further proof of my fangirlish nature

[ontology]

I. So, lady_moriel and I were on the phone until twelve-thirty last night, which was basically The Best Thing Ever, except I woke my mum up because I was shut up in my closet for no good reason. (It's kind of cosy in there. Besides, Remus lives there. With his random piles of Time and various newspapers and books he keeps nicking off my shelves, and our vintage Life magazines from the seventies and eighties, and a lot of sandwiches.) Also, we made up the Best ScarletWoman!Ginny Fic Ever, which involves Antarctica and Random Hot Scientists and transfigured penguins and Dead Unimportant People and Molly's Amazing Clock of Eerie Accuracy. (CLOCK: [hand points to SHAGGING RANDOM STRANGER]. MOLLY: Must--go--to--Antarctica!) Also, Sirius uses netspeak specifically to irritate Remus (until he gets bored with typing funnily and finds something else), and we both read the Pony Pals when we were young and were probably vaguely ashamed of it even then. Heeee. AND! We are going to picket for Werewolf Rights!!(P.S.: Il Divo was on instead of Monty Python. AAAACK. *woe* I NEED MY FIX NOW.)

II. I am such a girl. Even without meaning to be, which is, I think, almost worse. Case in point: Saturday, my boots, blouse, and nail varnish all matched. (The varnish, which I found in my closet, is part of my semi-annual attempt to Not Bite Nails. Instead, I peel the stuff off with my teeth.) ERU SAVE ME. (I got really killer red boots for four bucks on Friday, though. The heels sink into the ground when I walk, which feels springy and weird and sort of awesome in a bizarre kind of way. And I got a purple floor-length skirt and something that looks kind of like an English riding jacket.)

III. I'm writing Eagle of the Ninth fanfiction. This is kind of scaring me (not least because I have the utmost reverence for Rosemary Sutcliffe). Is anyone else cool enough to even know what I'm talking about? :D Also, I had to do Wikipedia research for a passing mention in a vignette, wherein I discovered I got something wrong. Ack, historical fanfiction.

IV. L.M. Montgomery is pretty much the literary equivalent of mint and chocolate right now. *fangirls* Yes, I'm on a kick. Even though the first and third Emily books vanished mysteriously from the library two years ago. *cries* Also, I think I might be a Dean Priest fangirl. This is REALLY TERRIFYING.

V. Because I was talking to lady_moriel basically all night and watched a movie with the family last night, my internet usage has been disgustingly patchy. Am still working on comments & things.

VI. DO NOT SCOLD ME ABOUT THE TIME.

VII: It's Christmastime! I am so absolutely enchanted by this; I must dedicate an entry to it soon.

VIII: I STILL HAVE A PRIDE & PREJUDICE MOODTHEME. *squee*

VIIII: Shut up, I am going to bed. Also, I have a sinking feeling that I am getting the Roman numerals wrong.

Comments

[avonleigh.livejournal.com]

I. I used to talk on the phone in my closet all the time! But it was only so my sister wouldn't eavesdrop on my conversations (we shared a rather thin wall), and, sadly, there was no Remus.

II. Red boots sound smashing. If I liked shoes, which I tend not to, I should be very envious (I am envious of your combat boots though... I neeeeed combat boots!)

III. You have read too many books that I have not! Stopstopstop! I have no time to waltz about finding all the things you mention, which of course I want to, seeing as how you have Very Good Taste and all. *grins*

IV. L.M.Montgomery has the privilege of being the cause of the first time I ever stayed awake past midnight. I believe I was in 7th grade, and I stayed awake until 2am finishing Rilla of Ingleside, sobbing all the while. (I do believe Walter Blythe was the first man I ever loved.)

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IX. I need to go to bed toooo. Because I am elongating vowels and leaving heinously long comments and I must get up at 5:45 and go kill all my brain cells in maths! And you did (get the Roman numerals wrong), but I shall be gracious and forgive you (because, you know, I am the Protector of Roman Numerals, or something).

