your joy is my low

I am very sorry I don't have time to elaborate on this - the lyrics and the dance magic here in this fanmix, especially. I wanted to do pictures for each song (and a back cover -- like last year) but I am so behind on everything costume AND homework-wise so I just have to throw this up here as is. Here is a small front cover and a tracklisting. ROAD TRIP MUSIC, FLIGHT MUSIC, WHATEVER IT WILL BE, PLZ ENJOY IT~ and look at my shameless love of pop music, 80's jams and other weird random music.

And I will see you at con. <3333

(For last year's mix, see here!)



1.) Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell" (Aw yeah!)
2.) Innerpartysystem - "And Together" (This. Song. Is my everything. It is my con jam. MY EVERYTHINGGGGG.)
3.) Michael Jackson - "Smooth Criminal"
4.) Junior Senior - "Hip Hop a Lula"
5.) Tesla Boy - "Liberating Soul"
6.) Madonna - "Express Yourself"
7.) Russell Simins - "I'm Not a Model"
8.) Rupaul - "Glamazon"
9.) Black Eyed Peas - "Rock That Body"
10.) Katy Perry - "Peacock"
11.) Tokio Hotel - "Human Connect to Human"
12.) Twin Shadow - "For Now"
13.) The Faint - "Glass Danse (Paul Oakenfold remix)"
14.) Ghostland Observatory - "Sad Sad City" (This is how the city feels when everyone leaves awww.)
15.) Boston - "Don't Look Back"

If you'd like to partake in the craziness, be my guest, bros: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6X9L4X0X

BACK TO HOMEWORK!11

If you'll excuse me for a moment I need to take some time out to gush about a certain musician, lol. If you look at my last.fm profile, you'll see my top artist is Akira Yamaoka (the man behind the Silent Hill soundtracks). And while I love him and his music to death, it's the second artist on my most listened to list that I am here gushing about.



Her name is Kate Bush. My mom has loved her for a very long time and when I was little and heard my mom listening to her I was instantly intrigued - that voice. Tori Amos, Florence + the Machine and Bat for Lashes are just three of the artists who have been compared to and inspired by her -- others inspired and influenced by her? Bjork, Bloc Party, Lady Gaga, OutKast, Muse, Goldfrapp & Coldplay -- to name a few (besides the aforementioned Tori Amos, Florence Welch and Natasha Kahn).

I've listened to her for years now and my life would be complete if I could see her in concert (oh my god i would turn into a blubbering, crying mess SO HARD). She's only been on one tour and that was before I was born. When I was little I used to dance around to her music in the living room in my LITTLE PINK DANCE CLOTHES standing in front of PROPPED UP WHERE'S WALDO BOOKS (usually the Vampire castle scene - it was mysterious looking, you see, and that fit with the Kate Bush motif in my mind - i have no idea). I can occasionally be found NOW with my headphones on wandering around singing and dancing to some Kate Bush song - I would squee in excitement if I could sing to one of her songs on Rock Band or something (NOT THAT MY VOICE COULD MATCH HERS AT ALL HOLY CRAP). I just... I can't express my love for this woman and her music well enough.

AMEN: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8380775/Why-we-should-all-love-Kate-Bush.html

Here, let me tell you what only six of her songs are about and other fun random things.

1.) A woman who is approached by a man one night at a party who flipped a coin and basically said if it was heads then they were dancing together. She was charmed by this man and thought he looked familiar but didn't find out who he was until the next morning when she saw the paper. The man was Hitler. (Heads We're Dancing)

2.) A view of psychologist Wilhelm Reich's arrest and imprisonment through the eyes of his young son, Peter. Wilhelm Reich is the inventor of the cloudbuster -- a machine that could make clouds and rain. The video always makes me tear up, especially when the government is taking Dad/Wilhelm (Donald Sutherland) away in the "big black car"... (Cloudbusting)

