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Real People - My Dad - There Goes My Hero

2010-06-18T20:17:15Z

Medium: Real Life
Fandom: Real People
Subject: My Dad
Title: There Goes My Hero
Notes: My dad and I have a great relationship. I really didn't know what to get him for Father's Day this year, so I decided to make a mix of songs that remind me of him/he likes. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there who make our lives special and we wouldn't be where we are without them.

1. Foo Fighters - My Hero
(The title pretty much explains everything. I adore my dad.)

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He’s ordinary

2. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind (Part II)
(He was born in New York)

Grew up in a town,
That is famous as a place of movie scenes
Noise is always loud
There are sirenes all around
And the streets are mean
If I could make it here
I could make it anywhere

3. The Arcade Fire - Wake Up
(This was attached to the Where The Wild Things Are trailer and that book means alot to me and my dad)

Somethin’ filled up
my heart with nothin’,
someone told me not to cry.

But now that I’m older,
my heart’s colder,
and I can see that it’s a lie.

4. Barry Manilow - Copacabana
(He's a Manilow fan and totally blames it on his sisters; now he's passed it on to me)

Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl
But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show
Now it's a disco, but not for Lola
Still in the dress she used to wear, faded feathers in her hair
She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind

5. The Beatles - Black Bird
(My dad has put alot into teaching me to be an independent woman, preparing me for when I finally left the nest)

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

6. Bloc Party - Pioneers
(Dad has always been an innovative person and believes in the power of creativity. He's instilled this in his children.)

So here we are reinventing the wheel,
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane.
It's a colour that I can't describe,
It's a language I can't understand.
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you,
Carving lines into you.
Dripping down the sides of you.

We will not be the last.

7. Cat Power - Wonderwall
(Oasis is another thing we share, but I think Cat Power's version gets the message across better)

I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

8. Coldplay - Clocks
(My dad tells one of his awesome stories while we listen to this song. He's an awesome storyteller.)

The lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead singing

9. Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
(I just can't make a mix for my dad and not have some ELO on it.)

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave
It's like magic
Oh rollin' and ridin',slippin' & sliding
It's magic

10. The Hours - Ali in the Jungle
(I posted this on his Facebook wall a few months ago after I heard it in a commercial. It reminds me alot about him and what he tells me about obstacles in life. Once, he told me, in regards to how I handled my parents' divorce, that "when people are squeezed and the pressure gets to them, they fall apart; but when you were squeezed, you focused.")

It's, not, how you start, it's how you finish,
And it's, not, where you're from, it's where you're at,

Everybody gets knocked down,
How quick are you gonna' get up?

11. Kele - Walk Tall
(More of my dad's inspirational demeanor.)

Rule number one, the bright life for some,
Wipe the room, wipe the floor like it's just begun.
Rule number one, be the only thing they see.

Rule number two, do all you can do,
With an awe in your eye and leave them surprised.
Rule number two be as bright as, you can be.

12. Living Color - Cult of Personality

Look in my eyes, what do you see?
the Cult of Personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you wanna be ohhh…

13. Radiohead - Creep
(Dad loves this song)

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

14. Ty Stone - Line of Blood
(My dad's such a freaking BAMF and I love being his daughter)

They say I'm the bastard son
Of one bad motherfuckin' line of blood

Individual songs | Zipped Folder

Fanmix: Rife with Drama and Great Sex

2010-06-10T20:02:24Z

Medium: Books and Roleplay
Fandom: Harry Potter
Subject: Ciaran O'Donnell/Michelle Ravensdale
Title: Rife with Drama and Great Sex
Notes: My previous mixes have focused on another of my characters, Mischa Satine. This mix deals with an unexpected my main character has with an Irish mercenary. Michelle is a young woman with a complicated, adopted past; Ciaran O'Donnell works for her biological father and is described as a philistine while Michelle is highbrow -- intelligent and artistic. However, the two of them share a smoldering romance that forces the other to change and adjust for their lover. Here is more information on Michelle and Ciaran. Don't Go Away is not available as it is an M4P. Sorry guys D:

RP Samples:
Come Into My World
Care Fer A Bitta Fun, Princess?