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Re. I: That sounds rather like the conversations I have with my best friend, except possibly less bawdy. (Er. Yes. Shut up.) We come up with some very amusing things, though, like the One Where The Textbooks Fought It Out. (Really. I was all 'Feh, that textbook is rubbish. I bet it couldn't even take the other textbook in a fight!', and things just...sort of...went downhill from there.)

Re. II: *giggle* Never been in that situation. (I do not own nail varnish. Honest.)

Re. III: I am afraid that I am not quite cool enough, but I will submit that historical fanfiction is maddening. (Yes, I tried to write Doctor Who fanfiction set immediately pre-French Revolution. Yes, I used Wikipedia like mad.)

Re. IV: I've only read the Anne books, which I loved in the beginning but cooled off towards when Anne got all domestic. (I think everything until and including 'Anne's House of Dreams' was golden; the rest were nice books, but woe! for the Anne I was fond of.)

Re. VI: *scolds*

Re. IX: Good. (Also, you are getting the Roman numerals wrong. I will forgive you due to the unearthly hour, though.)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Remus never seems to be in my closet when I'm using it. :p But yeah, it's really roomy in there, and concievably, someone could live in there if they really, really had to. (Me: Yeah, you know, Jews hiding out from the Gestapo in my closet? Would totally work. Kyra: ...And they would go all the way to America to hide in a closet...why? Me: Er. Because it seemed like a good idea at the time?)

Red boots sound smashing. If I liked shoes, which I tend not to, I should be very envious (I am envious of your combat boots though... I neeeeed combat boots!)
Hee. They're sort of burgundy with magenta ribbon lacing up the sides, and they're a third of the way up to my knees, and the heels are DANGEROUS. To other people, I mean. So, if I'm puttering about and someone tries to mug me, they're toast. :D

You have read too many books that I have not! Stopstopstop! I have no time to waltz about finding all the things you mention, which of course I want to, seeing as how you have Very Good Taste and all. *grins*
But it's about CELTIC BRITAIN. You know you want to read it. *evil laughter* And, if it's any consolation, you have read scads of books which I haven't. My knowledge of Oscar Wilde doesn't extend much further than Earnest, which is sort of depressing, but I have a ruddy small-town library with weird priorities. (We have science-fiction written by WILLIAM SHATNER and--I am NOT MAKING THIS UP--Newt Gingrich. (Not together. That would be...so many kinds of wrong. And yet we have only four Robin McKinley books!)

L.M.Montgomery has the privilege of being the cause of the first time I ever stayed awake past midnight. I believe I was in 7th grade, and I stayed awake until 2am finishing Rilla of Ingleside, sobbing all the while. (I do believe Walter Blythe was the first man I ever loved.)
*giggles* Goodness, darling, it took you that long? The first time I was up past midnight was my first New Year. Yeah, I was a really strange child. But yes: Walter was awesome. Why do the awesome die young?

And...yes. I absolutely got the Roman numerals wrong. Thank you, O Avenger. :D

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Re. I: That sounds rather like the conversations I have with my best friend, except possibly less bawdy. (Er. Yes. Shut up.) We come up with some very amusing things, though, like the One Where The Textbooks Fought It Out. (Really. I was all 'Feh, that textbook is rubbish. I bet it couldn't even take the other textbook in a fight!', and things just...sort of...went downhill from there.)
Wow, now I really want to sic my textbooks on each other, especially the really dull and pretentious ones. It would be more fun than actually reading them. Especially if they were my deeply stupid and patronising Social Studies and Phonics books from Kindergarten. 'I KEEL YOU WITH PICTURES OF FIREMEN!' :D (Most of my textbooks are quite decent nowadays, but even though my Biology one was well-written and all, I still don't like it.)

Re. III: I am afraid that I am not quite cool enough, but I will submit that historical fanfiction is maddening. (Yes, I tried to write Doctor Who fanfiction set immediately pre-French Revolution. Yes, I used Wikipedia like mad.)
This is why I sort of quail at ever writing historical fiction, despite the fact that my most recent foray into novelism wants to be set in 1913, maybe in Salem, Massachusetts. I'm such a lazy writer.

Re. IV: I've only read the Anne books, which I loved in the beginning but cooled off towards when Anne got all domestic. (I think everything until and including 'Anne's House of Dreams' was golden; the rest were nice books, but woe! for the Anne I was fond of.)
Yeah, and then they got into Anne's children more than Anne herself, which wasn't quite as interesting (although a lot better than most second-generation stuff that floats about--I kind of tend to RUN AWAAAY whenever anyone, original author or not, decides they want to write about Main Character's kids). And, sure, L.M. Montgomery is one of the very, very few people who can actually write Cute Children stuff without completely nauseating me, but it was less beautiful and whimsical. The Emily of New Moon trilogy is my favourite, though--perhaps because Emily is a writer, and we get a lot of reflections on the writing life, or perhaps because Emily seems to be more fae-like than Anne, or maybe just because I want to be rebellious and different. :D

Re. VI: *scolds*
Pfft. Shush, you.

Re. IX: Good. (Also, you are getting the Roman numerals wrong. I will forgive you due to the unearthly hour, though.)
Um. Yes. I feel infinitely stupid now. I was going to keep on adding Is, except I ran out of things to say before I made an absolute ass of myself. *snickers*

[trolliepop.livejournal.com]

I. Oh, I've had those! sparklyjazz, kitty_mysticism, and I used to have three-way conversations late into the night. I remember once my cell phone bill being 150 minutes over because of it. My parents let me off though, because I'd had my cell phone for well over a year and I'd never gone over before. And I haven't gone over since. Do you mind e-mailing me your number? I'd love to give you a call when I get bored at Tournament this weekend!

II. I want red boots! I have some very nice prairie boots that belonged to my great-grandma, but they're brown, and I've nothing to wear them with!

IV. Yes, indeed! I need to buy some of her books. I love them so, and never have time to go to the library!

VII. OMG, IT IS!!! We have our tree up, and we play Christmas music all the time, and it's WONDERFUL and I'm so IN THE MOOD I could DIE!

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Ooh you bite your nails too! :D I was nail-biter for practically my entire life, up until... this summer. Er. I can't really say what made me stop; for years and years I bit obsessively and then I just... didn't feel the need to, anymore. So not much advice there.

Eagle of the Ninth = ??? Apparently I am not cool. :(

DEAN PRIEST DEAN PRIEST DEAN PRIEST. ♥ ♥ ♥ Honestly. My love for Dean Priest knows no bounds. He was my first literary crush, with his subtext and snark and all-round brilliance, and is still one of my biggest literary crushes, and Teddy is nice and all but how could one not choose Dean Priest?!?!

Also, I have a sinking feeling that I am getting the Roman numerals wrong.

IX, not VIIII. I do this all the time, too. It's tricky, yo.

I have no idea why you were in your closet, but that sounds like like a hell of a conversation. I like the bit about Sirius + netspeak. I can see that. Yes, I can definitely see that.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Walter was awesome. Why do the awesome die young?

Oh, Walter. ♥ This, unfortunately, is true. A great lot of my favourite characters either a) die young, b) die tragically, c) live lives so terrible that they might as well be dead. Damned archetypes.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

It's terrible, innit? Sometimes I'm a little worried that if I like a character, they will die horribly, and it will be, ostensibly, my fault. And then I go about killing characters whom I'm sure will end up being someone's favourites, eventually.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

*laughs* lady_moriel, timetakestime, and I three-wayed and tried to watch Pirates of the Caribbean all at the same time for my fourteenth birthday party because I didn't have anyone to invite. Crazy things ensued. (Emailed you, by the way.)

II. I want red boots! I have some very nice prairie boots that belonged to my great-grandma, but they're brown, and I've nothing to wear them with!
But brown goes with everything!! By prairie boots, do you mean the awesome sort that lace up the front? I haven't got any, but I adore them. Also, heirlooms are spectacular. I wear my great-grandmother's engagement ring on my left hand, sort of as a symbol of family and generations. I didn't actually know my great-grandmother (met her briefly at a nursing home, where she was senile and sort of crazy, and I barely remember this because I must have been four or five, and I attended her funeral), but it means a lot to me to have something that belonged to her.

OMG CHRISTMAS. ...I didn't mention that I put red and green sprinkles on my cupcakes, but I totally did. We haven't got our decorations up, because we're sort of housecleaning, and also sort of lazy, but we shall, very soon. Eeee! *twirl*

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Ooh you bite your nails too! :D I was nail-biter for practically my entire life, up until... this summer. Er. I can't really say what made me stop; for years and years I bit obsessively and then I just... didn't feel the need to, anymore. So not much advice there.
I have bitten them since before I can remember. They look terrible--my cuticles are all ragged and damaged, and having stubby nails sort of ruins the effect when I'm trying to take romantically tragic photographs: mostly I try to keep my hands out of sight. I seem to be doing better with not biting them this time, though, actually. Maybe I'm...less nervous than I used to be? (I'm actually a tremendously nervous person; I don't know how much it shows up here.)

Eagle of the Ninth = ??? Apparently I am not cool. :(
Plagues, nobody knows it! That makes me sad. It's an excellent book by Rosemary Sutcliffe (who is as British as her name) about first-century Britain under Roman rule, and a young ex-centurion attempting to find out what happened to his father's legion, which mysteriously disappeared when he was a child. (The Ninth Legion really did mysteriously disappear, and Sutcliffe decided to present her own...I suppose theory is too strong, but her own idea of what could have happened to it.) The prose is gorgeous and poetic and simoultaneously archaic and fresh, and I have loved it madly ever since my mother read it to me in the beginning of the sixth grade. It also ignited my obsession with ancient Britain, although I think I would have got to that eventually anyway. :D

DEAN PRIEST DEAN PRIEST DEAN PRIEST. ♥ ♥ ♥ Honestly. My love for Dean Priest knows no bounds. He was my first literary crush, with his subtext and snark and all-round brilliance, and is still one of my biggest literary crushes, and Teddy is nice and all but how could one not choose Dean Priest?!?!
...Well, Emily not choosing Dean does mean that he is, I think, my only object of fangirlism who isn't married or engaged (or dead), which is sort of comforting, I suppose. Er. *scuttles away* But yes, Dean is utterly amazing, and I want to write fic terribly; I just haven't got any solid ideas. (I need to actually read Emily of New Moon and Emily's Quest again, but the library doesn't have them, and it's starting to drive me mad. If no-one buys them for me for Christmas, I will buy them myself.)

Speaking of Dean, here's something I've been wondering: would you be willing/interested to co-create a fanmix for him? One, things are more fun in duos, two, no-one else is a fangirl, and three, I don't have enough of the right sort of music! Most of it seems too modern, drat it! :p I think that Damien Rice's 'Cheers Darlin' (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/damienrice/cheersdarlin.html) seems appropriate, I think. (Although the title needs a comma. Ack. *editor hand itches*)

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

But yes: Walter was awesome. Why do the awesome die young?

Possibly because of the general time in which the book was written. I just read in a children's book about disease that tuberculosis was extremely popular with romantic-period artists--they seemed to think that it happened because of some artistic fire within and loved the wasted look and the blood-spotted hankerchief as symbols of artistic talent. Had some idea that the best life was one fully lived but snuffed out in youth. Of course, when they found out that TB came mostly from unsanitary living conditions, all that went down the tubes.

Er. Yes. Going away now.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Emily not choosing Dean does mean that he is, I think, my only object of fangirlism who isn't married or engaged (or dead), which is sort of comforting, I suppose. Er.

In that case, I ship Banui/Dean Priest. :D See, I'm being generous & allowing you to have him! I've got the copies of the Emily books, and would transmit them telepathically if I could? Quest is my favourite, I think, just because there's so much Dean in it. (And if you wrote Dean Priest fic, you would have one guaranteed reader/fangirl, right here!!)

would you be willing/interested to co-create a fanmix for him?

YAY YAY YAY. I COMPLETELY WOULD. It will be our Project and... yeah. My music collection isn't all that large, but... try my best?

Give me an idea of what sorts of music we'd be looking for? Unrequited love, theme. Cynicism. Misanthropy. What "style", though?

