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If you were alien - The Brunettes
Jun. 4th, 2013 09:33 amJust one of the geeky love songs I have kicking around~
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eliyes: okay, so, I basically downloaded the soundtrack for The Chipmunk Adventure because I wanted the song Gettin' Luckyeliyes: I don't know if it's a cover or whateliyes: but noweliyes: I am picturing various non-chipmunk fictional people singing itkiffie: *cackling*eliyes: and possibly dancing with cartoon snakes the same waykiffie: XDeliyes: I AM PICTURING SHARON AND STEVE STANDING IN A ROOM FULL OF DEFEATED HYDRA AGENTS SINGING IT BACK AND FORTHkiffie: See, my childhood association with the Chipmunks was Bat-Munk, so... uh... that's having an interesting time in my mind, at the moment.kiffie: Oh, come now... Serpent Society, surely. Timelines be damned.eliyes: OH HONEY HONEY GIVE ME *punch* A CLUE *kick, elbow* WONTCHA TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO DO *flying tackle*eliyes: sure, serpent society also workskiffie: The little BONG as someone hits the shieldeliyes: although Steve seems to have actua hahahaeliyes: actual emotional ties to some of them, or vice versaeliyes: bong hahahaeliyes: it's hard to be taken seriously as a supervillain when Captain America has done a pseudo Elvis impression while singing into your taileliyes: if you don't have any clue what I mean I can find a video on youtube for youkiffie: ...I am picturing this.kiffie: This is making my head hurt.eliyes: can you imagine? in the costume, swivelling his hips and knees, flinging an arm into the air with his head down to the mic/tail -- and catches the shield XDeliyes: Sharon & Natasha: *clap*eliyes: Natasha: *pauses to tranq dart a thug, goes back to clapping, face polite*kiffie: oh god. *laughing*Platinum Blonde recs
Apr. 17th, 2013 12:15 amAfter my last post, I found myself thinking, "Actually, Cinderella Story isn't even in my top ten for Platinum Blonde songs." And so I am telling y'all what my favourite Platinum Blonde songs are here. ;3
First of all, if you haven't heard of the band, Platinum Blonde are a Canadian band who were big in the 80s (and got back together in 2010). They've been called New Wave, rock, power pop, and rock/pop. *shrugs* They're Platinum Blonde, dude.
(I haven't heard their 2012 album, so none of these songs are from that.)
So! Ely's fave songs, by album:
( (Not to say that I don't like other songs, but they aren't the ones that come right to mind when I get the yen to listen to some Platinum Blone. ;3) )
You may notice there are no links in this post. You have access to search engines; poke Wikipedia and YouTube your own selves. X3
First of all, if you haven't heard of the band, Platinum Blonde are a Canadian band who were big in the 80s (and got back together in 2010). They've been called New Wave, rock, power pop, and rock/pop. *shrugs* They're Platinum Blonde, dude.
(I haven't heard their 2012 album, so none of these songs are from that.)
So! Ely's fave songs, by album:
( (Not to say that I don't like other songs, but they aren't the ones that come right to mind when I get the yen to listen to some Platinum Blone. ;3) )
You may notice there are no links in this post. You have access to search engines; poke Wikipedia and YouTube your own selves. X3
mini playlist
Apr. 16th, 2013 11:45 pmPlatinum Blonde - Cinderella Story (1983)
Bananarama - Gonna Make You Feel Alright (1984)
Motley Crue - Nona (1987)
(Yes, the timestamp on the Bananarama song is deliberate on my part; the first part of the video is a different version of the song, but I couldn't find one of just the one I wanted. I'll change it if I do.)
Bananarama - Gonna Make You Feel Alright (1984)
Motley Crue - Nona (1987)
(Yes, the timestamp on the Bananarama song is deliberate on my part; the first part of the video is a different version of the song, but I couldn't find one of just the one I wanted. I'll change it if I do.)
