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While you are waiting for me to stop mindless postings and get to work on getting the OWC scripts up, I thought I'd share some background on the melody that was provided by Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast. The melody provided for the OWC (which you can listen to here) came from Norm's recent song The Heartache Over Innsmouth, written in honor of H. P. Lovecraft's 119th birthday.
H.P. Lovecraft (in addition to being the patron saint of The Drabblecast) was an author of weird fiction stories in the early part of the 20th century on planet Earth. One of his most famous works is The Call of Cthulhu.
The song, known as a Bbardle, was commissioned by Tom Baker of Steradian Technologies (which makes guns for kids...). Also, if you make a generous donation to The Drabblecast, Norm will write a song for you.
Below is the music video of Heartache Over Innsmouth. The song makes much more sense if you are familiar with Lovecraft's story The Shadow over Innsmouth. - Don
When I was writing for Cielo (Zack hasn't got back to me in months but I sent him a 50 page rewrite and told him to go for it) and Michael Previte was helping me out with a read, he mentioned that what I had built into one of the scenes was a reference to Lovecraft.
I had to research it because I didn't know Lovecraft. I've lived a sheltered life.
Anyways, just another mention of how much one learns in their travels here on Simply.
I think it may have been nice to have listened to it before the OWC, It would have cut down the amount of queries generated by a lot who were trying to figure out where to put words, lol...
This is too rad! Lovecraft is amazing and soft rock love songs based on the mythos sounds even moreso. I'll have to check out more of this stuff. Very cool/hilarious!
I think it may have been nice to have listened to it before the OWC, It would have cut down the amount of queries generated by a lot who were trying to figure out where to put words, lol...
I quite liked this piece!
I didn't want to influence the direction of anyone's script or music by releasing Norm's music and lyrics prior to the challenge.
A Lovecraftian Romantic Comedy? Oh yeah, there are a few members that would have been all over that -- myself included.
And here I was thinking there was just no way to make this challenge interesting for myself.
I obviously did not think hard enough.
Bert,
Although I haven't gotten through many of the submissions, I was surprised that there wasn't a single Zombie romance among them.
I was very close to making this a Lovecraftian RomCom, but I was concerned that not enough people were familiar enough with Lovecraft that I would get any submissions. So, simple RomCom was the safest route.
Hang on... let me check. Oh yes. That 'thingy' means I must be male. Well, it's hard to tell these days. There's a coupla things behind it too. They're not pretty. Could do with a trim too.
Hang on. Something's happening. This thingy seems to be expanding Stop this ! It's just... Stop! Okay. Anyway Elis. So now you know. My, you're a fine looking woman. My best shot at being a flirt. Forgive me!
The interesting thing for me here is that the references in Norman's song is the water element.
Some people might find some humor in this, indeed, even Norman himself, might have been funnin' with us, but I actually feel there's a seriousness here. How can there not be? With the tonal vibrations in the melody...
When I wrote "#######", I had no idea about the connection to Lovecraft and water/fish elements.
I still need to, (God help me with time) go and read Lovecraft, who I have, (according to an earlier critique and this revelatory gem) seemingly found a connection with.
These lyrics are astonishing to me and they resonate with me.
'cause you're my quasi icthian angel You're my half amphibian queen You're the overlord of my universe You're the Tormentor of my dreams
You're my starry eyed web-foot wonderful You swallow my sanity!!!!
You're my fish-frog sweetheart Baby let me Be your Filthy gibbering lunatic priest!!!! (Priestess))
(Missing Lyrics)
I know the Old Ones Were And The Old Ones Are And The Old Ones Will Always Be
And The Elder Gods Wait Just Beyond the Great Gate Waking for their ancient dreams
Though loathsome hideous Squid-headed blasphemies Rise up from the deep I don't pay heed It don't matter to me!!!!!!
Wow!!!!!
I love this song!!!!
And if I have another dream to dream, it will be to sing this song myself.
Great stuff Don for giving us this to work with. Thanks Norman!!! (Cus I'm crazy like that!)
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The OWC melody - some background on the music
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