it's that time of year again
Which means I get to use my once-a-year icon. Mwuaha.
For those of you who had been kindly turning a blind eye, all is well. For I am now 18, and therefore legal. Woot!
It's the 8th anniversary of this tradition. Time flies.
V for Valedictorian
Link - Robyn Miller, Riven
Lullaby - Assemblage 23
Temple - Robyn Miller, Riven
Fiddle and the Drum - A Perfect Circle
Jen Plays His Pipes - Trevor Jones, The Dark Crystal
Cry Me a River - Julie London, V for Vendetta
Fantasian - Klaus Doldinger, The Neverending Story
The Noose - A Perfect Circle
Thrust (feat. Hanna Kappelin) - Visa Röster
Hit Single (open) - Sonny Sharrock, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
Low - Coldplay
Stargate SG-1 Main Theme - David Arnold & Joel Goldsmith
Everywhere With Helicopter - Guided By Voices
Butou (Dancing) - Michiru Oshima, Fullmetal Alchemist
Love And Peace Or Else - U2
Lawrence of Arabia Overture - Maurice Jarre
Changeless - Carbon Leaf
To Jerusalem - Harry Gregson-Williams, Kingdom of Heaven
Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones, V for Vendetta
BKAB (Speechless Mix) - Ethan Stoller, V for Vendetta
Around the Sun - R.E.M.
Welcome - Jack Wall & Warsaw Village Band, Myst IV: Revelation
Gilbert Explains It All, Part V - Luke Ski
Circle of Life - Disney... somebody. >_>...
Finale B - Cast of Rent, film version
Everything is All Right - Four Tet
The Greatest Adventure - Glenn Yarbrough, The Hobbit (Rankin/Bass)
Right. So, I always try to do something new -- which, obviously, gets harder every year. One year I did alternating instrumental/lyrical pieces; one year I did everything in chronological order of when I'd first heard it; one particularly prolific year for fandoms, I included the theme music for every new TV show I'd seen. But in every case, for 7 years, I've arranged the mood the same way: fast, loud and happy progressing into slow, quiet and sad/angsty.
Therefore, the only gimmick at all to this year's mix is that it's backwards. I had already arranged it once before I decided on that plan, so I just took what I'd already done and inversed it. There was a little more rearrangement before I got the final product, but that's the gist of it. "Lullaby" was originally the last song -- as Gary Jules' "Mad World" was last year, Annie Lennox's "Into the West" the year before, Emiliana Torrini's "Gollum's Song" was the year before that... Bigtime with the angst. This year I'm kind of poking fun at my own emo years, while at the same time reminding myself that it's always better to end on a high note.
Another noteworthy thing about this mix is the ridiculous amount of music on it I got directly from other people, mostly my flist. Last year there were a couple -- "Bird on a Wire" from Rain, "Gin-Soaked Boy" from Yma. But this year it's nuts. From yma2, "The Noose"; from nalcondetox, "Lullaby"; from fiyero06, "Fiddle and the Drum" and "Finale B" (all of Rent, really); from tiggymalvern, "Thrust (feat. Hanna Kappelin)" and "Everything is All Right"; from runefallstar, "Changeless"; from orcist, "Everywhere With Helicopter." Thank you, all of you, for contributing (knowingly or not) a little music to my life -- and that's everyone, not just the people listed above. (Some songs from Rain, Owl and Angsty just barely didn't make the cut for this mix.) ^_^.
For the curious, "Gilbert Explains It All Part V" is from professional filker Luke Ski's Worst Album Ever and is 16 seconds long. It goes: "....... What? What?! What, you're still listening?! You're still listening to this shitty album? That does it! You sons of bitches asked for it! One, two, one two three four --" which, of course, leads into Disney's "Circle of Life." That's kind of an injoke with myself, as my very first birthday mix was about half-n-half Led Zeppelin and Disney. XD
So there you go. Time to make a new playlist and start collecting for next year. ^_^.
My birthdays have never been a big thing. I get a little sentimental about them, but it's never lasting. I like the CDs because they make up a little for that transience... they help me remember where I was and what I was doing during any given year, and what sort of headspace I was in at the end of that year. I kind of treat my birthday as New Year's Day more so than the real thing.
Anyway, nothing much doing. We're giving up our newfound healthier living for a day -- Dad's grilling, I'm making real honest-to-god lemonade (out of lemons! because we did that for my birthday a few years ago and a person should go to the trouble to make real lemonade every once in a while), and the ice cream cake is currently mellowing in the deep freeze. I'll probably get a few presents and the traditional IOU for late-shipping amazon.com packages (which is not so much annoying as sort of comforting and endearing, IMO). I'll clean my room a bit. And I think I'm going to haul out my massive stack of old writing notebooks and see what kind of horrors I can find, for old times' sake.
I think, too, that this may be the day I finally realize that I'm a college student. That I'm legal. That I can vote. That I am, for all intents and purposes, an adult.
And that'll be pretty cool.