3.) Audio warfare. It tells of a secret military installation where plans are being put into motion to find a sound so horrific it could kill people. The video used to give me nightmares -- and LOL TINY YOUNG HUGH LAURIE (HOUSE ZOMG - SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT HIM) is in it! Seriously, the song itself scares the shit out of me. I love it. The maniacal cackling -- the violins, my god the violins in this song are so downright absolutely haunting. (Experiment IV)

4.) This song has been covered numerous times (Placebo, Tori Amos, Little Boots, Faith and the Muse [I heard FatM play this cover at Dragon*Con and seriously almost peed my pants of excitement], Within Temptation & The Williams Blakes, among others) and is about a man and a woman in a relationship swapping roles to see how the other works and thinks -- making a deal with God to get a deeper understanding of the other sex. I read an article on the album this was originally on (Hounds of Love, which is -- pardon me -- fucking brilliant) and how she spent hours and hours trying to get the perfect sounds and the perfect melodies and noises and everything for this song. She's a perfectionist and it's shows. (Running Up That Hill)

5.) "You've made a wake of our honeymoon..." -- This song is about a movie, it is amazing. Here:

"...a driven, almost impenetrable woman who is hell-bent on exacting revenge upon five men who have wronged her. On the day of her wedding, someone shot and killed the groom, her life-long love, and she, after considering suicide herself, sets out to even the score. She methodically enters the lives, albeit briefly, of each man she holds responsible, planning his demise to some degree, yet taking into consideration the surroundings and the devices at hand when carrying out the killings. She then checks them off as though they were items on a grocery list before moving on to the next one..."

Amazing. XD

And I am always giddy at the background vocals: "Nevermind, she got the guy!" (The Wedding List)

6.) This one is about a woman who is pregnant after a nasty bout of atomic warfare. The mother very much aware of what is going on and frightened by nuclear fallout and how it will affect her baby, which implies that the song is set either during a nuclear war scare or a post-apocalyptic birth. The last two and a half minutes of this song are are so damn powerful and unsettling. Every single time this song comes on random I have to stop what I'm doing and listen to it. I can't help it. I get chills when she's practically begging at the end for something to breathe. CHILLS, DAMMIT. (Breathing)

(Aaaaaaand everytime I hear it, my mind screams FALLOUT 3 FANMIX.)

Because I think everyone should have a little Kate Bush in their lives, here are ten songs (from her library of roughly a couple hundred perhaps) for you. It was really effing hard to pick only ten. D:

01.) Running Up That Hill (from Hounds of Love - 1985)
02.) Pull Out the Pin (from The Dreaming - 1982)
03.) Breathing (from Never for Ever - 1980)
04.) Experiment IV (from The Whole Story - 1986)
05.) The Big Sky (from Hounds of Love - 1985)
06.) The Song of Solomon (from The Red Shoes - 1993)
07.) The Wedding List (from Never for Ever - 1980)
08.) Heads Were Dancing (from The Sensual World - 1989)
09.) Cloudbusting (from Hounds of Love - 1985)
10.) Walk Straight Down the Middle (from The Sensual World - 1989)

LISTEN TO THE TEN SONGS OF MAGIC.

Her voice makes me mellltttttttttttttttttttt. GIRLCRUSH. I'm not kidding, I love this woman so damn much. <3

P.S. You know that song "This Woman's Work" that 80% of the population calls THAT MAXWELL SONG!!11 That's a Kate Bush song. When people call it THAT MAXWELL SONG, it almost makes me as angry as when people are like OMG THAT DONNIE DARKO SONG FOR THE MOVIE BY GARY JULES. When it should be THAT TEARS FOR FEARS SONG THAT WAS COVERED FOR DONNIE DARKO. lol i take my 80's music for serious. Especially Kate Bush and Tears for Fears. <333

P.S.S. I've used her songs on 9 of my fanmixes. Awww yes.

P.S.S.S. I just watched that shit-ass Rebecca Black video then went back and looked at this post. Somehow, if it was even possible, Kate Bush got 1,000 times cooler to me (WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THE DAYS OF THE WEEK "WE WE WE SO EXCITED"... REALLY?).

