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[perevision]

"Iraq, incredible weapons. How do you know that? Well, we looked at the receipt..." Bill Hicks

Invited my mum to Livejournal. XD Not to fear; five minutes into the process of customising she got sick of it and left. XDDD

Got tagged by petronia! ♥


List seven of your favourite songs of the moment, and tag 7 people who you want to see do the meme.

1) Arsenal - Switch: An utterly random person on Last.fm messaged me out out of nowhere and suggested I might like this song. I do. I love the marching tempo, and the breathy, low voice of the singer. I like the rather threatening tone of the refrain, too.

2) Múm - green grass of tunnel: I heard my web design teacher playing "we have a map of the piano", which is the name of the album this song comes from. A lovely, drowsy album, and this is one of its loveliest and most evocative songs. Reminds me of being a child scrambling through our wilderness of a garden on a drizzly afternoon with my cousins, playing every mad explorer's make-believe game we could think of.

3) Avenue Q - The Internet Is For Porn: AHAHAHAHAHAHA. SO TRUE. A Broadway parody of Sesame Street, full of similarly hilarious, true songs. It was a toss-up between this and "My Girlfriend (Who Lives In Canada)".

4) Maaya Sakamoto - Kuuki To Hoshi: I LOVE Maaya Sakamoto; I've followed her music since my entire circle of friends fell in love with the Escaflowne anime. This was on team7's FST of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, which is one of my favorite bedtime playlists. Cool, distant and beautiful. The lyrics also touch me; "a world no one knows" reminds me of Oruha and Suu's "true Elsewhere" from Clover.

5) Buffy Cast - Walk Through The Fire: I was going through my old CDs in the Philippines and found Once More With Feeling, the Buffy Musical episode album. I just...I really like it. Anthony Stewart (Giles) has a yummy voice I'd liked since that episode when all the adults regressed to teenagers *cough* ...nevermind. Also, I like Sarah Michelle Gellar's high, wavery voice, and I really just like the melody--it's fun to sing along to.

6) Tori Amos - The Beekeeper: When do I not have a Tori song among my favorites? This is from her new album; I find it uncanny how each successive album of hers seems to correspond to how I'm feeling at the time it's released. I love the melody and imagery of this, plus I firmly believe she's talking about Neil Gaiman's Death (I'm the one who taps you on the shoulder/ When it's your time).

7) YUKI - Joy (Takagi Masakatsu Rama Remix): One of my all-time favourite songs. Courtesy of petronia whose fault it is that I cannot hear this song without thinking of Ran from Clover mixing it. I think this is one of the most associative songs I have; I can't hear it as a simple song, it's a whole train of thought. Or a whole IM conversation. Or blog entry. Or FIC XD


As for tagging--no pressure, but I'd like to see what angelthorn, lyrakristine, makibaka, team7, languageing, bex_x3d, and whatho are playing. Like petronia I've uploaded the actual music, but I don't think anyone else has to.

Comments

[kurozukin-a.livejournal.com]

So I'm not the only one hearing Death in The Beekeeper. That song gives me chills.

And I think Giles and Tara seemed to be the ones with the best singing voices -- that's why they each got their own solo, plus a reprise with just the two of them. Willow, on the other hand, probably has the worst voice; I think she had like two sung lines and that was it. And in Buffy's climactic number when Giles says "she needs backup" he sends Tara and Anya but not Willow. :P

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Haha, I remember that.

Hey, now I think of it I'd like to see your seven songs too!

[angelthorn.livejournal.com]

Kuuki to Hoshi! I have the soundtrack to Earth Girl Arjuna and it's lovely. I've never been a big fan of Yoko Kanno like you and our other friends but I like this soundtrack. The 2nd OST though I find a bit too esoteric for my taste... -_-

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Is that where it comes from? I'd love to get my hands on that soundtrack, if the rest of it is as lovely as that song. How's the anime?

[angelthorn.livejournal.com]

Earth Girl Arjuna? It's by the fellow who did Escaflowne. I thought it wasn't bad, but I was a bit surprised by how they speeded things up toward the end of the series—made me do a double take because I thought I'd missed an ep. -_-

[angelthorn.livejournal.com]

whoops...suddenly not sure if it's by the fellow who did Esca.

Also, it's a very uh, ecological sort of series, to the point where it was a bit over the top.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I love the made up languages. I guess it's like Turn A Gundam, where there was a Japanese version and a strange-language version.

Do you know what the other one's called?