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Author Seth Grahame Smith penned the best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and wrote the script for Tim Burton's upcoming film Dark Shadows . Music fuels his writing process and he chooses a slate of songs that affect him on an emotional level for his Guest DJ set, from Louis Armstrong to My Bloody Valentine. Smith's latest book, Unholy Night , is out now.
For more: http://sethgrahamesmith.com/
Track List
1. "Only Shallow" by My Bloody Valentine
2. "Help" The Carpenters
3. "Electric Relaxation" by A Tribe Called Quest
4. "Dirty Boots" by Sonic Youth
5. "We Have All the Time in the World" by Louis Armstrong
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Piece Description
Author Seth Grahame Smith penned the best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and wrote the script for Tim Burton's upcoming film Dark Shadows . Music fuels his writing process and he chooses a slate of songs that affect him on an emotional level for his Guest DJ set, from Louis Armstrong to My Bloody Valentine. Smith's latest book, Unholy Night , is out now.
For more: http://sethgrahamesmith.com/
Track List
1. "Only Shallow" by My Bloody Valentine
2. "Help" The Carpenters
3. "Electric Relaxation" by A Tribe Called Quest
4. "Dirty Boots" by Sonic Youth
5. "We Have All the Time in the World" by Louis Armstrong
Transcript
Dan Wilcox: Hi, this is Dan Wilcox from KCRW and I am sitting here with author Seth Grahame-Smith, whose best selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter are being adapted as feature films. Today we are going to dig into his musical inspirations and hear a few of the songs that have inspired him over the years as part of KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Welcome Seth.
Seth: Thanks for having me.
Dan: Yeah, so what did you bring for us here today?
Seth: One of the things that I do when I write all the time is that I write to music. That tends to be film scores, trance, or stuff like Boards of Canada, Ulrich Schnauss or these sorts of mood-scapes. I have to have that kind of music when I write and I tend to make playlists depending on what I am writing.
Seth: The first song is called "Only Shallow" by My Bloody Valentine.
I grew up in Connecticut and ther...
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Host Dan Wilcox
