without you breathing through its trees
I mentioned on Tumblr a few days ago that I haven't been into TV lately. This appears to be disproven by this post, which is all about TV. Mostly what I've been missing, I think, is watching TV WITH someone. It's one of my favourite (semi)social activities and a running commentary/live reaction almost always adds to my enjoyment.
ALSO THE PACIFIC
I didn't have any ridiculous, overwhelming outpourings of emotion while actually watching the show-- at least until the last 30 minutes of the finale-- and to be honest, I pretty much coasted through the first part of the miniseries, emotional investment-wise, but I can't seem to shake it.
I've cried about it more in the past week or so since finishing than I ever did while watching. This isn't a TSN level of investment-- very little else warrants it-- but there is some similarity between the way both sort of have been haunting me.
I'm sort of rewatching and I keep going around recommending it to everyone and read meta and a little bit of (good) fix and I want to talk about the arc of the second half of the series FOREVER but I'm also a little glad I missed the fandom. Being on the outside of The Pacific fandom while the show was airing must be what being on the outside of TSN fandom for the past several months has been like for other people-- overwhelming, confusing, and kind of embarrassing. I don't know that The Pacific could've withstood a trial-of-affection-by-fandom the way TSN has and IDRK where this comparison is going so I'm just going to stop and say I MADE A MIX!!!!
civilian- a eugene sledge EP
one. give up the ghost- radiohead
don't haunt me/ don't hurt me/ gather up the lost and sold/ in your arms/ in your arms/ gather up the pitiful
two. size too small- sufjan stevens
all arise, us all in peace/ i still know you/ and i still like you the best, man/ i still owe you
three. civilian- wye oak
i don't need another friend/ when most of them/ i can barely keep up with them/ perfectly able to hold my own hand
four. cheerleader- grizzly bear
i'm shooting them myself/ i should've made it matter
five. hold on to what you believe- mumford & sons
but we're young/ open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world
six. dull gold heart- band of skulls
you, you on your own/ you let me down
zip
I GUESS THE COMPARISON MAKES SENSE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ABLE TO CRANK OUT THIS MIX IN A COUPLE DAYS WHILE MY TSN MIX LANGUISHES IN THE "NEVER TO BE FINISHED I CREY OVER WASTED EFFORT" PILE
Um aside from this being firmly post-war, there's no chronological or emotion progression here, there's no closure. Things aren't fixed for Eugene and IDK if they ever will be. I'm not concerned with reality-as-canon so I haven't decided where he'll end up yet.
There's some Sid in here because THEY'RE SUCH PUPPY BOYFRIENDS AND HE GAVE HIM A BOOK OF POEMS AND SID GAVE HIM HIS PIN!!! HIS FUCKING PIN and LOL I was legitimately angry and betrayed that after Sid!!! was the one to pick him up from the train station he was get married and getting fixed and moving on with his life instead of suffering with Sledge lol. There's also some Snafu because he knows Sledge better now than even Sid does and their relationship is genuinely perfect in the truest sense of the word, Snafu's bizarre adoration and creepy eyes and THE GERMS!!!! and MORTARS FALL HERE ALL THE TIME and the trainnnnnn.
There's a bit more priority to music than lyrics here, because this EP started with the Wye Oak track and the rest of songs fed off that, light and leaping and meadows and tension bookended by darker tracks and oh god the birds at the beginning of Give Up The Ghost. I'm utterly out of practice with indie, so this was a refresher and has switched by iPod around quite a bit. Um I think that's it, I haven't done this in like a year and a half, so...
FEELINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALSO THE PACIFIC
I didn't have any ridiculous, overwhelming outpourings of emotion while actually watching the show-- at least until the last 30 minutes of the finale-- and to be honest, I pretty much coasted through the first part of the miniseries, emotional investment-wise, but I can't seem to shake it.
I've cried about it more in the past week or so since finishing than I ever did while watching. This isn't a TSN level of investment-- very little else warrants it-- but there is some similarity between the way both sort of have been haunting me.
I'm sort of rewatching and I keep going around recommending it to everyone and read meta and a little bit of (good) fix and I want to talk about the arc of the second half of the series FOREVER but I'm also a little glad I missed the fandom. Being on the outside of The Pacific fandom while the show was airing must be what being on the outside of TSN fandom for the past several months has been like for other people-- overwhelming, confusing, and kind of embarrassing. I don't know that The Pacific could've withstood a trial-of-affection-by-fandom the way TSN has and IDRK where this comparison is going so I'm just going to stop and say I MADE A MIX!!!!
civilian- a eugene sledge EP
one. give up the ghost- radiohead
don't haunt me/ don't hurt me/ gather up the lost and sold/ in your arms/ in your arms/ gather up the pitiful
two. size too small- sufjan stevens
all arise, us all in peace/ i still know you/ and i still like you the best, man/ i still owe you
three. civilian- wye oak
i don't need another friend/ when most of them/ i can barely keep up with them/ perfectly able to hold my own hand
four. cheerleader- grizzly bear
i'm shooting them myself/ i should've made it matter
five. hold on to what you believe- mumford & sons
but we're young/ open flowers in the windy fields of this war-torn world
six. dull gold heart- band of skulls
you, you on your own/ you let me down
zip
I GUESS THE COMPARISON MAKES SENSE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ABLE TO CRANK OUT THIS MIX IN A COUPLE DAYS WHILE MY TSN MIX LANGUISHES IN THE "NEVER TO BE FINISHED I CREY OVER WASTED EFFORT" PILE
Um aside from this being firmly post-war, there's no chronological or emotion progression here, there's no closure. Things aren't fixed for Eugene and IDK if they ever will be. I'm not concerned with reality-as-canon so I haven't decided where he'll end up yet.
There's some Sid in here because THEY'RE SUCH PUPPY BOYFRIENDS AND HE GAVE HIM A BOOK OF POEMS AND SID GAVE HIM HIS PIN!!! HIS FUCKING PIN and LOL I was legitimately angry and betrayed that after Sid!!! was the one to pick him up from the train station he was get married and getting fixed and moving on with his life instead of suffering with Sledge lol. There's also some Snafu because he knows Sledge better now than even Sid does and their relationship is genuinely perfect in the truest sense of the word, Snafu's bizarre adoration and creepy eyes and THE GERMS!!!! and MORTARS FALL HERE ALL THE TIME and the trainnnnnn.
There's a bit more priority to music than lyrics here, because this EP started with the Wye Oak track and the rest of songs fed off that, light and leaping and meadows and tension bookended by darker tracks and oh god the birds at the beginning of Give Up The Ghost. I'm utterly out of practice with indie, so this was a refresher and has switched by iPod around quite a bit. Um I think that's it, I haven't done this in like a year and a half, so...
FEELINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!