Fanmix: SS/HG-ness
Well, crap. sshg_exchange is having another round of fics. I haven't written much anything in the last couple months, but I still want to sign up. It's like a drug. I can't resist, even though I know I would fret over doing the prompt I'd get justice.
In related news, I lovingly put together a fanmix for Snape/Hermione relationship-ness. Half my flist 'ship it, and the other half of my flist probably give me the fish eye when I mention SS/HG. So, if you're in the eww-gross half, feel free to ignore or just think of this post as free music. Since there is virtually no SS/HG in canon, I'm going on the fanon version of the 'ship. The songs are a bit subdued because I just can't imagine Snape or Hermione fitting with NIN or even some emo band. I desperately wanted to include a few other bands, but the songs just sounded out-of-place with this collection.
DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE OF SONGS AND GRAPHICS HERE
Track Listing:
(Click on the song title to stream the song off the 'net or download it individually.)
01. Step Into the Light (The Afghan Whigs)
"Whenever the light shines and the stillness is shaken and the drug of your smile has gone and left me alone. I need it bad, I need it now, won't you come and give me some? I need it sweet. Baby please, won't you answer the phone? Step into the light, baby."
02. Fingertips (Poe)
"Sometimes I feel it burning, that deep and primal yearning. I feel it burn, burn, burning. I try live without it, but then I think about those fingertips, those fingertips, those fingertips."
03. Outside (Aqualung)
"He wants to give, but he'll give himself away. She wants to take, but she's taking all she can. They've got it all figured out. He wants to listen, but there so much more to say. She wants to shout it out loud, but she doesn't, she doesn't open her mouth."
04. The Limit to Your Love (Feist)
"I can't read your smile. It should be written on your face. I'm piecing it together, there's something out of place. I love, I love, I love this dream of going upstream. I love, I love, I love all the trouble that you give me. I know, I know, I know that only I can save me."
05. Hope for the Hopeless (A Fine Frenzy)
"Stitch in your knitted brow, and you don't know how you're gonna get it out. Crushed under heavy chest, trying to catch your breath, but it always beats you by a step. All right now. Making the best of it, playing the hand you get. You're not alone in this."
06. My Body is a Cage (Arcade Fire)
"I'm living in an age that calls darkness light. Though my language is dead, still the shapes fill my head. I'm living in an age whose name I don't know. Though the fear keeps me moving, still my heart beats so slow. My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love. But my mind holds the key."
07. Everybody Here Wants You (Jeff Buckley)
"Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile, coffee smell and lilac skin. Your flame in me. I'm only here for this moment. I know everybody here wants you. I know everybody here thinks he needs you. I'll be waiting right here just to show you how our love will blow it all away."
08. Push and Pull (Nikka Costa)
"Mr. Nothing's got a lot, he's got a lot to say. He's good at being what he's not, gives nothing away. Another day goes on by, and he never speaks his heart. He takes his chance with what he's got. It's too late now to stop. You push and you pull and struggle with the knot. It's tying you up while you're fading."
09. Only You (Portishead)
"We suffer everyday. What is it for? These crimes of illusion are fooling us all. And now I am weary and I feel like I do. It's only you who can tell me apart. And it's only you who can turn my wooden heart.
10. Volcano (Damien Rice)
"And what I am to you is not real. What I am to you, you do not need. What I am to you is not what you mean to me. You give me miles and miles of mountains, and I'll ask for the sea. Don't throw yourself like that in front of me. I kissed your mouth, your back. Is that all you need?"
11. Love Letter (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
"I hold this letter in my hand, a plea, a petition, a kind of prayer. I hope it does as I have planned. Losing her again is more than I can bear. I kiss the cold, white envelope. I press my lips against her name. Two hundred words, we live in hope. The sky hangs heavy with rain. Love letter, love letter, go get her, go get her."
12. All the Same (Sick Puppies)
"And I have the skill, yeah I have the will to breathe you in while I can. However long you stay is all that I am. I don't mind. I don't care. As long as you're here. Go ahead tell me you'll leave again. You'll just come back running, holding your scarred heart in hand."
13. Say It to Me Now (Glen Hansard)
"So much has gone misunderstood. This mystery only leads to doubt. And I didn't understand when you reached out to take my hand. And if you have something to say, you'd better say it now. 'Cause this is what you've waited for, your chance to even up the score."
14. Cruel to Be Kind (Letters to Cleo)
"You say your love is bonafide, but that don't coincide with the things that you're doing when I ask you to be nice. You say you gotta be cruel to be kind, in the right measure. Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign. Cruel to be kind, means that I love you."
15. Slow Like Honey (Fiona Apple)
"Though dreams can be deceiving like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving when fantasy and reality lie too far apart. So I stretch myself across, like a bridge. And I pull you to the edge and stand there waiting, trying to attain the end to satisfy the story."
