Fantastic Music Artists I Highly Recommend:

Darwin Deez, Freelance Whales, Landon Pigg, M83, MGMT, the xx, Two Door Cinema Club, Yeasayer, Yellow Ostrich, Tegan & Sara, Ed Sheeran, Band of Horses, Local Natives, Bronze Radio Return, Pentatonix, Daft Punk, Arctic Monkeys, NIN, The Civil Wars, Jose Gonzalez, Junip, David Bowie, Lana Del Ray, MUTEMATH, Wolfmother, The Neighbourhood, Dead Man's Bones, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, and Jeff Buckley.

I could keep listing artists and songs of various genres, but it'd probably just be easier to give you my playlists.

Playlist for "Somehow Familiar":

Chapter 1: "August's Rhapsody" by Mark Mancina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQTsW6TGAUE)
Chapter 2: "Be Here Now" by Ray LaMontagne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl3V0dTRDvI)
Chapter 3: "Scratch" by Kendall Payne, "Lily Dreams On" by Cotton Mather (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAA9VRLiWkY, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66UsJlCLBQ)
Chapter 4: "Catch My Disease" by Ben Lee, "Suffocation Keep" by The Slip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstY-8NWSgE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_KH5CsTtAw)
Chapter 5: "Notice" by Gomez, "We Walk" by The Ting Tings, and "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1S5WDIADbg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI9IAaAO_no, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0)

Ignore the videos themselves, unless you're truly curious. I have these posted so that you can just click and read -- no need to go searching and wondering if you have the right song. That's all!

A/N:

2.24.14

Hello, my lovelies. For starters, I'm not dead, which is pretty awesome. It's been about 5 years since I last updated "Somehow Familiar," and without good reason, to be completely honest. For years, I was simply blocked and overwhelmed by the fact that I had written a story that I liked so much (considering that my earlier stories were, quite simply, terrible). And then I just couldn't get past chapter 5. It was like a cement wall a mile high and thousands of miles long, and even if I had any upper body strength (which I do not), I'm definitely not like Fezzik and therefore cannot climb the Cliffs of Insanity, even in my own mind.

I'm going to try to attempt to write and perhaps finish the story (which is insane to think about, as I'm SO GOOD at starting and not finishing things), though it might go in another direction that I had initially planned. I might make some minor adjustments to earlier chapters (as my writing has grown over the years), but nothing horribly substantial. Probably just the semantics and maybe tidy up the word choices.

Thank you to all of you who have continued reviewing, favoriting, following, and private messaging me into action again. It has been too long since I sat down and wrote anything besides spreadsheets at work or terrible lyrics.

- Ammi