Iron Maiden retells the story of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, as does Reagan Youth’s “Brave New World”.
C[edit]
“Calypso” by Suzanne Vega is based on one of the scenes in the Odyssey by Homer.
“The Cask Of Amontillado” by The Alan Parsons Project based on The Cask of Amontillado, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
“Cassandra” by ABBA is based on the character in the Iliad by Homer.
“Catch-22” by Pink is based on the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
“Chapter 24” by Pink Floyd is about the I Ching
“Chapter Four” by Avenged Sevenfold is based on the book of Genesis: Chapter 4.
“Charlotte Sometimes” by The Cure is about Penelope Farmer’s novel of the same name.
“China in Your Hand” by T’Pau is based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
“Christabel” by Robert Earl Keen is based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Cristabel”.
“Cent’anni di solitudine” by Modena City Ramblers is based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
“Crimson King” by Demons & Wizards on Touched by the Crimson King is told from the point of view of Randall Flagg the main antagonist from The Dark Tower (series) by Stephen King.
“Curse of Athena” by The Lord Weird Slough Feg is about Odysseus’ return to Ithaca in The Odyssey.
“Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)” by Taking Back Sunday is based on William Shakespeare’s play Othello.
“Courage (for Hugh MacLennan) by The Tragically Hip references a passage from MacLennan’s The Watch That Ends The Night.
“The Chronicle of the Black Sword” by Hawkwind is based upon the works of Michael Moorcock, including Elric and Jerry Cornelius. Moorcock, who has appeared with the band on numerous occasions, does the narration on “Live Chronicles”.
D[edit]
“Daedalus” by Thrice is a retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, so well known from Greek Mythology.
“Dalai Lama” by Rammstein is loosely based on Der Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
“Dante’s Inferno” by Iced Earth, retells Dante’s Inferno.
“The Dawn of a New Age” by Satyricon is based on the Book of Revelation.
“Dead” by Pixies refurbishes the biblical legend of David and Bathsheba.
“Dracula” Iced Earth is about Dracula by Bram Stoker
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police references Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
“Doublespeak” by Thrice is about George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four
“Damnation Alley” by Hawkwind from the novel by Roger Zelazny.
E[edit]
“The Edge of Darkness” by Iron Maiden is based on the movie Apocalypse Now, which was in turn inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness
“El Dorado” by Iron Maiden references a poem by Edgar Allan Poe of the same name
“Elvenpath” by Nightwish refers to the basic premise of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
“The End of The Universe” by S.P.O.C.K refers to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
“Envoi” by Absynthe Minded is based on Hugo Claus’s novel of the same name.
“Eumaeus the Swineherd” by The Lord Weird Slough Feg is based on the character in The Odyssey.
“Eveline” by Nickel Creek is based on the James Joyce short story of the same name.
“Exit Music (For a Film)” by Radiohead is based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.
F[edit]
“Fable” by Gatsbys American Dream is based on William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies.
“The Face of Dorian Gray” by Robert Marlow is based on Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
“Flight of Icarus” by Iron Maiden is loosely based on the Greek myth of Icarus.
“Footprints” by Half Man Half Biscuit is a parody of “Footprints” by Mary Stevenson, itself adapted from Psalm 77.19.
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica is based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the same title
“Frankenstein” by Iced Earth is about Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
“Franz Kafka! Intro”, “Turnin’ to a Bug”, “Livin’ Like a Bug Ain’t Easy”, and “Franz Kafka! Finale” by the fictional band Scäb (from the cartoon series Home Movies) are about Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.
“From the Underworld” by The Herd is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.
“The Future Is Now” by The Offspring is based on George Orwell’s novel 1984
G[edit]
“The Gladdest Thing” by Deb Talan incorporates as its chorus the poem Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
“The Giant’s Laughter” by Thyrfing is inspired by the poem Jätten by Esaias Tegner.
“Grendel” by Marillion is a retelling of John Gardner’s novel Grendel, which is a retelling of Beowulf.
“The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen is about The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
“Goodbye Sky Harbor” by Jimmy Eat World is about the book A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
“Guardian of the Blind” by Blind Guardian is based on It by Stephen King.