Aaaaand here is where my body gets confused cause it feels like it's later than it is but I'm not completely tired and I should be in bed but I'm not and I AM GOING AROUND IN CIRCLESSSSSSS

Fading - Jacen Solo and Caedus by ~holler-you-home on deviantART

(LOOK I EMBEDDED SOMETHING the world is ending what is this)

I got this done which makes me happy cause I got something done. I still need to update a whole ton of websites and fix a bunch of photos (and finish the Long Walk calendar for Cafepress) and CLEEEAAAAAAN. But I have been sort of bleh. Like I find myself just sitting around. Maybe staring at the tv. Or the wall. Or the ceiling. Or where the wall and the ceiling meet. It's been pretty awesome. :|

But I got this done. And I also started on my new sleeves for my Tempest Tenel Ka costume (after forever, lol). So they are small things. But they're a start.

They're better than staring at where the wall and the ceiling meet.

(I know people totally make fun of Tokio Hotel, but I'm sorry. I am a closet fangirl for some of their songs. D: ESPECIALLY THIS ONE)

So in about 8 DAYS Dragon*Con will commence. It's four days full of MAAAAGIC. No really, I've been to a few different cons and a few different "types" of cons (strictly anime, sci-fi, etc.) -- Dragon*Con is seriously the best convention I've ever been too. This probably sounds totally insane, but it sort of feels like going to another home of yours. Like you're going to visit that crazy Aunt and Uncle you always loved and they let you jump on the furniture and eat sugar after your bedtime and stuff. You feel like you belong there.

The people who go are of all ages, all walks of life and represent and love all kinds of fandoms. And I rarely see rude assholes there. Usually if I do, they're people who aren't part of the convention.

Also, if you wear that costume you have from that really obscure fandom, you can bet there will be at least one person who says something to you. If The Long Walk by Stephen King gets recognized, then I think just about anything has a chance of finding a fan. :D

It'll be my 8th Dragon*Con this year and every year it seems to get better and better.

Nate and I are driving and we'll be leaving Wednesday night (the 1st of September) - I figured HEY WE'LL NEED LOTS OF MUSIC. But we could start the drive with the DRAGON*CON MIX OF 2010. RIGHT? XD

If you need music to listen to on the way to the con too, go on and grab this beeyatch and get in the mood from some CRAZY. TIMESSSSSS. These songs can all lead to dancing and insanity and just all around mmm tsss mmm tsss, if you know what I mean (I can already hear the dances that start at 3am now!)~

(What a... fun... sexy time for you... - POINTS IF YOU KNOW THIS LINE. XD)

So yeah, here is a mix - it's downloadable right here! And all the pictures featured in this thing were from my camera (meaning I took them unless I'm in them, hahah) except the awesome shot of the Atlanta skyline and the Cruxshadows picture. ;D




( WHAT HAPPENS AT DRAGON*CON STAYS... ON THE INTERNET FOREVER. )

And even if you aren't going (meaning I will be kidnapping you and putting you in my suitcase at some point in the next week) pick this up for some odd songs to add to your collection. ;D

So besides the echuta.net facebook page there's lots of other crap. I was just prematurely excited about that and posted it lol whoops I am Finn Hudson.

1.) MACE WINDU (aka winduland) has his own facebook page now. His adventures will be much easier to post on there. So if you would like to friend Mace, he is pimping it up on Facebook RIGHT HERE! He needs friends. He is a sad, lonely Jedi.

