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glee; what would jay-z do? (songs that can be found on artie abrams' iPod)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:57:51 GMT

Medium: Television
Fandom: Glee
Subject: Artie Abrams
Title: what would jay-z do?
Summary: Songs that can be found on Artie Abrams' iPod. A character study, with a smattering of Tina/Artie.
Notes: Artie is a pimp. Or rather, he thinks he's a pimp, and is really just a total dork. He's optimistic, fairly confident, and a little naive. And just like every other teenager in the universe, has his own insecurities.

Songs are mix of hip-hop, rap, rock, pop, and indie. Artists include: the kooks, savage garden, david bowie.

what would jay-z do? (download)

01 skee-lo- "i wish" ♬
I wish I was little bit taller, I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good- I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat, and a '64 Impala

02 the who- "real good looking boy" ♬
When I think back to the first time in my childhood, when I saw that face,
I thought right then, "that's a real good looking boy".
...So I ran to my mother, I said, "hey, Mom, take a look at me.
... She said, "Son, well you know you're an ugly boy, you don't really look like him.
In this long line there's been some, real strange genes.
You got 'em all, you got 'em all with some extras thrown in."

03 david bowie- "sound and vision" ♬
I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude over my head
Don't you wonder sometimes 'bout sound and vision?

04 barenaked ladies- "light up my room" ♬
Late at night when the wires in the walls sing in tune with the din of the falls
I'm conducting it all while I sleep, to light this whole town.

05 spoon- "rhythm & soul" ♬
Oh, you know. Mmm, the rhythm and soul.
Get your hands out your back pockets. Boy, let it go.
... And, you know. Ooh, the rhythm and soul.
Get your fingers moving their sockets. Tune in, Tokyo.

06 cobra starship- "my moves are white (white hot, that is)" ♬
Take my time. Take it easier. Don't need no lines.
Cause my moves are hot, and I never stop, girl.
... I'm the kind of guy that you ain't ever seen before.
If you want to hit the floor, are you ready for more?

07 nsync- "pop" ♬
Do you ever wonder why this music gets you high?
It takes you on a ride. Feel it when your body starts to rock,
Baby you can't stop, and the music's all you got.
... Now, why you wanna try to classify the type of thing that we do?
'Cause we're just fine doing what we like; can we say the same for you?
Tired of feelin all around me animosity.
Just worry about yours, 'cause I'm-a get mine.

08 weezer- "buddy holly" ♬
What's with these homies, dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?
What did we ever do to these guys, that made them so violent?
Woo-hoo, but you know I'm yours. Woo-hoo, and I know you're mine.
...I don't care what they say about us, anyway. I don't care 'bout that!

09 mike doughty- "your misfortune" ♬
When everybody says, "No, no, no. Well, it's your misfortune, and none of my own",
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Well, it's your misfortune that sweetens my song.
I can be the friend you want. I can be your confidante.
I can be the right reminder at the right time, throwing out the lifeline.

10 the smiths- "pretty girls make graves" ♬
"I'm not the man you think I am. I'm not the man you think I am"
And Sorrow's native son, he will not smile for anyone
And pretty girls make graves. Oh ...

11 the libertines- "music when the lights go out" ♬
Well, I no longer hear the music when the lights go out.
Love goes cold in the shades of doubt. The strange fate in my mind is all too clear
Music when the lights come on, the girl I thought I knew has gone
And with her my heart it disappeared. Well, I no longer hear the music.

12 vampire weekend- "campus" ♬
Then I see you, you're walking cross the campus
Cruel professor, studying romances.
How am I supposed to pretend I never want to see you again?

13 ben lee- "what would jay-z do?" ♬
I want to look sharp, be strong, refuse when I know it's wrong.
I want you to know my name. I want the hottest chick in the game.
I want a big heart, and I want a big car.
I want to be a self-made man. I want to know the things that he understands.
What does he do when he's lost and confused? What would Jay-Z do?
When I'm feeling blue, what would Jay-Z do?

14 the kooks- "sway" ♬
Be whoever you have to be. I won't judge you.
Sing whatever you have to sing to get it out,
and not become a recluse about your house, come out.
I know you never meant to but you do. Oh, but you do.
Still, I need your sway, because you always pay for it.
And I, and I need your soul, because you're always soulful.
And I, and I need your heart, because you're always in the right places.

15 savage garden- "affirmation" ♬
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone.

16 the beatles- "hey jude" ♬
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain.
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.
...So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin.
You're waiting for someone to perform with.
And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do.
The movement you need is on your shoulder.

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In terms of song organization, 01- 03 are Artie at the start of the show. 04- 09 are Artie coming into his own in Glee Club, and getting closer to Tina. 10 & 11 are Artie finding out about Tina's secret in Wheels, and 12-16 are the aftermath, how I see the rest of the season going for Artie (and Artie and Tina).

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catcher in the rye; oh, never mind. [ep]

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:27:00 GMT

Medium: Book
Fandom: The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Subject: Holden Caulfield
Title: oh, never mind. [ep]
Warnings: Language
Notes: 7 songs, Holden's view of the world around him. Artists include Aesop Rock & Modest Mouse. The hat in the cover art taken from Google Images.

oh, never mind. (download)

I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck You". I'm positive, in fact.

01 mark kozelek- "if you want blood" ♬
It's criminal, there ought to be a law. Criminal, there ought to be a whole lot more.
You get nothing for nothing; tell me, who can you trust?

02 aesop rock- "holy smokes" ♬
Just a lit fuse in the back of the pews, watching a thousand flavors of the same God feud.
I figure ultimate-peace is the common theme, so its a no-brainer piece when the blood hit the screen.
....I'm not an asshole, I'm just a little confused. Not an asshole, I'm just a little confused.

03 andrew jackson jihad- "people ii: the reckoning" ♬
How's the world so small when the world is so large?
And what made the world, could I please speak to who's in charge?
Everything is real but it's also just as fake, from your daughter's birthday party to your grandmother's wake.
...So here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, never mind. Oh, never mind.
In fucking fact, Mrs. Robinson, the world won't care whether you live or die, live or die.

04 modest mouse- "bankrupt on selling" ♬
All the people you knew were the actors. All the people you knew were the actors.
Well, I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words, and I'll talk real loud, goddamn right I'll be heard.
You'll remember the guy who said all those big words he must have learned in college.

05 the faces- "ooh la la" ♬
The can-can's such a pretty show. They'll steal your heart away.
But backstage, back on Earth again, the dressing rooms are grey.
They'll come on strong, and it ain't too long before they make you feel a man.
But love is blind, and you soon will find you're just a boy again.

06 sun kil moon- "neverending math equation" ♬
The universe works on a math equation that never really even ever really even ends in the end.
Infinity spirals out creation. We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying,
"We ain't sure where you stand. You ain't machines and you ain't land."
And the plants and the animals, they are linked. And the plants and the animals eat each other.

07 her space holiday- "i'll believe in anything" ♬
Nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn either way.
About your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost.
Because nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn either way.
...You learn how to fight, one way or another, or you disappear.
I know how to fight, but I like disappearing.

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star trek; in case of pon farr...

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:11:26 GMT

Medium: Television/Movie
Fandom: Star Trek (really any version, you only require a knowledge of Vulcans)
Subject: PON FARR!
Title: In Case of Pon Farr: Hit It
Warnings: Explicit content (sexual themes, language). Also, crack.
Summary: A guide for Vulcans going through pon farr, and the women (and men) that love them. (Or, more generally, a mostly-ridiculous mix about sex.)

in case of pon farr: hit it (download)

01 morningwood- "take off your clothes" ♬

I wanna touch your, your little hip bones
Your collar bones, and all your other bones
And your happy trail, it's my happy trail
Your treasure trail, let's see what goes down

(Come on, baby, you're fixated. I think I'd like it if we waited
Get a little more acquainted, it's better when anticipated.)

Having trouble getting your Vulcan boyfriends to take the next step? Just find out when their next pon farr is, and see if you can wait. (Warning: you may have to wait up to seven years, and even then, he might decide to be a martyr and turn to his Vulcan betrothed. In which case, turn to another species.)

02 bloodhound gang- "the bad touch" ♬

Well now, we call this the act of mating
But there are several other very important differences
Between human beings and animals that you should know about
...You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.

It's hard out there for a Vulcan (half or otherwise), who suddenly starts experiencing losses in control. TRY to communicate beforehand. If you can't... don't stress it. It's probably his fault.

03 jc chasez- "all day long i dream about sex" ♬

Hour after hour, baby, all night long with you.
All day long I dream about sex,
And all night long I think about sex,
And all the time I think about sex with you, with you.

The best (read: only) solution to pon farr is to lock yourself and the afflicted Vulcan in a locked, private space. The rest will take care of itself.

04 salt 'n' pepa- "push it" ♬

Coolin' by day, then at night working up a sweat!
C'mon girls, let's go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show.
Now push it!

Females in the vicinity, GET ON IT. Literally.

05 hot chip- "sexual healing" ♬

Baby, I'm hot just like an oven, I need some lovin'
And my baby, I can't hold it much longer. It's getting stronger,
And when I get that feeling, I want sexual healing
Sexual healing, oh baby, makes me feel so fine.
...Oh, come take control, just grab a hold of my body and mind.

Oh, yeah, for this not in the know: if a Vulcan going through pon farr doesn't have sex, he will die. So man up.

06 the lonely island- "jizz in my pants" ♬

I jizz right in my pants every time you're next to me.
And when we're holding hands, it's like having sex to me.
You say I'm premature, I just call it ecstasy.
I wear a rubber at all times, it's a necessity.

Assure him that it happens to everyone, and it isn't a big deal. Assure yourself that Pon Farr counts as an extenuating circumstance, and it will be better the second (or third, or tenth) time.

07 bow wow wow- "aphrodisiac" ♬

With an a-a-a-phrodisiac, your ha-ha-heart goes piddle-pat.
Don't do nothing, just relax with an a-a-a-phrodisiac.
If you want to fall in love with somebody,
Somebody that you're not in love with at all.

Sometimes an inconveniently-timed pon farr forces a Vulcan to mate with someone he wouldn't otherwise. Bring him out of his shame spiral with some chocolate and Vulcan poetry. (Sidenote: chocolate makes Vulcans drunk, so you may find yourself having sex and repeating the comforting process all over again.)

08 alphabeat- "10,000 nights of thunder" ♬

I was not looking for artsy-fartsy love
I wanted someone to love completely,
Someone more than weekly.
....You give me 10,000 nights of thunder,
But I will give them all back to you.
...It feels like 10,000 nights of thunder,
When I've spent the one with you!

Best case scenario: you go through pon farr with someone you love- umm.. esteem highly.

bonus. two more serious songs from the Vulcan in question's POV.

Don't forget, Vulcans tend to be a little melodramatic about the experience. They might attempt to hide the situation from you, or refuse to describe it as "fun", instead using less appealing terms, like "madness" or "grave danger". Just nod and smile and secretly clear your schedule for the next week.

09 the beatles- "i want you (she's so heavy)" ♬

I want you, I want you so bad.
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.

10 frightened rabbit- "fast blood" ♬

And now I, I tremble, because this fumble has become biblical.
I feel like I just died twice, was reborn again for all our dirty sins.
And the fast blood, fast blood, fast blood hurricanes through me.
And then it rips my roof away with her fire heads.
This is the longest kiss. Good night. Good night.

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gossip girl; i lived in perhaps

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:33:58 GMT

Medium: Television
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Subject: Dan/Blair
Title: I Lived in Perhaps
Notes: I'm trying something a little new here; two "disks", one from Blair's POV and one from Dan's. Blair's songs are all Cat Power, and Dan's are all CAKE. 8 tracks each, all available for individual download and in a zip file. So, this mix is basically a character study of Blair and Dan, and my own musings on how their relationship would actually work. Uh, warning for angst and copious amounts of Breakfast at Tiffany references?

i lived in perhaps (download)

breakfast at tiffany's is blair's favorite movie. she watches it when she's had a good day with nate, when she's had a bad day. she watches it when serena leaves, when serena comes back, when she first really notices lonely boy. audrey hepburn is her hero, but holly golightly is her serena. she just has this indefinable quality that has men and women alike swirling around her, searching for a little scrap of affection. holly golightly has her own gravitational force. dan humphrey from brooklyn looks at blair as if he's trying to memorize her. he drinks her in, and his fingers twitch, and he writes about her. blair lets him.

cat power . blair waldorf

01 good clean fun ♬
hey, i'm run down on my luck
hey, can i have something from you
it seems i have nothing to give
it seems you have nothing to give.

02 great expectations ♬
do you look for hope in other people's eyes?
well that may be your worst redemption
do you feed and clothe yourself?
well that may be your best defense
...facing, confronting, branding each other,
we were made through one another.

03 american flag ♬
if i could stand to be less difficult

04 he war ♬
and if you won't let me run with it,
we're on to your same old trick
get up and run away with it.

05 after it all ♬
when you stand up so tall, with your back to me against the wall
and make demands with your angry hands
...you broke your back, you left your scratch
then you came back to me just to get some sleep
after it all, when it's said and done, will you come back to me?
and tell me that it was never up to you or me?

06 the greatest ♬
once I wanted to be the greatest, two fists of solid rock
with brains that could explain any feeling

07 lived in bars ♬
there's nothing like living in a bottle,
and nothing like ending it all for the world.

08 metal heart ♬
sew your fortunes on a string and hold them up to light
blue smoke will take a very violent flight
and you will be changed, and everything,
and you will be in a very sad sad zoo.

truman capote is kind of dan's hero. he reads the book breakfast at tiffanys before seeing the movie, so of course he can't stomach the latter. jenny coos over the final scene, but all dan can think is that the relationship is going to end in disaster. holly- who doesn't even know "fred"'s real name- will probably slip away in the middle of the night, leaving a note that contains a lot of "darling"'s and placations but basically translates to "I did warn you". blair waldorf calls dan "lonely boy", humphrey if he's lucky, and dan thinks that, as someone who obsessed over that book from the age of thirteen, he was warned twice over.

cake . dan humphrey

01 perhaps perhaps perhaps ♬
if you can't make your mind up, we'll never get started.
and i don't wanna wind up being parted, broken-hearted.
so if you really love me, say yes. but if you don't, dear, confess.
and please don't tell me, "perhaps, perhaps, perhaps".

02 short skirt/long jacket ♬
she is fast and thorough, and sharp as a tack.
she's touring the facility, and picking up slack.

03 when you sleep ♬
when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know? what do your fingers show?
...are they strangers or lovers? do they drive your car?
are they swimming submissively? sex acts of life
or just cutting through Jello with a very sharp knife?

04 open book ♬
but you're caught in your own glory.
you are believing your own stories.
writing your own headlines, ignoring your own deadlines.
but now you've gotta write them all again.
you think she's an open book,
but you don't know which page to turn to, do you?