“The Gunslinger” by Demons & Wizards is based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series.
H[edit]
“Haunted” by Poe is based on House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
“Hedda Gabler” by John Cale is a retelling of Henrik Ibsen’s play.
“Hey (rise of the robots)” by The Stranglers is based on I, robot by Isaac Asimov
“The Highwayman” is a Loreena McKennitt song which recounts a poem by Alfred Noyes. Phil Ochs originally wrote the musical interpretation of the poem which was taken and extended by Loreena McKennitt, without attribution.
“Holland 1945” is a Neutral Milk Hotel song about The Diary of Anne Frank
“Home at Last” by Steely Dan retells Ulysses’ encounter with the Sirens from the Odyssey
“Home”, by Breaking Benjamin, is based on The Wizard of Oz
“Horrorshow”, by the Scars, is based on the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange.
“House of Atreus – Act I” and “House of Atreus – Act II” form a two-part concept album by Virgin Steele based loosely on the Oresteia of Aeschylus.
“House of Leaves” by Circa Survive is based on House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
“Hallelujah”, by Leonard Cohen, is based on the biblical story of David and Bathsheba. It also incorporates elements of the story of Samson and Delilah.
“House at Pooh Corner” and “Return to Pooh Corner” by Kenny Loggins are about The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne.
“How Beautiful You Are” by The Cure is a retelling of “Les Yeux du Pauvre” a poem by Charles Baudelaire from “Le Spleen de Paris”
“The Human Hosepipe” by Harry and the Potters retells a scene from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
“Hug Me” by Meg & Dia is based on “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley.
I[edit]
“I Am the Walrus” by The Beatles includes lines from a recording of a performance of William Shakespeare’s King Lear.
“I Can’t Let You In” by Hannah Fury is about Fiyero’s tragic affair with Elphaba (told from her point of view) from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked.
“I Cheat the Hangman” by Doobie Brothers is a song inspired by the story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.
I Robot is an LP by The Alan Parsons Project which retells several Isaac Asimov stories.
“I Have Seen The Future” by The Bravery is a song inspired by the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
“I Robot” by the UK Subs is based on I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.
“If I Die Young” by The Band Perry based on the poem “Lady of Shallot”
“Indiana” by Meg & Dia is based on the George Sands novel of the same name.
“In Like a Lion (Always Winter)” by Relient K is about C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
“The Insect God” by Monks of Doom sets Edward Gorey’s poem/book of the same name to music.
“Insener Garini Hüperboloid” by Vennaskond is about The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
“Into the West” by Annie Lennox is about The Lord of the Rings
“Invisible Monsters” by Motion City Soundtrack is about Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.
“Ion Square” by Bloc Party uses part of i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings as its chorus.
“It Was Her House That Killed Nessarose” by Hannah Fury is about Elphaba’s perception of Dorothy from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked.
J[edit]
“Jamaica Inn” by Tori Amos is about Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier.
“Jekyll & Hyde” by Iced Earth is about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson .
“Journey to the Centre of the Earth” by Rick Wakeman is an LP which retells Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.
“Jillian (I’d Give My Heart)” by Within Temptation is about Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr.
“Jocasta” by Noah and the Whale expresses the turmoil of Oedipus’ mother, Jocasta, in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
“Juliet” by Emilie Autumn based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
K[edit]
“Killing an Arab” by The Cure is closely related to Albert Camus’s The Stranger
L[edit]
“La cruz de Santiago” by Mägo de Oz is inspired by the adventures of Captain Alatriste and is dedicated to his writer, Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
La Leyenda de la Mancha is a Mägo de Oz album based on Don Quixote.
“Lay Down” by Strawbs is based on Psalm 23.
“The Lady of Shallott” by Loreena McKennitt is based upon the poem of the same name by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Momus has a song based on the same poem.
“Legend of Xanadu” by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem
“Let it Show” by Hannah Fury is based on Gregory Maguire’s Wicked.
“Lolita” by Elefant is about Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.
“Lolita” by Sky Ferreira is about Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita as well .
“The Longest Day” by Iron Maiden is based on Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day, which is about D-Day.
“Lord of the Flies” by Iron Maiden retells Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
“Lord of the Rings” by Blind Guardian is about The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
“Love and Death” by The Waterboys is a setting of the William Butler Yeats’ poem.
“Love and Destroy” by Franz Ferdinand is based on The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
“Love Song for a Vampire” by Annie Lennox is about Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
“Lucy” by The Divine Comedy is a setting of three poems by William Wordsworth.
“Lullaby” by Lagwagon is based on Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.
“The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” by Iron Maiden, based on the short story of the same name by Alan Sillitoe.
“Lord of Light” by Hawkwind from the novel by Roger Zelazny.
M[edit]
“Memory” from the musical Cats is based on lines from a poem by T. S. Eliot.
“Me Gustas Cuando Callas” by the Brazilian Girls is a song version of Pablo Neruda’s poem of the same name/
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Noe Venable speculates about the children’s return from Narnia in “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”.
“Misery Loves Company” by Anthrax is about Misery by Stephen King.
“Moon over Bourbon Street” by Sting is describing a character from Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
“Monster” by Meg & Dia is based on Cathy Ames’ character in John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden”.
“Mr. Raven” by MC Lars retells “The Raven”, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
“My Name Is Macbeth” by Mitch Benn is Shakespeare’s Macbeth reworked in the style of Eminem
“The Melting Point of wax” by Thrice retells the story of The Fall of Icarus.
“Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Iron Maiden is based on the short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe.
“My Antonia” by Emmylou Harris with Dave Matthews is about My Antonia by Willa Cather.
N[edit]
“Narnia” by Steve Hackett is based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.
“Narcissist” by The Libertines is loosely based on the character of Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
“Nescio” by The Nits is based on De Uitvreter by Nescio.
“Never Come Down Again” by Hannah Fury is based on Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, told from Elphaba’s point of view.
“Nice, Nice, Very Nice” by Ambrosia has lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on chapter 58) of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle.
Nightfall in Middle-Earth is an album by Blind Guardian that retells Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.
“No Love Lost” by Joy Division is based on and includes quotes from The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633.
“November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses is loosely based on Del James’s short story “Without You”.
“No Quarter” by Led Zeppelin is based on the final battle in Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
“Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)” by Rob Zombie is based on A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
“Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met…)” by Panic! at the Disco is based on Perfume by Patrick Süskind.
O[edit]
“Of Unsound Mind” by Metal Church is based on the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.
“One” by Metallica is based on the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
“Oor Hamlet” by Adam McNaughtan retells Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
“Out of the Silent Planet” by Iron Maiden is based on the movie Forbidden Planet and the science-fiction novel by C. S. Lewis.
“Oedipus” by Regina Spektor refers to the tragedy of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
“Oedipus Rex” by Tom Lehrer also refers to the Sophocles play.
“The Odyssey” by Symphony X is based on Homer’s epic of the same name.
“Ol’ Evil Eye” by Insane Clown Posse is based on Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart.
“Omega Man” by Iron Savior is based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
“Owen Meaney” by Lagwagon is based on the novel A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
“Oh! You Pretty Things” by David Bowie contains lyrics that reference Anthem by Ayn Rand.
“Ozymandias” by Jean-Jacques Burnel is a setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem.
“Off to the Races” by Lana Del Rey makes references to Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
P[edit]
“Patrick Bateman” by the Manic Street Preachers is about the lead character in American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
“Pattern Recognition” by Sonic Youth is based on William Gibson’s novel of the same name.
“The Pearl” by Fleming and John is based on the novella of the same name by John Steinbeck.
