Monday, September 08, 2008

Knights, Music and YouTube

If you've read this blog for any length of time, you know I put together a soundtrack for each story. I'm still adding songs for my current manuscript (working title: The Billionaire's Playground). I've already mentioned inspiration for my hero came from Lancelot (played by Ioan Gruffudd) in the movie King Arthur ao I open the story at a castle in England because well, I needed a reason to put my billionaire in a suit of armor!

Needless to say, I've been watching many (okay, way too many) King Arthur YouTube videos recently to put me in the writing mood. I've found good and not-so-good ones, but a couple stick out for various reasons and I wanted to share those with you.

This first one is a fake trailer, and I must admit, this is the movie I wished they'd made instead of the one they did.



The next one contains clips to a song from the Disney movie, Mulan. I was laughing at some of the parts. Talk about a great editing job! The clips are perfect for the lyrics!



I'd never heard this song until I found this YouTube clip, but it's now on my sound track. Touching lyrics!



And finally I can't even count how many times I've played this one. The music is absolutely beautiful and is one of the songs I listened to over and over again while writing this past weekend. It's also been added to my book soundtrack.



What songs have you been listening to recently?