Leadbelly

Hi,

Four major snowstorms and another one on the way. Yikes...

Here's the link to the new chapter:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/828256/102/Leadbelly_She_Wanted_To_Die

I've been driving Alex crazy playing the song over and over again but it can't be helped. I love it too much.

Weighty Ghost - Wintersleep
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zkm0na

I've made the switch to spendspace.com because it yousendit.com pissed me off too much a couple of weeks ago. If you like the song, let me know so I can tell Alex I'm not nuts. ;)

ssg.x.

Hi,

Here's the song for the newly posted chapter via yousendit.com...

Death by White Lies
https://www.yousendit.com/download/TTZua3NZYXluSlIzZUE9PQ

and the chapter...
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/828256/101/Leadbelly_She_Wanted_To_Die

I just got a new review from someone named 'blacktounge14'. I'm assuming her (his?) name is supposed to be 'blacktongue14', so that first incarnation isn't a typo on my behalf. Anyways, typo aside, her review had me laughing my ass off. I recommend a skimming - http://www.fanfiction.net/r/828256/

Hope you have a happy new year! Drop in and let me know how you are if you have the chance! :)

ssg.x.

It's been a while since anyone posted here, so I thought I'd come back with something completely different. Or at least moderately different. I actually *gasp* wrote a Bebop ficlet a while ago whilst unable to sleep. I could turn it into something longer, but let's face it: I'm lazy and will probably never touch it again. But here's what I have. Don't spork me TOO hard, please. :p

( Untitled, since I'm bad at titles )

And because I can't resist foisting music off on all of you, I have a song. Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Possess Your Heart". I'm obsessed with it, seriously. Hope you all like it : )



Also, according to this article, there is a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie in the works. But they're talking about casting Keanu Reeves as Spike. Personally, I HATE this idea. Hate hate hate. What do you all think?

I haven't posted any music in a long time, mostly because my hard drive died and I lost everything. But! I have songs for you now! These are all from the "Across the Universe" soundtrack, so they're all by the Beatles, but performed by the cast of the movie. I highly recommend the movie, by the way.

So, in no particular order, the songs are:

Girl
I've Just Seen a Face
Let It Be
Come Together
If I Fell
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackbird

All songs available here. Enjoy!

And since I'm on a cover kick right now, I have another one for you. ( Shiny Toy Guns -- Stripped )

So.

I can't believe I made it to 100. I almost never finish anything I start. :S

Chapter 100 - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

Three songs in this chapter that I've zipped for you:

Handlebars - The Flobots
Pretend - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars

Leadbelly Songs - Chapter 100

Brigidforest and I went to see BRMC perform here in Toronto a few weeks ago. I don't know about Brigidforest, but I think if I had died there standing four feet in front of Robert Levon Been while he was performing 'Pretend' solo, I probably would have rode Death piggy-back to hell a happy girl. Although Brigidforest walked all the way back to her hotel with Robert's guitar pick in her bra, so I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that she was as enraptured with the performance as I was. ;)

<3
ssg.x.

So, as I'm reading the latest chapters of Leadbelly and feeling doom in the pit of my stomach, I wanted to share some Journey lyrics that remind me so much of Faye and Spike (or Faye and Ezekiel?). What do you think?

Separate Ways

Here we stand
Worlds apart, hearts broken in two, two, two
Sleepless nights
Losing ground
I'm reaching for you, you, you

Feelin' that it's gone
Can change your mind
If we can't go on
To survive the tide love divides

Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched
And went our separate ways
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched
And went our separate ways

Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain
Distant eyes
Promises we made were in vain, vain, vain

If you must go, I wish you love
You'll never walk alone
Take care my love
Miss you love

I still love you girl
I really love you girl
And if he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you

Ok, so a friend of mind had these two poems on his website under the title "Life is Bittersweet", and I agreed. So I thought I'd post them here, because they seem on-topic for series and stories, y/n/m?

( The bitter )

( the sweet )

Geez...

I'm so bad at online community upkeep. But I'll post because it could very well be that you still have hope in me developing internet etiquette.

Songs from chapters 98 and 99 via yousendit...

The King is Half Undressed - Jellyfish
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/593479827/8868beaa2752c 66f14f7c7c94f67461e

The First Day of Spring - The Gandharvas
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/593480169/732179beb9e3d 29a16ad684cda2a2ba5

Woo.

And how are you? I miss you.

<3
ssg.x.

Chapter 97 is up.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/828256/97/Leadbelly_She_Wanted_To_Die

But who cares?! There's music!

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Need Some Air
The Northern Pikes (from Chapter 96) - Hopes Go Astray
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Killing the Light

http://download.yousendit.com/F2BB4AC00FB563D8

I hope you enjoy. :)

ssg.x.

So.

I haven't done a wallpaper in ages (outside of the mini-manipulation to the left), so I'm a little rusty.


http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s246/sidewalksg/desire1280x1024.jpg

I'm hoping that if you're out there, you'll like it. I'm thinking about doing a Spike-Jet centred one soon.

I'm going to start posting the songs in lumps so the song from the last chapter will be in a folder with the songs from the upcoming chapter (up tonight if I can get off my ass...Or on my ass as the case may be).

<3
ssg.x.

Hi!

New song for a new chapter...