05 tougher than it is ♬
some people like to make life
a little tougher than it is
well, the more you try to shave the cat
the more the thing will bite and scratch
it's best, i think, to leave its fur
and to listen to its silky purr.

06 love you madly ♬
the ornaments look pretty,
but they're pulling down the branches of the tree.

07 ruby sees all ♬
i can feel the pressure building high.
you should see you're headed for a storm.
don't you see it building in the sky?
don't you think it's time to swim to shore?

08 mexico ♬
i had a match, but she had a lighter
i had a flame, but she had a fire
i was bright, but she was much brighter
i was high, but she was the sky
...i say i want you, and you don't believe me
you say you want me, but i've got my doubts.

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glee; we are far too young & clever

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:56:43 GMT

Medium: TV
Fandom: Glee
Subject: General (the kids with a bit of Will)
Title: we are far too young & clever
Warnings: Based off of what we've seen so far (up to ep. 5) but too general to be spoiler-y.

we are far too young & clever (download)

01 mika- "we are golden" (all) ♬

teenage dreams in a teenage circus, running around like a clown on purpose
who gives a damn about the family you come from, no giving up when you're young and you want some.
... we are not what you think we are. we are golden, we are golden.

02 the ting tings- "that's not my name" (the "loser" glee kids) ♬

holding back, every day the same. don't wanna be a loner, listen to me, oh no.
i never say anything at all, but with nothing to consider they forget my name

03 i'm from barcelona- "ola kala" (all) ♬

have you ever felt that nothing's ever going your way? every good thing that you find is always running away?
don't be afraid. don't be afraid. because everything is going to turn to be ok.

04 save ferris- "come on eileen" (every character desperate to get out of Lima) ♬

these people round here wear beaten-down eyes
sunk-in, smoke-dried faces, they're so resigned to what their fate is,
but not us, no not us. we are far too young and clever.

05 missy higgins- "the cactus that found the beat" (the dancers) ♬

So you're sitting in your seats, and tapping your toes. How long do ya think you can hold,
before you start having to join in my groove (dap-in-do-baa)?
cause there's a beat in my feet as I tumble the seas. and the waves of ecstasy.
and can you feel the vibe, does it move you inside like the way it does to me?

06 the ordinary boys- "we've got the best job ever" (will) ♬

i try to stop myself from being boring, and try to remind myself who is laughing
i try to act like it's not so exciting, desperate that my 15 seconds is passing
...we've got the best job ever, it will be over sooner or never
at the risk of sounding clever, i want the best job ever forever

07 apples in stereo- "energy" (all) ♬

and the world is made of energy, and the world is synchronicity
...and there's a light inside of you, and there's a light inside of me.

08 cat stevens- "if you want to sing out, sing out" (all) ♬

cause there's a million ways to go, you know that there are. you can do what you want,
the opportunities are, and if you find a new way, you can do it today.

09 ben lee- "we're all in this together" (all) ♬

i know you think about jumping ship before it sinks, but we are all in this together
ask a scientist, it's quantum physics; we are all in this together
...yeah, I love you and you love her, and she loves him, but we are all in this together

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jennifer's body; my better half has bitten me

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:52:12 GMT

Medium: Movie
Fandom: Jennifer's Body
Subject: General (Jennifer)
Title: my better half has bitten me
Warning: Violence, language
Spoilers: Nothing you wouldn't see in the trailer
Notes: Jennifer's Body is what would happen if Mean Girls & Heathers had a love child, and it grew up watching nothing but B-grade horror movies. It's not exactly a great movie- it maybe tries a little too hard, and I'm not entirely sure how much of the cheese was intentional- but it's entertaining as shit, and isn't that all that matters? So I made a fun quick mix, including songs by Peaches, The Kills, and Tegan & Sara. The songs may have additional "layers of meaning" if you've seen the movie, but it's really not necessary. :)

my better half has bitten me (download)

"Jennifer's evil."
"I know."
"No. I mean, she's actually evil. Not high school evil."

01 3oh!3- "don't trust me" ♬

X's on the back of your hands, washed them in the bathroom to drink like the bands.
And the set list you stole off the stage has red and purple lipstick all over the page.
Bruises cover your arms, shaking in the fingers with the bottle in your palm.
And the best is, no one knows who you are. Just another girl alone at the bar.

(the band "low shoulder" seeks out Jennifer, who is insecure enough to follow them despite the intense shadiness.)

02 the kills- "cheap and cheerful (sebastian remix)" ♬

I'm sick of social graces. Show your sharp-tipped teeth. Lose your cool in public,
Dig that illegal meat. 'Cause love is just a dialogue; you can't survive on ice-cream.
You got the same needs as a dog. It's alright (it's alright) to be mean (to be mean).

03 peaches- "operate" ♬

It seems to me so strange. Check wallet for his name. His face is in the muck.
I think his zipper's stuck. He is perfect for me. To practice surgery.
When blood coagulates, it's time to operate. Just keep it going. Just keep it going.

04 elefant- "lolita" ♬

Can you tell me what you're thinking? I just melt inside your eyes.
Kiss me like they do in movies, modern child of the night.
I was watching you for hours, standing there beside the pool.
When you wear those pretty dresses, I forget the girl in you. Run away. Run away.

05 say hi to your mom- "oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh" ♬

If the devil was a girl, and she wore a yellow tee, it would be, a spitting image- but that's okay with me.
She says, "I got something I think I really wanna tell ya, I got something I think I really wanna show ya,
I got something I think I really wanna do right now".

06 the dresden dolls- "mandy goes to med school" ♬

I've been feeling dull as a coat hanger, pretty as a picture of a patient on a fresh IV.
Giddy as a gangbanger with a set of sutures where his magic johnson ought to be
... I've been baking cakes for the enemy. I've been dying to find out the hard way.
I've been taking friends to the alleyway; two down now but who's counting anyway?

07 neverending white lights- "maneater" ♬

Everybody look at me, me. I walk in the door and you start screaming.
Come on, everybody, what you here for? Move your body around like a nympho.
... I want to see you on your knees, knees. You either want to be with me, or be me.
... And when she walks, she walks with passion. When she talks, she talks like she can handle it.
When she asks for something, boy, she means it, even if you never ever ever seen it.
... Wish you never met her at all. Wish you never ever met her at all.

08 tegan & sara- "superstar" ♬

Green is the color of my envy, it's the color of fame.
So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again.
Fear is the color you've all exposed, now I gotta get up here and prove the importance of my clothes-
of my pose, I suppose. ... Every moment was that moment, every day was that day.
Every second was that second, and I've lost myself again. Yes, I lost myself again.
... Take my heart- while you're at it, why don't you sign me up to sell me out.
I am my angel 'til death I do. I saw my first angel, and it was you.

(This song describes all of Jennifer's issues during the movie, and Needy and Jennifer's entire dynamic.)

(bonus) hole- "jennifer's body" ♬

It's bettering you, it's bettering me. My better half has bitten me
It's bettering you, it's bettering me, sleeping with my enemy.
...You're hungry, but I'm starving.

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well-alright

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:04:34 GMT

well-alright (download)
a mix about apathy & enthusiasm, lust & puppy love, insecurity & arrogance, making mistakes & ... making more mistakes. basically, a mix about teenagers.

01 the temper trap- "sweet disposition" ♬
and while our blood's still young, it's so young. it runs, and we don't stop till it's over.

02 the strokes- "hard to explain" ♬
i say the right things, but act the wrong way. i like it right here, but I cannot stay.
i watch the tv, forget what I'm told. well I am too young, and they are too old.

03 new york dolls- "trash" ♬
don't you take my night away.

04 vampire weekend- "cape cod kwassa kwassa ♬
as a sophomore, with reggaeton, and the linens you're sittin' on.
is your bed made? is your sweater on? do you want to fuck? like you know I do?

05 rock kills kid- "i turn my camera on" ♬
get up, roll it out. keep on showing 'em out.

06 oingo boingo- "on the outside" ♬
i never even tried; counter-culture passed me right by.

07 nada surf- "blankest year" ♬
oh, fuck it. i'm gonna have a party.

08 smashing pumpkins- "1979" ♬
cool kids don't never have the time... we don't even care, as restless as we are.

09 hot chip- "and i was a boy from school" ♬
and there was a boy at school, hopelessly wrestling all his fools.
and there was a girl at school, blaming all the words she learned from home.

10 belle & sebastian- "expectations" ♬
in the queue for lunch they take the piss, you've got no appetite
and the rumour is you never go with boys and you are tight
so they jab you with a fork, you drop the tray and go berserk
while your cleaning up the mess the teacher's looking up your skirt.

11 kaiser chiefs- "never miss a beat" ♬
what is the golden rule? you say nothing. it's cool to know nothing.

12 the kills- "sour cherry" ♬
we could be movers. we could be shakers. if we could just shake something outta the blue... and get off the ride.

13 the mountain goats- "alpha in tauris" ♬
my hand brushes against the lock of hair that hangs down past your ear to your jaw.
... we're pictures of decency when we wave goodbye outside.
yeah, i'm the model of composure out there, but you oughta see me shaking later on.

14 supertramp- "school" ♬
i can see you in the morning, when you go to school. don't forget our books,
you know you've got to learn the golden rule.
stop your play and go on with your work, and be like johnny too-good.

15 dandy warhols- "cool scene" ♬
i'm feeling pretty chill with nothing, like i'm living in a world that follows you
...I really don't mean that it's cool, don't really wanna be in high school.

16 spoon- "well-alright" ♬
i don't wanna make that habit yet. don't mean nothing, just some common sense.

17 ben folds five- "battle of who could care less" ♬
i know it's not your thing to care, i know it's cool to be so bored.

18 broken social scene- "anthems for a seventeen-year-old girl" ♬
used to be one of the rotten ones, and i liked you for that. now you're all gone, got your make-up on,
and you're not coming back, won't you come back?
bleaching your teeth, smiling flash, talking trash, under your breath.

19 rilo kiley- "the frug" ♬ *not included in the zip*
and i can hate your girl. i can tell you that she's real pretty. i can take my clothes off,
i cannot fall in love. you'll never see my eyes. i will not call you back. i cannot do the smurf.
i cannot fall in love. i'll never fall in love.

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easy come, easy go

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:37:37 GMT

Medium: Book/Movie
Fandom: American Psycho
Subject: Patrick Bateman
Title: easy come, easy go
Warnings: Language, implied violence, and general creepiness.
Notes: Based on both the movie (with Christian Bale), and the book (by Bret Easton Ellis). All quotes used are from the movie. 18 songs under the cut (download them individually at box.net, or in a zip at megaupload). Songs include INXS, Violent Femmes, and Lily Allen. If there are any problems, or you'd like me to reupload something, just let me know!

*slightly relevant note: both INXS songs were mentioned multiple times in the book, as songs being played in clubs. I just couldn't resist using them as bookends, especially "Devil Inside".*

download the zip.

01 inxs- "new sensation" ♬
Dream, baby, dream, of all that's come and going. And you will find out, in the end,
There really is- there really is no difference.

"I know my behavior can be... erratic sometimes."

02 the dresden dolls- "coin-operated boy" ♬
Coin-operated boy, sitting on the shelf, he is just a toy. But I turn him on, and he comes to life- automatic joy.
... Made of plastic and elastic, he is rugged and long-lasting. Who could ever ever ask for more?

'There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.'

03 vampire weekend- "the kids don't stand a chance" ♬
I didn't like the business, but that was at first glance. Your pillow feels so soft now, but still you must advance.
The pin-striped men in mourning, the partners in the dance. The paper's shot to pieces.
The kids don't stand a chance.

"You hate that job anyway. I don't see why you don't just quit."
"Because I want to fit in."

04 lily allen- "the fear" ♬
I want to be rich, and I want lots of money. I don't care about clever, I don't care about funny.
I want loads of clothes, and fuck-loads of diamonds; I heard people die while they're trying to find them.
...And I am a weapon of massive consumption, and it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.
I'll look at the sun, and I'll look in the mirror. I'm on the right track, yeah we're on to a winner.
...Forget about guns, and forget ammunition, cause I'm killing them all on my own little mission.
Well, I'm not a saint, but I'm not a sinner; now everything's cool, as long as I'm getting thinner.

'As we arrive at Espace I'm on the verge of tears as I'm certain we won't get a decent table. But we do; relief washes over me in an awesome wave.'

05 everclear- "local god" ♬
Tell me all about your love, tell me all about your pain. Baited breath and rubber gloves.
Be my Romeo, my go-go Romeo. I see you twist and turn, you look so fucking stupid.
I feel just like a local God when I'm with the boys. We do what we want, yes we do what we want.
Summer days can lead to the bad times, the world gets larger every day.

"There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about."
"Like what?"
"Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people."

06 the national- "mistaken for strangers" ♬
You have to do it running, but you do everything that they ask you to.
'Cause you don’t mind seeing yourself in a picture, as long as you look far away,
As long as you look removed. Showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters.
...You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends, when you pass them at night
Under the silvery, silvery citibank lights. Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under.
Oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over. Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't want to watch
Another un-innocent, elegant fall into unmagnificent lives of adults.

'Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhead, Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical, because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do, and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut.'

07 the jam- "down in the tube station at midnight" ♬
Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow. Madmen on the rampage,
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight.

"The world just opens up and... swallows them."
"Eerie. Very eerie."

08 wintersleep- "orca" ♬
I'll be a forest fire about to flood over an empire. I'll be an avalanche chewing its raptured.
I'll be a killer whale. When I grow up, I'll be a monster.

'I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.'

09 hole- "violet" ♬
And the sky was all violets. I want it again, but violent, more violence.
Well, I'm the one with no soul. One above and one below.

"'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants me to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'"
"And what did the other part think?"
"'What her head would look like on a stick...'"

10 love- "the red telephone" ♬
Sitting on the hillside, watching all the people die. I'll feel much better on the other side, I'll thumb a ride.
...Look in my eyes, what are you seeing? I feel real phony when my name is Phil. Or is that Bill?

"What do you do?"
"I'm into... well, murders and executions mostly."
"Do you like it?"
"It depends. Why?"
"Because most guys I know who work with Mergers and Acquisitions really don't like it."

11 mika- "love today" ♬
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today. Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love love me, love love me, love love- Carolina sits on ninety-five.
Give her a dollar and she'll make you smile. Hook her, book her, nook her, walk away.

"I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"

12 death cab for cutie- "this charming man" ♬
Why ponder life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

"I have to return some videotapes."

13 talking heads- "wild wild life" ♬
Check out Mr. Businessman, oh, ho ho. He bought some wild, wild life on the way to the stock exchange.
... Peace of mind? Piece of cake! Thought control! You get on board any time you like.

"TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW, YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD!"

14 the rakes- "the world was a mess but his hair was perfect" ♬
I don't want a fight, just don't touch my face. Or hair. 'Cause that would ruin my night.

"Not the face! You bitch!"

15 violent femmes- "blister in the sun" ♬
Body and beats, I stain my sheets, I don't even know why.
My girlfriend, she's at the end, she is starting to cry.

"I think, um, Evelyn, that, uh... we've lost touch."
"Why? What's wrong?"
"I need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale can not be corrected, but I have no other way to fulfill my needs."

16 queen- "bohemian rhapsody" ♬
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see ... Because I'm easy come, easy go. Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows; doesn't really matter to me.

"I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I- I just had to kill a lot of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll, uh- I mean, ah- I guess I'm a pretty- I mean, I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open."

17 camper van beethoven- "take the skinheads bowling" ♬
Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes. Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same.
... I has a dream last night, but I forget what it was. I had a dream last night about you, my friend
I had a dream--I wanted to sleep next to plastic. I had a dream--I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream--it was about nothing.

"He makes himself out to be a harmless old codger, but inside... inside...."
'"but inside" doesn't matter.'

18 inxs- "devil inside" ♬
Here come the world, with the look in its eye. Future uncertain, but certainly slight.
Look at the faces, listen to the bells; it's hard to believe we need a place called hell.

'There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.'

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Books/Movies List

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:51:15 GMT

Books I've read (starting August, 2009, because I keep forgetting to keep track):

1. Little Brother (finished Aug. 5)
2. American Psycho (finished August 15)
3. The Jane Austen Book Club (finished Aug. 17)
4. In Cold Blood- Truman Capote (finished Aug. 21)
5. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (finished August 23)
6. The Giver
7. Love is Mix Tape
8. Ishmael

Movies I've watched (starting August, 2009)

1. 500 Days of Summer (August 3)
2. Julie & Julia (August 15)
3. American Psycho (August 16)
4. Bandslam (August 18)
5. The Time Traveler's Wife (August 23)
6. Ponyo (August 27)
7. 9
8. Jennifer's Body
9. Love Happens
10. Matilda
11. Harriet the Spy
12. Jack
13. Annie
14. The Parent Trap
15. The Corpse Bride

Okay, my favorite meme EVER

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:15:23 GMT

From yahtzee63: Every now and then the police arrest somebody suspected of some terrible, violent crime, and as a piece of public relations they'll announce all of the horrible books, movies and/or CDs they found in the suspect's house, as if to prove that the suspect is obviously guilty and horrible and monstrous.

So here is my challenge to you. You can either do this from memory or take a moment to look through your book and music collections, and then answer this question:

Name ten books, CDs and/or movies that you own that the police would cite as evidence against you at their press conference.

1) American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
2) Pretty Dead Girl OST
3) Mein Kamph- Adolph Hitler
4) The Communist Manifesto
5) Criminal Psychology by Hans Gross
6) Dexter, Season 1
7) Darkly Dreaming of Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
8) Assassins OBC
9) The Satanic Bible
10) Watchmen, by Alan Moore

The only one of these that I have legitimately freaked myself out with is "The Satanic Bible". I downloaded it as a .pdf because I was curious, and have yet to read a single word. A lot of these are pretty harmless, IMO. Pretty Dead Girl, especially, is clearly humorous and light, but... well, it deals cheerfully with necrophilia and attempted suicide, so....

where the wild things are; on a clear day

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:21:51 GMT

Medium: Book/Movie
Fandom: Where the Wild Things Are
Subject: General
Title: on a clear day
Notes: I chose songs partly for the lyrics, based on the events of the book by Maurice Sendak, and partly for the tone set by the official movie trailer. 11 individual songs, plus a bonus, under the cut. Includes Arcade Fire, Joanna Newsom, and Belle & Sebastian. If there are any problems, or you'd like me to reupload something, just let me know!

download the zip.

01 string quartet- "lovers in japan" ♬
[instrumental]

02 colin hay- "waiting for my real life to begin" ♬
When I awoke today, suddenly nothing happened. But in my dreams, I slew the dragon.
...
Don't you understand, I already have a plan. I'm waiting for my real life to begin.
On a clear day, I can see, see a very long way.

03 kris allen- "somewhere over the rainbow" ♬
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dreamed of, dreams really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star, and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.

04 belle & sebastian- "storytelling" ♬
If you're a storyteller, you might think you're without responsibility .
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want; you have immunity.

05 sufjan stevens- "chicago" ♬
You came to take us, all things go, all things go.
To recreate us, all things grow, all things grow.

06 radiohead- "nice dream" ♬
They love me like I was a brother; they protect me, listen to me
They dug me my very own garden, gave me sunshine, made me happy. Nice dream.

07 peter gabriel- "the book of love" ♬
The book of love is long and boring, and written very long ago.
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes, and things we're all too young to know.

08 sunset rubdown- "up on your leopard, upon the end of your feral days" ♬
‘Cause you’re the one who’s riding around on a leopard; you’re the one who’s throwing dead birds in the air.
And you’re the one whose wild hide will weather, in the weathering days

09 arcade fire- "neighborhood # 1 (tunnels)" ♬
We forgot all the names that- the names we used to know.
But sometimes, we remember our bedrooms, and our parents' bedrooms, and the bedrooms of our friends.
Then we think of our parents; well, what ever happened to them?

10 r.e.m.- "nightswimming" ♬
These things, they go away, replaced by everyday.

11 joanna newsom- "bridges and balloons" ♬
We sailed away on a winter's day, with fate as malleable as clay.
But ships are fallible, I say; and the nautical, as all things, fade.
...
Oh, my love, oh, it was a funny little thing. It was a funny, funny little thing

bonus. arcade fire- "wake up" [song from the official movie trailer] ♬
Children, wake up. Hold your mistake up, before they turn the summer into dust.

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the underdog (or songs that can be found on Josh Lyman's iPod)

Thu, 21 May 2009 03:00:30 GMT

Medium. Television
Fandom. The West Wing
Subject. Josh Lyman
Title. the underdog
Summary. Songs that can be found on Josh Lyman's iPod.
Warnings. Potentially offensive language.
Notes. A present for miss_beehive, who originally got me hooked on The West Wing. I tried to choose songs with a more upbeat (though not outright happy or peppy) tone, although some of the lyrics verge on melancholy.

Artists include The Smiths, R.E.M., Paul McCartney, and They Might Be Giants. Click on the music notes to download individual songs, and please let me know if there are any problems, or if you'd like me to reupload something.

ZIP.

Josh: They're going to try and bait me.
CJ: They want you to say something arrogant.
Josh: I don't need baiting for that.
-"Pilot"

01 paul mccartney- "hot as sun/glasses" ♬

[instrumental]

02 r.e.m.- "it's a free world baby" ♬

There's a feeling in my belly. It's the new tomorrow scene
It's an interesting job. It's the fireworks
...
You came to say, "It's a free world baby",
And you gave too much away.

03 phish- "gin and juice (live)" ♬

But I somehow, some way keep coming up with funky-ass shit nearly every single day
Can I kick a little something for the G's? And make a few friends as I breeze through
Don't you know it's two in the morning and the party's still jumping?

04 cake- "opera singer" ♬

I call my co-stars "brother". I call my co-stars "knave"
I play both good and evil parts. I sing to Verdi's grave
...
Some people they call me monster, some people they call me saint
My talent feeds my darker side, yet no one will complain.

05 sr-71- "politically correct" ♬

I just don't have time to think up every social consequence
I'll just keep on talking; you keep applauding.
I don't mean to piss you off with things I might say
But when I try to shut my mouth they come out anyway
If you spoke your mind, you might feel more connected
Until you get politically corrected!

06 they might be giants- "i should be allowed to think" ♬

And I should be allowed to blurt the merest idea
If by random whim, one occurs to me
If necessary, leave paper stains on the grey utility pole

07 the beatles- "hey bulldog" ♬

Some kind of solitude is measured out in you.
You think you know me, but you haven’t got a clue.
You can talk to me, you can talk to me. You can talk to me-
If you're lonely, you can talk to me.

08 the mighty mighty bosstones- "the impression that i get" ♬

Have you ever had the odds stacked up so high
You need a strength most don't possess?
Or has it ever come down to do or die;
You've got to rise above the rest?

09 barenaked ladies- "one week" ♬

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad?
Trying hard not to smile, though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean? You soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of losing my shirt.

10 the hives- "tick tick boom" ♬

Exhibit A on a tray. What you say as I throw it in your face
Exhibit B, what you see. Well, that's me; I'll put you back in your place
...Cause I've done it before, and I can do it some more
I've got my eye on the score, I'm gonna cut to the core.

11 scissor sisters- "i can't decide" ♬

I'm not a gangster tonight, don't want to be a bad guy
I'm just a loner, baby, and now you've gotten in my way

12 jay-z vs. the verse- "dirt off your shoulders (bittersweet symphony)" ♬

Said the ladies they love me, from the bleachers they screamin'
All the ballers is bouncin'; they like the way I be leanin'
All the rappers be hatin', off the track that I'm makin'
But all the hustlers, they love it just to see one of us make it.
...No change, I can change, I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mould, I am here in my mould.
But I'm a million different people from one day to the next...
I can't change my mould, no.

13 the smiths- "the boy with the thorn in his side" ♬

How can they hear me say those words, still they don't believe me?
And if they don't believe me now, will they ever believe me?
...And when you want to live, how do you start?
Where do you go? Who do you need to know?

14 the fratellis- "look out sunshine!" ♬

And sing my own song, how does it go?
Look out sunshine, here's the punchline: no one gets you anymore
But what do you mean? You were born to love this scene

15 queens of the stone age- "into the hollow" ♬

I break what I’ve already borrowed. That’s why I always go alone into tomorrow
... Don’t wanna go alone, aren’t you gonna follow?

16 mike doughty- "looking at the world from the bottom of a well" ♬

Lonely, and the only way to beat it is to bat it down
Oh, all the days that I have run, I sought to lose that cloud that's blacking out the sun
My train will come, some one day soon, and when it comes I'll ride it bound from night to noon.

17 harvey danger- "cream and bastards rise" ♬

People who can buy and sell you, sharing a joke that they will never tell you
You think you're dialed in. Someone has to win, and you know what that means...
It means someone's gotta lose- it's probably you.

18 bob dylan- "like a rolling stone" ♬

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
...
How does it feel to be on your own? With no direction home?
Like a complete unknown? Like a rolling stone?

19 oasis- "don't look back in anger" ♬

I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed, 'cause you said the brains I have went to my head
Step outside, 'cause summertime's in bloom. Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off you face. You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out.

20 queen- "don't stop me now" ♬

I'm burning through the sky, yeah. Two hundred degrees,
that's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit. I'm traveling at the speed of light-
I want to make a supersonic world out of you!

21 bluejuice- "vitriol (pious edit)" ♬

And if you can't shape up (Nobody wants you)
Fuck the whole world, and what everybody's sayin', hey
... Careful, keep your chin up. You can put yourself to use so keep it moving

22 spoon- "the underdog" ♬

I wanna forget how convention fits, but can I get out from under it?
Can I gut it out of me? It can't all be wedding cake, it can't all be boiled away
I try but I can't let go of it... The thing that I tell you now, it may not go over well
And it may not be photo-op in the way that I spell it out.
But you won't hear from the messenger, don't wanna know about something that you don't understand,
You got no fear of the underdog, That's why you will not survive!

President Bartlet's a good man. He's got a good heart; he doesn't hold a grudge.
That's what he pays me for.
-"Three Votes Down"

find the right brain [Roger Davis EP]

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:18:26 GMT

Medium: Musical
Fandom: Rent
Subject: Roger Davis
Title: Season of Scars [EP]
Warning: Spoilers for the musical.

A mix for Roger, in all his introverted, hopeful, damaged glory. A large focus on Roger/April and especially Roger/Mimi, because I think a huge part of Roger's character is how romantic and idealistic he is, and how he almost seems to need romantic love to function. In the musical, we learn about Roger's character through the way he interacts with Mimi.

Download the individual mp3s (available for preview at box.net), or grab the zip. Includes songs by Sunset Rubdown, Rufus Wainwright, and Frightened Rabbit. Let me know if you need me to reupload something.

season of scars (download)
01 the mountain goats- "have to explode" ♬

I can still see the rust colored stains today. The stage is set-
Someone's going to do something someone else will regret
I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code
The fuse will have to run out sometime
Something here will eventually have to explode

Close on Roger. His girlfriend April left a note saying, "We've got AIDS," before slitting her wrists in the bathroom.
-Tune Up # 3

02 the counting crows- "mr. jones" ♬

Standing in the spotlight, I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me, because I don't believe in anything
And I want to be someone to believe.

Find one song, one last refrain
From the pretty-boy front man who wasted opportunity
One song, he had the world at his feet
Glory, in the eyes of a young girl- a young girl
Find glory beyond the cheap colored lights
One song, before the sun sets
-One Song Glory

03 rufus wainwright- "cigarettes and chocolate milk" ♬

And then there's those other things
Which for several reasons we won't mention
Everything about 'em is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder, a little bit deadly
It isn't very smart- Tends to make one part, so brokenhearted
Sitting here remembering me,
Always been a shoe made for the city
Go ahead, accuse me of just singing about places
With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town.

I once was born to be bad...
-Light My Candle

04 frightened rabbit- "the modern leper" ♬

You see I've got this disease I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life
Well this is how we do things now, this is how the modern stay scared
So I cut out all the good stuff, I cut off my foot to spite my leg
... Well I am ill, but I'm not dead. And I don't know which of those I prefer
Because that limb which I have lost, well it was the only thing holding me up.

Because reason says I should have died three years ago.
-Life Support

05 neutral milk hotel- "gardenhead/leave me alone" ♬

Like a walk in the park, like a hole in your head
Like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead
... It gets hard to explain. The gardenhead knows my name.

Well, take your hair in the moonlight
Your brown eyes, goodbye- goodnight!
(I should tell you, I should tell you
I should tell you, I should- no!)
-Another Day

Follow me through a city of frost-covered angels; I swear I have nothing to prove
I just want to dance in your tangles, to give me some reason to move
But to take on the world at all angles requires a strength I can't use
So I'll meet you up high in your anger of all that is hoping and waiting for you.

ROGER: Let's not hold hands yet
MIMI: Is that a warning?
ROGER/MIMI/MARK: I/you/he just need(s) to take it slow.
I should tell you, I should tell you....
-Christmas Bells

06 sunset rubdown- "shut up i am dreaming of places where lovers have wings" ♬

He says your name out loud, in miniature rooms where no one’s found
It’s a desperate sound. You're on the distant shore.
He stamps his feet down. You can hear his knuckles on your door.
He wants to send you drawings- drawings of men with faithful hands,
They'll make such good boyfriends. And he wants to tell you stories-
Stories of boys who stomped their feet saying,
“Shut – shut up, I am dreaming of places where lovers have wings.”

