Cover Sundays – Tori Amos – “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” John Lennon Cover

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Cover Sundays – Tori Amos “Losing My Religion” (REM Cover)

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Road Tripping – GSU vs Alabama iPod Playlist

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Aaron Lewis, Alicia Keys, Band Of Horses, Björk, Blu, Blu & Exile, Bozoo Bajou, Bush, Cee Lo, Cee-Lo Green, Citizen Cope, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae, Des’ree, Esthero, Georgia State University, Georgia State University Athletics, GSU, GSU Football, GSU Panthers, James Blunt, Joi, Joi Gilliam, Keegan Dewitt, Kelis, Los Claxons, Maxwell, Mogwai, Mos Def, Mychael Danna, Noreaga, Paty Cantu, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rihanna, Staind, The Gracious Few, Tori Amos

My Playlist on the way to and back from Tuscaloosa for our last game of the Inaugural Goergia State Panthers Football Season.
Complicated – Rihanna
No Greater Love – Blue and Exile
Afortunadamente No Eres Tu – Paty Cantu
I Can’t Hear The Music – James Blunt
Tal Vez Me Estoy Tomando el Pelo – Los Claxons
Closer – The Gracious Few
I Miss You – Bjork
Body In The Trunk – Noreaga
Golden Porsche – Mogwai
Way Down – Bozoo Bajou
Trouble (acoustic live) – Coldplay
Kalifornia – Mos Def
Kissing You – Des’ree
Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gone – Esthero feat Cee-Lo
Venus As A Boy (Q Covermount)/Bjork Cover – Corinne Bailey Rae
That’s The Truth – Joi

Blue Lines Blog – Issue #1

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Björk, blog, Cassandra Wilson, Joi Gilliam, music, OutKast, Pearl Jam, Tori Amos

Writing and music…

                Music was very influential and easily supplemented the mood as I made the attempts to relate both the mood of the characters and paint the scene.  When I initially began this project in ’98, my main soundtrack was Joi Gilliam’s (http://joilicious-online.org/home.php ) 1994 The Pendulum Vibe and the sampler of the unreleased classic Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome (damn Rowdy and Freeworld records).  But as I continued to write, there were times that simply hearing a song at a specific time, or for the first time spurred me to write.  While on a 1999 road trip somewhere between Fargo, ND and Spokane, WA, a friend played the song “Jóga” by Björk in his car cassette player (yes, remember those) and I, for the first time, heard this song and grabbed any piece of paper around me in the car to start writing anything to add to my manuscript.  It was the powerful effect that hearing the song for the first time inspired me to write.  Much to the chagrin of the driver, I repeated the song several times until I was told that they did not want to dislike the song and that we had to move on.  Similarly, upon making the return trip, we were listening to local L.A. radio as we took I-10 to return to Atlanta just before I ended up in some place called Blythe (where we had to order some Domino’s Pizza, and eat it on a bench in front of the store in an empty shopping center, when Mary J. Blige’s “Sincerity” feat DMX and Nas was played.  Whoa… I was taken by this song, and the message was of the concept of love, at the very heart, a very central theme in my manuscript.