Whedon Wednesday :: I Let You In [a Paul/Echo fanmix]

1. Secret (Missy Higgins)
You said “Where I’m from there is a lock and key, if you’d be so kind as to follow me, I will show you the way to the rest of my sins.”  ‘Cause you’ve got a secret, don’t you babe?

2. Ache For You (Ben Lee)
There’s no rhyme and there’s no reason, you’re the secret at the back of my skull.  There’s no logic, so please believe me.  Our love’s confusing, but it never gets dull.

3. Hold On, Hold On (Neko Case)
It’s the devil I love, and that’s as funny as real love, and that’s as real as true love.  That echo chorus lied to me with its “Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.”

4. I’m Not Sleeping (Counting Crows)
Spend my nights in self-defense, cry about my innocence, but I ain’t all that innocent anymore, more, more.  I see her on the TV, I see her in the movies, I see her in these animals that dance inside my head.  I’ll follow you down, baby, down into this valley, I’ll follow you down, baby, but I won’t come up again.  But I’m not sleeping anymore, anymore.

5. She Ain’t Me (Carrie Rodriguez)
She might please you, Miss Whoever, she might lead you to think you’re too clever.  She’ll deceive you, you best forget her, ’cause whoever Miss Whoever is, she ain’t me.

6. Trying My Best to Love You (Jenny Lewis)
But still sometimes you cannot help yourself, you step outside and hear bells ringing for you, for you.  Trying my best to love you, trying my best to love you, trying my best to love you.  They make it so hard on us, baby, it’s so hard on us, baby.

7. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (The Beatles)
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.  She showed me her room, isn’t it good, norwegian wood?  She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere, so I looked around and I noticed there wasn’t a chair.  I sat on the rug, biding my time, drinking her wine, we talked until two and then she said, “It’s time for bed.”

8. If You’re Wondering (Eisley)
And I thought that I had all that, that I wanted, but, boy, was I wrong, as for you, now I know.  If the moon shines on you while you’re sleeping, it will show you all that I’m feeling.  And if I’m wondering then you show me, if you’re wondering I know.

9. Never is a Promise (Fiona Apple)
You’ll never touch these things that I hold, the skin of my emotions lies beneath my own.  You’ll never feel the heat of this soul, my fever burns me deeper than I’ve ever shown to you.  You’ll say, don’t fear your dreams, it’s easier than it seems.  You’ll say you’d never let me fall from hopes so high, but never is a promise and you can’t afford to lie.

10. When the War Came (The Decemberists)
A terrible autonomy is grafted onto you and me, our trust put in the government, they told their lies are heaven sent.  ‘Til the war came, ’til the war came.

11. Worn Out Tune (Elizabeth & the Catapult)
Sounds to me we’re like a worn out tune, oh so sweet, oh so blue.  We know all the words, but we miss the cue, oh so sweet, oh so blue.  Place the needle on the jagged line, play that record, baby, one more time, sounds to me we’re like a worn out tune. 

12. After You Left (Mirah)
I’d like to have one, hold it tight, start a fire, burn all night.  You had to go, I wanted you to stay.  But just like you said, after you left I was OK.

13. The Chain (Ingrid Michaelson)
My room seems wrong, the bed won’t fit.  I cannot seem to operate and you my love are gone.  So glide away and so be healed and promise not to promise anymore, and if you come around again, then I will take, then I will take the chain from off the door.

–your fangirl heroine.

Fictional Friday :: Yield to Me [an Eric/Sookie fanmix]

1. I Will Possess Your Heart (Death Cab for Cutie)
You reject my advances and desperate pleas; I won’t let you let me down so easily, so easily.  You gotta spend some time, love.  You gotta spend some time with me.  And I know that you’ll find, love, I will possess your heart.

2. All of Me (Angus & Julia Stone)
Is there a cure for this pain?  Maybe I should have something to eat.  But food won’t take this emptiness away, I’m hungry for you my love.

3. Bad Sun (The Bravery)
I know we’re not like everyone.  You and me we grew, under a bad sun.  Every day you bring me pain and we savor it like rain; we hold it on our tongues just like wine.

4. Want to Be Bad (Tegan and Sara)
You might be dead but it’s hard to know.  The night turns in but you all go, go.  Don’t get in over your head, I just want to be bad.

