Scott C Lillard
Bio
Father, Husband, Physicist, Award-Winning Composer and Musician
Stories (9/0)
Pit Black - Chapter 1
Chapter 1 T here are stretches of Hollywood Boulevard in which, aside from the glittering stars of the Walk of Fame, it could be any street in any American city. The truth is that other than those stars, it is just the same as the others. The same businesses, the same people, with the same hopes, dreams; the same problems. The film industry’s presence is more apparent here than it is elsewhere, but Hollywood’s tendrils can be felt throughout America, reaching, pulling; a vast Lovecraftian beast existing only to consume.
By Scott C Lillard7 months ago in Fiction
A Song of Ice and Fire - A Throne in My Side
The enormous popularity of HBO’s Game of Thrones led many to believe that the source material — the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin — must be even better. It's not. All subtlety and character depth were creations of the show’s writers and actors.
By Scott C Lillard8 months ago in Critique
Neptune’s Lantern
People in my family have this weird habit of disappearing, never to be seen again. My oldest aunt vanished long before I was born, then my uncle, when I was four, my other aunt when I was nine, and, when I was fifteen, my father. Family legend says that just after my dad and his siblings had been born, the vanishing streak had begun, with my grandmother, though nobody could say for sure except my grandfather, and she was one of the few topics he would not speak about.
By Scott C Lillard10 months ago in Fiction
Inheritance and Adaptation
It’s difficult for me—as I imagine it would be difficult for any lover of music—to come up with a set playlist of perfect tunes to outline a soundtrack to my life. After all, we are so connected to the music that defines our human experience that choosing some of it to showcase as “important” invariably omits so much more that may be equally important. Of course, being a composer and sound engineer, I see the value in buckling down and making those cuts. Having a wide range of musical taste, I could give you the jazz version, classical version, punk version, music box arrangements of video game music version (not even kidding) of my life; I could give you countless combinations of the above and more. What’s more, it could refer to an aspect of my personality, a time in my life, or an overarching biographical soundtrack. I’m going to go with the full-on biography, which means it will be harder to choose the songs to represent the journey, but let’s see how it plays out!
By Scott C Lillard10 months ago in Beat
Dilation
According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, an observer traveling with great velocity will experience less time passage than an observer traveling with little or no velocity. This phenomenon is called time dilation, and is famously exemplified by the “twin paradox.” The thought experiment sends a young astronaut into space at near light speed while his twin brother stays on Earth. When the first twin returns, he has barely aged at all; he is astonished to find that his brother, who has not experienced time dilation due to great speed, is very old. To travel through interstellar space would be to outlive everyone you know. It would also be, quite possibly, not to live at all.
By Scott C Lillard12 months ago in Fiction
The Last Cardinal
The tour had been quite boring. Quin had only gone because Stevie was such a big fan. But Stevie was gone; the long line and dull drone of the guide could serve no purpose but a flash of nostalgia. It didn’t even manage that, despite the phrases that seemed to be lifted directly from Stevie’s ramblings. Maybe all fans talked that way. Quin still couldn’t see what it was in this author’s writing that was so interesting. A bunch of mid-20th century conspiracy theories with some superficial romance and cliché action. Quin felt the rest of the land around the cabin, which was at least alive and changing, full of grass and trees and birds and squirrels, to be much more compelling. This is what she told herself, anyway, despite not being an outdoorsy person at all. But that spirit of adventure, mystery, and intrigue that had so richly emanated from Stevie’s aura was, perhaps, what brought Quin to the one-room museum now dedicated to the Author, Stevie’s favorite.
By Scott C Lillard3 years ago in Humans