*is excited*

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

YAY YAY YAY. I COMPLETELY WOULD. It will be our Project and... yeah. My music collection isn't all that large, but... try my best?\
Yay!!!! *is happy and excited, and also not very intelligent in expressing it; oh well*

Give me an idea of what sorts of music we'd be looking for? Unrequited love, theme. Cynicism. Misanthropy. What "style", though?
Ack, why did I read 'misanthropy' as 'lycanthropy'? *headdesk* I have fangirling on the brain, methinks.

In the wider scope of things, I suppose what we're mainly looking for, sound-wise, is...mostly acoustic, and without an especially contemporary sound--old-fashioned or sort of timeless, rather (which was why I suggested the Damien Rice song; it could fit nearly anywhere in this century or the last). And not too young, you know? I mean, I adore Death Cab (as an off-the-top-of-my-head example) but Ben Gibbard's voice...isn't quite mature enough to suit someone like Dean.

I'm thinking pianos, guitars, strings...if you've got any really angsty violin/cello classical pieces, that would be spiffing. Also, songs with a foreign feel would be lovely, with Dean's travelling the world and all. (That, by the by, is a huge part of my fangirlism. Jaded, melancholy, snarky, and he runs off to Egypt and Japan whenever he jolly well pleases? !!!) I'll have to look over my Loreena McKennitt; something of hers ought to suit.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

I have fangirling on the brain, methinks.

The world would be a better place if everyone had a little Remus on the brain. :)

Hm... I don't have a whole lot of "timeless" music. I've been listening to stuff with an electronica edge lately, Imogen Heap and the like, but I have a good deal of acoustic stuff.

I'm guessing that a stripped-down approach is also good? I'll trawl through my strings pieces; I think there are a few Patrick Wolf ones that would do. Also there are these tribute albums by The String Quartet that might work.

Loreena McKennitt is exactly what I was thinking of. :) I have three of her albums, so this weekend -- when I actually have time -- I will compile a List.

I mean, I adore Death Cab (as an off-the-top-of-my-head example) but Ben Gibbard's voice...isn't quite mature enough to suit someone like Dean.

Quite. Let's try to keep it depressing er, melancholy-sounding, then?

... Grr. I keep finding all of these nice unrequited love songs, and then they reference phones or cars or something. To hell with them.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

The world would be a better place if everyone had a little Remus on the brain. :)
That is altogether too true. :D

I'm guessing that a stripped-down approach is also good?
Yes, most definitely. Which for some reason is weirdly difficult to find. I thought I'd got a diverser collection than this, drat it! I'm looking through my more traditional-themed folk music, and am really frustrated at my utter inability to find things that don't refer to very specific things. Um. There wouldn't be any situation which I have completely forgotten despite countless re-readings in which Dean referred to a particular bit of folklore or a ballad? :p Guh, and Richard Shindell also sounds perfect, but I haven't found any actual songs that could apply, except with a very, very great deal of loose interpretation.

Ooh, have you looked at Vienna Teng? I know you've got a lot of her music, and of the few songs I've got/heard on her MySpace/heard on last.fm radio, her sound seems relatively compliant with what we're aiming for.

I've got some tentative song ideas here, thanks to Mum being at a doctor's appointment all afternoon and me trying to accomplish far too many things at once and listening to iTunes at the same time:

- Rowing Song (http://www.uppercutmusic.com/artist_p/patty_griffin_lyrics/rowing_song_lyrics.html) by Patty Griffin, which is an acoustic guitar song with some pretty horns. Patty's got a nice stripped-down sort of sound, but most of her songs are too--Americana, I suppose--for Dean. Lots of bluesy or alt. country sorts of things, mainly, which are wonderful and brilliant, but not suitable to this. This one doesn't sound out of place, though, and it goes with the travelling theme, too.
- Puedo Escribir (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Puedo-Escribir-lyrics-Sixpence-None-The-Richer/9B7C03B471A848434825692A00231475), Sixpence None The Richer. Okay, breaking my own conditions here, because there is a prominent electric guitar, but...it's a Beatles-esque sixties sort of one, right? Anyway, it consists of fragments of a Pablo Neruda poem, and Dean would have totally read Neruda if...Neruda weren't a little too late in the century for him. The song has an excellent Spanish beat to it--not Latin-Spanish, but, you know, actual Spanish-Spanish. Awesome.
- Too Late (http://www.lyricsdownload.com/fisher-too-late-lyrics.html), Fisher. Piano and smoky female vocals. ♥ A bit unsure on the lyrics, but they have got the travelling and unrequited love, although it sounds a little too much as though it was Dean's choice to seperate from Emily.