2.) THE GIANT STAR WARS: EXPANDED READTHROUGH OF CRACK. That's starting soon. Everything's getting figured out and I think it looks like we might be starting out with Shadows of the Empire (cause we were all like, LOL PREQUELS WHAT?). If you would like to join in the craziness, join up and give us the I'M IN over at THE THREAD! And everyone is welcome, whether you've read the books or ever been on one of our boards or not. THE MORE, THE MERRIER (AND MORE INSANE XD)~

3.) THE YOUMIX. There is a fanmix/soundtrack project over on the forum. It's basically making a soundtrack of YOOOOOU. Whether it's favorite songs or songs that describe you or whatever. Basically it's to learn a little about everyone and HEAR SOME MAGICAL NEW MUSIC! Come on over and check it out and all that crap -- cause everyone loves music. EVERYONE LOVES MUSIC EXCEPT TOOLS. :(

Wow, I am out of it. I THINK IT MIGHT BE BEDTIME. Oooorrrrr Wordmaster time?

I finally got this whole thing finalized and finished and I'm posting it! We can just say it's to celebrate the upcoming group series playthrough on neelys_bar (there's still time to join -- the playthrough starts in March! :D)!

I think this has to be one of my favorite fanmixes I've managed to cobble together. I've been working on it for a good while (I had to give it extra attention since this is one of my favorite games eveerrrr XD) and it's been through a billion song changes but I finally feel like it works and fits. So without further ado, a Silent Hill 2 fanmix!

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This is the story of a man who spends his days working as a clerk. He's 29. He's quiet, not good with children, off a bit. He was married. His wife passed away from a disease that had been lingering in her system for a long time, deteriorating her body, her mind, her patience and their marriage.

She sends her husband a letter. The letter tells him to meet her in their special place. She's dead. The dead can't write letters.

This is the story of James Sunderland and his trip to Silent Hill.

Welcome to Only Human, a fanmix for Konami's 2001 masterpiece Silent Hill 2. This is easily one of my favorite games in teh universssseeee -- the characters, the storyline, the enemies, the music -- it's all brilliant. Also, Herp Derp James Sunderland? Monster molestation? D:

There are MASSIVELY HUGE SPOILERS in this fanmix! This game is best played without knowing much of it at all. So if you think you might play in the future then just get the fanmix here without reading the quotes and such. Hehehe~ You can look at the covers right here outside of the cut, but clicking and reading any further into it might get you in VERY CRAZY PLOT TWISTY TERRITORY. D:

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Now let's take a trip to an awesome little resort town.


(ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOOKING AT THE COVERS GIVES YOU SPOILER CRABS. :|)

( I look like Mary, don't I? You loved her, right? )

EMO EMO EMO STUPID JAMES SUNDERLAND. :|

...... lolol <3.

Okay, zoopiglet, I mentioned this to Mom too (p.s. So You Think You Can Dance finale --- YESSSSSSSSSS RESULTS <3) as Adam Lambert was singing on said finale. And I will admit it right here, right now. I WANT TO ADD HIS CD TO MY CHRISTMAS LIST. Also, I would love to be his stylist: "Let's just add some pieces of trash bag to that suit! Right there on your shoulder! You will look amazing, Adam!" And then Adam goes out on stage and looks damn smashing with trash bag on his shoulder, lol.

(jfdhjfhajsdhfjasdhfjah "Sleepwalker" and "For Your Entertainment" dsjfasfkajsj WUT)

OKAY OKAY THAT'S ALL BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED NORMAL HEATHER THINGS XD [/THIS KIND OF STUFF]

Here is another small-exchange-random-thing from this Louis/Ellis story. This story is a lot longer than I originally planned. But I am not complaining. I JUST KEEP RUNNING WITH IT, I DON'T KNOW.

"Did I tell you about the time Keith got beat up over a bag of chips?"

"Actually you did. You did two days ago when I was eating those stale tortilla chips we stole from that Mexican restaurant up the road."

(I also think I might give Louis a backstory on that torn pants leg of his. MUAHA.)


ALSO SOME RANDOM ZOMBIE FIGHTER ICONS. WITH BLOOD OR WITHOUT BLOOD!

Okay, so this song. THIS SONG. Like I have said before, it is a seven minute eargasm. I don't know what it is, there's just a bunch of slick things about it that when they all add up it makes for an AMAZING SONG. I know I call Jared Leto OMG SO EMO and stuff for fun sometimes (cause it totally fits what can i say lol) but I still love him (and his emoness) cause it all works in this seven minutes perfectly. Perfectly.

