Billy Shears ([info]_bowles_) wrote,
@ 2006-02-20 22:36:00
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Current mood: geeky
Current music:Oasis - "Up in the Sky"
Entry tags:anniversary, b-sides, drabbles

The B-Sides
Since I've been on here a year, might as well cap it off by putting together a list of all the stuff I've posted here over said year (although you could've just checked my memories... and I've only been writing drabbles since April).

In no real order - put together like a CD.

The B-Sides


1) Introductions (HP) - 100 words, PG
2) Wonderful Tonight (HP) - 585, PG-13
3) Untitled (HP) - somewhere around 400 or 500, PG
4) Feeling Useless (HP) - 300+, PG
5) Memoriam (Runaways) - 500ish, PG
6) Righteous Sendoff (HP) - 788, PG
7) Horrormones (HP) - 749, PG
8) (A Way To) Make Things Better (HP) - 285, PG
9) The Hardest Part (HP) - 1012, PG
*) Always/Wonderwall (Bartimaeus Trilogy) - somewhere around 3000, PG


* - a "bonus track", of a sort. It was written back in December of 04 and January of 05 (it's two songfics), but when FFNet made their songfic rule I moved it over here, so it doesn't really count. Plus I just don't really like either of them. They're craptacular.

If I had to choose a favorite, it would be 3, 4, or 7. You could make a case for 9 in my mind, too, but I especially love those. That's why 3 and 4 were given their respective spots - I felt that, especially related to the period in which I wrote them, they were very good, and you'll often see some of the best tracks on a CD in the 3 or 4 spot, and then some stronger ones at the end. I love 7 for some odd reason, and 9 was just something different. But really, I was just experimenting with all of these in different techniques. But 4's probably my favorite.

Although I'm thinking of posting The Hardest Part on HPFF and FFNet. Maybe rework it, of course, but it's long enough, and I would like some views on my experimentation. Also, kudos to anyone who can guess the end of the "Let's have some lunch, maybe some -" line. I heard it once and cracked up at it. Also, there's a reason the line is never finished. I couldn't think of a replacement word to make it sound less... weird.


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[info]smoony
2006-02-21 09:04 pm UTC (link)
Is this just a writing journal for you? You never mention anything about your real life.

And I really want the Oasis CD with the song Acquiescence on it. It's such a pretty word and I want to listen to the song. . .

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[info]_bowles_
2006-02-22 12:47 am UTC (link)
Pretty much. I have enough real life for myself as it is - I don't really feel like coming home and talking about it.

The song kind of lives up to its title. At first it's really rock, and then the chorus is really what you'd expect. It's fairly famous because it's one of only two songs that both of their vocalists are lead singers in. It's on the compilation of B-sides (that's where I got the idea for this) "The Masterplan". One song that actually uses 'aquiesce' is in fact "The Masterplan". That would be more along the lines of what you might be thinking of. An example:

"Send it back with aquiesce
On the ship of hope today
And when they land upon the shore
Tell them not to fear no more
Say it loud, sing it proud
And they -

Will dance if they wanna dance
Please brother take a chance
You know they're gonna go which way they wanna go
All we know is that we don't know
How it's gonna be
Please brother let it be
Life on the other hand won't let you understand
We're all part of a masterplan."

Great song.

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[info]smoony
2006-02-22 08:16 am UTC (link)
Who is that guy in your icon?

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[info]_bowles_
2006-02-22 01:52 pm UTC (link)
Noel Gallagher, the guitarist, songwriter, and backup singer of Oasis who sings the chorus of Aquiesce and all of The Masterplan.

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[info]smoony
2006-02-23 12:56 am UTC (link)
I was guessing it was something like that.

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[info]cdnstar
2006-02-22 12:51 am UTC (link)
Ohhh, very nice. I 'specially liked "Wonderful Tonight" although "Hormones" was a delightfully cute fic and "The Hardest Part" was a close second.

I'll probably add this to my memories as, you know, a quick fic fix, if it's all the same to you.

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[info]_bowles_
2006-02-22 01:23 am UTC (link)
*does a little dance*

*puts on poker face*

Uh, sure, go ahead. No big deal to me.

*best poker face*

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