electricalgwen (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
electricalgwen) wrote2006-06-13 07:25 pm
electricalgwen) wrote2006-06-13 07:25 pm
Music meme
Via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
witling:
1: open your mp3 player.
2: put all of your music on random.
3: write down the first 10 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.
4: write down which Whedonverse characters and/or pairings the song makes you think of. (I believe the meme started as "whatever" it made you think of, but I likewitling's take on it better.)
1. Everybody Got Their Something, Nikka Costa - ok, this was a freaky start, because I ended up with it when a friend sent me a burned copy of music from OMWF and threw in some "Radio Sunnydale" stuff to fill in extra space. I have no idea where it was used in the original show, but it makes me think of post-S7, resigned Buffy, watching those around her and trying to make sense of her place in the world, now that there are the Chosen Many, and she doesn't know yet what her kind of love will be.
2. Sing joyfully, by William Byrd, sung by the Cambridge Singers under John Rutter (uh, yeah, that's his name) - this is such a buoyant, joyful piece. I see Angel hearing it unexpectedly (heaven knows where - maybe Wes is playing it?) and being wistful. (Do you suppose Angel was ever a seven-year-old choirboy??) It's quite conceivably music he would have heard in church - Byrd was a closet Catholic in Protestant England. Yes, I definitely think it's Wes playing it and wondering whether "e'en in the time appointed" is prophetically significant.
3. Os justi, by Anton Bruckner, sung by musica intima - more Latin, but Drusilla this time. Done well, this is a piece of beautifully-controlled extremes (the high A is orgasmic) - I see an incandescent Dru, gone through insanity and out the other side, having her moments of vision and supreme clarity. Et lingua ejus loquetur judicium.
4. Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying, Fall Out Boy - hee! This made me think of Spike nursing a beer at a back table in the Bronze and mercilessly mocking the latest garage band on stage. It's a tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating song ("just screaming into microphones...I know this hurts, it was meant to") which Spike would view as so much dumb posing. "Living's just a waste of death"? Oh yeah!
5. Calme des nuits, sung by musica intima - just as it says, a calm, beautiful, night-time piece. This is Tara and Willow, relaxing at home on a nonapocalyptic evening-in with a cup of interesting tea.
6. Sicut cervus, by Palestrina, yet again sung by musica intima (I really do have a larger selection!) - this measured, level, calm piece, adding and removing layers, with small surges in emotion and volume but with an absolutely constant tempo, and a scale surging up from beneath...this is Giles.
7. Salve regina, by Pergolesi, sung by Andreas Scholl and Barbara Bonney - this is an odd one and led to my only non-Buffyverse choice. This has a weird key cadence thingy at the beginning, and although it's beautiful and hopeful (save the Queen!) there's a certain melancholy feeling, and a building toward inevitability. It's Inarra. Maybe resolving to leave Serenity?
8. Dogs and Thunder, Weeping Tile - this is Faith. Even sounds like her. It can be Faith/Lindsey or Faith/Willow depending on your preference. But it's post-prison, more-level-and-resigned-but-still-unpredictable, as-content-as-she-gets Faith.
9. Love in Itself, Depeche Mode - while I really like DM, when this came on I was like, man, nobody in the Buffyverse would listen to this! And it doesn't sound like anybody I was thinking about. Then I realized it's Oz, possibly stoned ("all the blues and the reds get to me") and musing on love.
"Now I find that most of the time, love's not enough in itself" - I think Oz is the only one in the group who actually believes that. The rest still, despite the pain and apocalypses and fears and betrayals and darknesses, believe in their heart of hearts that love is enough. Because it ought to be. Even Willow doesn't really believe that love couldn't have conquered the problems she and Oz had. I think Willow thinks he gave up on her. Even Buffy thinks Angel didn't try hard enough. But Oz is a realist.
10. Requiem III: Requiem aeternam, by Herbert Howells - I didn't rig this, I swear, but I did get goosebumps when this was the tenth song. "Requiem aeternam..." - Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them. For all the fallen.
So, that was...interesting.
In other news, upon returning home after two weeks away, the first thing I did was check and count the fish. One was...missing. What remained of his skeleton was eventually found. They had timed-release food, and this was the previously sick fish, so I have resolved to believe that he died spontaneously, then was eaten. Otherwise I'll feel really guilty.
witling:1: open your mp3 player.