It takes at least a minute to get to the vocals, the buildup of which is slow and actually a little creepy/foreboding (I love the fact that it goes from hard to this simple beat when he finally starts singing) and then the first two lines of the song are like, "...did he just say what I think he said?" (yes, he did) -- and the best is whenever it explodes into the chorus. I'm not just using explode as an omgkewl word here. I mean it actually like blows up in your ear (this song sounds awesome in headphones); it just comes out of nowhere and grabs you and drops you into this ANGSTY PIT OF BEAUTIFUL SOUNDING TORMENTY THINGS. Leto is usually all growly and then he gets into his soaring notes and shit, which he does in this song, of course. But he also has some sort of, I don't know how to describe it, this weird thing going in this song -- it's almost like he's desperate. It's not a bad weird either (it's actually pretty hot D: ...again what can i say). The way his voice fits over the long notes in the chorus = <33333. sfjdkjafj ai can't kjfdjks so good AND I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SAYS IT'S EPIC...

"This is War is a record that will please both new and old fans alike. It merges the two differing sounds of the band’s previous two releases, as it is crammed with catch-all choruses as mentioned but is also fairly progressive as the band’s self-titled debut was. Only these progressive moments are more haunting and epic than ever before, as Stranger in a Strange Land proves."

I want to see them in concert so bad. I hope they come back here to tour after their U.K. tour. Although I might faint if they played this song THEN I WOULD MISS IT AND THAT WOULD BE BAD.

SONG SONG SONG. LISTEN TO THE LOVE. I MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE WITH AN MP3 IF ANYONE WANTS THE REAL QUALITY (WITH THE EXPLOSIONINGSSS -- cause lol on the youtube the exploding magic wants to blow the speakers out).

(ALSO, I LOVE THE CUTE PISSED OFF TIGER ON THE FRONT OF THIS CD.)

HI THERE. This is Until The End, a fanmix on Peter McVries -- #61 in Richard Bachman Stephen King's brilliant 1979 novel, The Long Walk.

Pete has always been my favorite Walker and The Long Walk has pretty much been my favorite book since I first read it over a decade ago. I have made/posted fanmixes for The Long Walk in general (see Final Warning) and The Musketeers aka Ray/Peter/Art/Hank (see The Four Shot) -- and I also run a small fansite dedicated to the book... so as you can see I've always been a little enamored with this book.

Just a little. :P

Anyways, here is a fanmix for Peter McVries. I went from a fanmix for the book, to one for four of the central characters, to my favorite character -- meaning you'll probably see a couple of familiar songs on here if you've been around for the other two LW fanmixes. Yay for tying things together and all that jazz! But yeah, this is all Peter all the time and the feelings on Ray, Priscilla and the Walk in general.

It turned out to be a kind of creepy mix of songs, but once I listened to it all a few times, I felt it just worked.

( followed the sun till night -- UNTIL THE END // a Peter McVries fanmix )

WHOOP WHOOP oh yeah, check here for any old fanmixes you might want. Stephen King, Bioshock, boys boys boys, Jacen Solo crack, crack, Myst, Persona, Resident Evil damn I love making these. I LOVE MY MUSICS. <33333

XD

My sister (aka Valerie aka zoopiglet) was in town from Sunday until yesterday morning. It was kind of to visit me and Mom, but mostly cause U2 was in town. XD

SO YEAH, Tuesday night her and I went to the Fedex Field to see U2 (with Muse opening). That concert was pretty fucking epic. U2 is Valerie's favorite band in the whole wide universe so I have seen them a few (okay like six) times before and every time has been awesome. But last night was super awesome. We had general admission tickets and didn't get inside the stadium until about an hour before Muse was scheduled to come on and we got in the front row of the circular stage -- on Edge's side, cause I love me some Edge. Seriously. <3

