Zombies Are Just Waiting for Us

It is apocolyptically hot here. Seriously, not even May and it's 95 degrees out. Writer's group met at the LA Times Festival of Books on Saturday, and after sitting outside for almost two hours, I could barely make it 20 steps into the booth area. I collected no free stuff. I browsed over very few books. In short, I was hot, cranky, annoyed at everyone with a freaking stroller and no sense of personal space (I love babies, well, I like babies in theory, and I adore the ones I know, but I have not so much interest in unknown babies and their parents and their paraphenalia and the parent thing where people don't exist in the same physical space as their kids and all their kids' crap!). So I left and went to the VALLEY. Where it was hotter.

( Personal and not zombie related. )

Also, I have officially watched TOO MUCH Criminal Minds as a nice, lost dude on Saturday asked me where a pay phone was on the UCLA campus, and I started recording everything he was wearing in case he was a SERIAL KILLER trying to catch me off guard. Sigh. I wish I were kidding.

Creative Endeavors

Because I'm all about the themes lately, I figured out that I'd like the modern dance piece I'm choreographing to sort of reflect this set of short stories I'm working on. Their theme is: Writing it Down. However, the story I'm currently working on is called "The Rabbit Hole is a Superhighway and It Goes Both Ways." I never title things first, which makes this weird and special and I fear the story can't live up to the title, but it's about a man who disappears.

And I want to tie this piece to these themes and ideas. However, that means the music I've been working on doesn't really work. So I turn to you, oh flist, with your broad range of interests, topics and pursuits to suggest some music that may. I am not anti-lyric for this piece, but it... lyrics can't be the driving force (if they're in English. Not in English, that's less problematic). I'm looking for soundscape or music that has distinct layers that either build up or build down, but anything else is up for grabs... It can be a single instrument, it can be no instrument, a full orchestra, etc.

Suggestions?