New Song

You know what day it is? Well, you might very well have forgotten and who could blame you? After all I missed the last two. But it's Alice Day--the day when I post lyrics and an mp3 to a (usually) new song.  If you would like to see songs from previous Alice Days, click on the "new song" tag.

So do you like Alice Day in general?  This song in particular?  These posts are not getting a lot of responses, so I have no way of knowing if they are pleasing a lot of people or just a dedicated few.   

Art Feeds Life mp3 (a capella) is here
lyrics and melody by Cat Faber

Art feeds life and life feeds art
And art feeds life, but you know you need
Guts and brains to follow your heart
Into the life you dared to start
And the dreams that sometimes make you bleed.

So you pay the price assessed
Burn bright, beating back dark of death
Still you feel in your secret chest
There are times that you wish for rest
More than water or food or breath.

You're glad you made the crossroad deal.
You swore to go to any length,
And all your friends who wish you weal,
Straighten spines of silver and steel,
Tap their spirits to will you strength.

Strongly though you wish to stay,
The story calls you down the road;
You know you can't go on this way,
But still you think for one more day,
If you stand up straight you can bear the load.

(repeat 1st verse)

I have discovered something disturbing

I was poking through my LJ which I generate by crossposting from Dreamwidth.  (Livejournal has more readers but I trust Dreamwidth not to shut down without warning.)  And I discovered that some of my posts have probably not been showing up on people's friendslists.  And doggone it, it's some of my Most Important Posts to boot.

See I have been putting up Alice Day posts of (usually) new songs, trying for one every two weeks, though that hasn't always worked out.  And since making the mp3 for the Alice Day post is the kind of thing that sometimes requires a few tries and some computer fiddling, I don't like to put off doing that until the last minute, so I have been making the post ahead of time, and front-dating it (putting a 2012 date on it so it will stay at the top of my journal and be easy to find) and making it private to me.  When it's ready to show the world (and time for an Alice Day post) I change the date to today, and the post to viewable by everybody, and unclick the "don't show on reading pages; allows dating out of order" box.

Now "date out of order" on DW keeps things off lists, like other people's friendslist and so on.  I suppose this is so that, if I had an out of order post that was public, it doesn't perpetually show up at the top of everyone's reading, because people would get pretty bored with that after the fifth or sixth day.  And that propagates to LJ in some way and does the same thing there.

Except on LJ the box is labeled "date out of order" and apparently when I unclick the box on DW it does not propagate to LJ.  If "date out of order" does the same thing on LJ that it does on DW, some of my Alice Day posts have not been showing up to LJ readers unless they go to the effort of actually clicking on my name and reading just my LJ.

This disturbs me because I worked hard on those songs and would like people who are interested to be able to see them.

I think I have fixed it, but I guess every time I modify the date on a DW post I will have to go over to LJ and manually unclick the out of order box.  At least I know now.

And in the meantime if you think you missed something, the "new song" tag should bring up all the Alice Day posts.