“Penelope” by Robi Rosa is based on the character from Homer’s Odyssey.
“Pennywise” by Pennywise is about the character Pennywise from the novel It by Stephen King.
“Pet Sematary” by Ramones is about “Pet Sematary” by Stephen King.
“The Phantom of the Opera” by Iron Maiden is about The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
“The Phantom of the Opera Ghost” by Iced Earth is also about Leroux’s play.
“A Pict Song” by Billy Bragg is based on a poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling.
“Poet” by Bastille was inspired by Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.[3]
“Poor Little Rich Boy” by Regina Spektor refers to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Popular” by Nada Surf is based upon the book Penny’s Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity by Gloria Winters (1964).
“Prick! Goes the Scorpion’s Tale” By Emilie Autumn is based on the fable “The Toad and the Scorpion”
“Prince Caspian” by Phish is about C. S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian.
“The Prophecy” by Iron Maiden is based on the book Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card, and appears on the concept album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
“Pull Me Under” by Dream Theater is based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, from Prince Hamlet’s point of view.
Q[edit]
“Quelque Chose de Tennessee” by Johnny Hallyday contains the last sentence of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (in French) by Tennessee Williams.
R[edit]
“Raistlin and the Rose” by Lake of Tears is based on Dragonlance Legends trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
“Ramble On” by Led Zeppelin mentions characters and places from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, including “Mordor” and “Gollum”.
“ReJoyce” by Jefferson Airplane is Grace Slick’s psychedelic version of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
“The Resistance” by Muse is based on 1984 by George Orwell.
“A Revolta dos Dândis” by Engenheiros do Hawaii mirrors the ideas present on “The Dandy’s Revolt,” a chapter of Albert Camus’s The Rebel.
“Richard Cory” by Paul Simon is about the Edwin Arlington Robinson poem “Richard Cory”.
“Ride a White Swan” by T.Rex refers to the plot of Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
“Riki Tiki Tavi” by Donovan is a spoof on the mongoose character from The Jungle Book.
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Iron Maiden is a retelling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“The River” by PJ Harvey is based upon the Flannery O’Connor story of the same name.
“Roderigo” by Seven Mary Three is based on the book One Hundred Years of Solitude.
“Rivendell” by Rush is about the fictional place of the same name from The Lord of the Rings.
“Rebecca” by Meg & Dia is based on the Daphne du Maurier book.
“Robot” by Hawkwind refers to the Three Laws of Robotics, conceived by Asimov.
S[edit]
“Sahara” by Eddie From Ohio retells Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book Into the Wild.
“Sailing to Philadelphia” by Mark Knopfler is based upon Thomas Pynchon’s nonfiction book Mason & Dixon.
“The Salesman, Denver Max” by The Blood Brothers is based on the Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
“Samson” by Regina Spektor references the biblical story of Samson and Delilah.
“Scentless Apprentice” by Nirvana retells Perfume by Patrick Süskind.
“The Sensual World” by Kate Bush is based on the closing paragraphs of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
“Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” by Pink Floyd is based on the I Ching.
“Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” by Iron Maiden is based on Orson Scott Card’s book Seventh Son.
“Sex Crime (1984)” by The Eurythmics based on George Orwell’s novel “1984”.
“Shalott” by Emilie Autumn tells the story of “The Lady of Shallott” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
“Sigh No More” by Mumford and Sons is based on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
“The Sign of the Cross” by Iron Maiden appears to be partly based on Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose
“Sirens of Titan” by Al Stewart is based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel The Sirens of Titan.
“Skeletons in the Closet” by Anthrax is about Apt Pupil by Stephen King.
“Smallcreeps’s Day” by Mike Rutherford is based upon the novel of the same name by Peter Currell Brown.
“The Small Print” by Muse tells the story of Faust from the point of view of the Devil.
“The Snow Goose” by Camel is an album retelling the same title novel by Paul Gallico.
“So Said Kay” by The Field Mice is based on Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule.
“Soma” by The Strokes is loosely based on Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
“Someone Speaks Softly” by Hannah Fury is based on Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
