The Heist Society playlist (aka-you guys are gonna think I'm weird)

Hey everybody,

I hope you’re having a great weekend! I must admit I had every intention of revealing the winner of the t-shirt contest today, but indecisive me STILL hasn’t decided (we got so many great entries!), so instead I’ve decided to give you something else today that might be sort of cool. Or interesting. Or just plain weird:

The Heist Society playlist!

Now, first let me remind everyone that I’m not a music person. I don’t follow obscure bands and treasure vinyl and (despite my love of John Cusak) I was lost through a large portion of High Fidelity.

But occasionally I do put together a list of songs to get me revved up to write. (I don’t listen to them while writing–just when I need to get in the appropriate mood.)

For Heist Society, sometimes that meant putting myself in a European frame of mind (because that’s where 80% of the book takes place). I needed to think about what it would feel like to eat a croissant in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower or sip hot chocolate in the Alps, so some of the songs on the playlist are very old songs that feel very “old world” to me–that’s why they’re there (not because I think they’re going to be huge pop hits.)

Sometimes that meant putting myself in the frame of mind to STEAL THINGS.

I pulled in music from two of my favorite “heist” movies ever–The Sting, and The Thomas Crowne Affair–and other songs that have a playful, whimsical, fast-paced “let’s see if we can get away with this” vibe.

And there you have it–the songs that, to me, offer the perfect backdrop to the Heist Society world of Katarina Bishop (and her band of merry, hot, teenage thieves.)

http://www.profileplaylist.net/mc/mp3player_new.swf