Psst

If you go to http://www.anniemusic.co.uk/ you can download the Royksopp remix of "Heartbeat" (the full name of which is a Scandinavian orthographic terror). It's a licensed WMA file. I may or may not have crashed my computer and signed away one of my kidneys just to get the thing to play. Am loving it, though - the original song was balanced on a knife's edge between sadness and euphoria, and this remix tips it all the way over into an ominous, cinematic, quasi-Bjork darkness.

This and the straight-up Alan Braxe house remix. (Probably closest we'll ever get to a "long" version 'm'fraid. But you know, the last time I was honestly bothered - really bothered - by a song being too short was New Order's "Here To Stay", because what I had was the radio edit on International. Moved mountains for a copy of the full version. Once I had it I thought it was too long.) If ever there was a single worth the ordering then that single sure is "Heartbeat", is what I figure.

Fic recs redux

I said I would make a post listing the fics - not that I enjoyed, but that left a mark on me - over the course of the last several months. Or as many of them as I can remember and dredge up on the spur of the moment, anyhow. ^^;

Biography of the Cheated Girl, by sesame_seed [Mirage of Blaze]
Which I recced yesterday, I know. It's not that I forgot, it's that it deserves to be said twice. XD Go read it if you like the series, and tell her what a genial madwoman she is.

Notes: Conversations with a God of Death, by pornkings [Death Note]
I was absolutely obsessed with this fic for a while; had disseminated it a dozen times through MSN copy-paste before Tin posted a public version on her site. It's the combination of content and form - compact, gnomic, epigrammatic - that I'm quite tempted to plagiarize to hell and back frankly, but the form is natural to Tin (she explains) and I've always been terrible at pastiche. ^^;

Locker I: 28 & 29, by absenceofmind [Original]
First in Aki's projected series of faux!BeBoy schoolboy yaoi yomikiri, and probably the most successful as such (although II and III are also excellent, and in fact III probably the best short story in a more general sense). It's revealing that insofar as my flist is concerned "BeBoy yomikiri" is recognizable as a class of short story with definable characteristics, like the Saki or the O'Henry. XD More people should read these; heck, more people should write these. We should compile faux BeBoy anthologies.

A Hundred Years Ago, by trifles [Peter and Wendy]
Got this off metempsychosis's rec, and it pretty much laid me to emotional waste. Full disclosure entails the revelation that I'm a bit odd about Peter Pan to begin with. I was in elementary school when I first read it; re-read it fairly often for years, then stopped. Re-read it again when I was seventeen and cried buckets. I read the book now without crying, which probably means I'm grown up for good, but cannot say the same for a relatively faithful film adaptation. This fic is faithful as well, in the sense that it's spot on with regard to J.M. Barrie's narrative voice. Cue the waterworks.

Not Based on a True Story, by Isilya [RPS]
It's sort of like Haru wo daiteita, except instead of being Jpr0n about Jpr0n about Jpr0n, it's popslash about popslash about popslash. (Reductionist in both cases, I know, but I couldn't resist. XD;; Viva Gertrude Stein!) metempsychosis suggested this after I made noises re how I only bother to read RPS when it's meta and really weird. I'm still trying to decide if the idea of Justin Timberlake leaving fandom hurts my brain in a good way or not.

...More fic to come for sure. ^^;

***

In other news, duly posted the Naoe x Kagetora mix to fst. Now I remember why I post mixes to my flist first; who on earth are all these people and why do they thank me for allowing them to download an average of 1.5 songs each? 679 comm members indeed. :P

This is only relevant because more than a couple of people suggested I put some explanations for the tracks in with the music. So I inserted blurbs in the lyric post. I imagine they'd make very little sense if one didn't have a passing familiarity with the series, but the overhead involved in explaining something like Mirage to a total newbie is prohibitive. ^^;