| FANMIX: The X-Files - Season One - XF Season One RP Soundtrack |
[30 May 2008|09:01am] |
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Medium :: Television / Role Play
Fandom :: The X-Files
Subject :: Season One
Title :: The X-Files Season 1 RP Soundtrack
Warnings :: None.
Notes :: This is part 1 of 9 soundtracks that are already compiled and waiting on coverart to be posted. For the past 2-3 years, I've run a tabletop RP using the D20 Modern system for a friend of mine who told me, to my horror, that she had never seen The X-Files. I asked her to be in a one-person campaign, warning her that I would give her all the specifics about her character's history and personality ahead of time, which she was alright with. I never thought the game would last long, or be very successful - and so I was mystified when she immediately slipped directly into the Dana Scully I'd known from years of television and began making the exact same calls as she did, occasionally even quoting lines from the script at me, never having seen or heard it.
We are currently paused between seasons 7 and 8, as she is in Chile studying for the summer, but it has been an insane and satisfying ride, as I've been forced to dig into the personal life of Scully to "fill in the gaps" of things that we do not see in each episode, and between episodes.
During our sessions, it's common for my friends and I to play music to fit the mood, especially lyrically, and then give each other soundtracks. I decided to make Jenn one or two disc sets for each season. As she only knows what Scully knows, experiencing things entirely through her lens, these discs are basically from a strictly Scully POV, though they do give hints to larger issues and other character's feelings. It was a challenge to avoid songs that were direct about anything, and it was even more of a challenge to avoid songs that shipped Mulder and Scully, as I wanted to see how the relationship actually would play out. I hope you like what I came up with.
I consider this one of the weaker of the 9 mixes, because at the very beginning I was pressed for time as we played quite often. But by the end of this soundtrack, I finally had things together, I think. I'll post the others as soon as I can.
Special Thanks :: Thanks are in order for the countless people who helped me in compiling these 9 soundtracks, through suggestions over at the x-files lj comm, from their own fanmixes, from posted fanvids or wallpapers... You all helped me fill in the gaps. Special thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pirate_jenn_mlcwho not only designed all the cover art, but who also plays Scully with so much creepy resonance to the real character.
Art note :: The art included are all pieces of a cover insert booklet, and therefore the "2 page" images would be folded over.
Comments are love, if taking. Comments are sex, after listening.
Preview ::
( the truth is in here )
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| Six of One, 9/10 |
[12 Apr 2008|07:35pm] |
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Review of Battlestar Galactica 4.2, Six of One:
Spoilerladen!
Final score: 9/10
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| Hmm |
[11 Apr 2008|05:18pm] |
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Say It Right - Nelly Furtado |
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Think about it.
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| Battlestar Galactica Motivational Posters |
[05 Apr 2008|11:11pm] |
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These are apparently really popular over at battlestar_blog, so I thought I'd share them here too.
I know that S4 has certainly motivated me... so I figured it was time to hop on the ol' Flickr Motivator and make some 4.1 posters! Join in the fun and post 'em in here.
( FULL OF SPOILERS )
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| This is so me this week that it is kind of not even funny |
[31 Mar 2008|07:50pm] |
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| iPoop |
[16 Mar 2008|08:13pm] |
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Watching Alias, s2 |
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My iPod is broken, and in the process of trying to save its life, I seem to have killed my itunes too.
My primary PC is not hooked up to the web, as it has no wireless card and is far from the router in my house. I use my laptop for all my internetty needs, such as downloading things.
My iPod, when I hooked it up yesterday, got stuck in a perpetual recovery loop, where every attempt to restore it brings up a message that the iPod connected needs to be restored.
I uninstalled the iPod and reinstalled it, to no avail. I switched its network path to no avail. I finally uninstalled itunes and reinstalled v6 instead of 7, wondering if it was a bug in 7. However, now itunes won't open, as the library on my computer was created with a later version.
I put the installer for v7 on my pc but it won't run without a windows xp service pack update 2 or later. As my computer is not hooked up to the internet, I can't download straight up windows updates.
So right now I'm downloading a service pack and hoping to god it'll do the trick, so that I can install v7 of itunes... and at least have that up and running. Though whether or not my reinstallation of the iPod did anything to fix it, I have to wait and see as this service pack is a slow download.