Code Monkey Save World is HAPPENING
Apr. 15th, 2013 08:28 pmWith 29 days to go, the kickstarter is already past the minimum funds goal. People really really want a graphic novel based on a handful of Jonathan Coulton songs, as it turns out!
After all, it has monkeys, zombies, and robots!
After all, it has monkeys, zombies, and robots!
Pipster fanmix
Feb. 24th, 2013 02:33 amOkay, so, here's the song list in order. I don't have any art for it, and I don't have a download link (yet!), but I've put in youtube links for the songs I could find there.
This is arranged to follow the development of the relationship between Pied Piper and Trickster, following canon but injecting a love affair into it. I will try to explain why I chose each song.
( Ten songs, with varying amounts of transcribed lyrics and my explanation, under the cut. )
~FIN~
(for now)
This is arranged to follow the development of the relationship between Pied Piper and Trickster, following canon but injecting a love affair into it. I will try to explain why I chose each song.
( Ten songs, with varying amounts of transcribed lyrics and my explanation, under the cut. )
~FIN~
(for now)
Okay, so back in the summer of 2011 I made a Pipster or Pied Piper & Trickster fanmix. (Which I never shared, because I'm not sure quite how to go about it, I feel like maybe I should make album art, and I suspect I'd have to explain waaaaay more of my personal interpretation of certain metaphysical aspects of Trickster's history than a fanmix really merits.) I just listened to it again for the first time in months, and it still works for me. (So maybe I will work on those issues and eventually share it.)
Now, in my playlists I have one marked "Pipster" and one marked 'Pipster not used", and the latter is basically just the songs that I associate with one or both of the characters, their relationships and shenanigans, etc., but didn't use because the list I finally went with provides a better sort of quasi-narrative continuity, to me.
"Pipster" is 10 songs long.
"Pipster not used" is 22 songs long.
That's more than twice as long! This strikes me as really funny. maybe I should make another couple of playlists? XDI could make one of just songs with the theme of running.
Now, in my playlists I have one marked "Pipster" and one marked 'Pipster not used", and the latter is basically just the songs that I associate with one or both of the characters, their relationships and shenanigans, etc., but didn't use because the list I finally went with provides a better sort of quasi-narrative continuity, to me.
"Pipster" is 10 songs long.
"Pipster not used" is 22 songs long.
That's more than twice as long! This strikes me as really funny. maybe I should make another couple of playlists? XD
song for Natalia: Nobody's Girl
Nov. 14th, 2012 12:08 amThe guy in the song could be Bucky or Clint or Ivan or basically any man who ever thought he loved her.
( Keeping in mind that one of her codenames was Black Pearl )
( Keeping in mind that one of her codenames was Black Pearl )
music search
Oct. 17th, 2012 12:31 amI wish there was something like Google where, instead of words, you could input a phrase of musical notes and find out what songs they might be from. I've never been good at sight-reading -- I basically have to learn a piece by ear while looking at the page(s) to really get what they mean, something not even 13 years in choir and almost 6 in band cured me of -- and so when I see musical notation in, for example, a comic book, I can't recognise what I'm seeing. I mean, I know sometimes it's probably not from an actual music piece, especially if it's scattered notes or something Piper is using to stop a train. But sometimes it's semi-obvious that the reader is supposed to get something from the music notation, and it would be nice to have some way of looking it up.
So get on that, Internet. (If "there's an app for that", feel free to tell me. Just because I don't like Apple doesn't mean I don't own any.)
So get on that, Internet. (If "there's an app for that", feel free to tell me. Just because I don't like Apple doesn't mean I don't own any.)
Carmen Miranda's Ghost
Oct. 13th, 2012 07:08 amCarmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three.
Half the staff has seen her, plus the Portmaster and me.
And if you think we've had too much of Cookie's homemade rum,
Just tell me where those basket-hats of fruit keep coming from.
