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[mimesere]

I am totally jacking this from cidercupcakes, because well. Comment here with a word, a phrase, a pairing I like, a book I like, a story I wrote, really anything -- and I'll give you the tracklisting for a short soundtrack/fanmix to it.

It's music. I like music. I am uploading (hopefully) the last hundred or so cover songs requested. Good times, good times.

I have made myself shiny icons of shininess.

And one day, I will be able to change my default. That day has not yet arrived, but I'm hoping!

Comments

[enigel]

Sparrington! Please. :D

[coneyislandbaby]

Peter Smith-Kingsley. Please.

[cunning-maz.livejournal.com]

I backed my car into a cop car the other day / Well he just drove off sometimes life's okay.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Sorcery and Cecelia series!

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

OH GOD I SECOND THIS.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Summertime - Miles Davis (http://www.sendspace.com/file/j6rggs)

La Vie En Rose - Louis Armstrong (http://www.sendspace.com/file/gdwcn9)

Am I Blue? - Billie Holiday (http://www.sendspace.com/file/adgvru)

Et Vous - Amelia (http://www.sendspace.com/file/oipxw6)

In my head, Peter Smith-Kingsley is...jazzy and classy and a little bit wistful and a lot worldly without being jaded. I briefly considered including some plainsong chants and motets, because he's also a musician, but I figured that he'd rather listen to Billie Holiday lament over her lost love than to think about how blessed are those who suffer...whatever.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

This was *hard*.

A Kind of Magic - Queen (http://www.sendspace.com/file/h1c717)

Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) - Steve Harley (http://www.sendspace.com/file/15stel)

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police (http://www.sendspace.com/file/spokk6)

Universe and U (acoustic extravaganza) - KT Tunstall (http://www.sendspace.com/file/gnoneq)

So, okay, this was hard largely because I would love to go for period appropriate music, but I can't and so I went for songs that sort of...captured the way it all feels for me. Which is, you know, smiley and twirly and playful and whimsical. The books make feel like I want to hug the world, because I love everyone in them and there is shopping and bantering and flirting and fitting together really well and BFFs and there's magic and awesomeness. So. That's what I went for with this mini mix thing. And then the KT Tunstall because it makes me smile in another way.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, to me, there are two flavors of sparrington. So I put up two songs for each :)

Kisstag sparrington, full of snarky hairpulling and bratty taunting love, which is energetic and jazzy and more like dancing than anything else --
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman (http://www.sendspace.com/file/5kcudk)

Can I Steal A Little Love - Joey Fatone (http://www.sendspace.com/file/9hi1d4)

Angsty sparrington, which is...hm. Dark and full of regrets and desperation and wariness and walking away and silences.

Snake Song - Emmylou Harris (http://www.sendspace.com/file/fk9d9t)

Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead (http://www.sendspace.com/file/a9ww2y)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Strangely, I do not have a whole lot of songs about things turning out okay.

Island in the Sun - Weezer (http://www.sendspace.com/file/engrtp)

The Rainbow Connection - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (http://www.sendspace.com/file/3kq3y9)

Life, In a Nutshell - Barenaked Ladies (http://www.sendspace.com/file/43vg7m)

Freedom - Tegan & Sara (http://www.sendspace.com/file/98obry)

[enigel]

Both flavours are delicious! Thank you. :)

[cunning-maz.livejournal.com]

Mine tend to me kinda ironic, like the Ben Lee "Float On" cover.

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Happy Wes & Gunn?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Battle Without Honor or Humanity - Tomayasu Hotei (http://www.sendspace.com/file/0ckznp)

The Boogie Monster - Gnarls Barkley (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ny3w5p)

I Feel Good - James Brown (http://www.sendspace.com/file/p1s54k)

Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye (http://www.sendspace.com/file/r78bek)

Stay With You - John Legend (http://www.sendspace.com/file/kmwwg8)