Any real compy gurus out there have any good advice?
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| Stuck in a Moment and You Can't Get Out Of It |
[07 Feb 2008|08:50pm] |
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Watching Angel, Season 4 |
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Today was a snow day for Hudsonville, but not for my night classes, which felt weird... But it was nice for once to not feel as if my Thursday night classes were a big waste of time and space, etc.
This week's been pretty lax on the socialization angle, however, which makes it a little on the bland side. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a hang out night with Jenn.
Link o' the day: Check out this site. They professionally retouch celebrity photographs, and it's interesting to look at the portfolio and see some of the before & afters. Reminds me of the Dove Evolution video we used in my class to look at media.
That's all for today. I watched a lot of Angel, and slept til 11, which felt like a dream come true. :D
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| Demo-WHAT |
[09 Jan 2008|08:41pm] |
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80% Mike Gravel
74% John Edwards
74% Dennis Kucinich
72% Joe Biden
72% Barack Obama
70% Hillary Clinton
69% Bill Richardson
68% Chris Dodd
36% John McCain
36% Tom Tancredo
35% Mike Huckabee
34% Rudy Giuliani
32% Ron Paul
25% Mitt Romney
24% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
SO I'm teaching at Baldwin St. Middle School, 3 classes of 7th graders, and one advanced class of 8th graders in a 9th grade class.
And I love it more than I could ever, ever truly explain. I've been blessed with my placement and my CT, I can tell already, especially hearing everyone else today in my 311 class, talking about making photocopies, while I got to run discussion today, and discuss what we want to do to coordinate lesson planning for next week already. Jen is amazing, and the way the kids respond to her, respect her, and honestly love her is a joy to watch. If in 15 years, I can be even a fraction of the teacher she is, I'll feel like a success.
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| Ready....set.... PAPERSANDPROJECTSGALORE... but AFTER movie night |
[25 Nov 2007|07:08pm] |
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Yeah that about sums up my entire end of semester plan.
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| Movies, Kozol, and Stephen Colbert |
[25 Oct 2007|11:50am] |
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So, two of my favorite old TV shows are being made into movies :
Dead Like Me is becoming a made for TV film, although Mandy Patinkin (Rube) and Laura Harris (Daisy) will not be returning. Rube's character is being written out, and Daisy's is being replaced, a move that makes me nervous, but to see any more DLM at all is worth some sacrifices.
More excitingly of course, as any who has talked to me in the last several weeks should know by know, is the X-Files 2 movie which will take place in 'real time', fiveish years after the series end. Unfortunately it is going to be a "monster of the week" format film, rather than one addressing the plot, but my theory is that in 2012, they will, logically, be able to make a plot conclusion film, if this sequel does well at the box office. In almost confirmation of this fact, Duchovny said Carter was planning on doing "one, maybe two" more films.
Both Gillian and David are signed up, though it doesn't look like anybody else at the moment, which would almost be logical, but certainly be sad. Either way, I'm dying to see it. Filming begins in December.
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I got to meet one of my heroes last week - Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities and The Shame of Our Nation, and advocate for rights in education. He came to the Loosemore, and while I had to go in the overflow room for his speech, which was on the inequalities inherent in No Child Left Behind, I got to meet the man afterwards, and get my old worn copy of Savage Inequalities signed by him.
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You have probably heard by now that Stephen Colbert announced on his show last week his bid for the presidency (in South Carolina). Since then, fans have launched into action, creating the Facebook group "1,000,000 Strong For Stephen Colbert." In under a week, this site has gained a current 871,000 members, and the number stacks every minute, so that by the time I post this entry it will have gone far beyond that. The second most popular political candidate support group on Facebook is "1,000,000 Strong For Barack Obama" which, in its 9 months of existence has garnered some 300,000 members. Only.
What is this saying? Obviously, it's a youth statement, as Facebook, with its original college base, is a largely 20sish social network. The group urges members to register to vote for "the candidate of their choice (Colbert is preferred!)" rather than simply Colbert. But it's a statement of solidarity behind a single message : Our politics today are, quite simply, a joke. We recognize them to be so entirely convoluted and corrupted that we champion the satire of a man who would stand and say "look, it's not impossible for anyone to run for president, like it or not", even when that person is the blowhard conservative character that Colbert plays on his show, and, on interviews nowadays.
