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This is a fanmix for CA_Babs' fic for this year's pinnkinnbigbang, Hold Me Close & Never Let Me Go.




Track Listing
1. You Make My Dreams, cover by Bille Tweddle
2. Run, Basia Bulat
3. Strong Enough, cover by Haim and Lorde
4. In My Veins, cover by Jaymes McFarland and Amelia Samson
5. Drive All Night, cover by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, featuring Eddie Vedder and Jake Clemons
6. Take My Breath Away, cover by We Are Scientists
7. Stay, cover by Jared Leto
8. Closer, Joshua Radin
9. Perfect Day, cover by Twin Shadow

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This is the fanmix for 'Master & Music', water_singer's fic for this year's puckurtbigbang.


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Side note: I specifically tried to find works that were composed since 2000, and I additionally sought out works primarily for viola, piano, or viola and piano. There is one piece composed in 1999, but all of these are new classical works from living composers around the world.

Omg new preview for tomorrow night's glee!

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I've decided that, in my mind, 8x02, A La Cart, was the last episode of CSI. It was one of the best episodes to emerge between seasons six, seven, and what little I have seen of eight, if not the best episode of those seasons. I praised it immediately following its airing.

It's how I'd rather think of the show, rather than the rest of this season that I have seen, Jorja Fox leaving and consequently, Sara exiting the lab.

The Grissom/Sara romance never sat well with me, once it was actually explicit. There was a time in seasons four and five that I would have liked to see it, as a natural resolution of the very careful build of sexual tension between the two characters. Once the relationship was begun, however, the writers forgot a fundamental rule: show, don't tell.

They told the viewers that Sara and Grissom were involved, that they were in love, but it was never shown. Not to my satisifaction. They took something with a great deal of potential and killed it.

While I was thinking about this fact, I realized why the Harry/Ginny aspects of canon don't sit well with me. Everything else about the books is explicit, but we're never really shown the why of Harry/Ginny. It's just, whoo, chest monster! Snogging! and suddenly there is no one for Harry but Ginny. Yes, a great case could be made for why Ginny... but we're never shown it, not in my view. We're just supposed to accept what it told.

All of this came to mind while I was thinking about fandom. Fandom was a huge, huge part of my life for quite a bit of time, and I don't regret any of that time. I gained some fabulous people from it, and it kept me sane in difficult times. I miss it, but I also realize that I can't recapture it, and that I seem to be... losing fandoms? I can't really bear to play in the CSI playground now, and while there are a few hints of things I'd still like to do with HP, I know that I don't have time to RP, as much as I'd love to RP. I know that I don't really have the time to write fic of the length I'd love to write. Maybe someday, again, but not now.

That said, I wish I could RP on occasion. Someone or someones who'd want to play with angry TSW!Harry on occasion, because gee, he's still storming. And, ooh, how much would I love a chance to play with my Lily? I absolutely adore my Lily. I know I can't commit to a game, though. How irritating.

My house is quiet. It's the kind of quiet that once led to fic and RP and all manner of interesting things, but not at present.

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"It is some dream that in my heart,
Has fallen cold and dead."

We are missing one grey sock. Last seen on Jacob's feet, we are no longer able to visualize it in or around the contained space in which the subject (Jacob) was residing.

This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that we have to leave the house in about twenty minutes, and Jacob, therefore, has to be shod at that time. Alas, earwax.

The differences between book-based fandoms and television show-based fandoms intrigue me. It's a different mindset, it seems, not the least in terms of what is constituted AU. I mean, ignore the last book in a series such as HP? That would make a story AU, at least in most people's mind. Ignoring what happened in the last episode or two or five of a television show, however, or parts of what happened in an episode, doesn't really seem to be considered AU.

All right, enough rambling about that. Let's ramble elsewhat.

Back at the end of August, I went to one of the many meetings I somehow find myself attending in order to engage in what Mothers & More terms "business." I mentioned that, previously, many new members who join at Open House desire to attend a Mommy & Me Supper, but that when we introduce the idea, we inevitably tell them "This month's Supper is already full." So I volunteered myself to host a second Mommy & Me Supper for the month of October.

No one ever contacted me about a cap (on the number of children) or any of the other details that would need to be arranged. No evite or reminder email was ever sent out. In fact, aside from the listing in the newsletter, you'd never know that I volunteered at all. Why do I bring this up? This phantom event was supposed to happen today, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. So while, logically, I know that someone dropped the ball, part of me still fears that I'll get back from the YMCA and find people bearing potluck dishes waiting on my front stoop, demanding to know why I wasn't home and where the main entree is.

I finished re-watching S2 of CSI:. I ended up putting S3 on my birthday list, which normally would be fine, but I didn't receive it for my birthday, and I never know if my relatives will pull things from my birthday list to give me for Christmas. S4 is on my amazon list, which basically is only used by my parents and MIL (used to, FIL used it, but alas, my days of token presents shipped from amazon have ended), so in theory, I could buy that for myself without taking any chances, but the whole thing violates my innate sense of order, so I think I'll go ahead and rewatch S5 and then buy S6 as soon as I can. Just to really confuse myself. Look, it's Greg in the lab and relatively happy Sara! Now it's Greg in the field and relatively happy Sara! Now it's Greg in the lab AND the field and really NOT happy Sara!