This is a great drinking song and also a great funeral song, so naturally it’s perfect for Drink Me. It’s been recorded by a lot of different people but this is my favourite. Oh the night that Paddy Murphy died, is a night I’ll never forget Some of the boys got loaded drunk, and they ain’t […]
January 8, 2014
by Kandace Mavrick
Do you ever get that feeling where you’re standing around in your own house and you suddenly think, “I live here” and that seems totally weird to you? Or you’re sitting with your feet up and you look down the stretch of your legs and go, “Wow, my legs are really long.” Or your parents […]
January 6, 2014
by Kandace Mavrick
This is also why choosing the right POV for a story is so important. If you have the wrong perspective character you’ll end up telling the wrong story. Or, at least, a very different one.
December 20, 2013
by Kandace Mavrick
The video clip for this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense (although let’s be realistic, how many actually do?) and I love that the lyrics are… open to interpretation. Or, at least, I enjoy taking them far more literally than I am sure they are intended. She’s electric, she’s the current running through my […]
December 13, 2013
by Kandace Mavrick
This song has all of ten words in it and no official video clip, so just… close your eyes, hit play and enjoy the beat?
December 6, 2013
by Kandace Mavrick
At least half the time when I’m listening to this I mishear the lyric as, Rudy got bail. I have no adequate explanation for it. I am constantly rewriting the rest of the lyrics to fit them to that baseline though. And that’s always fun. How you get so rude and a reckless? Don’t you be […]
December 5, 2013
by Kandace Mavrick
Me: I don’t really know how to write it… Actually I’m beginning to think that every book I write I’m going to start by saying, “Okay, I don’t do this but…” Arkem: I was about to say. Me: The last one turned out okay, though, right? I don’t write thrillers. (But the first real book-like-thing […]
January 10, 2014
by Kandace Mavrick
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