I'm fiddling around with making another related fanmix with a different feel to it, but I haven't manage to find all the songs to compliment one another.
In related news, I lovingly put together a fanmix for Snape/Hermione relationship-ness. Half my flist 'ship it, and the other half of my flist probably give me the fish eye when I mention SS/HG. So, if you're in the eww-gross half, feel free to ignore or just think of this post as free music. Since there is virtually no SS/HG in canon, I'm going on the fanon version of the 'ship. The songs are a bit subdued because I just can't imagine Snape or Hermione fitting with NIN or even some emo band. I desperately wanted to include a few other bands, but the songs just sounded out-of-place with this collection.
DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE OF SONGS AND GRAPHICS HERE
Track Listing:
(Click on the song title to stream the song off the 'net or download it individually.)
01. Step Into the Light (The Afghan Whigs)
"Whenever the light shines and the stillness is shaken and the drug of your smile has gone and left me alone. I need it bad, I need it now, won't you come and give me some? I need it sweet. Baby please, won't you answer the phone? Step into the light, baby."
02. Fingertips (Poe)
"Sometimes I feel it burning, that deep and primal yearning. I feel it burn, burn, burning. I try live without it, but then I think about those fingertips, those fingertips, those fingertips."
03. Outside (Aqualung)
"He wants to give, but he'll give himself away. She wants to take, but she's taking all she can. They've got it all figured out. He wants to listen, but there so much more to say. She wants to shout it out loud, but she doesn't, she doesn't open her mouth."
04. The Limit to Your Love (Feist)
"I can't read your smile. It should be written on your face. I'm piecing it together, there's something out of place. I love, I love, I love this dream of going upstream. I love, I love, I love all the trouble that you give me. I know, I know, I know that only I can save me."
05. Hope for the Hopeless (A Fine Frenzy)
"Stitch in your knitted brow, and you don't know how you're gonna get it out. Crushed under heavy chest, trying to catch your breath, but it always beats you by a step. All right now. Making the best of it, playing the hand you get. You're not alone in this."
06. My Body is a Cage (Arcade Fire)
"I'm living in an age that calls darkness light. Though my language is dead, still the shapes fill my head. I'm living in an age whose name I don't know. Though the fear keeps me moving, still my heart beats so slow. My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love. But my mind holds the key."
07. Everybody Here Wants You (Jeff Buckley)
"Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile, coffee smell and lilac skin. Your flame in me. I'm only here for this moment. I know everybody here wants you. I know everybody here thinks he needs you. I'll be waiting right here just to show you how our love will blow it all away."
08. Push and Pull (Nikka Costa)
"Mr. Nothing's got a lot, he's got a lot to say. He's good at being what he's not, gives nothing away. Another day goes on by, and he never speaks his heart. He takes his chance with what he's got. It's too late now to stop. You push and you pull and struggle with the knot. It's tying you up while you're fading."
09. Only You (Portishead)
"We suffer everyday. What is it for? These crimes of illusion are fooling us all. And now I am weary and I feel like I do. It's only you who can tell me apart. And it's only you who can turn my wooden heart.
10. Volcano (Damien Rice)
"And what I am to you is not real. What I am to you, you do not need. What I am to you is not what you mean to me. You give me miles and miles of mountains, and I'll ask for the sea. Don't throw yourself like that in front of me. I kissed your mouth, your back. Is that all you need?"
11. Love Letter (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
"I hold this letter in my hand, a plea, a petition, a kind of prayer. I hope it does as I have planned. Losing her again is more than I can bear. I kiss the cold, white envelope. I press my lips against her name. Two hundred words, we live in hope. The sky hangs heavy with rain. Love letter, love letter, go get her, go get her."
12. All the Same (Sick Puppies)
"And I have the skill, yeah I have the will to breathe you in while I can. However long you stay is all that I am. I don't mind. I don't care. As long as you're here. Go ahead tell me you'll leave again. You'll just come back running, holding your scarred heart in hand."
13. Say It to Me Now (Glen Hansard)
"So much has gone misunderstood. This mystery only leads to doubt. And I didn't understand when you reached out to take my hand. And if you have something to say, you'd better say it now. 'Cause this is what you've waited for, your chance to even up the score."
14. Cruel to Be Kind (Letters to Cleo)
"You say your love is bonafide, but that don't coincide with the things that you're doing when I ask you to be nice. You say you gotta be cruel to be kind, in the right measure. Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign. Cruel to be kind, means that I love you."
15. Slow Like Honey (Fiona Apple)
"Though dreams can be deceiving like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving when fantasy and reality lie too far apart. So I stretch myself across, like a bridge. And I pull you to the edge and stand there waiting, trying to attain the end to satisfy the story."
I'm fiddling around with making another related fanmix with a different feel to it, but I haven't manage to find all the songs to compliment one another.