hackthis_archive | Music posting.

Due to my waning fandom interest there'll be some changes around these parts, including less posting, less writing ((unless the het OTP of Shawn/Isabelle (44004eva!) or Ari (Season THREE!) deem otherwise) and a downsizing of my reading list.

* It's possible this will only be a summer occurrence, or it could be a sign of things to come. I'm not a psychic, and frankly, I'm just not that bothered.

For

calikali's Frankenstein Mix I present

The Here's My Bright Idea Mix

1. A song for quitting your job. For any number of reasons this was an extraordinarily difficult topic to answer, because Office Space doesn't have a theme song! Just when I'd finally had enough, I tripped over a song that reminds you, "Life's too short, so love the one you've got, cos you might get run over or you might get shot," or you might die of a heroin overdose like Bradley did, so stop spending your life unhappy and get the fuck on with it. Here's to the wicked boys of Sublime and their life-affirming ditty, "What I Got."

2. A song for committing a crime.* I think what your theme is depends on what crime you're commiting. For example, if you’re robbing the Italian treasury and escaping in vintage 60s Minis then you need the theme from the real Italian Job, Quincy Jones 'Get a Blooming Move On (The Self Preservation Society)', not that horrific, model-ridden travesty from 2003. However, if you're going a bit harder might the house suggest Wu-Tang Clan's 'C.R.E.A.M' (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)?

3. A song for grooving on the subway. Five years ago a friend of mine suggested Ok Go to me since she'd met them, and thought the lead singer was up my alley. I heard 'Get Over It,' loved it, and promptly forgot about them. Three years ago, 'You're So Damn Hot' was featured on S1 of The O.C. I thought it was cute, and then, once again, forgot all about them. Six months ago

serialkarma started making noises in my direction about the 'A Million Ways' video -– I watched it, said 'uh', then watched the video for 'You're So Damn Hot' and then completed the hat trick with a b-side called 'This Will Be Our Year' and finally said, ok, you win.

4. A song for being the hero. Ah, see the problem here is that to play the hero, you have to believe in heroes and I don't. I'm from the Lex Luthor School for Criminal Masterminds and Other Morally Dubious Entities, and Lex states there are no heroes, there are only people who feel guilty, and have martyr complexes, and try to pretend they don't want to fuck you over the desk. To that end I present Elbow's 'I've Got Your Number'

5. A song for taking an unexpected road trip. ROAD TRIP! I fucking love road trips for as long as it takes for my legs to cramp up and my need to run to overtake everything. Maybe I'll sub road trip for just travel and present Gomez 'Get Myself Arrested' Good times... good times.

6. A song for cooking a five-course meal. Kelis 'Caught Out There' – Kelis is known as the Milkshake woman, but before she had people talking about the grind of her hips she had women screaming at the people who treated them badly. This song is called 'Caught Out There' but it's more commonly called the 'I Hate You So Much Right Now, AHHHHHHHHHH!' song, because I suspect the patience it would take to cook a five-course meal is more than I have in my arsenal.

7. A song for making the world your stage -- John Lee Hooker 'I'm Bad Like Jesse James' -- I hardly think a song with a title like this needs an explanation. Runner-Up: U2's 'Love and Peace or Else'

8. A song for drinking the last glass of wine. Radiohead 'Optimistic' (live) –- This song was a gift from someone, sadly I don't remember who, but thank you all the same. I chose it because Radiohead have this perfect balance of navel-gazing dysfunction that's also extraordinarily self-affirming. One minute Thom's telling you he's had enough with the "flies are buzzing round my head, vultures circling the dead" and then next he's reminding you, "Try the best you can, you can try the best you can, the best is good, good enough."

9. A song for grand and/or ridiculous romantic gestures -- Kubb 'If I Can't Have You' -– Upon first listen this song is a little on the depressing side. "If I can't have you then I don’t want money", or my job, or to breathe, or anything else for that matter. Then you give it another listen and it’s more like the Police's 'Every Breath You Take' in a stalkery sort of fashion, and then you realise he's like, okay, fine if I can't have you it doesn't matter. I'm good with you or without you. IMO, the biggest gesture is to prove to yourself that you can go it alone.

10. A song for seducing your favorite celebrity.* Pulp 'This is Hardcore' –- Jarvis Cocker is this tall, lanky, pasty English guy who is not fucking attractive at all. He is proof that it's not how you look, but what you say that gets the attention, because when he's telling you he wants to make a porn movie with you and where he wants you to put your body parts all you can do is nod. This song promises it's going to be one hell of a night and does not disappoint. Runner-Up: 'Hot Chip's 'Playboy'

11. A song for confessing your unrequited love -– It is my considered opinion that unrequited love is bad for business. It gets you all stressed and touchy and pissy, and I recommend not doing it. Either shit or get off the pot as the saying goes, but if you feel you must prevaricate, well, then you should do it to my favorite David Bowie song ever: 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday'

12. A song for dancing the night away -- I would like to confess in this space that I have another new love in my life -– his name is Ricky Wilson –- and his band, well, they're this little group called Kaiser Chiefs. Some of you may've heard of them being classified as New Wave/Power Pop/Franz Ferdinand – I prefer to think of them as Baby Clash. Yes, they rock that hard. Their album is called Employment and while this isn't for dancing as much as it's about screaming at your friends outside the pub, I Predict a Riot is still a fabulous way to spend an evening.

*Both of these topics were suggested by me, so I couldn't not do the challenge this month.

Zip file located here. As always the zip contains extra songs not listed above.

Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: Doves 'A Call to Arms'