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This month's NaBloPoMo theme is home.

It is a pity that my writing priorities lie elsewhere at the moment, as home has always been a theme close to my heart, and is my #1 theme right now.

When I started writing I wasn't sure what my themes would be, and I found that discouraging as I had read somewhere that identifying your themes was important. I kept writing, though, and the more I wrote, the clearer it became what my themes are.

Themes are concepts that always find their ways into your stories. They are most likely concepts that you struggle with on some level, and you try to understand them or find an answer to them.

If you ask me where home is, I could give you a few answers. If you told me to pick one of those answers and stick with it I'd be stumped. I couldn't pick one. That's why home - and particularly the question what home is - will keep coming up in my stories, until I find the answer.

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Foo Zeppelin

June 9th 2008 19:45

The Foo Fighters!!!

I think it took a couple of days to sink in - I watched rock history in the making on Saturday night, I saw (half of) Led Zeppelin play to songs with the best rock band of the last 13 years, if not ever. The Foo Fighters gig in Wembley on Saturday was quite possible the best concert I will ever experience in my entire life.

I've been a massive fan of the Foos for ages, and I have wanted to see them live for about as long. Something always came up, though. When they played the O2 Arena in November last year, I couldn't go. Shortly after that the Wembley gig was announced and I knew that this was my shot to finally see them.

And man, did I pick the right concert there! 86,000 people, the Foos in top form rocking their socks off, and that encore. Now I am not a massive Led Zeppelin fan, but when Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones walked on stage, the shivers were chasing each other down my spine. How many more opportunities will be to see Led Zep live (it's a bit of a pity that Robert Plant couldn't be there, I have to admit)? Two, one, none at all? Who knows.

My personal highlights were some of the Foo classics, though. Singing along with an entire stadium full of people to all the songs, but especially to Breakout, Stacked Actors, My Hero, Everlong, Monkey Wrench, All My Life and Best Of You was AMAZING. Just the thoughts of My Hero - which turned into a collective Dave Grohl worship - and Everlong - greatest song ever - give me goose bumps.

Right after the show I said to myself, "Sonya, that's it - you have to give up rock concerts for good. This show just cannot be topped." Now I'm not so sure anymore that I will never go to another concert. Yet I can't see any other band replace the Foo Fighters as my rock gods.

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Busy busy

June 8th 2008 22:34

Sometimes life is just too much to handle to keep this blog active: Vacation, new challenges at work, a novel to edit, the best band in the world to see - I shall call them Foo Zeppelin.

I'll get back to a more regular posting schedule when things have calmed down a little.

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