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Music Notes

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff is Gru in #2343485

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

This is the poem which earned my blog its first ribbon, courtesy Brian K Compton

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Kåre เลียม Enga

about 10 hours ago
In response to "Of Extraterrestrials"

I don't worry about ETs or UFOs. I wish them well.

I use to have a garden to tend.

I only have houseplants now.

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LightinMind

about 13 hours ago
In response to "Of Extraterrestrials"

Personally speaking, I do not believe in the popular conception of alien life. Though angels, cherubim and seraphim seem like a different kind of alien.No one saw a flying saucer before the age of Sci Fi, before that it was all about angels, demons and ghosts... Scientifically speaking you mentioned a whole bunch of God incidences which make a possible context for life on this planet but then so also the Drake equation ( counting alien civilisations) assumes that the spontaneous emergence of life ( abiogenesis) occurs in nature and without Divine assistance. There is zero evidence for that making the discussion of alien life a theological one. But the bible is silent on this one and our travels so far into space have revealed only magnificent desolation.

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JACE

Sep 7, 2025 at 3:13pm
In response to "My WdC Experience in 25 Sentences"

A very impressive journey! These kind of prompts are the best way to learn about fellow members.

I love the way you set each bullet in a very visual way. I'm extremely impressed with your 10th bullet. I don't know anyone else with that level of commitment to those contests. Congrats on your successes.

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Spiritwriter 💟s HB!WDC 🥳

Sep 7, 2025 at 10:00am
In response to "Wake Me Up, by Simply Three"

I love how you frame this whole experience 😻! I'm eager to listen to this,as one who has enjoyed most genres. You pulled me into your world and saw and heard through your eyes and ears. Very awesome Angel as usual 😉🦋💖💐🎹🎻🎶🎵.
Write ✍️ on!

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Kit

Sep 6, 2025 at 11:37pm
In response to "My Thoughts on AI Generated Writing"

This is a very good post. And I agree with you.

It is getting more difficult to know if what someone wrote was really theirs - like with so many things these days there is too often that question of 'true' or 'not true' and that is such a shame - and kind of unnerving. It does cause distrust. I have seen pieces on this site where I wondered, but it can be impossible to prove. I don't know why anyone would want to post AI items here or place them in contests because any success they'd have they'd know is fake, but people can be strange. I'll just stick to my own words, for better or worse.

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iKïyå§ama-Happy 25th!

Sep 6, 2025 at 5:20pm
In response to "Nonsense Words"

Excellent!
I can vouch for having a severe case of Wonderlanditis.

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Dawn Embers

Sep 4, 2025 at 9:28pm
In response to "Of Poetry and Cheese"

So many great discussions about cheese. Just a hint from personal experience: don't microwave the individual Mac and cheese cups without water and with the cheese packet still in the cup. It will light on fire. Yeah. Oops. hehe

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Marvelous Friend

Sep 4, 2025 at 9:04pm
In response to "Of Poetry and Cheese"

I wrote a cheesy poem in my response too. lol

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🌖 HuntersMoon

Sep 4, 2025 at 4:43pm
In response to "Friends I'd Like to Meet IRL"

Amethyst Angel h✟k ♡ and Kåre เลียม Enga - Packing's not an issue. Shorts/T-shirts/flip-flops.

Haven't had a day below 89 (102 wet-bulb) in two months. Sunscreen is highly recommended. I have a spare room with a private bath, 15 feet from the pool. Let me know well in advance (at least 24 hours

)

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 4, 2025 at 3:55pm
In response to "Friends I'd Like to Meet IRL"

I reposted to your post... in the wrong place.

Norma Jean has visited me here but we could meet up in Cebu and visit Naomi and GERVIC.

Also, I went to England in 2011; but, I'd love to start in Scotland and go down to Wales. Lots of folks to visit in the UK... pack for two weeks or better — a month!

I have 4 friends I would like to visit in Australia. That's at least two weeks or more... long trip.

Mexico... hmm...

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September 6, 2025 at 5:02pm

#1096799

Nonsense Words

This was the idea of iKïyå§ama-Happy 25th!