MIMI: I'm sorry I'm late-
ROGER: I know. You lost your keys. No, you went for a walk; you had to help your mother. How's Benny? I'm going to work upstairs tonight.
MIMI: Wait. I should tell you, I should... never mind.
ROGER: Happy spring.
-Without You

07 arcade fire- "sonata" ♬

He is the one who plays the piano
He is the one who wants to love
She is the one who touched his heart
He made too much of this, of course
...I guess that's all, they feel so small
His dreams are a boat, he's sailing away.

All your words are nice, Mimi
But love's not a three-way street
You'll never share in love until you love yourself-
I should know
-Goodbye Love

08 the red hot chili peppers- "scar tissue" ♬

Soft spoken with a broken jaw, step outside but not to brawl
Autumn's sweet, we call it fall. I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl.

I'll call... I hate the fall.
...
Glory-- one blaze of glory... I have to find.
-Goodbye Love

09 mike doughty- "i hear the bells" ♬

I hear the bells down in the canyon
It's snow in New York, some blue December
I'm gone to the moon without you, girl
And I'm calling to you throughout the world
... I hear the bells, so fascinating
And I'll slug it out, I'm sick of waiting.

What was it about that night?
Connection in an isolating age.
For once the shadows gave way to light
For once, I didn't disengage
...
Mimi, I see you, I see it
I hear it, I hear it- my song.
-What You Own

10 iron and wine- "the trapeze swinger" ♬

Please, remember me, my misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain, and chasing trains
The colored birds above there running in circles round the well
To where it spells on the wall behind St. Peter's
So bright with cinder gray and spray paint
'Who the hell can see forever?'
... Please, remember me, finally
And all my uphill clawing, my dear.

Why does distance make us wise?
You were the song all along, and before the song dies-
I should tell you, I should tell you,
I have always loved you.
You can see it in my eyes.
-Your Eyes

11 vienna tang- "the atheist christmas carol" ♬

It's the season of scars and of wounds in the heart
Of feeling the full weight of our burdens
It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
And knowing we are not alone in fear, not alone in the dark.

There's only us, there's only this
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss
No other road, no other way
No day but today.
-Finale B

Previous mixes HERE

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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:46:01 GMT

Stolen from spacemonkey_699

Add a comment to this entry and I will respond and:

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2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I love about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (responding is a must!)
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
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Icon Meme!

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:39:14 GMT

Default Icon:

Le Petit Prince is one of my favorite books. I re-read it whenever I'm feeling down.

Oldest Icon:

It's okay, George Michael. It's just Bland/Ham/Her???

Newest Icon:

Awww, Pacey/Joey. I'm going through a weird, nostalgia-induced Dawson's Creek kick.

Saddest Icon:

and

Tie. If you've seen Einstein and Eddington, you'll understand why I picked the first one. And the second... *cries* Donna!

Happiest Icon:

Pajamas! This icon always puts me in a good mood.

Angriest Icon:

Why didn't 9 or 10 try this tactic with the Daleks?

Cutest Icon:

Just look at those faces!

Sexiest Icon:

and

Tie again (yeah, I know I suck at this meme). The first one, because you can't say no to Pirate!Norrington. Those eyes! And the second because Raul Esparza's stomach cannot be denied.

Most Humorous Icon:

Heathers + Harry Potter= <3

Favorite Ship Icon:

And what?

No, in all seriousness this one again:

Icon I Use the Most (apart from default):

Favorite Overall:

It's not easy being white, it's not easy being brown...

How many icons do you have total?
102 (sheesh! That's a lot.)

How many can you have?
106

If you could buy space for more, would you?
Probably not. I'd always love more icons, but I don't think I'd actually USE more.

Do your icons make a statement about you?
Ehhh, not really, except to show which fandoms I'm most immersed in,

What fandom do you have the most icons out of?
Doctor Who

The second most?
Fakenews (The Daily Show/The Colbert Report)

What ship do you have the most icons out of?
Rose/The Doctor, probably .

How do you categorize your icons?
Um... do you mean what kind of keywords do I use? For most fandoms, I just use basic keywords ("blair chuck" for an icon of... Blair and Chuck). Sometimes, I'll use a joke/quote related to the fandom: "god voldemort what is your damage?" for the Heathers/Harry Potter icon. For the Doctor Who icons, I've developed this pretentious habit of using quotes from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself", because I think the poem fits the Doctor so well.

Are your icons mostly made by other users?
I've made about two icons in my life, and they're both awful. So... yes.

Animated icons are...
Awesome.

In general, I think icons...
Are ridiculously fun and pretty.

Do this meme, everyone! It's awesome.

Fanmix: Blood-Red Sunrise

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:44:40 GMT

Medium: General
Subject: Revenge
Title: Blood-Red Sunrise
Warnings: Some possibly disturbing content in the song lyrics.
Notes: This mix was done for mixingmusic, Round 5. The theme was "fresh starts", and the prompt was:
It's a brand new day, and the sun is high. All the birds are singin' that you're gonna die. How I hesitated! - Now I wonder why. It's a brand new day. -Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

For this prompt, I tried to pick songs that weren't just about vengeance, but gleeful vengeance. The songs are in a vaguely chronological order, so the ones near the beginning are more tentative, self-loathing ("how I hesitated!"), while the ones near the end are victorious, for lack of a better word ("Now I wonder why. It's a brand new day").

blood-red sunrise
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01 JEREMY
pearl jam

At home, drawin' pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on
Top, lemon yellow sun
Arms raised
In a “V”
The dead lay in
Pools of maroon below

02 WAKE UP
arcade fire

If the children don't grow up
Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up
We're just a million little gods causing rainstorms
Turning every good thing to rust

03 ALL FIRED UP
interpol

This soul, it's all fired up
It's all fired up
It's all fired up
It's all fired up

I teach you of death's desires
Reflected in lakes
As I lead you in a fearful file to a precipice of fate

04 VAGABOND
greenskeepers

I came a long way to see you now I wish you were dead,
Such a long way to see you, with a gun to my head
Wanna shoot you down for the things you said,
Came a long way to see you now I wish you were dead

05 BROKEN PROMISE
placebo

I’ll wait my turn
To tear inside you
Watch you burn
And I’ll wait my turn
To terrorize you
Watch you burn
And I’ll wait my turn
I’ll wait my turn

And this is a promise

06 ROMAN CANDLE
elliot smith

I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
I'm a roman candle
My head is full of flames

07 BUTTERFLIES AND HURRICANES
muse

Change everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called
Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come

08 NOS DA CARIAD
david gray

The sun above the cotton grass
Is sinking down like lead
The seagulls know the truth of it
And scream it overhead
Hold on to St. Christopher
The sky is murderous red
Go to sleep my one true love
Our glory lies ahead

09 THIS FIRE
franz ferdinand

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
If this fire is out of control
Then I--
I'm out of control
and I burn

10 HANDLEBARS
flobots

I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die from exasperation
Have'em all healed from their lacerations
Or have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like 'em

11 A LITTLE PRIEST
sweeney todd broadway revival cast

For what's the sound of the world out there?
(What, Mr. Todd? What, Mr. Todd? What is that sound?)
Those crunching noises pervading the air!
(Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, all around!)
It's man devouring man, my dear!
And who are we to deny it in here?

12 INFA-RED
placebo

One more thing before we start the final face off
I will be the one to watch you fall
So I came down to crash and burn your beggar's banquet
Someone call the ambulance there’s gonna be an accident...

I'm coming up on infra-red,
there is no running that can hide you
'cause I can see in the dark
I'm coming up on infra-red,
Forget your running, I will find you (find you!)

13 THE BALLAD OF CZOLGOSZ
assassins obc

Heard Bill McKinley say,
"Folks, have fun!
Some men have everything
And some have none,
But that's just fine:
in the U.S.A.
You can work your way
To the head of the line!"
...
Wrapped him a handkerchief 'round his gun,
Said, "Nothin' wrong about what I done.
Some men have everything, and some have none-
That's by design.
The idea wasn't mine alone, but mine,
And that's the sign:

In the U.S.A. you can have your say,
You can set you goals and seize the day,
You've been given the freedom to work your way
To the head of the line!"

14 THE CELL BLOCK TANGO
chicago original broadway cast

He had it coming
He had it coming
He only had himself to blame.
If you'd have been there
If you'd have seen it
I betcha you would have done the same!

[I thought I'd include the song in the prompt, for those who aren't familiar.]
BONUS: BRAND NEW DAY
dr. horrible's sing-along blog

This appeared as a moral dilemma
Because at first it was weird though I swore to eliminate
The worst of the plague that devoured humanity
It’s true I was vague on the how
So how can it be that you have shown me the light?

It’s a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the birds are singing
That you’re gonna die

♥ Comments are love.
♥ All mixes located HERE

hsm; losing my religion

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:13:39 GMT

Medium: Movies
Fandom: High School Musical
Subject: Ryan/Sharpay
Title: Losing My Religion
Warnings: Incest, the f-word in one of the songs.
Spoilers:: For the first two movies
Notes: I... yeah. I have no explanation for this. 15 songs (mp3s, box.net), including Cobra Starship, Cyndi Lauper, the Spring Awakening OBC, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Ms. Evans tells Ryan that 'losing my religion' is an old Southern phrase meaning to be at the end of your rope, or to lose your temper. Sharpay, who tends to take things too literally, insists that it's just losing your faith. When Ryan listens to the R.E.M song, however, he can't help but believe that it simply means falling in love. Sometimes, when it comes to Sharpay, he can't help but think that all three definitions apply.

zip

01 RAZZLE DAZZLE
chicago original broadway cast

Give 'em the old razzle dazzle
Razzle Dazzle 'em
Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give 'em the old hocus pocus
Bead and feather 'em
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?

02 MELODIES & DESIRES
lykke li

You'll be the rhythm and I'll be the beat
Then I'll be the rhythm and you'll be the beat
And love, the shoreline, where you and I meet
Love is the harmony
Desire is the key
Love is a symphony
Come sing some with me

03 CENTER OF GRAVITY
yo la tengo

It's clear to me, according to a rule I learned one day in school
Basic geometry: two halves of a circle, you and me

It's a familial song we've known so long

Your clever cuts into me
As long as you're next to me
I can't feel both feet on the ground

04 COLORFUL
rocco deluca & the burden

You dance like no one's watching
Sing 'till the song ends
Then you sing some more
And we can hardly believe it
Words that flow from your mouth
Drink like it's water

You're the most colorful thing that I've seen
You're the most beautiful thing that I've seen
You're the most colorful thing that I've seen

You are an enigma walking
Make no excuses for the way that you carry on

Ryan: I'm proud to call you my sister.
Sharpay: I know.

05 ADORE HER
mandy moore

She likes chocolate in the morning
She drinks her coffee late at night
You can sense that she is guarded
But that's alright
She'll fall asleep while you're still talking
With unfinished books beside her bed
She'll cancel all of her appointments
And go shopping instead

And in spite of what is right
Far beyond what she'd except
When the moon begs the question
Will you have the answer yet?
Can't you just adore her?

06 BALLET OR ART
Eagle*Seagull

I watch you put on your nice long skirt
It's all I need of ballet or art
And you move
To your own music
With animal grace
I love to watch you put on your makeup
And all the things you do to your face

You're a blindfold of skin
And I can't hope for heaven
If this be sin
...
And you keep reading your shiny magazines
We do what only lovers can
And make a gift out of the same sensory

07 BLOOD
sons and daughters

And I know what you're thinking
We wear the same dress
The same colors right
Is this what suits our weakened pride?
How do I know cos you're my blood

With the kinks and wires like me
The same fearing frame
We can run and hide
See the signs
Call to no-one
Taste with the same tongue
Swelling up inside
We can speak and re-sign
What's yours is mine

08 OVERLAP
ani difranco

[sharpay]

I search your profile
For a translation
I study the conversation
Like a map
Cause I know there is strength
In the differences between us
And I know there is comfort
Where we overlap

[ryan]

And I build each one of my songs
Out of glass
So you can see me inside of them
I suppose
Or you could just leave the image of me
In the background, I guess
And watch your own reflection superimposed

09 MY JUNK
Cast of Spring Awakening

[ryan]

I go up to my room
Turn the stereo on
Shoot up some you
And the you is some song

[sharpay]

I lie back just driftin'
And play out these scenes
I ride on the rush
Of all the hopes, all the dreams

10 LOSING MY RELIGION
r.e.m.

Oh, life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough.</big>

Ryan: What about our song? What about Humu Humu? What am I supposed to do with my tiki warrior outfit?
Sharpay: Save it for Halloween, go to a luao, sell it online, I don't know! But keep an eye on those Wildcats. If they're planning to be in the show... which I doubt they will after they hear about Troy and me... I don't want any suprises. Oh and don't worry, we'll find something for you to do in the show. Or the next show.
Ryan: Really? Don't strain yourself, slick.

11 KISSING FAMILIES
silversun pickups

It's no wonder that we did it this way
Keep looking forward on paths sideways
It's everything that is connected and beautiful
And now I know just where I stand
Move on
Roll along
Not today
It's everything that is connected and beautiful
And now I know just where I stand
Thank God
Your heart is too close</big>

Sharpay: Do you want us to lose the Star Dazzle award to a bunch of... dishwashers?
Ryan: Us? Well, I guess that's showbiz.
Sharpay: When did you become... one of them?
Ryan: You know, I'll take that as a compliment.

12 THE KIDS ARE ALL FUCKED UP
cobra starship

How could you know? Why would you care?
I'm losing control; are you getting scared?
I'm making new friends and we're making out
We're gonna pretend that we're taking every every everything, yeah

They don't know about us
Everyone's asleep when we play
Yeah, the kids are all fucked up
Now it's too late to go, it's getting light out
I know you don't wanna sleep here alone
Just take it easy

13 ICE QUEEN
the slats

It seems to me that we’re two of a kind.
pale and stubborn and determined to survive
these cold and lonely nights.
...
You’re the ice queen.
I’m a glacier.
I’m slow to change
But when I move through your valley,
You’ll never be the same.</big>

Ryan: You've always wanted the spotlight. Now you've got it. Break a leg.

14 MIDNIGHT RADIO
hedwig and the angry inch ost

A dream
Or a song
That hits you so hard
Filling you up
And suddenly gone
...
And you're shining
Like the brightest star
A transmission
From a midnight radio
And you're spinning
Like a 45
Ballerina
Dancing to your rock and roll</big>

Mr. Fulton: And the Star Dazzle award goes to-
Sharpay: My brother, Ryan Evans!

15 TIME AFTER TIME
cyndi lauper

Flashback- warm nights
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories, time after--

Sometimes you'll picture me
I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me
I can't hear what you've said
Then you say, "Go slow, I fall behind."
The second hand unwinds.