Don't go down to the cargo-bay when there's no ship in dock.
You just might hear maracas clack and get a nasty shock
And if you hear a rumba-beat, don't pass the messroom door;
You just might see a tangerine come rolling down the floor.
We sometimes catch a glimpse of her, by station night or day,
But when we try to catch her, she just laughs and fades away.
The station's chief headshrinker takes his notes and drains his cup.
We get rotated often, but she still keeps showing up.
We don't know why we're haunted here, or why it's her that haunts.
We've got a betting-pool for all who wonder what she wants.
The best odds say she likes the rhythm of the station's drive;
They didn't have phase-generators while she was alive.
Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three.
Not that we're complaining, since the fresh fruit all comes free.
But now and then we wonder what it means for the human race
That ghosts of generations past are taking off for space.
( YT video under the cut )
Half the staff has seen her, plus the Portmaster and me.
And if you think we've had too much of Cookie's homemade rum,
Just tell me where those basket-hats of fruit keep coming from.
Don't go down to the cargo-bay when there's no ship in dock.
You just might hear maracas clack and get a nasty shock
And if you hear a rumba-beat, don't pass the messroom door;
You just might see a tangerine come rolling down the floor.
We sometimes catch a glimpse of her, by station night or day,
But when we try to catch her, she just laughs and fades away.
The station's chief headshrinker takes his notes and drains his cup.
We get rotated often, but she still keeps showing up.
We don't know why we're haunted here, or why it's her that haunts.
We've got a betting-pool for all who wonder what she wants.
The best odds say she likes the rhythm of the station's drive;
They didn't have phase-generators while she was alive.
Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three.
Not that we're complaining, since the fresh fruit all comes free.
But now and then we wonder what it means for the human race
That ghosts of generations past are taking off for space.
( YT video under the cut )
Aw, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.
Jun. 19th, 2012 08:49 amAre you aware the shape I'm in?
My hands, they shake, my head, it spins.
Aw, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.
My hands, they shake, my head, it spins.
Aw, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in.
So I'm having a Heart video marathon on youtube, for... reasons, and rewatching the video for Nothing At All, I am shocked -- shocked! -- that it's never come up in a Sentinel fic, or at least had all the lovely panther footage cannibalised for a TS fanvid. Seriously. (The kitten is also cute.)
I actually got to see Heart in concert, once. :3
I actually got to see Heart in concert, once. :3
I think I'm turning into a Parrothead
Feb. 15th, 2012 09:24 pmIt's gotten to the point where I can hear a snippet of a song and think "that sounds iteresting, I'll look it up when I get home" and then it turns out that the part I didn't hear has Jimmy Buffett in it.
XD
XD
Running, Jumping, Standing Still
Feb. 15th, 2012 10:13 am*points to subject line* Finally got this album by Spider Koerner and Willie Murphy. I'm on the second song and I can already tell I'll be making a playlist of this and my fave songs by The Kinks and from HAIR.
"Do you feel like an outcast?"
"Do you feel like an outcast?"
notes (ha!) to myself
Dec. 9th, 2011 11:16 pmSpock plays the Vulcan harp/lute/lyrette (TOS: "Charlie X", "The Conscience of the King", "Amok Time", "The Way to Eden"; Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) and the piano (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah"). The Platonians forced him to play the kithara and sing (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren").
McCoy plays the banjo (TOS: "This Side of Paradise").
Scotty plays the bagpipes (seen in his quarters in TOS: "By Any Other Name"; actually played in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan).
Uhura sings (TOS: "Charlie X", "The Conscience of the King", "The Changeling"), hums (TAS: "Once Upon a Planet"), and dances (TOS: "Charlie X", Star Trek V: The Final Frontier). Scenes of her playing the Vulcan harp were cut and are therefore noncanonical. She didn't know how to play the harpsichord except when given the ability by Trelane (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos").