Cameras. Fedex Field was kicking them out and telling people to put them back in their cars -- even though U2 loves/encourages fans to have cameras. People somehow managed to sneak some in, which is how I will show you awesome shots later. But I had my phone, meaning there will also be some halfass camera phone pictures. XD

Muse was really good, the sound in the pit where we were was sort of distorted and there was a bunch of equipment boxes in my way half the time, so this is the only picture I got. OF THE BOXES IN MY WAY. Also, one of their roadies looked like Bret from Flight of the Conchords, so Valerie and I were giggling the whole time. Bono also thanked Muse while U2 was on stage and said, "There's only three guys in that band and they make all that amazing noise." XD



In between the opening band (it has previously been Black Eyed Peas and Snow Patrol on this tour -- Muse is on this leg of the tour) and U2, they'll play a certain setlist of songs over the speakers and Valerie told me to listen for Space Oddity by David Bowie -- cause that's the song that plays when U2 comes on stage. Of course, once the song came on, her and I started singing BOWIES IN SPACCEEEEEEEE~ BOWIES IN SPAYEEEACEEEEE!

Now the stage. It's amazing. Let me show you it. There is a giant circular stage under this huge 360 screen and there's a big ramp around the outside. Valerie and I were able to get a spot in front of the stage inside the big ramp around the outside. Another awesome thing that's not in that diagram -- there are two bridges that lead from the stage straight to the outer ramp. These bridges move and where we were, they moved over our heads. You can see the bridges here. That picture is from the back of the stage. Valerie and I were a little past the bridge on the right. And that screen separates and comes down. It's seriously a piece of work. <3

Anyways, the music was all awesome of course. They played a good mix of old and new stuff and of course all the ones the casual, drunk d-bag fans wanted to hear. You know, the ones that were on repeat out in the parking lot with the super-drunk tailgaters (Where the Streets Have No Name, With Or Without You, etc.). There were some cool tailgaters too. But they weren't the annoying super-drunk super-casual fan ones.

Bono pulled a kid up on stage during The Unfortgettable Fire -- this was while the bridge on our side was over our heads and here is a blurry picture of Bono right above me and Valerie pointing to this kid he wants up on stage with him. XD



Bono walked the kid around the ramp with him and all that jazz and then he let him try on his sunglasses -- and then he let the kid KEEP the sunglasses, which was really cool and the kid was wearing them the rest of the night and it was adorable. He also pulled up another guy on stage later during Sunday Bloody Sunday who had an American Flag and they were singing it together and the guy was so excited and it was pretty darling. XD HERE IS THE MUSIC.

SETLIST:
Breathe, Magnificent, Get On Your Boots, Mysterious Ways, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Bono and Edge inserted part of the song "Stand By Me" at the end of this and I was like :OOOO <3333333), Elevation, Your Blue Room, Beautiful Day, New Year's Day (SO HAPPY THIS WAS PLAYED <3), Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, The Unforgettable Fire (JFKJKJDSKAJDKSJ YESSSSSSSS ONE OF MY FAVORITE U2 SONGS EVER), City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - Remix (Bono inserted some of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" in this song, which was awesome), Sunday Bloody Sunday (This song has been pretty overplayed over the years, but it's still effing amazing), MLK, Walk On

ENCORE:
One, Where The Streets Have No Name, Ultraviolet (Light My Way) <3333333333333333, With Or Without You, Moment of Surrender

Ultraviolet is one of my favorite U2 songs and the setup here was awesome (you kind of saw it if you saw them on Saturday Night live last week). Bono wears this jacket with red lasers all over it and sings into this crazy-ass red light up circular microphone that he swings around stage on. It's flipping magnificent (like the song, which is also an awesome song, lol).

Now, in closing, I usually avoid concerts cause I hate people/crowds. But this was definitely worth it. It was some crazy number like 90,000 in attendance which is a giant crowd. But it was amazing. A+ WOULD DO IT AGAIN.