“Something Wicked That Way Went” by Vernian Process is based on “Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
“Somewhere Far Beyond” by Blind Guardian is based on The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
“Song For Clay” by Bloc Party is inspired by Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.
Such a Same (album It’s my Life) by Talk-Talk in inspired by The Dice Man (1971) of Luke Rhinehart.
“The Songs of Distant Earth” by Mike Oldfield about The Songs of Distant Earth
“Sweet Thursday” by Matt Costa is based on John Steinbeck’s novel Sweet Thursday. The song also references Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
“The Stranger” by Tuxedomoon quotes Albert Camus’s novel L’étranger.
“The Stand” by The Alarm is about The Stand by Stephen King.
“Stormbringer” by Deep Purple is about Elric of Melniboné.
“Steppenwolf” by Hawkwind is based on the novel by Herman Hesse.
T[edit]
“The Tain” is a song/concept EP by The Decemberists that retells the Irish epic “Táin Bó Cúailnge”
“Tales of Brave Ulysses” is a single by Cream that retells Homer’s The Odyssey.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is an LP by The Alan Parsons Project which retells several Poe stories.
“Talk Shows on Mute” by Incubus is based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep .
“Tea in the Sahara” by The Police is about The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. King Crimson also has an instrumental called “The Sheltering Sky” about the same book.
“Tell Mary” by Meg & Dia is based on Mary by Vladimir Nabokov.
“Tell Your Story Walking” by Deb Talan is based on Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.
“Terror Train” by Demons & Wizards is sung from the perspective of Blaine the Mono, a character in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, and recalls part of the plot.
“The Thing That Should Not Be” by Metallica is based on H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu
“The Things They Carried” by Eux Autres is based on “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.
“Thumbelina” by Nightmare of You is based on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.
“The Drowning Man” by The Cure is based on Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast.
“The List” by Hank Green is based on John Green’s Paper Towns
“The Tomahawk Kid” by Alex Harvey is based on characters from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
“Time to Dance” by Panic! at the Disco is based on Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
“Timeless Skies” by Al Stewart is about The Silmarillion.
“To Be or Not to Be” by B. A. Robertson is based on William Shakespeare’s plays.
“To Tame a Land” by Iron Maiden tells the story of Dune by Frank Herbert
“To The End” by My Chemical Romance retells the gothic horror story “A Rose for Emily”.
“Toilet Tisha” by Outkast retells the 18th-century Russian short story “Poor Liza” by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.
“Tom Joad, Parts 1 and 2” by Woody Guthrie retells The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
“Tommyknockers” by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
“Traveler in Time” by Blind Guardian is about Dune by Frank Herbert.
“A Trick of the Tail” by Genesis is based upon The Inheritors by William Golding
“The Trooper” by Iron Maiden was inspired by “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Tennyson.
“Turn, Turn, Turn”, by Pete Seeger, notably covered by The Byrds, takes its lyrics from chapter three of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Holy Bible.
V[edit]
“Venus in Furs” by The Velvet Underground is about the two main characters from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novel of the same name.
W[edit]
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album, retelling the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
“We Are the Dead” by David Bowie is one of many songs he wrote about Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, meant to be a song in a musical.
“Weight of Living, Pt. I by Bastille (band) is based on “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“When the War Came” by The Decemberists retells Hunger by Elise Blackwell.
“When Two Worlds Collide” by Iron Maiden tells the same story as When Worlds Collide by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
“Where Eagles Dare” by Iron Maiden is based on Alistair MacLean’s “Where Eagles Dare”.
“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane is based on Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
“William, It Was Really Nothing” by The Smiths is heavily based on Billy Liar.
“Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush is a re-telling of Emily Brontë’s novel.
“The War I Survived” by Hawkwind refers to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
X[edit]
“Xanadu” by Rush is based on Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”.
Y[edit]
“Yes!” by Amber uses as lyrics part of Molly Bloom’s sylliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses.