Picard learned to play the (Ressikan) flute (TNG: "The Inner Light", "Lessons", "A Fistful of Datas", Star Trek Nemesis).
Riker plays trombone (TNG: "11001001", "Second Chances", "Future Imperfect", "The Next Phase", "Second Chances", "Thine Own Self") and the piano (TNG: "Unification II"). (Fun fact! It was actually Jonathan Frakes playing the trombone every time we saw Riker play.)
Deanna Troi may or may not play the piano; we see her sitting at one in TNG: "Masterpiece Society".
Data plays the violin (TNG: "In Theory", "Inheritance", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Ensigns of Command", "Sarek", "Tin Man", Star Trek: Insurrection), classical guitar (TNG: "Silicon Avatar"), and the oboe (TNG: "In Theory"). He also sings (TNG: "In Theory", Star Trek Nemesis).
Worf collects and sings Klingon Opera (TNG: "Unification II"; DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "In the Cards", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "Penumbra").
Benjamin Sisko plays the piano (DS9: "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols").
Miles O'Brian plays the cello (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command", "Lessons"; DSP: "Shadowplay"). In fact, he was accepted into the Aldebaran Music Academy but didn't want to go (his father had sent the application), so the day before he was supposed to leave he enlisted in Starfleet instead.
Keiko O'Brian (née Ishikawa) plays the clarinet (TNG: "In Theory").
McCoy plays the banjo (TOS: "This Side of Paradise").
Scotty plays the bagpipes (seen in his quarters in TOS: "By Any Other Name"; actually played in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan).
Uhura sings (TOS: "Charlie X", "The Conscience of the King", "The Changeling"), hums (TAS: "Once Upon a Planet"), and dances (TOS: "Charlie X", Star Trek V: The Final Frontier). Scenes of her playing the Vulcan harp were cut and are therefore noncanonical. She didn't know how to play the harpsichord except when given the ability by Trelane (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos").
Picard learned to play the (Ressikan) flute (TNG: "The Inner Light", "Lessons", "A Fistful of Datas", Star Trek Nemesis).
Riker plays trombone (TNG: "11001001", "Second Chances", "Future Imperfect", "The Next Phase", "Second Chances", "Thine Own Self") and the piano (TNG: "Unification II"). (Fun fact! It was actually Jonathan Frakes playing the trombone every time we saw Riker play.)
Deanna Troi may or may not play the piano; we see her sitting at one in TNG: "Masterpiece Society".
Data plays the violin (TNG: "In Theory", "Inheritance", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Ensigns of Command", "Sarek", "Tin Man", Star Trek: Insurrection), classical guitar (TNG: "Silicon Avatar"), and the oboe (TNG: "In Theory"). He also sings (TNG: "In Theory", Star Trek Nemesis).
Worf collects and sings Klingon Opera (TNG: "Unification II"; DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "In the Cards", "In Purgatory's Shadow", "Penumbra").
Benjamin Sisko plays the piano (DS9: "Image in the Sand", "Shadows and Symbols").
Miles O'Brian plays the cello (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command", "Lessons"; DSP: "Shadowplay"). In fact, he was accepted into the Aldebaran Music Academy but didn't want to go (his father had sent the application), so the day before he was supposed to leave he enlisted in Starfleet instead.
Keiko O'Brian (née Ishikawa) plays the clarinet (TNG: "In Theory").
...feels like home
Sep. 27th, 2011 09:57 pmI can't tell you how happy it makes me to live in a world where flashmob group dance is a legitimate form of protest. :'3
fanmixing is HARD :(
Jun. 23rd, 2011 10:19 pmMan, making a fanmix is harder than I thought. I figured that the hardest bit would be getting enough songs together for the subject, so I didn't even try until I realised I was associating more than enough songs for mix with the characters in question and their relationship and story.
I have too many songs.