1. Rihanna - Rude Boy
Come on rude boy, boy
Can you get it up
Come here rude boy, boy
Is you big enough
Take it, take it
Baby, baby
Take it, take it
Love me, love me

2. Oasis - Don't Go Away
So dont go away, say what you say
Say that you'll stay
Forever and a day ... In the time of my life
Cos I need more time, yes I need more time just to make things right

3. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee
I time every journey to bump into you, accidentally
I charm you and tell you of the boys I hate
All the girls I hate
All the words I hate
All the clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate
You smile, mention something that you like
or How you'd have a happy life if you did the things you like

4. Timbaland ft. The Hives - Throw It On Me
I really want to get to know ya
That's what I told ya girl you know I don't play
I wanna put it in ya (OWW!) girl
You better do what the song say

5. Bloc Party - Biko
(Plot point: Ciaran is diagnosed with cancer)
Don't you know that when you stand
You stand up for the both of us?
Remember that when the darkness looms
You're not doing this alone

6. Lady Gaga - Teeth
Got no salvation (no salvation)
Got no salvation
Got no religion (no religion)
My religion is you

7. Bloc Party - One More Chance
(Plot point: Michelle's father finds out about their relationship)
So open the door and calm down
Can't you see that I'm trying?

8. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Come here baby I love your company
We could do it and start a family

Eva Green as Michelle Ravensdale || Norman Reedus as Ciaran O'Donnell

9. The Killers - Midnight Show
Oh faster, faster, faster...
Oh no no no no no...
If you keep a secret
Well baby... you can keep a secret
If you can keep a secret...

10. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You Before
You give me just a taste so I want more and more
Now my hands are bleeding and my knees are raw
Now you've got me crawlin', crawlin' on the floor
And I've never met a girl like you before

11. The Arctic Monkeys - I BetYou Look Good on the Dancefloor
Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or Capulets
Are just banging tunes and DJ sets and...
Dirty dancefloors, and dreams of naughtiness!

12. The Beatles - Michelle
(Plot point: Ciaran tells Michelle that he's in love with her)
Michelle, my belle.
These are words that go together well,
My Michelle.

13. Laura Veirs - July Flame
(Plot point: Beginning of their summer fling)
Can I call you mine?

14. Pixies - Hey
but hey
where
have you
been if you go i will surely die
we're chained

15. Elbow - Red
(Plot point: Thinking they could never last because of their social differences)
You burn too bright
You live too fast
This can't go on too long
You're a tragedy starting to happen

16. The Fratellis - Creepin' Up the Back Stairs
When you're creepin' up the backstairs
Mother's nightmares
Falling in the front door
My my

Individual songs | Zipped Folder

Harry Potter - Paolo Matucci/Mischa Satine - Deadly Ennui

2009-12-02T05:10:34Z

Medium: Books and Roleplay
Fandom: Harry Potter
Subject: Paolo Matucci/Mischa Satine
Title: Deadly Ennui
Notes: I first introduced Mischa through this mix. Well now this mix brings to light her relationship with Paolo Matucci, an Italian soldier of fortune. The music in this mix reflects the couple's mysterious nature, a woman of Mischa's promiscuity and a man of Paolo's apathy coming together in what comes close to the most loving relationship either has had. Most songs fit the couple together, while some pertain to the individuals themselves. Artists include The Knife, Radiohead, Cream, and Muse. A larger picture of the front cover and two back covers are included in this post. Extra note: The file entitled "Last Flowers" is really The Man With the Harmonica by Ennio Morricone.

The Knife - Heartbeats

One night of magic rush
The start - a simple touch
One night to push and scream
And then relief
Ten days of perfect tunes
The colors red and blue
We had a promise made
We were in love

Radiohead - All I Need

I am a moth who just wants to share your light
I'm just an insect trying to get out of the night
I only stick with you because there are no others

Afterlife - How Does It Feel?

How does it feel?

Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

Hot as a fever, rattling bones
I could just taste it, taste it
If it's not forever, if it's just tonight
Oh, it's still the greatest, the greatest, the greatest

The Legendary Pink Dots - Glasshouse

I'd surely love to reach out and touch you
But it's suicide
And now I'm watching your reflection
But, I can't look in your eyes

And I'm burning.
Just burning up on the inside.

Death From Above 1979 - Pull Out

1-2-3

Push in, Push in, Push in,
Push in, Push in..

1-2-3

Pull out! Pull out!
Pull out! Pull out!

Paolo Matucci portrayed by Javier Bardem

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Words like violence break the silence
Come crashing in into my little world
Painful to me, pierce right through me
Can't you understand, oh my little girl?

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried- "more, more, more"
In the midniight hour babe- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell- "more, more, more"
More, more, more.

