fanmix: an unfinished tale (narnia)
Fanmix time! It's been awhile. And I saw the new Narnia film last week - Prince Caspian - and I had forgotten how much I love the character of Susan. So - fanmix!
(spoilers for the film and book series under the cut)
The tone of the mix for the most part is somber; it picks up with Aslan's decree at the end of Prince Caspian that neither her nor Peter would return to Narnia since they were too old. Then there's Peter in The Last Battle, who says that Susan is "no longer a friend of Narnia," and others join the testimonial claiming that Susan only cares about nylons and lipsticks and boys. The main inspiration for the mix came from this quote from Paul F. Ford: "Susan's is one of the most important Unfinished Tales of Narnia of the Chronicles...This is not to say, as some critics have maintained, that she is lost forever ... It is a mistake to think that Susan was killed in the railway accident at the end of The Last Battle and that she has forever fallen from grace. It is to be assumed, rather, that as a woman of twenty-one who has just lost her entire family in a terrible crash, she will have much to work through; in the process, she might change to become truly the gentle person she has the potential for being."
So without further ado!:
+ZIP
o1. IN THIS HOME ON ICE; clap your hands say yeah
now that i'm so sad and not quite right
i could dance all night
o2. WOMEN LEFT LONELY; cat power
a women left lonely will soon grow tired of waiting
she'll do crazy things, yeah, on lonely occasions
a simple conversation for the new men now and again
o3. US ONES IN BETWEEN; sunset rubdown
and i've heard of pious men
and i've heard of dirty fiends
but you don't often hear
of us ones in between
and i've heard of creatures
who eat their babies
and wonder if they stop
to think about the taste
o4. THE WOLVES (ACT I & II); bon iver
and the story's all over you
in the morning i'll call you
can't you find a clue
when your eyes are all painted sinatra blue
what might have been lost - don't bother me
o5. THE MOUNTAIN; pj harvey
by the mountain
i feel nothing
for in my own heart
every tree is broken
o6. LET DOWN; radiohead
transport, motorways and tramlines
starting and then stopping
taking off and landing
the emptiest of feelings
disappointed people clinging on to bottles
and when it comes it's so, so disappointing
o7. I'LL BE SEEING YOU; billie holiday
i'll be seeing you
in all the familiar places
o8. THE WIZARD; bat for lashes
wants to feel you shake and shooting
he will be our leader
o9. I WILL NOT FORGET THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN; eluvium
instrumental
1o. YOU ARE MY SISTER; antony and the johnsons
i was so afraid of the night
you seemed to move through the places that i feared
you lived inside my world so softly
protected only by the kindness of your nature
(spoilers for the film and book series under the cut)
The tone of the mix for the most part is somber; it picks up with Aslan's decree at the end of Prince Caspian that neither her nor Peter would return to Narnia since they were too old. Then there's Peter in The Last Battle, who says that Susan is "no longer a friend of Narnia," and others join the testimonial claiming that Susan only cares about nylons and lipsticks and boys. The main inspiration for the mix came from this quote from Paul F. Ford: "Susan's is one of the most important Unfinished Tales of Narnia of the Chronicles...This is not to say, as some critics have maintained, that she is lost forever ... It is a mistake to think that Susan was killed in the railway accident at the end of The Last Battle and that she has forever fallen from grace. It is to be assumed, rather, that as a woman of twenty-one who has just lost her entire family in a terrible crash, she will have much to work through; in the process, she might change to become truly the gentle person she has the potential for being."
So without further ado!:
+ZIP
o1. IN THIS HOME ON ICE; clap your hands say yeah
now that i'm so sad and not quite right
i could dance all night
o2. WOMEN LEFT LONELY; cat power
a women left lonely will soon grow tired of waiting
she'll do crazy things, yeah, on lonely occasions
a simple conversation for the new men now and again
o3. US ONES IN BETWEEN; sunset rubdown
and i've heard of pious men
and i've heard of dirty fiends
but you don't often hear
of us ones in between
and i've heard of creatures
who eat their babies
and wonder if they stop
to think about the taste
o4. THE WOLVES (ACT I & II); bon iver
and the story's all over you
in the morning i'll call you
can't you find a clue
when your eyes are all painted sinatra blue
what might have been lost - don't bother me
o5. THE MOUNTAIN; pj harvey
by the mountain
i feel nothing
for in my own heart
every tree is broken
o6. LET DOWN; radiohead
transport, motorways and tramlines
starting and then stopping
taking off and landing
the emptiest of feelings
disappointed people clinging on to bottles
and when it comes it's so, so disappointing
o7. I'LL BE SEEING YOU; billie holiday
i'll be seeing you
in all the familiar places
o8. THE WIZARD; bat for lashes
wants to feel you shake and shooting
he will be our leader
o9. I WILL NOT FORGET THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN; eluvium
instrumental
1o. YOU ARE MY SISTER; antony and the johnsons
i was so afraid of the night
you seemed to move through the places that i feared
you lived inside my world so softly
protected only by the kindness of your nature