I use music – often an entire playlist – to create a mindset and mood when I construct a scene. The acoustic version of “Life Is Beautiful” is a haunting hard rock ballad (from The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack album by Sixx:A.M., a side project of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx). Any funeral scenes is a … More “Life Is Beautiful” – The Matriarch Soundtrack (Music to Write By)