(but first there must be sleep.)
-rave
For those of you who had been kindly turning a blind eye, all is well. For I am now 18, and therefore legal. Woot!
It's the 8th anniversary of this tradition. Time flies.
V for Valedictorian
Link - Robyn Miller, Riven
Lullaby - Assemblage 23
Temple - Robyn Miller, Riven
Fiddle and the Drum - A Perfect Circle
Jen Plays His Pipes - Trevor Jones, The Dark Crystal
Cry Me a River - Julie London, V for Vendetta
Fantasian - Klaus Doldinger, The Neverending Story
The Noose - A Perfect Circle
Thrust (feat. Hanna Kappelin) - Visa Röster
Hit Single (open) - Sonny Sharrock, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
Low - Coldplay
Stargate SG-1 Main Theme - David Arnold & Joel Goldsmith
Everywhere With Helicopter - Guided By Voices
Butou (Dancing) - Michiru Oshima, Fullmetal Alchemist
Love And Peace Or Else - U2
Lawrence of Arabia Overture - Maurice Jarre
Changeless - Carbon Leaf
To Jerusalem - Harry Gregson-Williams, Kingdom of Heaven
Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones, V for Vendetta
BKAB (Speechless Mix) - Ethan Stoller, V for Vendetta
Around the Sun - R.E.M.
Welcome - Jack Wall & Warsaw Village Band, Myst IV: Revelation
Gilbert Explains It All, Part V - Luke Ski
Circle of Life - Disney... somebody. >_>...
Finale B - Cast of Rent, film version
Everything is All Right - Four Tet
The Greatest Adventure - Glenn Yarbrough, The Hobbit (Rankin/Bass)
Right. So, I always try to do something new -- which, obviously, gets harder every year. One year I did alternating instrumental/lyrical pieces; one year I did everything in chronological order of when I'd first heard it; one particularly prolific year for fandoms, I included the theme music for every new TV show I'd seen. But in every case, for 7 years, I've arranged the mood the same way: fast, loud and happy progressing into slow, quiet and sad/angsty.
Therefore, the only gimmick at all to this year's mix is that it's backwards. I had already arranged it once before I decided on that plan, so I just took what I'd already done and inversed it. There was a little more rearrangement before I got the final product, but that's the gist of it. "Lullaby" was originally the last song -- as Gary Jules' "Mad World" was last year, Annie Lennox's "Into the West" the year before, Emiliana Torrini's "Gollum's Song" was the year before that... Bigtime with the angst. This year I'm kind of poking fun at my own emo years, while at the same time reminding myself that it's always better to end on a high note.
Another noteworthy thing about this mix is the ridiculous amount of music on it I got directly from other people, mostly my flist. Last year there were a couple -- "Bird on a Wire" from Rain, "Gin-Soaked Boy" from Yma. But this year it's nuts. From yma2, "The Noose"; from nalcondetox, "Lullaby"; from fiyero06, "Fiddle and the Drum" and "Finale B" (all of Rent, really); from tiggymalvern, "Thrust (feat. Hanna Kappelin)" and "Everything is All Right"; from runefallstar, "Changeless"; from orcist, "Everywhere With Helicopter." Thank you, all of you, for contributing (knowingly or not) a little music to my life -- and that's everyone, not just the people listed above. (Some songs from Rain, Owl and Angsty just barely didn't make the cut for this mix.) ^_^.
For the curious, "Gilbert Explains It All Part V" is from professional filker Luke Ski's Worst Album Ever and is 16 seconds long. It goes: "....... What? What?! What, you're still listening?! You're still listening to this shitty album? That does it! You sons of bitches asked for it! One, two, one two three four --" which, of course, leads into Disney's "Circle of Life." That's kind of an injoke with myself, as my very first birthday mix was about half-n-half Led Zeppelin and Disney. XD
So there you go. Time to make a new playlist and start collecting for next year. ^_^.
My birthdays have never been a big thing. I get a little sentimental about them, but it's never lasting. I like the CDs because they make up a little for that transience... they help me remember where I was and what I was doing during any given year, and what sort of headspace I was in at the end of that year. I kind of treat my birthday as New Year's Day more so than the real thing.
Anyway, nothing much doing. We're giving up our newfound healthier living for a day -- Dad's grilling, I'm making real honest-to-god lemonade (out of lemons! because we did that for my birthday a few years ago and a person should go to the trouble to make real lemonade every once in a while), and the ice cream cake is currently mellowing in the deep freeze. I'll probably get a few presents and the traditional IOU for late-shipping amazon.com packages (which is not so much annoying as sort of comforting and endearing, IMO). I'll clean my room a bit. And I think I'm going to haul out my massive stack of old writing notebooks and see what kind of horrors I can find, for old times' sake.
I think, too, that this may be the day I finally realize that I'm a college student. That I'm legal. That I can vote. That I am, for all intents and purposes, an adult.
And that'll be pretty cool.
(but first there must be sleep.)
-rave