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you I will be waiting
Time after time

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doctor who; oh! you pretty things

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:10:30 GMT

Medium: Television
Fandom: Doctor Who
Subject: The Master (Doctor/Master)
Title: Oh! You Pretty Things
Warning: Language, some slightly disturbing themes, and spoilers for Utopia through Last of the Time Lords.
Notes: The best way I can describe this mix is: songs The Master would blast on The Valiant during the year that never was. For The Doctor's benefit, of course. Featuring David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, and The Dresden Dolls.

1. UNE ANNEE SANS LUMIERE
arcade fire

Hey, my eyes are shooting sparks
La nuit, mes yeux t'eclairent
Ne dis pas a ton pere
Qu'il porte des oeillieres

Hey, your old man should know
If you see a shadow
There's something there

2. TALKING WITH FIREWORKS/HERE, IT NEVER SNOWED
the twilight sad

And does your fear not grow when
When you see that you're all mine
See that your all mine
With a knife in your chest
With a knife in your chest

3. DARK EYES
iron and wine

Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside
They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide
I live in another world where life and death are memorized
Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls and all I see are dark eyes

A cock is crowing far away and another soldier's deep in prayer
Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere
But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise
Whom nature's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes

They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes
They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I'm sure it is
But I feel nothing for their game, where beauty goes unrecognized
All I feel is heat and flame, and all I see are dark eyes

Oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel
Hunger pays a heavy prize to the falling gods of speed and steel
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies
A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes

4. STRIPPED
shiny toy guns

Let me see you stripped down to the bone
Let me hear you speaking just for me

Let me see you stripped down to the bone
Let me hear you crying just for me

The Doctor: Master.
The Master: I love it when you say my name.

5. LAMPOSTS
bell x1

I've been waiting for your blood
To appear on my hands
And there it was
Under very different circumstances
It's a clanging symbol
To end this drum roll
It's a clanging symbol
To end this drum roll

I've been walking you
Into those lamposts again
I'd rather do that than
Let go of your hand

6. OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS
david bowie

Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

*

Look at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
They're the start of a coming race
The earth is a bitch
We've finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

The Master: So, basically, um... end of the world.

7. PRETTY LIFE
jackalope

You can't close your eyes
But do you taste my breath
Hear my voice, drown and you
Feel my skin on your back

Hey, I see you fallin'
On your knees your crawlin'
Back, back to me

*

I'm about to change your pretty mind...
I'm about to change your pretty life
I can see the fear that's in your eyes
Are you ready? There's no stopping time

8. TWO HEADED BOY
the dresden dolls

And in the dark we will take off our clothes
And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
And when all is breaking
Everything that you could keep aside
Now your eyes ain’t moving now
They just lay there in their climb

Two headed boy
There is no reason to grieve
The world that you need is wrapped in gold silver sleeves
Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow
And I will take you and leave you alone
Watching spirals of white softly flow
Over your eyelids and all you did
Will wait until the point when you let go

9. OOH
scissor sisters

Some people say such awful things
I don’t understand why they’re so hateful

*

Measure distances with tears
The tracks’ll run for miles when I feel those
Mixed emotions
In your heart
Guilty feelings
You fall apart
One or two ooooh’s
Nothing left to lose
I’m not a threat to nobody
Don’t try and give me them blues

Oooh
Don’t you give me them blues
I got magic in my dancing shoes
Let me hear you say ooooh

10. THE WRETCHED
nine inch nails

It didn't turn out the way you wanted it to
It didn't turn out the way you wanted it, did it?
It didn't turn out the way you wanted it to
It didn't turn out the way you wanted it, did it?

*

The clouds will part and the sky cracks open
And god himself will reach his fucking arm through
Just to push you down
Just to hold you down

The Master: I remember the days when the Doctor, oh, that famous Doctor... was waging a Time War, battling Sea Devils, and Axons, he sealed the Rift at the Medusa Cascade, single handed. And look at him now, stealing screwdrivers... How did he ever come to this? Oh yes! Me!
The Doctor: I just... need you to listen.
The Master: No, it's my turn. Revenge. Best served hot.

11. THE BEGINNING IS THE END IS THE BEGINNING
smashing pumpkins

And now the kingdom comes
Crashing down undone
And I am a master of a nothing place
Of recoil and grace

Is it bright where you are?
And have the people changed?
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
We can watch the world devoured in its pain

Time has stopped before us
The sky cannot ignore us
No one can separate us
For we are all that is left
The echo bounces off me
The shadow lost beside me
There's no more need to pretend
Cause now I can begin again

The Master: If I can't have this world, Doctor, then neither can you! We shall stand upon this Earth, together, as it burns!

12. ALL I NEED
radiohead

I am the next act waiting in the wings
I am an animal trapped in your hot car
I am all the days that you choose to ignore

*

I am a moth who just wants to share your light
I’m just an insect trying to get out of the night
I only stick with you because there are no others

You are all I need
You are all I need
I am in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds

It's all wrong
It's all right

13. FOOLS IN LOVE
inara george

Fools in love
Gently hold each other’s hands forever
Fools in love
Gently tear each others limb from limb

14. DISARM
smashing pumpkins

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you

Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn

The Doctor: It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. Axons! Remember the Axons? And the Daleks. We're the only two left. There's no one else... regenerate!
The Master: Heh... how about that? I win.

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Fanmix: Doctor Who- Jack/Doctor- Every Lightning Rod

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:44:03 GMT

Medium: Television
Fandom: Doctor Who
Subject: Captain Jack Harkness/The Doctor
Title: Every Lightning Rod
Spoilers: All of New Who (none for Torchwood- I haven't seen a single episode).
Notes: For miss_beehive. Happy birthday!

Jack is inspired by the Doctor, betrayed by him, and loved by him. 17 songs from Jack's point of view beneath the cut.

Tracklist:
1. I'm Sorry I Sang on Your Hands That Must Have Been in the Grave- Sunset Rubdown
2. Flightless Bird, American Mouth- Iron and Wine
3. Go Places- The New Pornographers
4. Duality- Bayside
5. Next to You- Bell X1
6. Easy/Lucky/Free- Bright Eyes
7. Us Ones In-Between- Sunset Rubdown
8. Shape Of My Heart- Noah and the Whale
9. Off By Heart- City and Colour
10. Quiet Day- Lovers
11. In a Manner of Speaking- Nouvelle Vague
12. Fatalist Palmistry- Why?
13. Junkyard- Page France
14. Catastrophe- Rainer Maria
15. Bullets- Tunng
16. You- Radiohead
17. (Bonus) Captain Badass- Songs: Ohia

01. I'M SORRY I SANG ON YOUR HANDS THAT MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE GRAVE
sunset rubdown and spencer krug of wolf parade

Think it’s a sign, where we’re shooting the sun?
I put a flag where it didn’t belong
You got a heart and I got this big, big, lance
You’re a hunter; I’ll tend the gun

Jack: It's a con. I was conning you. That's who I am, I'm a con man. Thought you were Time Agents.
-The Empty Child

No learned has seen the lakes
And I know your hands have
Been in the grave
You beat the path down;
Will you beat the path down?
I will follow the hunter and see what you take.

Jack: The perfect self-cleaning con... Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it, though. But you gotta set your alarm for Volcano Day.
...Doctor: You forgot to set your alarm. It's Volcano Day.
-The Empty Child

02. FLIGHTLESS BIRD, AMERICAN MOUTH
iron and wine

I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
And when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map
And called for you everywhere

Doctor: Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up, there's gonna be a draft. Welcome to the Tardis.
Jack: Much bigger on the inside.
Doctor: You'd better be.
-The Doctor Dances

03. GO PLACES
the new pornographers

Come hell or full circle
Our arms fill with miracles
Play hearts, kid, they work well
Like classics play aces
Stay with me, go places
Once more for the ages

Jack (about Rose and Mickey): Aw, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?
The Doctor: Buy me a drink first.
Jack: Such hard work.
The Doctor: But worth it.
-Boom Town

Yes a heart should always go one step too far
Come the morning and the day winding like dreams
Come the morning every blue shade of green
Come with me, go places

Rose: And off we go!
Jack: Into time.
Jack/Rose/Doctor: And space!
Mickey: My God, have you seen yourselves? You all think you're so clever, don't you?
Jack/Rose/Doctor: Yeah.
-Boom Town

04. DUALITY
bayside

I can't get you out of my head, my head.
You're the flame that burns me so I know that I'm still alive.

Some say
It's all fate
but I say we control our lives
And if my destiny should outbest me then that's fine.
I may believe thrill and apathy don't exist in me fairly equally
The truth is doubts are all I've got to call mine.

Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward.
-Parting of the Ways

05. NEXT TO YOU
bell x1

Now I'm looking for dry land
As all this crying subsides
But I'm like Columbus in India

*

Time pulls a face when I'm next to you
Let's hope the wind changes
Time pulled a face when I'm next to you
Let's hope the wind changes

'Cos we'd be stuck in this place
For an age or two
I hope the wind changes
And the vacuum in space will draw me to you
I hope the wind changes
I'm not over you, can I get back under?

[Jack runs towards the Tardis, just in time to see it dematerializing.]
-The Parting of the Ways

06. EASY/LUCKY/FREE/
bright eyes

Another century spent pointing guns
At anything that moves
Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground
But it's all I'm doing now
Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea
But once the satellite's deceased
It blows like garbage through the streets
Of the night sky to infinity

*

Honey, don't you weep (Don't you weep for them)
Don't you weep (Don't you weep)
There is nothing as lucky
As easy
Or free

Jack: Earth. 1829. Got in a fight on Ellis Island and a man shot me through the heart. And then I woke up. Thought it was kind of strange. But then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World War I, World War II, starvation, a stray javelin... in the end, I got the message. I'm the man that can never die.
-Utopia

07. US ONES IN BETWEEN
sunset rubdown

You are a waterfall
Waiting inside a well
You are a wrecking ball
Before the building fell
And every lightning rod
Has got to watch the storm cloud come.

*

I saw the sun go down
Outside of Arkansas;
And I saw the sun come up
Somewhere in Illinois.
And in the darkness
I taught myself to hate.
But where were you, oh where were you?
And where the fuck did the sun go?

Jack: I've been following you for a long time. You abandoned me.
Doctor: Did I? Busy life. Moving on.
-Utopia

Don’t pull your hair out;
I won’t pull my hair out.
For I have never seen the sun
That did not bury his fears in the side of the world.
And the day is done.

Doctor: You stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad.
Martha: What about you?
Doctor: Oh, the ones that ran away! Never stopped.
-The Sound of Drums

08. SHAPE OF MY HEART
noah and the whale

For your heart is like a flower as it grows,
And its the rain, not just the sun that helps it bloom,
And you don't know how it feels to be alive,
Until you know how it feels to die

Oh and if there's any love in me,
Don't let it show.
Oh and if there's any love in me,
Don't let it grow.

Jack: Oh, don't tell him to put his gun down.
The Doctor: He's not my responsibility.
Jack: And I am? Ha, that makes a change.
-Utopia

09. OFF BY HEART
city and colour

The stars are aligned, but they don't align for us.
Excuse me for I am the ocean, and I will starve for you.
Will you know how to stay brave?
Such fragile moments we share
You are my everything
Even with nothing to say

(they run)
Jack: Oh, I've missed this!
-Utopia

10. QUIET DAY
lovers

The chemicals in my head, I feel them sloshing and swishing.
I'm okay; I keep my eyes closed, wishing.
There's letters written but no letters sending.
Are you gonna treat people like they're never ending?
Are you gonna be okay or just keep pretending?

*

I'm half paper airplane on my mother's side, but half isn't enough to ever learn to fly.
"Problems at home?" I've always been asked.
And "Have you found yourself a safe place yet?"
I say, "I can't move out. My home is my head."

Jack: I went back to her estate in the 90's, just once or twice. Watched her growing up. Never said hello, timelines and all that.
The Doctor: Do you want to die?
Jack: This one's a little stuck.
The Doctor: Jack.
Jack: I thought I did. I don't know. But this lot—you see them out here surviving. And that's fantastic!
The Doctor: You might be out there somewhere.
Jack: I could go meet myself.
-Utopia

11. IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING
nouvelle rogue

In a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing

In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that I feel about you
Is beyond words

The Doctor: Everything Torchwood did and you're part of it.
Jack: The old regime was destroyed at Canary Wharf. I rebuilt it, I changed it. And when I did that, I did it for you. In your honor.
-The Sound of Drums

12. FATALIST PALMISTRY
why?

I sleep on my back cause it's good for the spine
And coffin rehearsal
I know a psychic who reads her own palms
And her findings are personal
She keeps her fists shut tight and she sleeps on her side,
Well maybe she knows something I don't know

[The year that never was. The Master takes great pleasure in killing Jack, often and in a new, more painful way each time. He hasn't seen the Doctor in almost a year.]

But I am still alive in love and
Wide-eyed in my time
Not a mummy shinking in its cloths
There's a moth flock in my gut growing
A tug at my groin like tides trying to
Pull moon towards them, I can't ignore them
And when we say your name our tongues catch flame.

Martha: If everyone thinks of one word, at one specific time.... right across the world, just one thought, at one specific moment, but with 15 satellites.
Master: What?
Jack: The Archangel Network.
...Martha: And that word is "Doctor".
Jack: Doctor
Everyone (chanting): Doctor
-The Last of the Time Lords

13. JUNKYARD
page france

I was born to lie here patiently
Be dragged on by the black star
And you were told to glow majestically
And love until your hands bleed

*

But I saw you cry
Like you used to laugh
When you looked around
Were you looking back
At a lonely love
As to sprouting beans
No one's quite as bloom
As they play to be
I would love to stay
But my work is through
I'm the truest song
That was never true

Jack: Back to work.
The Doctor: I really don't mind, though. Come with me.
Jack: I've had plenty of time to think that past year—the year that never was—and I kept thinking about that team of mine. Like you said, Doctor: "responsibility".
The Doctor: Defending the Earth. Can't argue with that.

14. CATASTROPHE
rainer maria

All the dams will give at the end,
at the end, at the end of the world.
Will you swim for me?
And the lights could go at any time,
any time, any time, any time.
How will you look for me?

Catastrophe keeps us together.
We're the architects of the world.
We're taking it all apart.

