I may have mentioned I'm working on a relaunch of zeisgeist.com - it's not up yet, but the first stage will go live on Monday (the day before THE SWEET LIFE OF STELLA MADISON debuts!). Well, since my last web redesign and this one, a little site called Playlist.com came along. Which means that my book soundtracks can now be imbedded directly on my site. This isn't revolutionary - lots of authors do this now - but when I first started creating soundtracks for my books, they were a bit of a novelty, and I'd get lots of reader e-mail asking me to upload the songs. Since that is (cough) illegal, the best I could do was link to an iTunes playlist that they could then purchase, should they desire. But now - NOW - there's Playlist.com. Only, I can't find every song from my original soundtracks on there, especially the one for BRINGING UP THE BONES, which was published in fall 2002.

So there are some substitutions, but the essence of each soundtrack is essentially the same. Tonight I was actually finalizing the one for BONES, and oh my god, suddenly it was like I was 26 all over again. Hence the subject heading "musical time capsule." What strikes me is how incredibly sad the playlist is, and how, even after all of these years, I still tear up whenever I hear Edie Brickell's "He Said," Tori Amos's "China," and the acoustic version of Colin Hay's "Overkill." (Oddly enough, the acoustic version was playing in BJs yesterday, which totally caught me of guard. I mean, hello! One minute I'm picking up a six pack of black beans and the next I'm fighting back the weepies.)

Anyway, here it is, in all of its heartbreaking glory: