The Harvey Dent Playlist

The following is an experiment to try and put a playlist of mine up here for y'all to download and enjoy. I'll be frankly amazed if I wake up tomorrow and find out that everything here has gone smoothly. If nothing else, I'm not certain if everyone has iTunes (as I think it will require iTunes to play) or if the playlist will even appear in proper order when loaded (there may have to be some manual arrangement). Regardless, here it is, right when people have actual *important* matters on mind and really couldn't give a crap. Hope it works!

(Psst. All you fellow Yanks voted today, right?)

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So in honor of Election Day, may I present to you this collection of songs dedicated to the one candidate in whom I still believe:



Would that I actually had photoshop so I could really whip together a mock CD cover with full playlist, but ah well. That'll have to do.

I've created this fanmix around the arc of my novel, following Harvey's journey by focusing on his relationships his wife, Gilda, his abusive father, his enemies (mobsters like Moroni, Falcone, Grissom, and Thorne) his friends (Bruce Wayne, James Gordon), Batman, and Gotham City herself. Until such time as you can actually read the book and follow how the music corresponds to the arc, the definitive Two-Face story "Eye of the Beholder" should suffice for now, as this was the core basis for my entire book.

At 28 tracks, this playlist is kinda sizable (149.71mb), even in zip file. It was compiled on iTunes, which means that you'll likely need iTunes to play several of the tracks. Or not, I'm not sure how this works. The whole thing is kind of a crap shoot.

You can download the .zip files in two parts via MediaFire: Part One and Part Two. They're all m4a files, so you'll probably need iTunes, and they're hopefully all in order.


( Full track list behind the cut, with artists such as Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, Dresden Dolls, Johnny Cash, Moby, and more! )

Let me know if shit is wonky and hopefully we shall de-wonkify matters. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy! Once I master this, I might finally load my "Mack the Knife" mix, or epic "Wainwright Family" saga. That playlist is brutal, man.


EDIT THE FIRST: Okay, so it looks like you'll need my itunes password to authorize some of the tracks. If you wanna download the above, e-mail me and let me know and I'll pass along my password. When I get back from voting and lunch, I'm gonna try to tinker with figuring out how to unload this so everyone can get it hassle-free.

You will pay the price for you lack of vision! (Vote Palpatine/Vader!)

Ugh, sorry if the Harvey Dent mix is being problematic for anyone. A hundred drunken lemurs are hard at work trying to find a solution. They would be sober, but they're too anxious today.

I think this is my second presidential election where I could vote, but this one felt... kinda cool, actually. Got a little twinge of pride and everything.

Alas, would that I'd known who else was on the ballot, my vote might have gone elsewhere...

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At first, I was wondering, "Wait, what's the inside of a DC Metro station doing there?!" But then I realized it's perfect, as the DC Metro is a beautiful example of the 1970's idea of what the future would look like.

On the cusp of a new chapter...

Karaoke tomorrow, anyone?

If I go, it'll be your last chance to say goodbye to me.

Y'know, a thought occurred to me last Friday, mere hours after receiving notice that I was accepted into five Fringe Festivals (with one to three more possibly to come). As of today, I have one more day of my life as I pretty much know it. Come Thursday, I'm packing up the minivan and beginning my year on the road.

That's not to say I won't be back for a year. No, I've got half of March and all of April back here between NYC Fringe and Orlando Fringe. But that time will likely be spent working on deadlines for all the other Fringes, plus rehearsing my hour-long version of THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES: HOW HEFNERIAN (yet to be written). The rest of my time from Thursday to the Fall of 2009 will be spent on the road, and most of it expressly for to perform in Fringe Festivals.

Still stunned, I told Mom this epiphany, and she just replied, "You've got a job."

Yes. Yes I do, don't I? It's not a high-paying job, and hell, I'll be grateful if I can just break even this first year. But it's work. And more to the point--a point I must remind myself of frequently as I hyperventilate and stress out--it's what I want to be doing. I must never lose sight of that.

It's what I've been thinking of doing ever since Dad died. Some part of me wonders why it took a year and a half to get to this point, while another part is fucking stunned that it's actually happening at all. Because it so easily might not have happened, even though it needed to happen.

Let's just hope I don't blow it. No, that's not right. Let's just hope I come out of all this wiser, stronger, happier, and with a ton of awesome stories out of the deal.

So. Remingtons. Karaoke. Wednesday night. Who's in?