What is your favorite movie based from a book and what song do you think best describes it!?

Whats On Your Spotify?

So many people go through life and cant stand to not have music playing if not all day but at least part of their day. I being one of those people have a large list of music. If I was to play my main spotify play list on a constant stream it would only be playing for 28 hours and like 51 minutes… to some people that is a lot of music but i know that some people have larger playlists and mine even though its not all the music i listen to its a start. Here is a list of my main playlist to date…

~3 Doors down~
Its not my time
Let me be myself
Here without you acoustic version
When I’m gone
Away from the sun
Be like that
Let me go
Loser
Duck and run
Kryptonite
When you’re young
She is love
Runaway

~5 seconds of summer~
Don’t stop
Kiss me kiss me
She looks so perfect
She looks so perfect acoustic version
Heartache on the big screen

~A$ap rocky, Gesaffelstien~
In distress

~Alabama Shakes~
Hold on
You aint alone

~Aloe black~
Fortunate son
Back in the saddle

~Amy Winehouse~
Valerie
You know I’m no good
Me and Mr. Jones
Back to black
Tears dry on their own
Will you still love me tomorrow?
The girl from ipanema
Wake up alone
A song for you

~Antony and the Johnsons~
Angel on fire
~Ariana grande~
Problem

~The ataris~
The boys of summer

~Avicii
Heart upon my sleeve
Hey brother
All you need is love
Wake me up

~Avril lavigne
Wish you were here
Alice

~Awolnation
Sail
Wake up
Not your fault
This kid is not alright
Swinging from the castles

~BOB and haley Williams
Airplanes

~Barlowgirl
I need you to love me
Never alone

~Beyonce
Beautiful liar

~Blue October
Into the ocean
Hate me

~A boy and his kite
Cover your tracks

~Britney spears
If you seek amy

~Bruno mars
Gorilla
Treasure
Talking to the moon
Moonshine

~Busted
What I go to school for

~Calvin harris
I need your love
Sweet nothing
Summer

~Carrie underwood
Good girl
Blown away
Two black cadillacs
See you again
Cowboy Casanova

~Cartel
Say anything (else)
Honestly
Runaway
Burnn this city
The minstrels prayer

~Cassadee pope
Wasting all these tears

~Cher
Welcome to burlesque
You haven’t seen the last of me

~Cher Lloyd
Want u back
With your love

~Chris cagle
What a beautiful day

~Christina Aguilera
Candyman
Sex for breakfast
Somethings got ahold of me
Tough lover
But im a good girl
Guy that takes his time
Express
Bound to you
Show me how you burlesque
The beautiful people
We remain
Hurt
Lotus intro
Fighter
Beautiful
Dirty
The voice within
Castle walls

~Chvrches
The mother we share

~Coldplay
Atlas
The scientist
Yellow

~The Corrs
Breathless

~Crazy town
Butterfly

~Darius rucker
Wagon wheel

~Daughtry
Waiting for superman

~David guetta
Titanium

~Demi lovato
Neon lights

~Diamond rio
Beautiful mess

~Dierks bently
Every mile a memory
Settle for a slowdown

~Dixie chicks
Not ready to make nice
Cowboy take me away
You were mine

~Dj khaled
All I do is win

~Duffy
Rain on your parade
Warwick avenue
Steping stone
Syrup and honey
Mercy
Im scared
Rockferry

~Ed sheeran
Kiss me
Lego house

~Ellie goulding
Beating heart
Hanging on
Mirror

~Emeli sande
Heaven
Next to me

~Eminem
Stan
Bad guy
Survival
Ass hole
Stronger than I was
Love game
Headlights
The monster

~Evanescence
Going under
Everybodys fool
My last breath
My immortal
Bring me to life
Tourniquet
Sweet sacrifice
Cal me when your sober
Weight of the world
Lithium
Cloud nine
Snow white queen
Lacrymosa
Like you
Lose control
The only one
Your star
All that im living for
Good enough

~Feist
Fire in the water

~Fences, ryan lewis
Arrows

~Florence and the machines
Dog days are over
Im not calling you a liar
Cosmic love

~Florida Georgia line
Cruise
Take it out on me
Stay

~Foster the people
Coming of age
Helena beat
Pumped up kicks
Houdini

~The fray
Syndicate
Absolute
Never say never
Love don’t lie
How to save a life
Look after you
Vienna
You found me
Over my head

~Freddie Jackson
I don’t want to lose your love

~Fuel
Hemorrhage (in my hands)

~Fugees
Killing me softly
No woman, no cry

~Gary allen
Songs about rain
Nothing on but the radio

~Gavin DeGraw
Best I ever had
Chariot

~The GooGoo Dolls
Black balloon

~Gotye
Somebody that I use to know

~Greenday
Amy

~Greenwheel
Breath

~Haystack
Bonnie and clyde

~Hilary duff
Fly

~Hollywood undead
Undead
Everywhere I go
Black dahlia
This love, this hate
Bottle and a gun
California
City

~Iggy Azalea
Bounce
Hello
My world
Pu$$y
Change your life
New bitch
Goddess
Black widow
Lady patra
Fuck love
Work

~Imagine dragons
Who we are

~j.cole
power trip

~james blunt
1973
Annie
Your beautiful
Goodbye my lover
Tears and rain
High
So long, immy