5. Rise to Me (The Decemberists)
My darling, my sweetheart, I am in your sway.  Two cold climbs, come spring time, so let me hear you say, my love: I am gonna stand my ground, they rise to me and I’ll blow them down.

6. The Valley (Eisley)
Real heart breaker, come and take me to the real heartache that everyone’s talking ’bout.  You see me then you don’t, but get it right, I don’t believe in magic. 

7. I Want to Sing (Regina Spektor)
Love is a dangerous pastime, caught between madness and gladness of flight.  Nothing is wrong and nothing is right, falling asleep in your arms every night.

8. The Rest of My Life (The Early November)
Passed out from misuse of the sunlight, without a, a mechanical device.  Anymore comfort rolls in a pack of twenty with all the hands to protect you from the ghouls and the bears and uncomfortable stares that will illegally taunt you.

9. Undisclosed Desires (Muse)
You trick your lovers that you’re wicked and divine.  You may be a sinner, but your innocence is mine.

10. Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) (Fiona Apple)
So why did I kiss him so hard late last Friday night, and keep on letting him change all my plans?  I’m either so sick in the head I need to be bled dry, to quit, or I just really used to love him, I sure hope that’s it.

11. Your Protector (Fleet Foxes)
As you lay to die beside me, baby on the morning the shootin’ came.  Would you wait for me?  The other one would wait for me.  You run with the devil.

12. Suffocation (Crystal Castles)
Humility yet to be seen, models made of plasticine, morality disgrace us now, entertain and take a bow.

13. Go Away My Lover (Elizabeth and the Catapult)
Go away my lover, darling won’t you go? Leave me to my tower, leave me all alone.  Go away my lover, cut these tethers free, leave me to my island of pine and evergreen.

–your fangirl heroine.

Whedon Wednesday :: Thus Was She Born, Thus She Lived, Thus Did She Die [a Mellie/November/Madeline fanmix]

(Go ahead and just shorten it as “Thus Was She Born,” I don’t mind.)

1. The Harmonica Song (Fiona Landers)
Oh, that he might breathe me in, and I might catch his every exhale.  Oh, that I might sit below his chin, gaze up at him and shine.  Oh, that I might make him mine.

2. Gravity (Sara Bareilles)
But you’re on to me and all over me. You loved me ’cause I’m fragile when I thought that I was strong.  But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

3. Run Away (Jewelia Owens)
It’s a cold, cold feeling when it’s time to face the facts.  That just a brush with a thought that everything has gone bad — it’s a cold, cold feeling.

4. Make You Feel My Love (Adele)
No, there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.  The storms are raging on the rolling sea and on the highway of regret.  Though winds of change are blowing wild and free, you ain’t seen nothing like me yet.  I could make you happy, make your dreams come true.  Nothing that I wouldn’t do.  Go to the ends of the earth for you to make you feel my love.

5. What I Say and What I Mean (The Like)
Walking from the past but I don’t think I’ve said my goodbyes.  Sometimes I just find that they keep sneaking up from behind.

6. Casualty (Missy Higgins)
Tell me you fell ’cause of my grace and not to help you erase her face, and oh, make it your best lie.

7. You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) (The White Stripes)
But it’s for someone else’s benefit, not for what you wanna do.  Until I realize that you’ve realized I’m gonna say these words to you.  You don’t know what love is, you do as you’re told.

8.  Porcelain Lady (Elizabeth and the Catapult)
Porcelain limbs and a paper heart, how long does it take before you crumble apart?  Patiently waiting for the healing to start, how long does it take before you crumble apart?

9. Rinse (Vanessa Carlton)
She’s been wishin’ on the stars that shine so bright for answers to the questions that will haunt her tonight.  She must rinse him.  She must rinse him.  She can’t rinse him.  She can’t rinse him.

10. Sleep to Dream (Fiona Apple)
Don’t you plead me your case, don’t bother to explain.  Don’t even show me your face ’cause it’s a crying shame.

11. Promise to Me (Mirah)
There was a child who was born to be the one who comforts me, who grew up strong and brave and holy, loves me rough and tenderly.  Can it be understood the reasons why you belong to me?

12. I Will Internalize (Martha Wainwright)
And I will bleed on your knees, and I am comfortable on my knees in the corner whispering, whispering, whispering, whispering “please.”  ‘Cause I have seen the light and it’s in, it’s in your eyes.

