Looove Michael Buble. I've been writing a mini-story where Home plays an important part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qosgQOw6qQ

.... That is my favorite cover from him.

Its an easy way to get a story started too, with these types of songs. Mostly with foggy nights, trenchcoats, and long goodbyes...

Mine too--I think it was one of the first songs he did that didn't come from someone else.

Music can be quite influential. A later story with the same characters works with Song for a Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfoot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSoUxtGSNJg

I'd like to have music come into play whenever I work with these characters (if I ever get them presentable). There are a lot of songs I'd like to work with, most of them from before I was born (I grew up on oldies).

really? i could have sworn someone else wrote it.. though dont take my word on it. ^^

Oldies aren't oldies if you never heard them before ^^ but i know what you mean: my mom listened to everything from carole king, mr. diamond, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole to The Temptations and Ms. Franklin... all that WONDERFUL, fun, soulful music.

Not like the crap they turn out now adays. Nothing but bitches, hos, and bling... *HURK*

And if I hear one more middle-aged nipped and tucked whiny described as a 'diva'.... *sharpens claws*

For me it's sixties and seventies, an endangered species on the local music stations. One moved to FM and became a mainly 70s and 80s station, while another was shut down without notice and replaced with an all-news format--because the GTA doesn't have enough of those!

LOL! You got that right *brings you shapening stones for you because its BOUND to happen*

oh yeah man! Motown and Hippies and Disco with a stirring of Elvis once in awhile.. oh I really miss that on the radio. I would listen to the damn commercials if I could get a station like that again!

Do you have high speed internet? You can have your pick of radio stations. I recommend 104.3 from Detroit, Oldies 1150 from Hamilton, Ontario (avoid afternoons; their afternoon guy is an ass), and 103.9 from Woodstock, Ontario.

With luck it will all work out.

*noses* luck and a little bit of elbow grease ;)

*sparks up a clove, lights another for you and passes it over, then pours out a couple of slugs of Jack*

You dilute your whiskey, I'll dilute mine... :)

... pal, you're a life saver.

(Though I prefer Jameson but... never look a gift horse in the mouth!)

*smiles softly, his eyes shining, and throws back his drink*

Hey, you want to cut the good stuff? Sure thing. :) *reaches over the bar for the Jameson's, smoke trailing from his stick*

That's the ticket *A slow grin is your reward, and she also throws back the JD, waiting for her glass to fill with her favorite spirit. The drag from her clove sparks leaves the room hazey and somehow, warmer*

You own the place or something? Or do you make it a habit of reaching over a bartender's pulpit and taking what saving grace you can find?

*grins back at you, equally slowly, his eyes sparkling as he opens the bottle and pours two hefty doses of good Irish medicine... yours first, of course, for he is a polite dragon. He takes a drag on his clove and huffs out two plumes of smoke through his nostrils*

Mmmm... oh, it's definitely a habit. Like many others, including not taking pulpits seriously, ever. And saving grace is all very well, but I prefer to save myself for other things.

*he grins again and lifts his glass* Sláinte Mhaith...