~Jamie n commons
All along the watchtower

~Jason aldean
Amarillo sky
My kinda party
Fly over states
Don’t you wanna stay

~Jason derulo
Talk dirty to me

~Jessie j
Bang bang
Rainbow
Price tag
Nobodys perfect
Abracadabra
Big white room
Whos laughing now
Do it like a dude
Mamma knows best
Who you are
Domino

~John legend
Used to love you
All of me

~John mayer
Slow dancing in a burning room
Daughters
Why Georgia

~John newman
Love me again
Cheating
Gold dust
Losing sleep
Easy

~Julia sheer
Safe and sound

~Kacey musgraves
Merry go ‘round

~Katy perry
Dark horse
Unconditionally
Roar

~Kelly Clarkson
Dark side

~Kings of leon
Sex on fire

~Krewella
Live for the night
Alive

~KT Tunstall
Black horse and a cherry tree

~Labyrinth
Beneath your beautiful

~Lady antebellum
Goodbye town
Run to you
Need you now
Just a kiss

~Lana Del Rey
Once upon a dream
Young and beautiful

~LeAnn Rimes
Cant fight the moonlight
Blue
Crazy

~Linkin Park
Roads untravles

~Liz phair
Why cant i?

~Lorde
Everybody wants to rule the world
Royals

~Luke bryan
Crash my party
Kiss tomorrow goodbye
Drunk on you
I don’t want this night to end

~The lumineers
Gale song

~M83
I need you

~Macklemore and ryan lewis
Same love

~Magic!
Rude

~Mariah carey
#beautiful

~Maroon 5
It was always you
Love somebody
Ladykiller

~Matchbox twenty
3 am

~MGMT
Electric Feel

~Mike posner
Please don’t go
Gone in September
Save your goodbye
Bow chika wow wow
Looks like sex

~Mikky Ekko
Place for us

~Miley cyrus
Adore you
Wrecking ball

~Miranda lambert
Gunpowder and lead
Famous in a small town
More like her
Mamas broken heart
White liar
Only prettier
The house that built me

~Montgomery gentry
Speed

~MSMR
Hurricane

~The national
Lean

~Ne-Yo
Let me love you
Burn

~Nico and Vinz
Am I wrong

~Nine days
Story of a girl

~Of monsters and men
Silhouettes

~OneRepublic
Love runs out
Counting stars

~The outfrield
Your love

~P!nk
Please don’t leave me
Just give me a reason

~Parachute
She is love
Cant help
Forever and always

~Paramore
Brick by boring brick
The only exception
Aint it fun
Misery business
We are broken
Fences
Still into you

~Passenger
Let her go

~Patti smith
Capitol letter
Pentatonix
Somebody that I use to know
We are young
Run to you
Save the world
Radioactive
Royals
Say something

~Phantogram
Lights

~Pharrell Williams
Happy

~Pia mia
Fight for you

~Pretty lights
Lost and found

~The pretty reckless
Kill me

~r.kelly
be my #2

~rihanna
diamonds
umbrella
take a bow
disturbia
s&m
whats my name
cheers
only girl in the world
Russian roulette
We found love

~Robin thicke
Blurred lines

~Sam smith
Good thing
Leave your lover
Im not the only one
Ive told you now
Like I can
Life support
Not in that way
Lay me down
Safe with me
Stay with me

~Santigold
Shooting arrows at the sky

~Savage garden
Truly, madly, deeply

~Selena Gomez
Come and get it

~The Showdown
Carry on my wayward son

~Sia
Elastic heart

~Skrillex
Bangarang
Breakin a sweat
The devils den
Summit
First of the year
Scary monsters and nice sprites
All I ask of you

~Snow patrol
I wont let you go

~Sugarland
Want to

~Swedish house mafia
Don’t you worry child

~T.A.T.U
All the things she said

~Tame impala
Backwards

~Taylor Swift
You belong with me
Forever and always
Red
Everything has changed
Tim mcgraw
Teardrops on my guitar
Our song

~Thematic pianos
Let me sign ( Robert Pattinson cover)