13. Soljah (Laura Jansen)
I, I, I wanna be, be, be a soljah for your love.  My eyes have finally adjusted to the light down here below.  My eyes can finally see everything real that’s real to me.

–your fangirl heroine.

Whedon Wednesday :: Burn a Pretty Fire [a Drusilla fanmix]

1. Waiting For the Kill (Elizabeth and the Catapult)
They told me to forget him, forgive him for his sins.  Brush my grievance under, and start it all again.  They told me to forget him, and all that he has done, but if you can’t take out the poison, you better cover up and run.  Now I’m patient, patient with my time, but revenge is oh so hard to find.  I’m just a good good girl with a troubled mind.

2. Trauma (Laura Jansen)
There’s glass in the candy, baby, but I still like it.  And I don’t wanna be afraid, and I don’t wanna shy away, shy away from a little scratch, shy away from the pain.

3. Bad Man’s World (Jenny Lewis)
Now that I’m standing I’ve got something left to prove.  Got a bullet left, but I can’t decide which scorpion I’m gonna shoot.  Will it be me, will it be you?

4. Shankill Butchers (The Decemberists)
Everybody knows if you don’t mind your mother’s words a wicked wind will blow your ribbons from your curls.  Everybody moan, everybody shake, the shankill butchers wanna catch you away.

5. Old Dances (Kate Nash)
But there were real dances we could dance, maybe, real songs that we could sing, maybe, everything could be all right.  But I keep tripping up the steps, and there I just sometimes I forget, and tunes are fuzzy in my mind.

6. Part of his Heart (Fiona Landers)
She may sleep with him at night, and he may love her well and treat her right.  And I might be lazin’ on some porch, drinkin’ slow and fallin’ out my torch.  But I don’t worry, and I’ll tell you why, ’cause part of his heart is mine.  Part of his heart is mien, part of his heart is mine, and he tried to lie, but his smile turned so sly, and that’s when I knew part of his heart is mine.

7. Dirty Knife (Neko Case)
So suddenly the madness came with its whiskered woven ether pains.  He locked the door and he shut the blinds, he laid down on the floor and he slept like I while the dirty knife tore deep into his spine.  Blood runs crazy, blood runs crazy.

8. Sad Stephen’s Song (Duncan Sheik)
And they were young and they were fair, they brushed their bronze and dusky hair and whispered, ‘come, sad Stephen, come and play here, you will love, you will be loved, you will grow up and do so much, you will be strong, you will be sung by all the mermaids, silver mermaids.’

9. Sticks and Stones (The Pierces)
Sticks and stones will break your bones and leave you lyin’ in the mud, but you get scared when you’re alone, like I might suck your blood.  Well I could tell you a witch’s spell but it just might blow your top, you start to run just when I’m having fun, but it’s awfully hard to stop.  Sun in the sky, I’m stoppin’ you from burnin’, all we need is stars and moon.

10. The Child is Gone (Fiona Apple)
There’s no kind of loving that could make this all right.  I’m tryin’ to find a place I belong.  And I suddenly feel like a different person, from the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion, and I ran my hand o’er a strange inversion, as the darkness turned into the dawn.  The child is gone.

11. The Moon (The Swell Season)
Shut the door to the moon, let the birds gather.  Play them all with the fools, and let the souls wander and bleed.

12. And Now We Sing (Duncan Sheik & Holly Brook)
And now we’ll sing of drowning things, no wondering what might have been.  Upon that ship we played the popular songs, some sang along, now all that’s gone.  Thrown below the raging tides, we hoped to rest but were denied, so now we haunt the oceanside, live this pale, eternal life.

13.  100 Knives (Mirah)
You were trying to kill me with 100 knives.  You were trying to kill my in my heart 100 times.  Tell me you were angry, that’s why you said that, that’s why you said that.  I know you’re there, I wish you’d talk.  Should I stay on or should I get off?

14. The Perfect Fit (The Dresden Dolls)
I can make you promises but they won’t mean a thing.  Can’t you just do it for me?

15. Waiting for a Dream (Rufus Wainwright)
There’s a fire in the priory and it’s ruining this cocktail party.  Yesterday I heard the plague is coming once again to find me.  There’s a fire in the priory and an ogre in the oval office.  Once again we all will be broken, now can I finally sleep again?

– your fangirl heroine.