for your listening pleasure

[candle_beck]

fics of the pod variety, because it has been too long.

Above Us Only Sky mp3, John/Paul, 8:13
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How You Were Diverted mp3, John/Paul, 29:18
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Seven Flights mp3, Haren/Lowry, 10:58
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Bound to Happen mp3, Zito/Hudson, 17:27
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Space Travel mp3, Sherlock/John, 34:07
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Comments

[izzady]

Also. I've just relistened to Falling Down with a Pure Heart, because it's your San Francisco fic and because it's my very favourite. There are so many things I love about it, but on this relisten I just wanted to say that it's such a wonderful study in detail. It never feels description heavy, eventhough that's almost all it is. It's just that it uses categories of description that are not limited to the momentary and visual. It's not like five paragraphs of what x thing looks like to x character at x time - it's five paragraphs of times they've called each other things, or one paragraph of scars, or one paragraph of places they go, or five paragraphs of ways in which baseball is the foundation of their lives. It just feels so real. Furthermore, in rereading I find ironic the passage about how in the future when Zito gets traded, he won't just be across the Bay, because of course, even all these years and changes later, that's exactly where he is.

(I may also have made a list of places mentioned in it, so I can go to as many as possible. Omg, Omg, San Francisco.)

[candle_beck]

that particular story probably best encapsulates my approach to fic. obsessive detailing this person you love, simmering low-level apprehension, baseball as a metaphor for perfection, san francisco as a metaphor for heaven. i get self-conscious sometimes about giant blocks of text with no dialogue to break it up, and then i remember this story and that sometimes i can pull it off.

thanks again some more forever!

[izzady]

It has just occurred to me - wasn't Falling Down with a Pure Heart supposed to be your fic without metaphors in it? But yes, if you write it like this (which, amazingly, you usually do) you don't ever need to worry about description without dialogue.

Anyway, I am always happy to encourage podficcing. And it's one of those things that's harder to give feedback on (and to get feedback on, as I'm discovering) so yeah.

On another side-note, because it's all to your credit that I even know who they are. The Mountain Goats are doing a movie accompaniement thing at the Castro next week, and I have managed to wrangle with the people I'm staying with to get back into town for that. I am SO THRILLED. So yeah, thanks for introducing me to something that has brought me such joy.

[candle_beck]

indeed, 'falling down with a pure heart' was supposed to metaphorless (i think at one point zito 'learns your hand like a blind man,' and that's all), and 'going nowhere' was supposed to have n run-on sentences. i feel like it would be way harder to write like that now.

and oh man! i was totally gonna go to that mountain goats thing at the castro, but then my lil bro graduated college adn our dad set us up with dinner at a really swank restaurant, so alas. but, tell me, enlighten me: HOW AWESOME WAS IT?

i once saw an interpretive dance performance based on 'tallahassee.' that guy, king of all media.

[izzady]

Oh oh. It was SO AWESOME, candle, I just don't have the words. (Well, I'm going to ramble anyway, but yes, beyond expressing properly) First of all, the Castro is just so cool, and the atmosphere of the theatre with the lights off and everyone watching the screen (including him for lots of it) was just amazing. And it started all soft with just him either guitar or piano and worked it's way up to freakin' rocking out with Vanderslice on guitar and bass player and drummer. And of course, being the theatre, the sound was great, it felt like he was singing right in your ear. OMG. And the movie was all strange and creepy and corny all at the same time. And very swedish. It was perfect. That dude really is something. He came out at the end and thanked everyone and said that he was the most nervous he'd been about a performance in forever. But yes, king of all media indeed.

[candle_beck]

dude, it pleases me beyond words that you were there and had such a time. i was the exact same way! first time i saw him was in d.c., and afterwards we were standing in line to get a slice and i was like, "wait a minute . . . i think i need to sit down." my knees were literally weak! oh he is amaze.