The Gothic Archies - 'The Abandoned Castle of My Soul'

http://download.yousendit.com/D5BF211D5F43A889

If you haven't heard them before but the vocals sound eerily familiar, it's because The Gothic Archies is yet another band lead by songwriter Stephin Merritt from The Magnetic Fields. He's one of my favourite songwriters of all-time and I quote The Magnetic Fields quite alot in the fanfic. There's something very House of Love-esque about this particular song.

I'd love to know what you think about the song. And I say it often but it bears repeating -- if there's ever a song you're looking for that I've used, or songs by the same artist, let me know and I'll send it off for you.

ssg.x.

So I could very possibly be writing to myself because I've neglected this damn thing for so long that everyone has moved onto much, MUCH greener pastures. But I'm back to mow the lawn and post some music and maybe I'll lure someone back to talk to. :)

Music from Chapters 90 - 94 are zipped up in a li'l old folder you can download here...

http://download.yousendit.com/7343EB7A44973CF4

The only one missing is Hefner's 'The Sad Witch' because the cd is hiding somewhere in the apartment. :)

Woo!

ssg.x.

Two items!

Well, sort of. Four(!) songs and a request of sorts. Quite some time ago, ssg posted the Longpigs song "On and On", which I simply adore. So I went and found another song by the same band, "Lost Myself", which I'm fairly sure hasn't been posted yet, and definitely suits! So, I'm re-posting "On and On" for anyone who didn't get it the first time, and "Lost Myself" in case it hasn't been posted yet. (one of these days, I promise I'll find more upbeat music!)

I'm also posting "Plainsong" by The Cure on the off chance that someone here hasn't heard it yet, and "All the Same" by the Sick Puppies. "All the Same" is newer (or at least, new to the radio down here), and I'm totally in love with it.

Links:

Lost Myself

On and On

Plainsong

All the Same

And now my request: if any of you with graphic skills have the time and inclination, I would lovelovelove wallpapers with lyrics from the Longpigs songs and Cowboy Bebop/Leadbelly images. It would be awesome.

Brigid, I'm SO sorry I haven't posted any other music for you yet! But everything I found that made me think of something you'd like in the vein of "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" I got from ssg in the first place!

Hi,

A lurker unlurks for a moment...

I want to share a gorgeous picture that I came across.  We all know the face...

Night Thoughts by *Orioto on deviantART

So,

I didn't get the chance to post the mp3s for the songs yesterday. Since my computer seems to be acting wonky I'm going to fall back on youtube and post one of the song's videos. Hopefully be able to have the others up on here as soon as I figure out what the shit's going on with my computer. :)

This is quite a good video. Looks mighty expensive.



If you want the mp3 really badly, just leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

*BEEP*

<3
ssg.x.

I was sitting at my computer a few minutes ago finishing homework, and iTunes felt like playing Snow Patrol. Specifically the song "Set the Fire to the Third Bar". And it struck me just how perfect this song was for Leadbelly, and almost all the characters in it. Both the fact that it's a duet and the images of distance and longing seemed so appropriate. (Especially given the new chapter sidewalksg just posted! Yay!) So I thought I'd post said song here. I also put up Shiny Toy Gun's "Le Disko", because it makes me happy in a vicious, beginning-of-the-anime-Faye sort of way, and I thought y'all might agree. So, Click me for music! And let me know what you think!

So I'm doing something different today.

Since ff.net is being a rag I'm going to post the new chapter here under the cut.  I'll upload it to the site eventually but this might not be an entirely bad thing since it means you can read it first.

I'm hoping that the glitch tonight is just a matter of ff.net being messed up. I'm hoping it's not because I choked the life out of the site by having so many damn chapters!

Stay tuned for the new chapter. I tried posting it tonight and ff.net is being difficult. Or I've finally written so many chapter I blew their fucking minds.

:)

<3
ssg.x.

Hey,

I wanted to get something out before I went away for Easter. I kept thinking that I should keep writing but I realized after reading the chapter over a few times that maybe I shouldn't push my luck and force crummy writing out on you.

Although I may have done that unintentionally. As usual, your opinion is much appreciated.

Leadbelly 89 - I've Decided To Wear My Thorn Of Crowns

If you haven't heard this version of the song (but have heard the original by the stellar Echo & The Bunnymen) then I'd love to hear (or read) what you think about it. Again, it's via yousendit.com so if you try to download past the seven day expiry date, then let me know and I'll resend it to you personally.

Nouvelle Vague - The Killing Moon

Enjoy?

<3
ssg.x.

This is a poem by Carl Phillips. I think it redefines a Leadbelly interlude for me.


INTERLUDE



Briefly, an ease


akin to those parts of
the air that


allow the bird respite from
the effort of muscle


flight entails.


As I said: briefly.


It does not matter, I
understand now, my having


hoped in no way to
resemble anyone--


this, the reason
why the difficulty, I have


often been sure, with
death will be less


the dying than the having been
finally always like


everyone else; that
particular


humiliation: to admit
as much.


Very briefly, it
seems now.


In the manner of happiness


or an only-half-grounded
fear or whatever


else can at once
be both pressing and


ignorable , until--as when
the evidence has grown


embarrassing, so why
shouldn't we, let us


throw it away--until it is
like that and, soon, it


is that. We'll assume again


our new positions: myself, at
last arcing


the body
over.--Up. Into yours.