If you want the mp3s, just ask. :)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

There wouldn't be any situation which I have completely forgotten despite countless re-readings in which Dean referred to a particular bit of folklore or a ballad?

No, there are no music references in anything of Montgomery's, really. I have no idea what music was like that that time. Gah.

DO I KNOW VIENNA TENG. DO I KNOW VIENNA TENG. I LOVE LOVE LOVE VIENNA TENG! :DD

*calms down*

Er, yeah. She's one of my favourite artists, and I own all of her CDs. ;) I will listen to it all tonight and see which songs work best.

In terms of the angsty violin piece, this is the angstiest song on my iPod: Ignis Fatuus (http://www.sendspace.com/file/8ksazk). Patrick Wolf is a god and I am in love with him.

And ooh, I really love the lyrics of all the songs you've suggested -- they fit perfectly. I'll have to find copies of them to get an idea of how they sound.

The thing I hate about fanmixes is having to cut songs because of lacking musical compliance. :(

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

In terms of the angsty violin piece, this is the angstiest song on my iPod: Ignis Fatuus. Patrick Wolf is a god and I am in love with him.
Sweet Arda. I think I am in love now too. (Oughtn't there be a comma or two in there someplace? Agh, typing past midnight = bad for sanity.) I have recently discovered that, as much as I adore string sections, a violin or cello (or a string bass, but those are rare) all by its lonesome is just...love. (My vocabulary is very eloquent tonight. Can you tell?)

Er, yeah. She's one of my favourite artists, and I own all of her CDs. ;) I will listen to it all tonight and see which songs work best.
Yay!

No brain tonight, unsurprisingly, so nothing further to say, really. Ack. Weirdly enough, I am actually very awake.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

The thing about string sections is, sometimes they can be a bit too much. Especially with artists who are just finding their way, there are some perfectly good songs which become not-so-good songs because their string sections drown them. Anyhow.

In terms of Vienna Teng...

"Feather Moon" is a lovely, slow piece. Very atmospheric, the sort of thing that brings to mind Dean and Emily walking across moors in the mist.

"Momentum" and "Gravity" are both lovesongs, piano-based (Gravity has a gorgeous string section).

"Unwritten Letter #1" is basically the song for unrequited love. It has a more upbeat tempo, a dark, sultry feel.

So, er... any of these would work, I think. It's more of a question of choosing based on what they sound like? When I get a chance I'll upload them for you.

You can find the lyrics to any of those here (http://www.songmeanings.net/artist.php?aid=8589947853).

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I've just recently realised that another theme we probably ought to bring out is a love of nature, as it's such a huge part of everything L.M. Montgomery writes--I wish I could write about the city the way she writes about the natural world, with such poetic clarity and intimacy. And, y'know, stars & constellations might be nice. ^-^ Then again, I may be throwing too many themes out there, but maybe one of them will jog either of our memories as to songs we've got knocking about.

Anyway, and I suppose on that topic, I've got another song that may or may not work--the main problem is that it's about nine minutes long, which could be awkward. It being so very long, not every bit fits, but--look, the song is even called Emily (http://www.fromamouth.com/milkymoon/lyrics.htm#Emily), and it's got that love of nature, and lines like 'you came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in'. The live version I've got (which is, unfortunately, not up at Milky Moon at the moment) sounds like...Appalachian and classical music mixed together with something indefinable. Did I mention Joanna Newsom is a harpist? (And she also has the weirdest voice ever, but I love it. Check out her video (http://music.yahoo.com/ar-310541-videos--Joanna-Newsom) for 'The Sprout & the Bean'.) Hopefully I will be ordering her album Ys from Amazon Marketplace soon with some of my Christmas money.