Dick Dale - Misirlou (instrumental)

Ennio Morricone - The Man With the Harmonica (Paolo; instrumental)

Radiohead - Nude

You'll go to Hell
For what your
Dirty mind is thinking

The Smiths - I Want the One I Can't Have

I want the one I can't have
And it's driving me mad
It's all over, all over, all over my face

Mischa Satine portrayed by Rose Byrne

We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt

My body is your body
I won't tell anybody
If you wanna use my body
Go for it, yeah
My body is your body
I'm not just anybody
If you wanna use my body
Go for it, yeah
Go for it, yeah

Stars of the Lid - Anchor States (Part I) (instrumental)

Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

I'll be with you darling soon,
I'll be with you when the stars start falling.
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

Depeche Mode - In Your Room

I'm hanging on your words
living on your breath
feeling with your skin
Will I always be here

Muse - Hoodoo

Come into my life
Regress into a dream
We will hide and build a new reality
...
Don't be afraid
I will take the blow for you

Muse - Knights of Cydonia (Paolo)

No one's gonna take me alive,
The time has come to make things right,
You and I must fight for our rights,
You and I must fight to survive

Interpol - Obstacle 1

It's in the way that she walks
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts, oh she puts the weights into my little heart

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Modern Romance

baby I'm afraid of a lot of things
but
I ain't scared of lovin' you
baby I know you're afraid of a lot of things
but
don't be scared of love

Extra Track: Portishead - Hunter
And if I should fall, would you hold me?
Would you pass me by?
Ooh, you know I'd ask you for nothing,
Just to wait for a while.

Individual songs and Zip file

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2009-04-30T07:30:23Z

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Story Time From Daytona

2007-07-07T02:14:51Z

Who: Johann and Alex
What: Their first meeting
When: Almost three years before the current plot
Where: London
Warnings: Awesomeness

Once he knew that Alex had closed the door and was safe inside the soundproof Mercedes, Walter rounded the car and tapped on the window of the driver's seat. The tinted window rolled down slowly, revealing a blonde-haired man in dark sunglasses. He stared up at Walter, his face stoic. Walter replied with a frown. "What's the matter?" he asked. The young man's face remained emotionless. Walter seemed to know what he was thinking. "If Morrissey can't give me a raise, certainly a 'driver' won't get one." The young man sighed through his nose before noticing Walter's somber demeanor now. "But despite your upbringing, take good care of her." The man stared at him before nodding. The window rolled up again, Walter taking a step back from the car. Its tires screeched as it took off. Walter waved after it, knowing that, despite the heavily tinted windows, Alex was waving frantically at him.

Alex turned back around once they went around the corner. Walter hadn't told her where she was being relocated to. She fidgeted in her seat, looking around. The Mercedes was the standard issue for all drivers of the agency. Walter's was the only custom-made car and he deserved it. Alex hadn't been given a plane ticket so she guessed her ride would be relatively short, probably in the other three sections of the United Kingdom or just across the Channel into France. A smile came to her face. To live in Paris; she just had to know. Leaning forward, Alex spoke to her driver. "Do you happen to know where I'm being relocated, driver?" she asked kindly. He didn't reply. Alex frowned. She highly doubted they would give her a deaf driver. "If you do know," she continued, "could you please tell me?" His face remained stoic from what she could see through the rearview mirror. She sighed and sat back, her seatbelt locking her to her seat.

He thanked any form of higher authority when she shut her mouth. He certainly didn't want to take this long drive from London to Berlin and he certainly didn't want her mouth going on and on during the entire ride. The wallet that sat beside the young man had a driver's license within its folds of Italian leather. The name read "Johann Wolfgang Krause". His height was 1.82 meters and his weight was 75 kilograms. That translated to 6' 2'' and 165 pounds in standard measurement. A pure German, Johann had wavy blonde hair and electric blue eyes. His skin was pale to a fault. His dressing habits drew in women from the precocious age of sixteen to the cougars of the mid-50s. "Could you put on some music, please?" she asked. Johann gritted his teeth slightly before he figured that music was better than conversation. Letting his knee control the steering wheel for a bit, Johann flipped through the CD collection that Walter had given him with her favorite music. He grabbed one of the indie bands she liked and slipped it into the CD player. Johann glanced at her through the rearview mirror and saw her relaxed, looking outside the window as they passed the tall buildings of London.

The Mercedes turned down a side street innocently; Johann knew a shortcut to the Chunnel. He drove to the intersection when, suddenly, two black cars came and blocked his passage. He stepped on the brake hard, so as to avoid an accident. Johann heard a slight "umph" as the girl was thrown back into her seat as the car stopped. Before Johann could react, men jumped out of one car, brandishing weapons. "What's going on?" she asked, her voice slightly panicked. She released her seatbelt to get a better look. "Don't unlock ze door," he said sternly. Her hand grasped the door handle tightly as she looked at him. As the men from the first car surrounded Johann and the fraulein, another group stepped from the second car. Johann grinned slightly when he saw an older man exit last. "Vell," he said shortly. "What are we going to do?" she asked. "Just play along, fraulein," he said.