, for "Writing.Com in Wonderland"

1. Melancholy: a collie wearing a watermelon costume

2. Serendipity: when you slather Dippity Doo on your Saran wrapped sandwich

3. Theosophy: one of those "people pairs," specifically Theodore and Sophy

4. Watershed: what happens when your dog comes in out of the rain and shakes

5. Waverly: watching the ocean waves while climbing a coconut palm

6. Mondegreen: when your leftovers start looking like they've been "laid on the green..."

7. Footloose: what happens when the Halloween skeleton is left in the closet for too long

8. Foresight: that third eye in the middle of your forehead...

9. Jigsaw: when someone joggles your arm as you're doing something delicate and precise...

10. Frenetic: when you get a new hairstyle by sticking your finger in a light socket

11. Background: the ground in back of the haunted house (where the graveyard is)

12. Graveyard: when the owl in that tree looks down at you like "you shouldn't be here..."

13. Wednesday: the day all the Weds get nesed.

1. Wonderlanditis: when one gets lost down the rabbit hole and can't get back home

2. Conflusticated: a state of frenzied concern and flustered anxiety

3. Dracognomist: a gnome who rides dragons

4. Ghostethtician: someone who makes ghosts beautiful

5. Planchard: a type of lettuce used in Wonderland

6. Yukgort: a creature something like a yak, but with six horns and leathery skin

7. Slindering: the art of sneaking past your dozing spouse while holding a tray of snacks

8. Fraxidallion: a fractured medallion that's been glued back together, usually with magical properties

9. Endronititis: when a lazy person starts taking root and turns into a tree

10. Libriascale: arranging all your books on the shelf in rainbow order of their spine colors

11. Thenoscope: a telescope that lets you see into the future

12. Delgradosis: what happens when you take a train to sightsee and it won't let you off

So... Yeah

Let me know what your favorites are!

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September 6, 2025 at 7:58am

#1096774

Sharks, by ID

My sixth Barrel of Monkeys track is a single off of the 2022 Imagine Dragons double album Mercury Act 1 & 2. I chose this because I was getting tired of trying to find ID tracks with slightly over 25 million streams. For some reason their tracks either have a gazillion views (on YouTube) or surprisingly few. I don't have a Spotify account, and it's rather difficult to access streaming stats per song. This, obviously, has way more than the challenge requirements.

What it Sounds Like

Sharks is a spartan song, with a simple bass line and production reflective of Rick Rubin’s influence. My first impression was that it had a demo feel, perhaps because of the real instruments combined with the synth effects.

(The bass line is actually identical to another single off of Act 2, Bones. But that's a different story…)

It has a spooky sound, of course, suitable to the theme, complete with unnerving laughs and ominous popping bubbles added at the beginning of the second verse. Now that I think of it, it resembles one of Michael Jackson's horror type songs, something that kids love to be scared with.

What It Means

Thematically, Sharks reminds us that everyone is a shark. It deals with envy, backbiting, and toxic behavior, while also reflecting on the brevity of life and how one tends to become the very thing one dislikes.

For some reason, kids love this song. I've never liked real sharks, for much the same reason that dinosaurs never interested me. I would think Sharks is even a bit creepy for kids, but it's more playfully exaggerated than truly sinister, and it does teach an important lesson about human nature.

The music video for Sharks is the cat's pajamas. I absolutely love it. The evening it came out, I must've watched it a million times on loop. It portrays a story purportedly inspired by the movie Ocean’s Eleven, where some kind of carefully planned heist is taking place at a landmark casino in Vegas. As a person who doesn't watch movies, I thoroughly appreciate the effort that went into creating a mini-movie for this song. I also love how a folding smartphone is prominently featured; some people might laugh at the commercial aspect of that, but good grief, the only other time I've seen those is when I played with the test devices at Best Buy

Personal Significance

Sharks was released in June of 2022, during a time when I was still finding myself after the pandemic and a toxic job. I found comfort in the relatability of Dan's words, seeing my own experience reflected, especially in the second verse: “don’t you let ‘em see you struggle - hiding your tears/ crisis, take advantage of your niceness… prey on your fears.”

I made an art piece for this song… Technically, it was supposed to be a birthday card for Dan Reynolds, to be posted on my Twitter page and appreciated by the fandom, but I was in the process of pulling away from social media and ended up missing the day entirely. I think I posted it a year later, but by then everything had changed and it lacked significance. I got the idea because the band released an animated lyrics video of Sharks in time for his birthday - I think it had something to do with National Shark Awareness Day - and I took a screenshot of the phrase “you're a light in the dark” and thought it applied nicely to him, so embellished it.

I must've listened to Sharks a gazillion times, between my initial release analysis and watching the music video and streaming it on my personal offline shuffle mix. Like all the tracks off of Mercury, I wore it threadbare and haven't really played it much since joining WdC. I'm glad to have a chance to give it a fresh listen with good earbuds.

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