I've been listening to this song on repeat, and I can't decide if it's hopeful or despairing ( Read more... )

"I can't remember what it was like - not knowing you, not being close to you." - Cordelia, "Deep Down" 4x01

Apocalyptica's cover of Nothing Else Matters? Gorgeous. My favorite version is still the S&M one though ( Read more... )

This one’s making the rounds again: Put your music library on shuffle. Post the first lines of the first 25 songs that come up. The game: Guess which songs the first lines are from! Google = cheating ( Read more... )

Dear Author,

A beta is not for fixing grammatical mistakes. It's great that you're confident in your own spelling and grammatical nazism, but that doesn't mean you don't need a beta. Storytelling is more than technical merit. /punt.
It's currently raining. Not the kind of rain where you don't want to go outside because you think you'll get wet ( Read more... )

I've had this song stuck in my head for two weeks for no reason whatsoever - though not as bad as the "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss / and a prince I'm hoping comes with this" that was on permanent loop while I was watching Merlin - and yeah, this still my favorite video on Youtube.

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I'm waiting by my phone again, like a high school teenager. Tonight is basically my only night off in an entire week and I'm sitting here hoping my boss calls so I don't have to make curry. Curry, the food of the gods. And sublimely easy considering all I have to do is cut shit and mix in the curry cubes of easy. Yeah. I'm going to declare ( Read more... )

So lately I've been listening to a lot of Tomoyasu Hotei. Yes, Tomoyasu Hotei is the guy who wrote the theme for the Crazy Eights of Kill Bill. That song is, for the record, called "Battle Without Honor or Humanity". But don't get me started on my Quentin Tarantino rant. Anyway, the song that totally makes my soul sing? Howling:

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I feel like I' ( Read more... )

Why this song is playing:We're playing this track because it features basic rock song structures, a subtle use of vocal harmony, extensive vamping, mixed minor and major key tonality, melodic songwriting, electric rhythm guitars, an emotional male lead vocal performance, prominent organ, subtle use of strings, heartbreaking lyrics and many other ( Read more... )

Violet Hill is a street near Abbey Road.

Just sayin'.

just a puppet on a lonely string / oh who would ever want to be king?
The biggest adjustment has been the constant influx of noise; television, radio, something, there's always sound constantly frittering around in my head. While it's been obnoxious, it does mean that I'm pretty caught up with stuff. Seeing Daniel Dae Kim just picks me right back ( Read more... )