Jack: I've gotta go, I've gotta find the Doctor. I'll come back.
-The Stolen Earth

15. BULLETS
tunng

You split the secret up six ways
But it won't make it any easier to see
And now we don't remember

Doctor: You know why this TARDIS always is always rattling about the place? It's designed to have six pilots. And I had to do it single handed. But not any more! Jack, there you go, steady that. Now we can fly this thing!
-Journey's End

We're catching bullets with our
Heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us
It's strange to find such light
In such endless night
We're catching bullets in our backs
We sent the undertaker back
Into the garden in the drought
To try to work things out
We're catching bullets with the best resources that we've got
We're happy then again we're not
We shout - through the endless doubt

The Doctor: It's been good though, hasn't it? All of us. All of it. Everything we did. (To Donna:) You were brilliant. (To Jack:) And you were brilliant. (To Rose:) And you were brilliant.
-Journey's End

16. YOU
radiohead

You are the sun and moon and stars, are you
And I could never run away from you
You try at working out chaotic things
And why should I believe myself, not you?
*
You, me, and everything caught in the fire
I can see me drowning, caught in the fire

Captain Jack: Never doubted him, never will.
-The Parting of the Ways

BONUS: CAPTAIN BADASS
songs: ohia

Resistance failed
And friendship failed
And friendship failed
As lovers we did not fail
As lovers we did not fail

Brown eyes, your pulse is getting hotter
Brown eyes, your pulse is getting quicker

Quote Captain Badass:
"I am setting your heart on fire
So when you leave me
I will burn on in your soul,"
You won't have to think twice
If it's love you will know

*

So a hot pulse is alright
So a quick pulse is alright
So a hot kiss is alright
So a long kiss is alright
So a long night is alright
And all night is alright

This song doesn't fit in any particular timeline, and of course isn't canon. But I think it sums up their relationship, just the same.

Download the ZIP here. [In the zip, the song "Next to You" by Bell X1 is only 30 seconds long, but that problem has been fixed in the individual link. Sorry about that.]

Fanmix: Hamlet- Ophelia- Everything With Wings

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:39:04 GMT

Medium: Play
Fandom: Shakespeare/Hamlet
Subject: Ophelia
Title: Everything With Wings
Notes: A mix on Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship through Ophelia's eyes, in vaguely chronological order from before King Hamlet was killed to Ophelia's death. Individual songs and a zip beneath the cut.

["They say the owl was the baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be."]

1. Like O, Like H- Tegan and Sara
2. Brightly Wound- Eisley
3. Emily- Joanna Newsom
4. Look Up- Stars
5. Etcetera Whatever- Over the Rhine
6. Oh! You Pretty Things- Au Revoir Simone
7. Little Tornado- Aimee Mann
8. Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl- Broken Social Scene
9. Brandy Alexander- Feist
10. Teardrop- Massive Attack
11. A Case of You- Tori Amos
12. You've Gone Away Enough- Mirah
13. The Flowers- Regina Spektor
14. Mad Girl's Love Song- Fisher
15. Sullen Girl- Fiona Apple
16. Flowers We Are- Yiruma

01 LIKE O, LIKE H
tegan and sara

When I was eight I was sure I was growing nerves, like steel in my palm
Make a map of what you see, direct pain effectively
I was eight, I was sure I was growing pains like lead in my feet

02 BRIGHTLY WOUND
eisley

Its happening all the time when I open my eyes
I'm still taken by surprise
I hold sunlight and swallow fireflies
And it makes me want to cry
I love you

I shall never grow up, make believe there's much to find
Can we go far away to the humming meadow?

03 EMILY
joanna newsom

I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water
Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror

Anyhow - I sat by your side, by the water
You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
Though all I knew of the rote universe were those pleiades loosed in december
I promised you I‘d set them to verse so I'd always remember

That the meteorite is a source of the light
And the meteor's just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
...
And everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
The butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
And my clay-colored motherlessness rangily reclines
Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines

04 LOOK UP
stars

You're cold, maybe you just missed the sun
You fall, feeling like it's just begun
So far, keeping it together's been enough
Look up, rain is falling, looks like love

Your boy is like a memory
With some sense of touch and a melody
Your girl, she's a renegade
A hurricane that keeps you there, safe

05 ETCETERA WHATEVER
over the rhine

Trace your bruise
Like a guilty streak.
Hold the pain.
You're a connoisseur.
You think you have no other gift to give,
But we have so much left to live.

We don't need a lot of money.
We'll be sleeping on the beach,
Keeping oceans within reach.
(Whatever private oceans we can conjure up for free.)
I will stumble there with you
And you'll be laughing close with me,
Trying not to make a scene
Etcetera. Whatever. I guess all I really mean

Is we're gonna be alright.

06 OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS
au revoir simone

Look out my window and what do I see?
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

What are we coming to?
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the Golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for.

07 LITTLE TORNADO
aimee mann

Little tornado, Noah can build his ark
But he will never disembark

Make it go faster. Baby, go faster
Make it go twice the speed of you and me.

08 ANTHEMS FOR A SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD GIRL
broken social scene

You used to be the one of the rotten ones
And I liked you for that
Now you're all gone, got your make-up on
And you're not coming back,
Can't you come back?

Bleaching your teeth, smiling flash
Talking trash, under your breath
Bleaching your teeth, smiling flash
Talking trash, under my window

09 BRANDY ALEXANDER
feist

Though I'd like to be the girl for him
And cross the sea and land for him
On milky skin my tongue is sand until
The ever distant band begins to play

He's my Brandy Alexander
Always gets me into trouble
But that's another matter
Brandy Alexander

Though you know what I love most of him
I'm walking on needles and pins
My addiction to the worst of him
The low moon helps me sing

10 TEARDROP
massive attack

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Nine night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession

11 A CASE OF YOU
tori amos

Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said "Constantly in the darkness
Where's that at?"
...
Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

I remember that time you told me you said
"Love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine
'Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time
Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
...
"Go to him, stay with him if you can
But be prepared to bleed"

12 YOU'VE GONE AWAY ENOUGH
mirah

With my eyes mostly closed like a person who knows how to drown
I'll squint at the sun and my shoulders will pray for the ground
Let's throw something over, imagine it's us falling down
And thinking of death we will watch without making a sound

But it's just the way you are you don't have to be afraid
The way you look at the stars and how you think that they were made
The motion will never stop turning the night into the day
You've gone away enough when will you decide to stay

My trouble with everything always is nothing's just right
Just to figure out nothing could keep you awake half the night
Not to know what you want is a terrible thing you should fight
You just sift for the face of the dark while you wait for the light

13 THE FLOWERS
regina spektor

The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away.
Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully
They might so I'm waiting and staying awake.
...
I'm taking the knife to the books that I own
And chopping and chopping and boiling soup from stone.
Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep.
I'll never know if I go to sleep.

14 MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG
fisher

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
As all my darkness gathers in.
I close my eyes, the world drops dead.
I think I made you up inside my head, inside my head.

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
And exit Satan and his men.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And how you kissed me quite insane.
...
I should have loved a bird instead;
At least in springtime they roar back again.
Roar back again

15 SULLEN GIRL
fiona apple

Days like this, I don't know what to do with myself
All day -- and all night
I wander the halls along the walls and under my breath
I say to myself
I need fuel -- to take flight --
And there's too much going on
But it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion
Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
Is that why they call me a sullen girl -- sullen girl
They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea
But he washed my shore and he took my pearl
And left and empty shell of me
And there's too much going on

16 FLOWERS WE ARE
yiruma

[instrumental]

ZIP [megaupload]

If you liked this mix, check out my general Hamlet mix here

Fanmix: Romeo and Juliet- General- More With Love

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Medium: Play
Fandom: Romeo and Juliet
Subject: General
Title: More With Love
Warnings:: Language, sexual themes, mentions of murder and suicide... nothing you won't find in the actual play.
Notes: The second in what might end up being an epic "Shakespeare in Song" series. (The first, a Hamlet mix, is here.) I tried to capture the feeling of Verona, gritty and dog-eat-dog and claustrophobic, and contrast it with the floating feeling that comes with being in love that is Romeo and Juliet's relationship. This mix has 33 songs total, featuring Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, and The Hush Sound,. Links to the individual songs and a zip are beneath the cut. Once again, I apologize for the crappy cover art and the inevitable tl;dr of the post.

Here's much to do with hate
But more with love
-Act I, scene i

1. HANDS IN THE SKY [BIG SHOT]
straylight run

Tear it out of these open pages
Women and kids of all ages
Millions of men with blank faces
Italicized lies, headlines bold type

Living lives just like deer in headlights
Terrified, blind, and wait to die
I wonder when they'll come get me
I wonder when they'll come get me

CHORUS:
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
-Prologue

2. THEY
jem

Who made up all the rules?
We follow them like fools.
Believe them to be true.
Don't care to think them through.
...
And it's ironic too.
'Cause what we tend to do.
Is act on what they say.
And then it is that way.

GREGORY:
The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
SAMPSON:
'Tis all one.
-Act I, scene i

3. THE EMPTY THREATS OF LITLE LORD
sunset rubdown

If I ever hurt you it will be in self-defense
Cause the podium's as high as the gallows are low
Swing low, swing low, swing low.
You are a beast and I am serving up your supper
You are a beast and I am serving up your supper
Oh, oh, oh…
What will you do when the drink is all down?
Will you slam your fist down on the table?
...
No, I’m not that kind of whore
But I am a little lord.
Lord, grant me, gracious,
I am burning up inside.

There are snakes out in the night;
All these kids have gone astray;
There are women with no meaning to their names
When we say them… they are worse to win
For never over sinful days…

[To me, this song is about the Prince, and his relationship with the nobles. Throughout the whole play, the Prince is all talk and no action. Prior to the play, he has let civic brawls take place without any consequences. This has allowed people like Mercutio, Tybalt, and even servants like Sampson and Gregory to disregard the Prince's authority, quarreling as soon as his back is turned. During the play, the Prince is happy to banish Romeo, instead of putting him to death. I see the Prince as someone who likes to avoid conflict, and tries to make everyone happy. In a city like Verona, with families like the Capulets and Montagues, this is no easy feat. The line "podium's as high as the gallows are low" reminds me of the end of the play. The Prince easily pardons Friar Laurence, but executes the man at the apothecary who sold Romeo the poison, and banishes Juliet's nurse. It's the people at the bottom, the ones no one cares about, that get punished.]

4. POLITIK
coldplay

Look at earth from outer space,
Everyone must find their place,
Give me time and give me space,
Give me real don't give me fake,
Give me strength and self control,
Give me heart and give me soul,
Give me time give us a kiss,
Tell me your own politik.

Open up your eyes.
...
But give me love over,
Love over, love over this.

ROMEO:
O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here's much to do with hate but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
-Act I, scene i

5. INSIDE OF LOVE
nada surf

I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
I’m standing at the gates
I see the beauty above
...
I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
Must be a different view
To be a me with a you.

BENVOLIO:
In love?
ROMEO:
Out.
BENVOLIO:
Of love?
ROMEO:
Out of her favor where I am in love.
-Act I, scene i
*
MERCUTIO:
You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
And soar with them above a common bound.
-Act I, scene iv

6. SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
iron & wine

I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God himself did make us
Into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay.
...
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay.

ROMEO:
Dear saint, let lips do what hands do.
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET:
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO:
Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. [kisses her]
-Act I, scene v

7. INTERNATIONAL SMALL ARMS TRAFFIC BLUES
the mountain goats

My love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse
Somewhere just outside of town
About to burn down
...
Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania
Trucks loaded down with weapons
Crossing over every night
Moon yellow and bright
There is a shortage in the blood supply
But there is no shortage of blood
The way I feel about you baby can't explain it
You got the best of my love.

CHORUS:
Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks,
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks.
Being held a foe, he may not have access
To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear.
And she as much in love, her means much less
To meet her new beloved anywhere.
But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,
Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet.
-Act II, Prologue

8. WHAT A GOOD BOY
barenaked ladies

When I was born they looked at me and said,
"What a good boy, what a smart boy, what a strong boy."
And when you were born they looked at you and said,
"What a good girl, what a smart girl, what a pretty girl."

We've got these chains that hang around our necks .
People want to strangle us with them before we take our
first breath
Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same
When temptation calls, we just look away.

This name is the hair-shirt I wear
And this hair-shirt is woven from your brown hair
This song is the cross that I bear
Bear with me, bear with me, bear with me-
Be with me tonight.
(I know that it isn't right.)
But be with me tonight.

ROMEO:
Call me "love" and I'll be new baptized.
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
...
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself
Because it is an enemy to thee.
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
-Act II, scene ii

9. HEARTBEATS
jose gonzalez

One night to be confused
One night to speed up truth
We had a promise made
Four hands and then away
Both under influence
We had divine sense
To know what to say
Mind is a razor blade

To call for hands of above
To lean on
Wouldn't be good enough
For me, no.

JULIET
Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.
If that thy bent of love be honorable,
Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,
By one that I'll procure to come to thee,
Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite,
And all my fortunes at thy feet I'll lay,
And follow thee my lord throughout the world.
-Act II, scene ii

10. DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION
the kinks

They seek him here, they seek him there,
His clothes are loud, but never square.
It will make or break him so he's got to buy the best,
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
...
His world is built 'round discoteques and parties.
This pleasure-seeking individual always looks his best
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

MERCUTIO:
The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phantasms,
these new tuners of accent! "By Jesu, a very good
blade! A very tall man! A very good whore!" Why, is it not
this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be
thus affected with these strange flies, these fashion-
mongers, these "pardon me's," who stand so much
on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the
old bench? Oh, their bones, their bones!
-Act II, Scene iv

11. DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS
coldplay

Let's get married
All summer we just hurried
...
No, I don't wanna battle from beginning to end
I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge
I don't wanna follow Death and all his friends

And in the end
We lie awake, and we dream of making our escape.

ROMEO:
But come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight.
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine
-Act II, scene vi

12. PAINTING BY CHAGALL
the weepies

You’re the moon, I’m the water
You’re Mars, calling up Neptune’s daughter

Sometimes rain that’s needed falls
We float like two lovers in a painting by Chagall
All around is sky and blue town
Holding these flowers for a wedding gown
We live so high above the ground, satellites surround us.
...
Everybody says “you can’t, you can't, you can't, don’t try.”
Still everybody says that if they had the chance they’d fly like we do.

JULIET:
Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with the night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
-Act III, scene ii

13. WE NEED A WAR
fischerspooner

We need a war to show 'em that we can
We need a war to show 'em that we can do it whenever we say we need a war
If they mess with us
If we think they might mess with us
If we say they might mess with us
If we think we need a war
We need a war
(if we think we need a war)
A war to make us feel safe
A war to make 'em feel sorry
Whoever they are.

BENVOLIO:
I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire
The day is hot; the Capels, abroad;
And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
-Act III, scene i

14. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
kansas

Oh there is nothing to lose
'Cause it's already lost
In a runaway world
Of confusion
I'm gonna take it

That's why I fight fire with fire
Oh I'm burning inside and my heart is a-cryin'
...
Standing alone
In a crowded room
I can feel a chill in the air
I'm shakin'
...
I want to fight till the end
I won't let 'em take me alive.

[Tybalt is hard for me to get a handle on. I think he is someone who feels the cut of injustice deeply. Honor is important to him, although he is rarely honorable. Tybalt sees everything in black and white; his uncle and the Capulets are good; the Montagues are bad. Nevermind that he probably doesn't know why he must hate the Montagues. When he sees Romeo and his friends attend a party at the Capulet place, he thinks they are being mocked, and getting revenge becomes the most important thing in the world to him.]