Quite simply, it's a movement in and of itself that is causing the government to look this way. Colbert announced his desire to run on both a Democratic and Republican tickets, mentioning that it was a brave move on his part as "he could lose twice". The FEC is starting to question the legality of The Colbert Report's sponsorship by Comedy Central and Doritos, which would technically seem to be illegal if he was to actually vie for a Presidential position.
Does he have a chance of winning? Of course not. Is that the point? Of course not. This isn't going to be Man of the Year..
I applaud you, Stephen Colbert, for making the kind of satirical statement. And I'm proud to invite any of you to join the group, which will inevitably hit a million in the next few days.
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| "Star Destroyer Harris" |
[19 Oct 2007|10:08am] |
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I got a phone call last night from Grif and Jet, who have settled on baby names.
For a boy: Logan Vader Harris
For a girl: Brooke Megan Harris
I really had no idea what to say. The thought that I had impacted some people's lives enough to deserve the honor of having them name their baby after me is beyond me.
Grif cracks me up though.
Grif: Well you're a very moral person. A person who has not had sexual concourse with men in twenty some years. I don't know who else I would want to name a daughter after. Oh and by the way, just to serve as an example to little Brooke, would you mind continuing that trend for the next twenty years or so? Just to encourage her from staying away from boys. Thanks.
Alternate hilarious names considered were:
"Star Destroyer Harris"
"Mercedes Daphne Harris" (after Jet and my Jedi characters)
"Brooke Arden Harris" (I said that this is too much me overkill)
"Master Vader Harris" (Grif's ex wife thought she was being clever)
Also, on a less good news and more weird news note:
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| Changes |
[18 Oct 2007|02:57pm] |
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So, thankfully, this week has been much better than last week, which was pretty terrible overall.
First of all, things didn't work out with me and Steve, which was sad news, but in the end, the important thing is that both of us are concerned with not letting it totally mess up our long standing friendship. As nice as it was to have somebody, it means a lot more to me to have that friendship.
I also was locked up writing papers all week - and I got a C on a test, but I've already started getting my papers back, and it's largely great news thus far.
My car went crazy on me last week, but I'm getting it back today.
We had a weird audition for Pseudo last week, that ended badly, but things are cool now, and we had an awesomely fun show last night. (Pics up on Facebook).
My happiest news came on Monday night - when I learned that my friends in Georgia, Grif and Jet (who met on my starwars online RP and eventually got married) are having a baby! And they even were tossing around naming it partly after me, which made me almost cry. I really want to go down there next summer when they have the baby... But we'll see.
I got to see Ben, and it'd been freaking forever. We watched Hellsing OVA III, which kicks ASS.
P.S. Heroes kicked ass this week too. Thank goodness. I was beginning to worry.
Pseudo show next week already. Come! 10pm, Wednesday, Kleiner.
Nightwish in less than 2 weeks. :O
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| Auditions!! |
[05 Oct 2007|10:28am] |
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We're looking for a few good Pseudites this upcoming Sunday. Auditions at 7pm in the glass enclosure on main floor Kirkhof. We're looking for one, maybe two folks. It's a fun time. Last time I brought donuts. :O
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| Stolen From Andrea |
[03 Oct 2007|12:49pm] |
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I'm in the middle of watching Battlestar Galactica season 2, one of my newest obsessions, along with, obviously Heroes, which is the only show on TV I'm actually CAUGHT UP ON and can watch every week. Expect squee-y posts on some Mondays. Turtle and I are also marathoning Smallville season six to try to kind of catch up to this season, which just started.
Geneon USA went south, so Hellsing distribution has been mucked up. Blahhh.
BUT, and this is a big but indeed - I AM GOING TO SEE NIGHTWISH! :O And I have heard Dark Passion Play, and it's amazing... They've amped things up a notch, and Anette's different certainly - but it's a great kind of different. I can't wait to see them at the end of the month.
Also, and even more of a big addendum, I found myself completely and unexpected thrown off by realizing I had feelings for Steve - and for once in my life I got the guts to say something, which ended up being a good idea. I'm really happy - and perhaps more than that, we know each other so well from having spent five years on the phone spilling out the best and worst of our days to each other that I feel comfortable with letting myself be happy. Which may sound ridiculous, but had struck me as far from possible for a long time now.
