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music! for stories!
I tend to listen closely to the lyrics of songs, and to associate a lot of them with whatever I'm writing/reading/generally obsessing over at the time. Which means a lot of my stories wind up with theme songs or, if I keep going long enough, playlists.
And it occurred to me that, hey, I really meant to share those with people and never did, so: music! for stories!
(Disclaimer: These were my mental soundtracks for the writing of the stories, not, you know. The coolest or edgiest songs I have ever heard, in all cases. *g*)
Missing Persons playlist (.zip, Megaupload)
1. The Mountain Goats - "Old College Try" (aka the song that caused me to literally do \o/ on a crowded train at rush hour when I realized I had found my theme song). From the entrance to the exit / Is longer than it looks from where we stand
2. Ally Kerr - "The Sore Feet Song" Every single night and day / I searched for you
3. Tracy Chapman - "Devotion" If I am right / If I can be / Constant and faithful / You'll find me
4. 3 Doors Down - "Let Me Go" One more kiss could be the best thing / And one more lie could be the worst
5. Death Cab for Cutie - "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" I'm not who I used to be
6. Something Corporate - "Konstantine" Please don't think that this was easy
7. Blue October - "Hate Me" Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you
8. Tool - "Prison Sex" I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
9. Girlyman - "This Is Me" All that I am / You will see
10. Dar Williams - "The Great Unknown" But no I'm running home, I'm running / 'cause I'm trying to put the atom back together
11. Snow Patrol - "How to Be Dead" But darling I want the same thing that I wanted before
12. Sufjan Stevens - "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" Everything you want, it's a great idea
13. The Mountain Goats - "Against Pollution" I would do it again / I would do it again.
14. Howie Day - "Collide" I'm tangled up in you.
Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive playlist (.zip, Megaupload)
1. Rilo Kiley - "More Adventurous" Maybe ours is the cause of all mankind / get loved, make more, try to stay alive.
2. The National - "Baby We'll Be Fine" All night I lay on my pillow and pray / For my boss to stop me in the hallway
3. Tori Amos - "Me and a Gun" I haven't seen Barbados / So I must get out of this
4. We're About 9 - "Hijo" I was you / In another life that I worked my way through
5. Iron & Wine - "Resurrection Fern" We gave the world what it saw fit / And what'd we get?
6. Dar Williams - "The Great Unknown" Once upon a time there was a nuclear family
7. The Mountain Goats - "Elijah" Feel the future / kicking in your womb
And it occurred to me that, hey, I really meant to share those with people and never did, so: music! for stories!
(Disclaimer: These were my mental soundtracks for the writing of the stories, not, you know. The coolest or edgiest songs I have ever heard, in all cases. *g*)
Missing Persons playlist (.zip, Megaupload)
1. The Mountain Goats - "Old College Try" (aka the song that caused me to literally do \o/ on a crowded train at rush hour when I realized I had found my theme song). From the entrance to the exit / Is longer than it looks from where we stand
2. Ally Kerr - "The Sore Feet Song" Every single night and day / I searched for you
3. Tracy Chapman - "Devotion" If I am right / If I can be / Constant and faithful / You'll find me
4. 3 Doors Down - "Let Me Go" One more kiss could be the best thing / And one more lie could be the worst
5. Death Cab for Cutie - "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" I'm not who I used to be
6. Something Corporate - "Konstantine" Please don't think that this was easy
7. Blue October - "Hate Me" Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you
8. Tool - "Prison Sex" I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
9. Girlyman - "This Is Me" All that I am / You will see
10. Dar Williams - "The Great Unknown" But no I'm running home, I'm running / 'cause I'm trying to put the atom back together
11. Snow Patrol - "How to Be Dead" But darling I want the same thing that I wanted before
12. Sufjan Stevens - "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" Everything you want, it's a great idea
13. The Mountain Goats - "Against Pollution" I would do it again / I would do it again.
14. Howie Day - "Collide" I'm tangled up in you.
Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive playlist (.zip, Megaupload)
1. Rilo Kiley - "More Adventurous" Maybe ours is the cause of all mankind / get loved, make more, try to stay alive.
2. The National - "Baby We'll Be Fine" All night I lay on my pillow and pray / For my boss to stop me in the hallway
3. Tori Amos - "Me and a Gun" I haven't seen Barbados / So I must get out of this
4. We're About 9 - "Hijo" I was you / In another life that I worked my way through
5. Iron & Wine - "Resurrection Fern" We gave the world what it saw fit / And what'd we get?
6. Dar Williams - "The Great Unknown" Once upon a time there was a nuclear family
7. The Mountain Goats - "Elijah" Feel the future / kicking in your womb