Mixes and embarrasing childhood confessions
In an attempt to kill my foul mood, I just ate McDonalds, which means I have been sneezing for five solid minutes. Awesome. It is relieving my sinus pressure.
casapazzo posted this neat song mix meme, which is a project of calikali's, so stop by her journal for more info if you want to play. I was going to wait to get home to post linkage, but I couldn't resist.
Since I don't do the whole fandom thing, I made a couple changes:
1. A song that wakes you up in the morning.
2. A song you loved in high school.
3. A song that mentions a dead celebrity.
4. A song you'd be embarrassed to listen to with your grandmother.
5. A song that MTV will never play in a million, billion years.
6. A song with a title that ends in y.
7. A song that makes you crave something.
8. A cover song that you think is better than the original.
9. The original of #8.
10. A song that reminds you of a fandom OTP made you cry shamelessly when used on a cheesy TV show.
11. You have been caught mouthing the lyrics to this song.
12. A song that will always make you think of a movie.
13. A song that should totally have fic written about it a novel written from it.
14. A song you wish they'd play in elevators.
15. You'll stop listening to this song when they pry your MP3 player out of your cold, dead hands.
ETA: Edited to add YSI links for most songs. There are some I need to upload to my computer or unlock, so this will be a gradual process. Shout if the links expire.
1. "Low" - Cracker (mp3)(It was the song playing on my alarm clock the first day of my senior year of high school and I'll always associate it with starting something fresh)
2. "I Alone" - Live (m4a)(I still love it)
3. "Buddy Holly" - Weezer (I didn't want to be so generic, but I really like the song regardless)
4. "The Real Slim Shady" - Eminem
5. "Single Man Drought" I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change cast
6. "20th Century Boy" - T. Rex
7. "Slow Hands" - Interpol (m4a)
8. "If You Leave" - Nada Surf
9. "If You Leave" - OMD
10. "Into Dust" - Mazzy Star (mp3)
11. "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson (mp3) (Last Friday, in Farragut, on the way to meet celticlullaby)
12. "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West (it's completely tied to Jarhead for me)
13. "Nightswimming" (m4a) - REM
14. "I Don't Really Love You Anymore" - The Magnetic Fields
15. "For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" - Sufjan Stevens
Somehow in discussing this with casapazzo, I remembered something I wrote when I was little. So, when you're an only child and you go on a lot of long (well, for my people) car rides, you need to find someway to entertain yourself. My parents pretty much recycled the same five tapes or so, one of which was the Top Gun soundtrack. So, at some point on the way to Maine/Massachusetts/Warminster/Atlantic City/Williamsburg, I conceived of a musical using the soundtrack as songs. I was about eleven, people, so you have to forgive me. That said, here was the basic plot.
So, the musical took place in a high school. Courtney (coincidentally, Skipper's best friend and my favorite Barbie as a child), the main character, was a tomboy surrounded by guy friends (hmm, familiar much?). The other main characters were the typical shiny boy protagonist, the high school femme fatale, and the high school bad boy.
I vaguely remember how I used the songs and when. There were many twists and turns of Courtney pining for shiny ("Take My Breath Away"), shiny pining for Courtney ("Heaven in You Eyes"), loads of miscommunication, the femme fatale screwing things up ("Hot Summer Nights"), the high school bad boy ("Danger Zone") saving the day for our hero and heroine, femme fatale threatining to run away in disgrace ("Destination Unknown") blah blah blah. There may have even been matching outfits and a beach party ("Playing With the Boys").
I can't be the only person who did this. Well, not this specifically, but you get my drift.
casapazzo posted this neat song mix meme, which is a project of calikali's, so stop by her journal for more info if you want to play. I was going to wait to get home to post linkage, but I couldn't resist.
Since I don't do the whole fandom thing, I made a couple changes:
1. A song that wakes you up in the morning.
2. A song you loved in high school.
3. A song that mentions a dead celebrity.
4. A song you'd be embarrassed to listen to with your grandmother.
5. A song that MTV will never play in a million, billion years.
6. A song with a title that ends in y.
7. A song that makes you crave something.
8. A cover song that you think is better than the original.
9. The original of #8.
10. A song that reminds you of a fandom OTP made you cry shamelessly when used on a cheesy TV show.
11. You have been caught mouthing the lyrics to this song.
12. A song that will always make you think of a movie.
13. A song that should totally have fic written about it a novel written from it.
14. A song you wish they'd play in elevators.
15. You'll stop listening to this song when they pry your MP3 player out of your cold, dead hands.
ETA: Edited to add YSI links for most songs. There are some I need to upload to my computer or unlock, so this will be a gradual process. Shout if the links expire.
1. "Low" - Cracker (mp3)(It was the song playing on my alarm clock the first day of my senior year of high school and I'll always associate it with starting something fresh)
2. "I Alone" - Live (m4a)(I still love it)
3. "Buddy Holly" - Weezer (I didn't want to be so generic, but I really like the song regardless)
4. "The Real Slim Shady" - Eminem
5. "Single Man Drought" I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change cast
6. "20th Century Boy" - T. Rex
7. "Slow Hands" - Interpol (m4a)
8. "If You Leave" - Nada Surf
9. "If You Leave" - OMD
10. "Into Dust" - Mazzy Star (mp3)
11. "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson (mp3) (Last Friday, in Farragut, on the way to meet celticlullaby)
12. "Jesus Walks" - Kanye West (it's completely tied to Jarhead for me)
13. "Nightswimming" (m4a) - REM
14. "I Don't Really Love You Anymore" - The Magnetic Fields
15. "For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" - Sufjan Stevens
Somehow in discussing this with casapazzo, I remembered something I wrote when I was little. So, when you're an only child and you go on a lot of long (well, for my people) car rides, you need to find someway to entertain yourself. My parents pretty much recycled the same five tapes or so, one of which was the Top Gun soundtrack. So, at some point on the way to Maine/Massachusetts/Warminster/Atlantic City/Williamsburg, I conceived of a musical using the soundtrack as songs. I was about eleven, people, so you have to forgive me. That said, here was the basic plot.
So, the musical took place in a high school. Courtney (coincidentally, Skipper's best friend and my favorite Barbie as a child), the main character, was a tomboy surrounded by guy friends (hmm, familiar much?). The other main characters were the typical shiny boy protagonist, the high school femme fatale, and the high school bad boy.
I vaguely remember how I used the songs and when. There were many twists and turns of Courtney pining for shiny ("Take My Breath Away"), shiny pining for Courtney ("Heaven in You Eyes"), loads of miscommunication, the femme fatale screwing things up ("Hot Summer Nights"), the high school bad boy ("Danger Zone") saving the day for our hero and heroine, femme fatale threatining to run away in disgrace ("Destination Unknown") blah blah blah. There may have even been matching outfits and a beach party ("Playing With the Boys").
I can't be the only person who did this. Well, not this specifically, but you get my drift.