"Just make a big fanmix" isn't the answer, either. I have songs that could be image songs for each of them individually. I have songs which work for both of them and thus demonstrate common ground. I have songs with which I can show the arc of their most recent storyline together. I have songs that work really well as duets about their relationship in general, and at particular points. I have songs which are canonically associated with them.I have songs I associate with their friends/enemies/orther ralationships/other stories trying to sneak in.
Trying to put all these together is problematic. Figuring out which ones to drop if I decide to pare it down is also difficult.
I was gonna make this and then present it to a fancomm for the other fans of the characters to share in, but now I'm wondering if I should make a post there asking for some opinions. Maybe a poll. I'm not sure if that's even appropriate to the comm, and I kinda don't want to ruin the surprise.
Maybe I should just give them a jumble of songs arranged by loose category. :/
I have too many songs.
"Just make a big fanmix" isn't the answer, either. I have songs that could be image songs for each of them individually. I have songs which work for both of them and thus demonstrate common ground. I have songs with which I can show the arc of their most recent storyline together. I have songs that work really well as duets about their relationship in general, and at particular points. I have songs which are canonically associated with them.
Trying to put all these together is problematic. Figuring out which ones to drop if I decide to pare it down is also difficult.
I was gonna make this and then present it to a fancomm for the other fans of the characters to share in, but now I'm wondering if I should make a post there asking for some opinions. Maybe a poll. I'm not sure if that's even appropriate to the comm, and I kinda don't want to ruin the surprise.
Maybe I should just give them a jumble of songs arranged by loose category. :/
Finding 'Finding Beauty'
Apr. 7th, 2011 02:07 amSomewhere along the way, I ended up in possession of a K/S fanmix called "Finding Beauty". I'm not sure who put it together, because between getting it and listening to it were several months and at least 2 computers.
It's gorgeous.
Whoever it was that made this fanmix, I salute you. Not only are the songs themselves beautiful, but they all fit. Kirk and Spock have, to me, something epic and textured and deep and wonderful, occasionally painfully flawed, occasionally so perfect it hurts. This fanmix shows that.
It's gorgeous.
Whoever it was that made this fanmix, I salute you. Not only are the songs themselves beautiful, but they all fit. Kirk and Spock have, to me, something epic and textured and deep and wonderful, occasionally painfully flawed, occasionally so perfect it hurts. This fanmix shows that.
I LOVE THIS SONG
Mar. 25th, 2011 11:44 pmJohn Barrowman singing The Doctor and I (filk of The Wizard and I from Wicked) is just one of the wonderful things that happens when you cast a broadway star in a popular sci-fi franchise.
*mp3s it* }3
*mp3s it* }3
Wanna listen to Michael Weatherly's demo?
Aug. 10th, 2010 05:26 amhttp://michaelweatherlymusic.com
Melancholy and regretful and occasionally snarky, so far. Apparently some of these have been used in the NCIS soundtrack? As have a song or two from Pauley's band?
I lovelovelove Bitter & Blue.
Melancholy and regretful and occasionally snarky, so far. Apparently some of these have been used in the NCIS soundtrack? As have a song or two from Pauley's band?
I lovelovelove Bitter & Blue.
A song about May 1st
May. 1st, 2010 06:04 pmNSFW if anyone around you can hear the music, read the screen, or understand ASL.
That musical/pairing meme
Apr. 5th, 2010 06:31 am[Blues Brothers]This meme is like a rash all over my f-list.[/Blues Brothers] Looked like fun, let's see what I get.
-Write down twenty of your favorite pairings/threesomes/etc.
-Put your media player on shuffle. The number of the song corresponds to the number of the pairing.
-Quote a part of the song that you think has any similarity with the couple.
( I was worried I couldn't think of 20 couples... )
-Write down twenty of your favorite pairings/threesomes/etc.
-Put your media player on shuffle. The number of the song corresponds to the number of the pairing.
-Quote a part of the song that you think has any similarity with the couple.
( I was worried I couldn't think of 20 couples... )
