HEX HALL!!!!!!!!
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K so LJ tells me the last time I updated was APRIL so consider this a way of saying I'm back? Kind of? I'm too laze for LJ now, I still love it I think. I've been a real creep lately, reading my friends' old old old entries, especially Anna's because her HP posts are always so helpful for me but mostly I have been on the periphery of things which is cool, I like not being involved in deep ass shit right now. Except that I made a Sophie/Archer mix! Which is a ship from a YA series with its own Facebook fan page! Which is the worst okay, don't go there except go there because it's so so so funny when people are so so so wrong about things that you love.
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If you're cold to this Hex Hall business, here is a link to welurklate's awesome Hex Hall primer which is the reason I started reading the books in the first place. Go there first.
WOW it is such a relief to be able to post this when I have been balls-deep in this mix for over a month now. This was so hard to make! And it's kind of hard to talk about! I was planning on making this post about Sophie/Archer and Hex Hall in general and use it to exorcise my feelings but I can't bring myself to do it. PROBABLY TOO LAZE but mostly I want the songs to speak for themselves.
Plain and simple: I had the idea when I was making this to have this dark throbbing beat present throughout the songs and then to have that balanced with the inherent lightness of pop, to have these dark sounds and then this lightness that is spilling out. Sophie and Archer are so young, you almost forget how young! And they go through so much. And they love each other so much. I just have this constant image of them in the cellar in Demonglass dreaming of Teen Futures, and that's how I always think of them, surrounded by so much darkness but filled with a lightness that is all their own.
BTW: Thanks Kendar for all of your help and in general being gr8 and introducing me to the wonder that is Hex Hall!!!!!!!
01 | Black Light Dinner Party - Small Boxes
You promised her. You promised her. She'd laugh a little. You promised her. You promised her. I take it all back. You promised her. Don't promise her. Things she'll never get now. I promised her I would hold her hand.
02 | bridget+luke - Something Wicked
I tried to separate. I find I'm far too late. I was lost before there was an alibi. As secret phrases spin a crooked lullaby. Something wicked this wind blows. Every step now is far too close
03 | Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away (Jamie xx remix)
And that's easy for me and it's better for the soul. And it's better for you and it's better for all. I will have to pull my heart away. 'Cause if I never leave I'll ruin yesterday. I will have to pull my heart away.
04 | Lana Del Ray - Diet Mtn. Dew
You're no good for me. Oh baby, you're no good for me. You're no good for me. But baby, I want you. I want you.
Maybe I like this rollercoaster. Maybe it keeps me high. Maybe this weight it brings me closer. I could sparkle up your eyes.
05 | Film School - When I'm Yours
I'll tell you the truth but it won't seem right. I'll tell you it first. I'll tell you the lie. We'll keep in our heart what we can't confide.
06 | Foster the People - Helena Beat
You know that I cannot believe my own truth. To show what a truth, got nothin' to lose. I never knew if I could convince myself to change. You were pacing, I was insecure. Slip and fall, I got the call of the prison I was livin' in.
07 | Gardens & Villa - Black Hills
All through the night I was a redwood before your door. So I don't die realize who was here before. Sunlight through the blinds. Black hills white nights. Up on the mountain we climb.We watch the seas rise so high. We will be baptized just like before.
08 | Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs
And if you ever wonder how we keep from going under. It’s because we find another reason not to give in. And even though we may not get to where we want to go. I do believe that we both know it don’t matter in the end. And if you move away I’ll try not to hesitate. Thinking I cannot life the weight without you here to share it. But if you have to go I promise you that on my own.
09 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Morning Thought
I would like to protect you. I would like to release you. I would like to inform you. I would like to pretend but we don't know how.
10 | SBTRKT - Something Goes Right
Is it better to let you go. Or is it better to let you know. You should t-t-t-t-take it. You should t-t-t-t-take it back.
11 | SBTRKT - Trials of the Past
I was always floating around the cit-t-ty. Go with the flow without ever knowing where I wanna be. So I got into crazy
situa-a-tions. A loyal soldier who acts who acts who acts. But never asks.
12 | Drake - Little Bit Feat. Lykke Li
Hands down. I'm too proud for love. But with eyes shut. It's you I'm thinking of. But how we move from A to B it can't be up to me. 'Cause you don't know. Who I was before you. Basically to see a change in me I'd be losing, so I just ignore you. Yeah.
But you're on my mind, my mind, my mind, my mind, my mind. But maybe in time, in time, in time. A little bit, a little bit.
A little bit in love with you. I guess that I'm a little bit, a little bit, a little bit in love with you. I know you don't break their hearts.
But it's you I wanna take apart. And I will never ever be the first to say it. But still I they know I ah ah ah.
13 | Au Revoir Simone - Through the Backyards
Baby, tell me please. Is this a dream spending the night with you? Beneath the cherry trees. Just make a wish and everything comes true.
14 | Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks (Chrome Canyon Remix)
I've waited for a long time. Yeah, the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger. I reason with my cigarette. And say your hair's on fire. You must have lost your wits, yeah.
As always, comments are appreciated! Enjoy!