The older man walked over to the Mercedes and spoke to another man. This other man nodded and pointed his gun at Johann, although the windows were tinted. "Come out of there!" he shouted, his accent thick. Johann brought his hand down slowly and unlocked the doors. Immediately, the dormant men grabbed the door handles and wrenched them open. The man at Johann's door grabbed him and pulled him to his feet. Johann didn't hesitate although the girl was fighting them off. "Let me go!" she shouted as she tried to kick them. One grabbed her from behind and carried her over to Johann's side of the car. He noticed a few of their faces blanched when they saw him standing straight. Johann said nothing, not wanting to give his identity away. When they finally put the girl on her feet again, she struggled a bit more. Johann clandestinely shot her a look that reminded her of what he said in the car. She pushed the men away before fixing her shirt.

"Agent Feliciano," the older man said as he walked up to them. "Fancy meeting you here." She glared at him. "A coincedence I'm sure, Mr. Smith," she snapped back. Robert chuckled. "Now, where are you going? Your driver seems to be in a bit of a rush." He looked at Johann. His sunglasses had been removed, his blue eyes staring blankly at Robert. "You should know," she replied. "Why would you stop us on a side street?" Robert looked slightly annoyed. "To make a long story short, love," he began, scratching his nose, "we're here to kill you, thanks to the raid on your house that turned up nothing." "What were you looking for?" she asked. Robert did not reply, but merely gestured to her. A few men stepped forward, pointing their guns at her. It happened too fast for her to react, but Johann withdrew his gun in that instant and shot the men in front of them. They slumped to the ground and the others stirred in hysteria. Johann took something out of his breast pocket. "Cover your eyes!" he shouted to Alex before dropping the object. As soon as she did, a flash of light came from the bomb, temporarily blinding Robert and Interpol. Alex clamored into the front of the car as Johann pushed in behind her. The bright light subsided, leaving the men staggering and cursing. Johann put the car into reverse and went back up the street. Alex could feel the car roll over a few men, but thought nothing of it as her adrenaline rushed through her body.

The tires of the Mercedes whined as Johann sped down many other small streets, hoping to lose them in time. Alex held on tightly to her seat as best as she could as she was thrashed about due to Johann's erratic driving. He finally pulled onto a main road. Cars stopped with a screech and other Britons honked their horns and shouted obscenities at the duo. Johann lightened his foot on the gas, thinking that they were safe enough, when a car suddenly hit them from behind. The German glanced into the rearview mirror and saw one of the Interpol-issued cars right on his ass. He cursed loudly as it rear-ended his car again. "I just got zhis vaxed!" he shouted. The car continued to hit him from behind. "At least pull my hair," Johann grumbled. He then put the car on cruise control. "Miss, I'm going to need you to take a hold of the steering vheel for avhile." Alex looked a bit shocked, but then nodded. She climbed over Johann's lap as he moved to her previous spot. As she steered her best through the traffic, she watched Johann take a gun from the glove compartment. She noticed it wasn't like any other glove compartment; it looked like a small armory. After loading a new magazine in, Johann rolled open the sunroof open. He then kneeled inside the car as he stuck his upper body through the window. Alex then heard gun shots go off. Johann tried to do his best to get the wheels of the car, but it swerved back and forth to make his shot bad. "I don't zhink so," he muttered.

Johann ducked back inside. "Miss, I'll need you to swerve in ze directions I indicate to you," he said to her. Distrust was in her eyes; she had had Walter as her driver for years, not a crazy Kraut. But she nodded. Johann stuck his body outside of the sunroof again, cocking his gun. The enemy car swerved to the right. "Right!" Johann felt the car pull to the right and he fired his gun. The wheel popped loudly. He grinned as the car stayed in one place, feeling ambushed. Johann shot the other wheel. This caused the car to lose control completely, crashing into its fellow car that followed not too far behind. Johann reveled in the mayhem as the fraulein took them further and further from the accident. But he knew this was dangerous so he sat back inside the car.

He nonchalantly disassembled his gun and put it back into the glove compartment. "It's a beautiful day," he said, "so let's keep zhis open." He could hear her panting and saw her lick her lips. Johann frowned. "Stop ze car, miss." She quickly obliged and pulled over to the side of an empty road. Johann got out of the passenger side and moved to the driver's. By the time he opened the door, she had already scooted to the other side of the car. Her seatbelt was tight around her. Johann resumed his role as driver as if nothing had happened. Changing the license plate, Johann took off again towards Berlin. This was going to be an interesting assignment.

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