Music of the Spheres

[timelord1]

Hi all - anybody out there have songs they use that particularly inspire them one way or another when writing Who fiction? I thought it might be fun to post them into one jumbo, shared playlist.

Here's a few that inspire me:

"Uprising" by Muse - it has a real "Who" sound to it, and evokes images of battle and struggle and intensity.

"Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 'Redemption'"  by Muse, from the same album as above, it is very heartfelt and emotional. Listened to this a lot when writing the emotional parts of "Paradox Clones" - esp. the "Let me go," part. Very moving piece of music

"When We First Met" by Hellogoodbye - I play this one a lot when writing the silly fluff.

Anything by Woodpigeon, especially off the album "Songbook" is also good for twee/fluff. :)

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[who-in-whoville.livejournal.com]

Yep. Just started this year. The Littlest Who is going to Kindergarten at a private (and reasonable) school up the street, and I'll be teaching CDTG at home. We were absolutely fed up:

1) CDTG was bullied almost every day in FIRST GRADE, punched in the stomach even!;
2) the way she started treating her sister; she adored her sister before, but the way that the kids talked about their siblings and parents really rubbed off on her;
3) her growing lack of respect for authority; the teacher didn't expect it, so, the kids didn't give it;
4) the lack of learning. They studied leaves and the parts of the tree for 6 months, but she doesn't know what a noun is, or that a sentence ends with a period.
5) we move every two years; she needs some consistency...
6) we wanted her to actually be able to experience the wondrous historical sites that this area affords, and they took two field trips all year long: one to the Kennedy Center to see a play about at a cat (which is really cool, but...) and one to a nature park to look at TREEEEEEES!!!!!! OF COURSE (see item number 4); Mt. Vernon is 10 minutes from our home... why not go there? Or to Arlington? Or a tour of the Pentagon? or to one of the millions of free museums downtown????

We aren't doing it to cloister or hide our kids away from the world. We do not wear long denim skirts (sorry, that's a homeschool stereotype/joke). We just want the best possible education for our girls... and right now, this is how we are going to do it. We are taking each year as it comes, but now that we are starting, I think it will be hard to go back.

[timelord1.livejournal.com]

I think that's tremendous! (glad to hear you eschew the denim skirts though lol) What in the world kind of education gives kids that much information about trees and nothing about how to use the English language? That's insane!!!

In such a richly historic and cultural area, you'd think they'd be out every other week looking at stuff. I'm glad she's going to get the chance to see it all. Sorry to hear she was bullied, though.

With the negativity so pervasive in public schools (Mr. Timelord was a substitute teacher for a while and is in process of getting his final certification), I can completely understand homeschooling. If we ever have kids, I will probably do the same thing. Which is kind of sad, considering I just mentioned that Mr. Timelord wants to be a public school teacher. The kids are ridiculous, they don't listen, and the administration is generally so apathetic that nothing is going to change to make it better.

At least this way you know what she's learning, you know she's learning it correctly, and that she's not going to be tormented for being a good kid by the other little...kids... <-- nice word instead of bad word I was thinking. :)

[kelkat9.livejournal.com]

I'm still blown away about your leaf story. Before I moved to GA, I lived in Jacksonville, FL. Talk about a scary educational environment. I have several teacher friends who got out or would only work at certain schools. Inner city schools are scary places. Most of my friends put their kids in private school for the first couple years of middle school or privately tutored them. The real ironic part is that Jacksonville has two highschools on the nation's top 10 list. Those highschools are really hard to get into and I think do a great job but the rest of the school system is awful.

When I was doing my historical tour stint. I would take around middle schoolers. One of the people we talk about on the tour is Stephen Crane. Not one kid knew who Stephen Crane was! So I would follow up with: "You know, The Red Badge of Courage." Nothing. I got nothing. Maybe I just had a good education but that was something you read in 6th or 7th grade where I'm from. I mean we were reading The Odyssey in 6th grade. I can't comprehend them not knowing who Stephen Crane was.

Homeschoolers were great fun! I loved taking them around. The kids and the Moms (yes it was always Moms!) were so much fun. They really got it and loved the whole thing. LOL - no long denim skirts. Just nice people.