~Thirty Seconds To Mars
The kill

~Thomas Rhett
It goes like this

~Tim McGraw
Last dollar

~Train
Bruises
Mermaid
Drops of Jupiter
Save me, sanfrancisco

~Tyler Farr
Redneck crazy

~Vitamin string quartet
Decode
Leave out all the rest
Never think
Let me sign

~Wale
Bad

~The weekend
Devil may cry

~Yellowcard
Ocean avenue

~Zedd
Clarity
Hourglass
Shave it up
Spectrum
Lost at sea
Codec
Stache
Fall into the sky
Follow you down
Epos
Stay the night

~Zendaya
Replay
I want to know whats on your playlist.. post your spotify playlist and comment to let me know

New to the blogging scene but here i go!!

My name is Sharon Mccumber and I have been plotting on the blogging scene for a while now and am just now getting started. I am 24 years old and I live in Northern Indiana ( Cali born and raised though). Currently I am a stay at home girlfriend to the worlds most amazing man!!! We have been together for over 2 years now and I am happier than I have ever been. I grew up in a very quiet town in northern California called Marysville and its about and hour north of Sacramento. I was adopted by my great aunt who also adopted my little sisters and raised us to always believe you could make something of yourself if you tried hard enough. Unfortunately she passed a little over a year ago and i miss her like crazy! But life happens i guess and even though she is gone she will never ever be forgotten. She was the one who taught me to do so many arts and crafts projects, and how NOT to cut my hair lol. (Side note to the younger readers: If your mother says she is going to give you a farrah fawcett haircut…. RUN). And my Great Grandmother Roxy brought out my love of music. And I always figured i got my love of books from my father. But i think the most important thing in my life right now is my love for myself. Most people wont understand unless they knew more of my story but up until recently i use to hate myself and the way i looked but thanks to some amazing family, a super awesome boyfriend and my best friend Sam Sam, I’m starting to pull myself out of my hermit shell 🙂 So if you read this blog and continue to read this blog for however long you will more than likely see a ton of those things among so many others… and while I’m at this point I want to personally think every single person reading this!

                                                                                                       ~For the love of hobbies~

     As someone who stays at home while my significant other works (bless his heart) i find that i get bored really easy so i though of everything i know how to do and i work on perfecting them!

~Crocheting: to make (a garment or piece of fabric) using crochet. I have been doing crocheting since i was in my early teens. I never got the hang of knitting but when im stressed, crocheting always helps.

~Corseting: to regulate strictly with a corset, can be combined with a regular diet. I actually just started at the beggining of this year and i love it. Some women think corsets are just for show and as a bigger woman i dont feel that way but it makes me feel better wearing one and would incourage anyone who has questions or has thought about it to definitely look into it or try it.

~D.I.Y. : “Do It Yourself”. I absolutly love D.I.Y projects… That is usually what i get on pinterest for.

~Sampling: Receiving products free of charge in the mail to try and keep!!!! Myself and my best friend Sam Sam ( who i talk about a ton) generally do this together and haul in a ton of free samples of all different sizes every month…. *This will be talked about alot.

~ Music:  an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm,     melody, harmony, and color. I love to sing and am playing music almost more than i breath lol.

~ Nails, Makeup, Hair : On most of these i will probably be getting help from Sam Sam and do what i can with tutorials 🙂

~ Books: I am a 100%, to-the-core Book Worm and am currently a member of a group on facebook called Book Worms Unite. This group is full of lively, amazing, beautiful women who love books as much as i do!!! I know any other book lovers would appreciate this awesome group so i will throw in the link for anyone who wants to join! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1440059426233324/?fref=nf

So in a nutshell these are probably the biggest topics that will be covered and i am always open for ideas for new topics and hobbies so feel free to contact me in the links provided and i will do my best to answer them quickly. And hopefully i will be able to do a couple free giveaways in the near future!

My Links———-> My Blog—- https://mccumber1990.wordpress.com My twitter—– https://twitter.com/mccumber_1990 My facebook—– https://www.facebook.com/sharon.mccumber.1 My Instagram —— http://instagram.com/touchofpoison My Pinterest ——- http://www.pinterest.com/twihardcrazy/

My youtube channel ——– https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpoht_XwDXIoYfsx2-4c9lw