Whedon Wednesday :: A Love Not Erasable [a Priya/Sierra / Anthony/Victor fanmix]

1. Such Great Heights (The Postal Service)
And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay.  And true, it may seem like a stretch, but it’s thoughts like this that catch my troubled head when you’re away, when I am missing you today.

2. To Whom It May Concern (The Civil Wars)
Slowly counting down the days till I finally know your name, the way your hand feels ’round my waist, the way you laugh, the way your kisses taste.  I’ve missed you but I haven’t met you, oh how I want to, how I do.

3. Right Next to You (Elizabeth & the Catapult)
I never thought we’d come this far.  Love will guide us out.  I never thought I’d lose my heart so completely.  One thing I know for sure is when the lights go out, I’m gonna be right next to you.

4. Plug In Baby (Muse)
My plug in baby, in unbroken virgin realities, is tired of living.  Don’t confuse, baby you’re gonna lose your own game, change me, replace the envying to forget your love.

5. The Devil’s Tears (Angus & Julia Stone)
Some call love a curse, some call love a thief.  She’s my home, and she’s as much a part of this broken heart, but see, broken bones always seem to mend.  I’ll taste the devil’s tears, drink from his soul, but I’ll never give up you.

6. Wind in the Wires (Patrick Wolf)
See her waters break, rain falling to the sea into a granite wave.  A unit, a family, it’s just a sigh, just a sigh.  This wild electricity, made static by industry, like a bird in an aviary, singing to the sky, just singing to be free.

7. Bridge to Nowhere (The Like)
Flashbacks of times past, I would forget just to make it last.  Turning on the lights, I’m waiting, nothing seems to be changing.  Books are on the desk, blank papers, every sign of life just seems to taper.

8. The Special Two (Missy Higgins)
And we will only need each other, we’ll bleed together, our hands will not be taught to hold another’s, ’cause we’re the special two.  And we could only see each other, we’ll breathe together, these arms will not be taught to need another’s, ’cause we’re the special two.

9. Do I Disappoint You (Rufus Wainwright)
Do I disappoint you, in being human and not one of the elements that you can light your cigar on?  Why does it always have to be fire?  Why does it always have to be brimstone?  Desire: cool this body down.

10. Recommendation (Mirah)
There’s regret that you feel about the choice you’ve made, you’ll just have to deal before it goes away.  You ask me how I feel, and here’s what I’ll say: I’m doing fine, just fine, I’m doing fine.

11. Time and Time Again (Counting Crows)
So when are you coming home, sweet angel?  You’re leaving me alone, all alone.  Well, well, if I’m drowning, darling, you’ll come down this way on your own.

12. Not Again (The Spring Standards)
I think the devil knows his way around this place.  He leaves a trail of red temptation and he hides us in his fog so thick with shame.  You set my knee on fire, cloth upon nylon, you set fire to me knee so easily, so unaccidentally, make me now, don’t make me, please, don’t make me lose him all over again.  No, I can’t say no, I just can’t, I dare you to try it, betrayals are quiet nowadays.

13. Doors Unlocked and Open (Death Cab for Cutie)
Somewhere down, down, down in the ocean of sound, sound, we’ll live in slow motion and be free with doors unlocked and open, doors unlocked and open.  Isolation, isolation, California, gilded crowns, idle workers, counting down.

A Love Not Erasable on 8tracks.

–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.

Fictional Friday :: The E Word [an Envy Adams fanmix]

1. Black Sheep (Metric)
Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend, you crack the whip, shapeshifting trick the past again.

2. Something Borrowed, Something Blue (Ben Lee)
I get the feeling I could leave you on the interstate, I get the feeling that I just broke through.  I get the feeling that you never mattered anyway, something borrowed, something blue.

3.  Laisse Tomber Les Filles (April March)
Laisse tomber les filles, laisse tomber les filles, un jour c’est toi qu’on laissera.  Laisse tomber les filles, laisse tomber les filles, un jour c’est toi qui pleureras.

4. Nothing Better (The Postal Service)
Will someone please call a surgeon who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart that you’re deserting for better company?  I can’t accept that it’s over…

5. The Fear (Lily Allen)
And I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless ’cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous.