Sometimes what you've been waiting for strikes you right between the eyes as having been there all along.
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| a good start |
[26 Sep 2007|07:52pm] |
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how it ends - devotchka |
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I just popped in Little Miss Sunshine and it started with the unmistakable opening notes of DeVotchka.
That's the best beginning ever. Ever ever.
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| Thar she blows |
[13 Sep 2007|12:45pm] |
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Alright, real update, as it were.
This is my last semester at Grand Valley, taking classes. It's my last semester living on campus. It's my last semester of Pseudo. It's a lot of lasts, before I head, hopefully, into the College of Ed, and the real world.
I'm a lot less bummed than I expected to be.
I'm the person who hates change, and who loves college, and who milks the ability to be irresponsible to the point of sleeping a grand total of 10 hours a week sometimes, and yet, I don't feel like I'm losing anything. And I'm excited about the prospect of a career, and a new challenge. But I'm scared too.
This summer was hard. I lost my grandpa of cancer in the spring, and he's the first close family member I've ever lost. My Grandma has been trying to recover, and so my family has been drawn together by the need to support her, and it's done us all a world of good. But it meant my world, which I had already made a lot more closed last year, shrunk down to about 10 - 15 people this summer.
If you haven't seen or heard from me much lately, this is a large part of why. It has nothing to do with you. It's a question of keeping things focused, and know that I still love all of you. And I'd love to hear from you, or see you. I'm finally feeling back on track, really. I worry that some bridges have been burned, but I don't believe that they can be burned forever.
This summer was over in a blur, like no summer has ever been. I got back into FSCRP and reconnected with longlost friends from online, I took lots of history classes, I lived in my basement which felt like an apartment, I read a chapter out of 3 books a night and in so doing read more books this summer than I did in the past year. I wrote a lot. I had a bittersweet romantic encounter. I worked a lot. I didn't do Pigeon Creek and I didn't find myself missing it - just the people. I watched every season of X-Files and Smallville (through Season 5). I didn't watch all that many movies. I did a lot of thinking. I made some mistakes of pride. I delved into my family's past. I learned a lot about myself as a teacher. I guess you could say I grew, and that sums it up pretty well.
I'm still busy, that hasn't changed. I still have my time and attention pulled in 80 directions. But I'll still make time for you, if you want it. Just keep bothering me. I want you to.
I wish you all the best.
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| Golden Compass |
[11 Sep 2007|01:43pm] |
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This is really neat - you can go to the Golden Compass film website to find out what your daemon is... then post up and let people agree or disagree for the next 12 days, at which point it grows into its 'final form' based on what you think of yourself and other people think of you.
Try it!
Also, I think I'll actually give you guys a real update soon. Le gasp! She lives...
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| Another Harry Potter Post |
[23 Jul 2007|07:58am] |
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( Very much Spoilers )
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| Going Home |
[26 Apr 2007|11:05am] |
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Today I'm heading home...
Which is always a weird day emotionally. There's this sort of vast sweeping sadness, but I noticed something that has changed. It used to feel, as the end of the year, as if my vacation time had come to a close, and it was time to return to real life for the summer. But now, it's reversed completely. I feel like I'm going to take a mental vacation from all the things that are real in my life, and go spend 3 months making money, getting things in order, watching a lot of movies, and getting a lot of that stuff done that I just never got the time to with everyone around. It doesn't seem as hard, when I think of it as a sort of vacation in and of itself.
Also, I officially suck at keeping in touch with... anybody... who is not around me 24/7. It's just how I am - I like private settings more, and so this year especially, I've stopped going out with large groups, or to any parties, or anything like that, so there are a lot of people I haven't seen in forever... or talked to in forever. Please know that I don't love you any less, if you're reading this. It's been a difficult past few months, but I'm still here, and I do think about you guys. But the step between thinking about and contacting for me has always been a big one, and this year has only caused me to shrink my world down to an even more manageable size. So in other words, if you wanna do something, drop me something this summer. I'll try to catch up with people - but my internet is limited, and so are my going-out abilities.
I love you all. Have a great summer!
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