15. A BAD DREAM
keane

Why do I have to fly?
Over every town up and down the line?
I'll die in the clouds above
And you that I defend, I do not love

I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Where will I meet my fate?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend.

TYBALT:
Boy... turn and draw.
ROMEO:
I do protest I never injured thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
And so, good Capulet, which name I tender
As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.
-Act III, scene i

16. STEALING SOCIETY
system of a down

Two suns,
Watching them both fighting,
Two suns,
Seeing them both dying,
Two suns,
Watching them both fighting,
Two suns fighting, one's abiding,
Two skies,
Seeing them both dying,
Two skies fading, one's abating
...
I'm looking for a mother
That’ll get me high
Just a stupid motherfucker
If I die, I die
I'm a midnight fistfight.

MERCUTIO:
No, 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door,
but 'tis enough; 'twill serve. Ask me for tomorrow and
you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I
warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!
-Act III, scene i

17. CITY OF DELUSION
muse

You will not rest
Or settle for less
Until you guzzle and squander whats left
Do not deny
That you live and let die

Destroy this city of delusion
And break these walls down
And I will avenge
And justify my reasons
With your blood.

ROMEO:
This gentleman, the Prince's ally,
My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt
In my behalf- my reputation stained
With Tybalt's slander- Tybalt, that's an hour
Hath been my cousin! O sweet Juliet,
Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper softened valor's steel.
-Act III, scene i

18. ROOTLESS TREE
damien rice

What I want from you is empty your head
But they say be true, don't stay in your bed
We do what we need to be free
And it leans on me like a rootless tree
...
What I want from this
Is to learn to let go
No not of you
Of all that's been told
Killers re-invent and believe
And it leans on me, like a rootless...

BENVOLIO:
Romeo, away; be gone!
The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
Stand not amazed. The Prince will doom thee death
If thou art taken. Hence, be gone; away!
ROMEO:
Oh, I am fortune's fool!
-Act III, scene i

19. CARO MIO BEN
cecelia bartoli

caro mio ben,
credimi almen,
senza di te
languisce il cor,
caro mio ben,
senza di te
languisce il cor

[translation: My dear beloved,
believe me at least,
without you
my heart languishes.]

JULIET:
"Romeo is banished."
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word's death. No words can that woe sound.
-Act III, scene ii

20. BROTHERS IN ARMS
dire straits

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arm

Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
...
There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms.

[Friar Laurence doesn't marry Romeo and Juliet because he thinks their love is true, but because he hopes their union will end the fighting between the Capulets and Montagues. Laurence hates the death and destruction caused by the war between the two families, and if he is guilty of anything, it is being unable to see the trees for the forest. He doesn't consider the hurt that would be caused by passing Juliet off as dead, or not telling everyone that Romeo and Juliet were married after Romeo was banished. He just thinks of a hypothetical long term. And, in the end, he gets what he wanted. Even though Romeo and Juliet are dead as a result of his actions, the Capulets and Montagues are at peace.]

21. BOY WITH A COIN
iron & wine

A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines
Close to a car that flipped on the turn
When God left the ground to circle the world

FRIAR LAURENCE:
Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man.
Affliction is enamored of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
-Act III, scene iii

A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that’s how she knows
If God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the earth.

JULIET:
O God, I have an ill-divining soul.
Methinks I see thee now: thou art so low
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
...Be fickle, fortune,
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.
-Act III, scene v

22. ALL I NEED
mat kearney

If everything we've got is slipping away
I meant what I said when I said until my dying day
I'm holding on to you, holding onto me
Maybe it's all gone black but you're all I see
You're all I see
...
And if all we've got is what no one can break
I know I love you
If that's all we can take
The tears are coming down
They're mixing with the rain
I know I love you, if that's all we can take.

JULIET:
Oh, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?
ROMEO:
I doubt it not, and all those woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our times to come.
-Act III, scene v

23. MY HEART NEVER SLEEPS
lovers

And time is passing. Time is dying. Time is history.
And in all this time, the clocks' hands never once reached out for me.
You can tell now that I'm tired,
Oh, it's exhausting to be so diligent in my vigilance,
To have a heart that never sleeps.
So this lullaby for lonesome Bella will never be complete.
Or I might close my eyes to dream of the idleness of being.
Just like a soldier up all hours waiting for the enemy,
I'm always watching, always guarded,
Oh, my heart never sleeps.

JULIET:
Indeed, I shall never be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him- dead-
Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.
-Act III, scene v

24. IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA
matt pond pa (neutral milk hotel cover)

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly
From the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
...
What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all around the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe
How strange it is to be anything at all.

ROMEO:
I dreamed my lady came and found me dead
(Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.
Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed
When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!
-Act V, scene i

25. VERSIONS OF VIOLENCE
alanis morissette

Coercing or leaving
Shutting down and punishing
Running from rooms, defending
Withholding, justifying

These versions of violence
Sometimes subtle sometimes clear
And the ones that go unnoticed
Still leave their Mark once disappeared.

CAPULET:
I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face.
...My fingers itch.
...JULIET:
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
Oh, sweet my mother, cast me not away~
...LADY CAPULET:
Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word.
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
-Act III, scene v

Diagnosing, analyzing
Unsolicited advice
Explaining and controlling,
Judging opining and meddling.

NURSE:
I think it best you married with the County.
...JULIET:
Go, counselor.
Thou and my bosom henceforth be twain.
I'll to the Friar to know his remedy.
-Act III, scene v

26. BREAK THE SKY
the hush sound

I'll break the sky
For you and I are going nowhere
Kiss goodbye a dozen times
Before we get there
Why do I need anyone else
When I can break the sky myself?

Won't be haunted by dreams I've deferred
Won't set my heart frozen in amber
The love you always seem to find is syrupy sweet
One taste and you've made up your mind
Too ripe to eat

Before the world dies at my door...

FRIAR LAURENCE:
In this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
...
And this shall free thee from this present shame,
If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear
Abate thy valor in the acting it.
JULIET:
Give me; give me! Oh, tell not me of fear.
-Act IV, scene i

27. POSTCARDS FROM ITALY
beirut

In my good times
There were always golden rocks to throw
at those who admit defeat too late
Those were our times, those were our times

And I will love to see that day
That day is mine
When she will marry me outside with the willow trees
And play the songs we made
They made me so
And I would love to see that day
Her day was mine.

PARIS
Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this?
...
Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!
Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled,
By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown!
O love! O life! Not life, but love in death.
-Act IV, scene iv

28. I WILL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARK
amanda palmer

Love of mine
Someday you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light
Or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark.
...
The time for sleep is now
But it's nothing to cry about
Because we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms.

ROMEO
Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let's see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
...
Come, cordial and not poison; go with me
To Juliet's grave, for there I must use thee.
-Act v, scene i

29. AUGUST
rilo kiley

August, I'll see you soon under yellow moons
Where I'll gather what's left of you
And August, I'm on your side
Or did I speak too soon?
Now we've crossed the great divide
...
Someday we'll meet beyond the stars
And it'll be away from here
Someday we'll meet beyond the limits of who we are
And it'll be away from here.

JULIET:
I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make me die with a restorative.
Thy lips are warm.
O happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rest, and let me die.
-Act V, scene iii

30. THE NIGHT STARTS HERE
stars

The night starts here, the night starts here
Forget your name, forget your fear

The pleasure part, the after thought
The missing stone in the graveyard
The time we have, the task at hand
The love it takes to become a man

The dust at dawn is rained upon
Attaches itself to everyone
No one is spared, no one is clean
It travels places you've never been.

PRINCE:
Where be these enemies- Capulet! Montague!
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
And I, for winking at your discords, too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.
CAPULET:
O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.
-Act V, scene iii

31. IN OUR BEDROOM AFTER THE WAR
stars

Say good morning to that sleepy person lying next to you
If there’s no one there, then there’s no one there
But at least the war is over
It’s us
Yes, we’re back again
Here to see you through til the day’s end
And if the night comes, and the night will come
Well at least the war is over
...
The dark was filled with dread
But at least the war is over
...
All the living are dead, and the dead are all living
The war is over and we are beginning

PRINCE:
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned and some punished.
-Act V, scene iii

32. NOTHING GETS CROSSED OUT
bright eyes

I just want someone to walk in front
And I'll follow the leader
...
Now I'm trying to be assertive
I'm making plans
Going to rise to the occasion, yeah
Meet all their demands
But all I do is just lay in bed
And hide under the covers

Yeah, I know I should be brave
But I'm just too afraid of all this change
...
Because I been feeling sentimental
For days gone by
All the summers singing, drinking, my friend
Wasting our time
...
Everything that happens
Is supposed to be
And it's all predetermined
Can't change your destiny
Guess I'll just keep moving
Someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going.

[This is the ultimate Benvolio song. He is not always a peacemaker; as Mercutio points out, Benvolio's temper is sometimes as quick and sharp as his own. But in my eyes, he is ultimately a follower- he is an ordinary young man, surrounded by men that are larger than life (Mercutio, Romeo, and Tybalt.) This song is about his journey throughout the play, and how I see his character reacting after the events of the play.]

33. LIEBESTOD
craig armstrong

[instrumental]

PRINCE:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
-Act V, scene iii

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Meme!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:33:35 GMT

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

1. Have you ever been close to tragedy?/Or close to those who have? The Impression That I Get- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
2. I may run and hide when you're screamin' my name, alright
~~3. The boys who kiss and bite~~ The Boys Are Too Refined- The Hush Sound
4. Dearest, though you’re the nearest to my heart
5. Close your eyes/Give me your hand, darling
6. King Chris Coyne, Total Shams, and Shoeless Jed
7. You left it/I sent it/I want it back
8. It must be your skin/I'm sinking in
9. And if I die today I’ll be the happy phantom
10. You wait up for me I don't wake up for you
11. Tell me why I feel so bad, honey/TV's flat and nothing is funny
12. Any minute now/ my ship is coming in
13. I'd never been lucky with girls I confess /Don't know who to blame for my lack of success
14. Woke up this morning to a filthy sky above/I didn't want to get out of my bed
15. Daylight/See the dew on the sunflower
16. Is this a dream?/If it is/Please don't wake me from this high
17. Well you should see my story-reading baby
~~18. This will be/ an everlasting love~~ This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)- Natalie Cole
19. In a little while/surely you'll be mine
20. Wake up you sleepy head/ put on some clothes, shake up your bed

I feel as though some of these are oddly obscure, but... well, I suck at memes.

Fanmix: Batman- The Riddler- Reflex

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:44:19 GMT

Medium: Graphic novel (although I was also thinking of a possible future Nolan film while making this)
Fandom: Batman
Subject: The Riddler
Title: reflex
Warnings: None.
Notes: An quick exploration of the character. In case you couldn't tell, I am useless when it comes to cover art; sorry about that. 15 individually uploaded songs plus a zip beneath the cut.

1. Crossword- Jethro Tull

Walking on air, shoulder and head above you.
Down in the street, black canyons walking through.
Hooded sad eyes, fixed on your shuffle shoes.
Life is a clue in your crossword.
...
Ladder of string climbing to sweet success.
Homework aside. Your brain on the train to test.
Pick up the news (you left on the seat beside you).
Your life is a clue in the crossword.

2. Cheer Up Boys (Your Makeup is Running)- Foo Fighters

Elementary
I solved them all
All your mysteries
Settle down and in good time
We can solve all mine
Tell me lies or tell me when
Tear me up again
I will let you know
When I've had enough,
Had enough of you

3. L.E.S. Artistes- Santogold

What am I here for
I left my home to disappear is all
I'm here for myself
Not to know you
I don't need no one else
Fit in so good the hope is that you cannot see me later
You don't know me
I am an introvert an excavator
I'm duckin' out for now
A face in dodgy elevators
Creep up and suddenly
I found myself
An innovator

4. Reflex- Duran Duran

I'm on a ride and I want to get off
But they won't slow down the roundabout
I sold the Renoir and the TV set
Don't want to be around when this gets out

So why don't you use it?
Try not to bruise it
Buy time don't lose it
The reflex is an only child he's waiting in the park
The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre
Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark

Oh the reflex what a game he's hiding all the cards
The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre
Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark

5. You Don't Understand Me- The Raconteurs

And there's always another point of view,
A better way to do the things we do
And how can you know me and I know you?
If nothing is true?

What do you think that you are doing?
Who is the fool, the fool or the fool that you are fooling?
And maybe I just don't see the reason
But in the cold of my heart, your ignorance is treason

6. I Would Hurt a Fly- Built to Spill

I can't get that sound you make out of my head
I can't even figure out what's making it
No one else around even seems to be noticing
It's only small enough for me

I can't get that sound you make out of my head
I can't even figure out what's making it
It feels like fingernails across the moon
Or do you rub your wings together

There's a mean bone in my body
It's connected to the problems that I won't take for an answer
And I won't take that from you
Because I'd hurt a fly

7. In The Shadows- The Rasmus

No sleep untill I'm done with finding the answer
Won't stop
Won't stop before I find a cure for this cancer
Sometimes
I feel I'm going down and so disconnected
Somehow
I know that I am haunted to be wanted

I've been watching
I've been waiting
In the shadows for my time
I've been searching
I've been living
For tomorrows all my life

8. Con-science- Muse

I can't pretend
Choose how it ends
You slipped away
Questions here to stay
In feel
In soul
In feel
In soul
I can't pretend
Consumed by an end
Try bend the rules
Ripped out the clues

9. Never Ending Math Equation- Modest Mouse

I'm the same as I was when I was six years old
And oh my God, I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?

Oh my God, I've got to, got to, got to, got to move on
Where do you move when what you're moving from
Is yourself?

The universe works on a math equation
That never even ever really ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other

Oh my God, and oh my cat
I told my Dad what I need
Well, I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need
Well, he said, he said, he said, he said
"Where we're going, I'm dead"

10. We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands- The Academy is...

I've got that lefty curse
Where everything I do is flipped and awkwardly reversed
You're seldom known and barely missed
I always put myself in destructive situations
I need oxygen to be exposed where no one goes
Where no one's been.
...
Somebody get my phone
So I can throw it in a public pool and watch it float
And as it's slowly sinking down, become a social ghost
Inside a box, cut out the top to let some light shine in
To remind me of what I've done and where I've been

11. Thirty Whacks- The Dresden Dolls

Thirty licks with a belt - playing tricks on myself
And I wonder if everyone else is this way
A succession of tests a triumphant success
Each time it’s still intact at the end of the day

12. Mayonaise- The Smashing Pumpkins

Mother, weep the years I'm missing
All our time can't be given back
Shut my mouth and strike the demons
Cursed you and your reasons
Out of hand and out of season
Out of love and out of feeling so bad

When I can, I will
Words defy the plans
When I can, I will

Fool enough to almost be it
And cool enough to not quite see it
And old enough to always feel this
Always old, I'll always feel this

13. Addictive- Faithless

I have a demon for a wife
He delights in your pretty face and he hates my life
Takes notes on how to provoke past grief
Makes my teeth decay with the last of my self believe
Feed all day from underneath
Like a thief, I left weak, barely able to speak
I seek nothing but constant supply
I can read every look in your eyes
I leave with a lie
Maybe our love will never die
Or, maybe it's the last time I make you cry
Make my appeal like the condemned.
Let's go away for the weekend
Your life I will steal and descend with it into the pit.
...
Listen to the voice of your head,
It makes no sense..
Take a rest...

14. Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was- Radiohead

Wax me, mould me
Heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this
Just wish that it was bulletproof

So pay me money and take a shot
Lead-fill the hole in me
I could burst a million bubbles
All surrogate and bulletproof

15. Rest My Chemistry- Interpol

I haven't slept for two days
I've bathed in nothing but sweat
And I've made hallways
Scenes for things to regret
My friends they come
And the lines they go by
Tonight I'm gonna rest my chemistry
Tonight I'm gonna rest my chemistry

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Fanmix: Hamlet- General- But One Part Wisdom

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:57:31 GMT

Medium: Play
Fandom: Shakespeare/Hamlet
Subject: General
Title: but one part wisdom
Warnings: Er... spoilers, I suppose. Also, some language and sexual themes in the song lyric samples.
Notes: After re-reading the play, and seeing it performed live for the first time, I had to make a mix. This is an exploration of the characters in the play, in chronological order (more or less). 25 songs plus two bonus, beneath the cut.

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1. Windowsill- Arcade Fire

I don't want it faster, I don't want it free
I don't want to show you what they've done to me
I don't want to live in my father's house no more

I don't want to choose black or blue
I don't want to see what they've done to you
I don't want to live in my father's house no more

Because the tide is high
And it's rising still
And I don't want to see it at my windowsill
...
World war three, when are you coming for me?
Been kicking up sparks to set the flames free
The windows are locked now, so what'll it be?
A house on fire or the rising sea?

HAMLET:
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
-Act I, ii

2. The Fox- Nada Surf

The fox, the fox
Lied fox eyes under my prize

We're in a different war
With ourselves, and with some of you
So many things that don't hold true

MARCELLUS:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
-Act I, scene iv

3. Viva La Vida- Coldplay

I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies' eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead, long live the king
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
...
Revolutionaries wait for my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?

GHOST:
Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head:
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
-Act I, scene v

4. Nos Da Cariad- David Gray

One lifetime is long enough
Is long enough to wait
The rain like silver in my ears
Fat nothing on my plate
A bucketful of Babylon
A belly full of hate
Go to sleep my one true love
And may your dreams be sweet

GHOST:
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
-Act l, scene v

Hold on to St. Christopher
The sky is murderous red
Go to sleep my one true love
Our glory lies ahead

CLAUDIUS:
Therefore, our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Here we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,-
Taken to wife
-Act I, scene ii

5. Evil- Interpol

Hey wait, great smile
Sensitive to fate, not denial
...
Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand
It's a sentimental jury
And the makings of a good plan
You've come to love me lightly
Yeah you come to hold me tight
Is this motion ever lasting
Or do shudders pass in the night?

HAMLET:
O most pernicious woman!
 O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain! 
My tables—meet it is I set it down 
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
 At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
-Act I, v

6. Opera Singer- Cake

I am an opera singer
I stand on painted tape
It tells me where I'm going
And where to throw my cape
...
And every single morning
By 10 AM I'm dressed
My rehearsals last for hours and hours
With diligence I have been blessed
...
I am an opera singer
I sing in foreign lands
Most people seem to know my name
Or at least know who I am

POLONIUS:
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes;
I will be brief.
--
GERTRUDE:
More matter, with less art.
-Act II, scene ii

7. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes- Modest Mouse

I just got a message that said
"Yeah, hell has frozen over"
I got a phone call from the Lord
Saying, "Hey, boy, get a sweater right now"
...
Does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
Does anybody know a way?
Does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
Does anybody know a way?

HAMLET:
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
-Act II, scene ii

8. Stronger- 30 Seconds to Mars

I ask, cause I'm not sure,
Is anybody out there real anymore?
Bow in the presence of greatness
'Cause right now thou has forsaken us.
You should be honored by my lateness
That I would even show up to this fakeness.
So go ahead go nuts go ape-ish.

HAMLET:
What should a man do but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.
OPHELIA:
Nay, tis twice two months, my lord.
HAMLET:
So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.
-Act III, scene ii

9. 42- Coldplay

Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
Oh..

Time is so short and I’m sure
There must be something more

HAMLET:
 To die: to sleep; 
No more; and by a sleep to say we end 
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;  
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause: there's the respect 
That makes calamity of so long life
-Act lll, scene i

10. Pretty Down To Your Bones- The Hush Sound

I never wanted anyone else
Don't want anyone else but you
You are the neck
Of the bottle I'm living in
I never wanted anyone else
Don't want anyone else but you
I do adore
...
I wanna cry
I wanna scream
Oh, you're making me shake
Break, fall to the floor
I do adore
Do you adore
Do you adore me?

OPHELIA:
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most soverign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
-Act III, scene i

11. For the Restless- Tom McRae

So for the restless
Not the peaceful sleeper
This song's for you
And for the faithless
Not the true believer
This song's for you

And I keep my secrets well
Move on and never tell
Some day they'll show
And you raised me to be cruel
You raised me like a bruise
I'm bleeding still

GERTRUDE:
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
HAMLET:
O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.
Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
-Act lll, scene iv

12. Bloody Motherfucking Asshole- Martha Wainwright

Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore
And I'm young and I'm strong, but I feel old and tired. Over-fired.

And I've been poked and stoked
It's all smoke, there's no more fire, only desire
For you, whoever you are. For you, whoever you are.

You say my time here has been some sort of joke
That I've been messing around
Some sort of incubating period for when I really come around
I'm cracking up, and you have no idea

No idea how it feels to be on your own in your own home.

HAMLET:
O shame! Where is thy blush?
...
GERTRUDE:
O Hamlet, speak no more:
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.
-Act III, scene iv

13. What You Are- Audioslave

And when you wanted me
I came to you
And when you wanted someone else
I withdrew
And when you asked for light
I set myself on fire
And if I go far away I know
You'll find another slave

ROSENCRANTZ:
Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
HAMLET:
Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and sponge, you shall be dry again.
-Act IV, Scene ii

14. Angels/Losing/Sleep- Our Lady Peace

Over your shoulder you have to watch
Heaven fall into hell
Looks like your boat's about to sink
So it's time to prepare
Even the angels are losing sleep
And the sidewalks are bare
...
It looks like the wall was in your head
Not your heart
Just when you think it's figured out
Well it all falls apart

HAMLET:
How all occasions do inform against me, 
And spur my dull revenge!
-Act IV, scene iv

15. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)- Nancy Sinatra

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"

OPHELIA:
They say the owl was the baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
-Act IV, scene v

16. Girl Anachronism- The Dresden Dolls

You can tell
From the scars on my arms
And cracks in my hips
And the dents in my car
And the blisters on my lips
That I'm not the carefullest of girls
...
If it were any colder I could disengage
If I were any older I could act my age
But I don't think that you'd believe me
It's not the way I'm meant to be
It's just the way the operation made me

OPHELIA:
I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I cannot choose but weep, to think they shall lay him i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night.
- Act IV, scene v

17. Oh Comely- Neutral Milk Hotel

Oh comely
I will be with you when you lose your breath
Chasing the only
Meaningful memory you thought you had left

OPHELIA:
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.
LAERTES:
A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
-Act IV, scene v

But, oh comely
There isn't such one friend that you could find here
Standing next to me
He's only my enemy
I'll crush him with everything I own

LAERTES:
And so have I a noble father lost;
A sister driven into desperate terms,
Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
Stood challenger on mount of all the age
For her perfections: but my revenge will come.
-Act IV, scene vii

18. When It's Cold I'd Like to Die- Moby

Where were you when I was lonesome?
Locked away with freezing cold
Someone flying, only stolen
I can't tell this light so old

I don't want to swim the ocean
I don't want to fight the tide
I don't want to swim forever
When it's cold I'd like to die

GERTRUDE:
Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
-Act IV, scene vii

19. Big Eyed Fish- Dave Matthews Band

Look at this big eyed fish swimming in the sea, Oh
How he dreams to be a bird,
Swoop and diving through the breeze
So one day caught a big old wave up on to the beach
And now he's dead you see
Beneath the sea is where a fish should be

But, Oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side
...
No way out of here
You see the little monkey
Sitting up in his monkey tree
One day he decided to come down
And run off to the city
But look at him now lost and tired lying in the street
As good as dead you see what monkey does
Stay up in your tree.

HAMLET:
Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get yet to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
-Act V, scene i

20. Glycerine- Bush

I'm never alone
I'm alone all the time
Are you at one,
Or do you lie?
...
I treated you bad
You bruised my face
Couldn't love you more,
You've got a beautiful taste
...
I needed you more
Wanted us less
I could not kiss
Just regress

HAMLET:
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell.
-Act III, scene i
*
HAMLET:
I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with the quantity of love,
Make up my sum.
-Act V, scene i

21. That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)- Panic at the Disco

Things are shaping up to be pretty odd.
Little deaths in musical beds.
So it seems I'm someone I've never met.

You will only hear these elegant crimes,
Fall on your ears from criminal dimes.
They spill unfound from a pretty mouth.

HAMLET:
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving-time allow'd.
...
HORATIO: So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.
HAMLET: Why, man, they did make love to this employment;
They are not near my conscience; their defeat
Does by their own insinuation grow;
'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass and fall incensed points
Of mighty opposites
HORATIO: Why, what a king is this!
-Act V, scene ii

22. Land-Locked Blues- Bright Eyes

And there's kids playing guns in the street
And one's pointing his tree branch at me
And so I put my hands up, I say, "Enough is enough
If you walk away, I'll walk away"

And he shot me dead

HAMLET:
Sir, in this audience,
Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil
Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,
That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
And hurt my brother.
LAERTES:
I am satisfied in nature,
Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most
To my revenge: but in my terms of honour
I stand aloof
-Act V, scene ii

And the world's got me dizzy again
You think after twenty-two years I'd be used to the spin
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
So I'm always pacing around or walking away

I keep drinking the ink from my pen
And I'm balancing history books up on my head
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
"If you love something, give it away"

HAMLET:
I am but mad north-north west: when the wind is southernly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
-Act II, scene ii

23. Electric Bird- Sia

Well you’re art, you fell into this part
You play the victim perfectly holding your beating
heart, you used to be so smart
You fluttered round the yard making your magic

Got to set you free, you were blinded by deceit
You can’t fly away electric bird
So now this rooms all staged
While you’re stuck there in that cage
You can’t fly away electric bird

HAMLET:
How does the queen?
CLAUDIUS:
She swounds to see them bleed.
GERTRUDE:
No, no, the drink, the drink,- O my dear Hamlet,-
The drink, the drink! I am poison'd.
-Act V, scene ii

24. How it Ends- Devotchka

And in your heart
You know it to be true
You know what you gotta do
They all depend on you

And you already know
Yet you already know
How this will end
...
And in your soul
They poked a million holes
But you never let them show
Come on its time to go

HAMLET:
We defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
-Act V, scene ii

25. Holland, 1945- Neutral Milk Hotel

The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

FORTINBRAS:
What is this sight?
HORATIO:
What is it ye would see?
If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
-Act V, scene ii

BONUS SONGS:

Flood- The Gentle Waves

He left in June, you see
Left me dry
Blood chilled with bitterness
There was another...
With the storm clouds above me
I wait for rain
And look to the mountaintops
To hear his voice

There is sorrow in the eyes
Of the people in my life
They are hungry
They can't see
Pray for a flood

This is yet another Ophelia song. I couldn't leave it out completely: it's too beautiful, and the flood imagery is too perfect. But it's somewhat redundant to "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" and "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die", and the fanmix was already insanely long, so a bonus it is.

What a Piece of Work is Man- Hair Actors' Fund of America Benefit

What a piece of work is man
How noble in reason
How infinite in faculties
In form and moving
How express and admirable
In action how like an angel
In apprehension how like a god
The beauty of the world
The paragon of animals

This song is included for obvious reasons- the lyrics are, for the most part, directly lifted from the play. However, it didn't make the cut for the same reason: it seemed lazy to include a song that obvious. Also, it didn't fit with the tone of the rest of the fanmix: too light and airy.

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:16:55 GMT

Okay... this is truly a month to fuel my obsessions and send me into a glee-spiral.

First, I started two new obsessions: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and How I Met Your Mother. The first is pure awesomeness, and possibly the first Joss Wheadon project I've seen all of. It's definitely the first Joss Wheadon thing I've legitimately liked. Darkly hilarious, and there's music! No. Bad. Side. But the best part wasn't the writing, or the ear-wormy songs. The best part is Neil Patrick Harris, who is both adorkable and sexy. My instant love for him sent me on a search for everything he's been in (Turns out I already have a video bootleg of him in RENT. (See? Epic. Month. Of. Obsessions.) And, of course, saw him in the Harold and Kumar movies.) And then I found the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. I'd heard of it before, but dismissed it as a laugh track comedy on the level of 2.5 Men. Now I can sort of see what all the fuss was about. It is an insanely addictive comedy, with the time-shifts and quirkiness of the British show Coupling, and the nostalgia of Friends. Plus, Freaks and Geeks throwback with Jason Segal, who would be the funniest actor on the show were it not for the aforementioned NPH.

But then, as if that weren't enough, I finally got to go to England. I've been longing to travel there since first reading The Chronicles of Narnia, which was when I was...what, five?! It was seriously amazing; I got ridiculous, touristy crap (okay, shut up. EVERYONE HAS USE FOR PENCIL SHARPENERS IN THE SHAPE OF LONDON POST BOXES!) and fueled my Doctor Who/David Tennant/Shakespeare obsessions by seeing David Tennant in Hamlet. There will probably be a detailed post about this in a couple of days, but suffice to day- he was brilliant, it was brilliant, I am dead from the squee.

So....today, I have been home for a day, and am jonesing for a Twilight hit. I still haven't read Breaking Dawn. So, despite the fact that I am completely broke from the vacation, I go to the bookstore and buy Breaking Dawn, the issue of Esquire with Stephen Colbert on the cover, and the issue of Out! with Neil Patrick Harris on the cover.

Send help, you guys. I am seriously not in my right mind at the moment. I don't think there will be a bigger geekgasm until September/October, when I go and see The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

You know what? I think I'll be fine. I have the feeling that Breaking Dawn will kill my buzz.