Lyrically, I'm particularly fond of 'Feather Moon' and 'Gravity'--'Feather Moon' has got some of the same colours in it that Montgomery's writing often does. I am definitely sensing a rich shot of crimson. (Er. Yes. I'm one of those barmy people who thinks in colour. ^-^)

...I wonder if we could shake our muses into order and attempt to write wee ficbits to go along with whatever tracks we end up choosing for the final mix? I daresay my muse needs a good dusting and possibly some oil. And, y'know, the universe needs Dean-fic.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I can't think of any appropriate songs about stars -- most of my music is "city music", to tell the truth, because that's where I live.

Ooh! Thea Gilmore's "Pirate Moon" is very evocative of night and nature, actually. It paints a pretty picture, and I think it's the sort of tone we're going for.

I actually went and downloaded "Emily" off of Limewire, and I have to say... yeah. Joanna Newsom does have a weird voice, but I think the song is beginning to grow on me. I think we should put it on the mix, definitely, but we'll have to account for the fact that... it'll probably turn a lot of people off?

I am definitely sensing a rich shot of crimson. (Er. Yes. I'm one of those barmy people who thinks in colour. ^-^)

I am too! Thursday has always been a very purple thing for me. I have colours for all the days of the week, all months, etc., actually. Aspiring synaesthete, over here.

...I wonder if we could shake our muses into order and attempt to write wee ficbits to go along with whatever tracks we end up choosing for the final mix?

:DD I like this idea very much. It ties in to our master plan to take over the world via Emily fic, too!

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Most of my music is city-music, too, because it is where I love, even though I currently live in a cross between a city and a town, which is rather dull and hasn't much atmosphere. :p

It took me several listens before I decided that I actually liked Joanna Newsom's voice; I listen to a lot of odd-sounding people, but I think she is the oddest. (I did discover her through a fanmix, though, so, um, maybe it won't be too bad?) By the by, did you get a listen of the other songs I suggested? If not, I'll upload them for you.

Thursday isn't purple, it's--very dark blue. lady_moriel and I once had a row about what colours the months were. Hee. I think I see everything in colour if I think hard enough about it, and music is especially potent--I often see pulsating colours and not-quite-shapes when listening.

There was this fascinating programme on, um, I can't remember now--some 60 Minutes-type show for about a month, going into medical and psychological oddities, and it mentioned the seeing-in-colour thing, which has a really awesome name I have already forgotten, and an even weirder one: people who taste everything they say. Like, they can't even say some words on account of how awful they taste. (I thought this was completely barmy until I realised today that the word 'pep' never fails to make me feel nauseated. It tastes of baking soda and water. Ick. I think that's the only one, though.) Also, people who taste in shapes. That was fascinating--'oh, this tastes pointy!'

I like this idea very much. It ties in to our master plan to take over the world via Emily fic, too!

*flashlight under face* MWAHAHAHAHA. :D

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

I didn't end up finding them, no. Limewire is sort of unreliable for me -- half of the days it won't even go through my firewall, it's very hit-and-miss. If you could upload them, that's be wonderful. ♥

THURSDAY IS PURPLE, AND THAT IS THAT. :P

Ooh, I know exactly what you're talking about -- I had an obsession with it a while back. "Synesthesia". Or "synaesthesia", depending on which spelling you prefer. I WANT TO BE A SYNESTHETE, it's not fair. *stomps foot*

Ugh, I don't like the word "pep", either. But I hate, hate, hate "phlegm". Probably because of the mental association, but.

[everydayjoy.livejournal.com]

This is most random, but when I left your last comment, I saw your 'Rosemary Sutcliff' tag and had to click because she is like my *dream* writer. If I could write like anyone, it'd be her. Totally.

Anyone, all this wild little explanation is because now I'm here reading said tagged entry and I WANT YOU TO SHARE YOUR ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF FANFIC. Please?