2: put all of your music on random.
3: write down the first 10 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.
4: write down which Whedonverse characters and/or pairings the song makes you think of. (I believe the meme started as "whatever" it made you think of, but I like
witling's take on it better.)1. Everybody Got Their Something, Nikka Costa - ok, this was a freaky start, because I ended up with it when a friend sent me a burned copy of music from OMWF and threw in some "Radio Sunnydale" stuff to fill in extra space. I have no idea where it was used in the original show, but it makes me think of post-S7, resigned Buffy, watching those around her and trying to make sense of her place in the world, now that there are the Chosen Many, and she doesn't know yet what her kind of love will be.
2. Sing joyfully, by William Byrd, sung by the Cambridge Singers under John Rutter (uh, yeah, that's his name) - this is such a buoyant, joyful piece. I see Angel hearing it unexpectedly (heaven knows where - maybe Wes is playing it?) and being wistful. (Do you suppose Angel was ever a seven-year-old choirboy??) It's quite conceivably music he would have heard in church - Byrd was a closet Catholic in Protestant England. Yes, I definitely think it's Wes playing it and wondering whether "e'en in the time appointed" is prophetically significant.
3. Os justi, by Anton Bruckner, sung by musica intima - more Latin, but Drusilla this time. Done well, this is a piece of beautifully-controlled extremes (the high A is orgasmic) - I see an incandescent Dru, gone through insanity and out the other side, having her moments of vision and supreme clarity. Et lingua ejus loquetur judicium.
4. Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying, Fall Out Boy - hee! This made me think of Spike nursing a beer at a back table in the Bronze and mercilessly mocking the latest garage band on stage. It's a tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating song ("just screaming into microphones...I know this hurts, it was meant to") which Spike would view as so much dumb posing. "Living's just a waste of death"? Oh yeah!
5. Calme des nuits, sung by musica intima - just as it says, a calm, beautiful, night-time piece. This is Tara and Willow, relaxing at home on a nonapocalyptic evening-in with a cup of interesting tea.
6. Sicut cervus, by Palestrina, yet again sung by musica intima (I really do have a larger selection!) - this measured, level, calm piece, adding and removing layers, with small surges in emotion and volume but with an absolutely constant tempo, and a scale surging up from beneath...this is Giles.
7. Salve regina, by Pergolesi, sung by Andreas Scholl and Barbara Bonney - this is an odd one and led to my only non-Buffyverse choice. This has a weird key cadence thingy at the beginning, and although it's beautiful and hopeful (save the Queen!) there's a certain melancholy feeling, and a building toward inevitability. It's Inarra. Maybe resolving to leave Serenity?
8. Dogs and Thunder, Weeping Tile - this is Faith. Even sounds like her. It can be Faith/Lindsey or Faith/Willow depending on your preference. But it's post-prison, more-level-and-resigned-but-still-unpredictable, as-content-as-she-gets Faith.
9. Love in Itself, Depeche Mode - while I really like DM, when this came on I was like, man, nobody in the Buffyverse would listen to this! And it doesn't sound like anybody I was thinking about. Then I realized it's Oz, possibly stoned ("all the blues and the reds get to me") and musing on love.
"Now I find that most of the time, love's not enough in itself" - I think Oz is the only one in the group who actually believes that. The rest still, despite the pain and apocalypses and fears and betrayals and darknesses, believe in their heart of hearts that love is enough. Because it ought to be. Even Willow doesn't really believe that love couldn't have conquered the problems she and Oz had. I think Willow thinks he gave up on her. Even Buffy thinks Angel didn't try hard enough. But Oz is a realist.
10. Requiem III: Requiem aeternam, by Herbert Howells - I didn't rig this, I swear, but I did get goosebumps when this was the tenth song. "Requiem aeternam..." - Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them. For all the fallen.
So, that was...interesting.
In other news, upon returning home after two weeks away, the first thing I did was check and count the fish. One was...missing. What remained of his skeleton was eventually found. They had timed-release food, and this was the previously sick fish, so I have resolved to believe that he died spontaneously, then was eaten. Otherwise I'll feel really guilty.