6. Hypermusic (Muse)
You wanted more than I was worth and you think I was scared and you needed proof.  Who really cares anymore?

7. You, Me and the Bourgeoisie (The Submarines)
And here we are in the center of the first world, it’s laid out before us, who are we to break down?  Every day we wake up, we choose love, we choose light, and we try, it’s too easy just to fall apart.

8. See Fernando (Jenny Lewis)
You’ve been Jezebeled, back from hell, cooling off, feeling well, tired of talking, talked out, ticked off or toughed up, too talled or backed up, haven’t made your mind up, tbd’d or tb’d, tired of falling to your knees.

9. The Denial Twist (The White Stripes)
So to you, the truth is still hidden and the soul plays the role of a little lost kitten, but you should know that the doctors weren’t kiddin’, she’s been singing it all along but you were hearin’ a different song.

10. Mrs. Actually (The Like)
You feed me a line, we’ll travel to the sky, but you leave me behind.  I could never run away, no, I could never run away this time…

11. Front Row (Metric)
He’s not perfect, he’s my hero, smashing the piano, spitting in the front row, chronic confrontation, psychic conversation, radical compassion louder than the action, all of us, burned out stars they shine so bright.

12.  Taking Control (Eisley)
You’ve been taking control of our lives and you’ve been letting us go (I can’t be the one to finally pull you out again, out again, no I can’t be the one to finally pull you out again, out again).

13. In the Underground (The Spring Standards)
Place your bet: stage is set, better face up or face regret.  Your voice is tired and it makes no sound.  Underground, the walls are thick.

 

–your fangirl heroine.

 

Whedon Wednesday :: It’s Playing With Matches (And They Burned The House Down) [an Epitaphverse fanmix]

1. This Place is a Prison (The Postal Service)
I know there’s a big world out there like the one I saw on the screen, in my living room late last night it was almost too bright to see.

2. Wish I Were Here (Next to Normal)
Is my brain reborn, or is it wrecked? In freedom or in fear? Wish I were here.

3. Light the Match (Mirah)
My glow, it will attract you, my smoke will push you back, until you call again please arsonist, attack. But why do you turn and shield your eyes? Do I burn too brightly?

4. Broken Boy Soldier (The Raconteurs)
Well I’m child and man and child again, the toy broken boy soldier, I’m child and man and child again, the boy never gets older.

5. Ghost Song (Patrick Wolf)
Today I woke and my spirit was gone, back on the shore where he truly belongs.

6. We Are Lost (The Like)
We’ll just drive till we make it back in time, we’ll just drive through the highways of our minds.

7. The Geeks Were Right (The Faint)
When I saw the future the geeks were right. Predator skills, chemical wars, islands at sea, watch what the humans ruin with machines.

8. Special Death (Mirah)
If you knew that I could take the pain inflicted at the battle with faithful arrows you might get back in the saddle, but it’s a special death you save for me the brown-eyed daughter.

9. Those You’ve Known (Spring Awakening)
Still you know they fill your heart in mind when they say there’s a way through this.

10. Machine (Regina Spektor)
With a mightier power who just lacks my perspectives and who lacks my organics and who covets my defects, and I’m downloaded daily, I am part of a composite, hooked into machine.

11. California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade (The Decemberists)
Castaways and cutouts, fill it up, come join the youth and beauty brigade. Nothing will stand in our way. I figured I had paid my debt to society.

12. Ooh La La (The Ditty Bops)
What among the lovers, what twang of temptation, what brought the house down, strange sleepwalkers on the block, unfamiliar writing on the ceiling when she looks up.

13. Hometown Glory (Adele)
Shows that we ain’t gonna take it, shows that we ain’t gonna stand shit, shows that we are united, round my hometown, memories are fresh, round my hometown, ooh, the people I’ve met.

14. Soul Meets Body (Death Cab for Cutie)
If the silence takes you I hope it takes me too. So brown eyes I hold you near, cause you’re the only song I want to hear. A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere where soul meets body.

15. Have You Seen Me Lately? (Counting Crows)
You got a piece of me but it’s just a little piece of me and I don’t need anyone and these days I feel like I’m fading away.

–your fangirl heroine.