Samthur Playlist

Still in development (much like the story, it refuses to stop growing), but this is the current form. You might notice a couple of recurring themes in the titles. 

#41, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Live At Luther College
A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.), Radiohead, Hail to the Thief. (The Gloaming.)
All Wrong, God Lives Underwater, WAAF 107.3 FM: Unusual Suspects
Apollo, Hum, Downward Is Heavenward
Baby You’re a Rich Man, The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour
Better Days, Graham Nash, Songs for Beginners
Blackbird, The Beatles, The White Album
Can’t Find My Way Home, Blind Faith, Blind Faith
Dire Wolf, Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead
Don’t Stop, Fleetwood Mac, The Dance
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Dumb, Nirvana, In Utero
Empty, God Lives Underwater, Empty
Get in or Get Out, Hot Hot Heat, Make Up the Breakdown
Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.), Radiohead, Hail to the Thief. (The Gloaming.)
Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me, U2, Batman Forever
Hurdy Gurdy Man , Donovan, The Hurdy Gurdy Man
I Summon You, Spoon, Gimme Fiction
In Limbo, Radiohead, Kid A
Into the Void, Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile (disc 2: Right)
Intolerance, Tool, Undertow
Lake of Fire, Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York
Life On Mars?, Seu Jorge,The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
Merchants of Soul, Spoon, Gimme Fiction
New Country [Explicit], The Walkmen, You & Me [Explicit]
No Excuses, Alice In Chains, Jar of Flies
O Death, Jennifer Titus, Supernatural
Of Course, Jane’s Addiction, Ritual de lo Habitual
Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
Optimistic, Radiohead, Kid A
Out Loud [Live], Dispatch, Bang Bang [Bonus Tracks]
Porch, Pearl Jam, Ten
Pyramid Song, Radiohead, Amnesiac
Saint Joe on the School Bus, Marcy Playground, Marcy Playground
Stellar (acoustic), Incubus, Make Yourself
Still, God Lives Underwater, Empty
Still Be Around, Uncle Tupelo, Still Feel Gone
Stripped, Depeche Mode, fear
Tahitian Moon, Porno for Pyros, God God’s Urge
Take It or Leave It, The Strokes, Is This It
Thank You For Sending Me an Angel, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
That Voice Again, Peter Gabriel, So
The Beast and Dragon, Adored, Spoon, Gimme Fiction
The Becoming, Nine Inch Nails, And All That Could Have Been (Still)
The Chain, Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
The Fairest Of The Seasons, Nico, Chelsea Girl
The Fitted Shirt, Spoon Girls Can Tell
The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack, Liars, The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack
The Underdog, Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
They Never Got You, Spoon, Gimme Fiction
Turn Into Earth, The Yardbirds, Roger The Engineer / Over Under Sideways Down
Two Step, Dave Matthews Band, Crash
Vapors, God Lives Underwater, Life in the So-Called Space Age
Walk on the Ocean, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Fear
Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative), Modest Mouse, Building Nothing Out of Something
You, Christopher O’Riley, True Love Waits: O’Riley Plays Radiohead

Grooming Standards.

I’m watching Generation Kill again, even though it depresses the shit out of me, because it’s a much better film/series than Stop Loss, which I sat through the other night to grab screencaps and clips of JGL in uniform for Superception purposes (he’s a glorious woobie, but otherwise it had more gratuitous melodrama than a Lifetime movie). 

… anyway, because it’s on my mind, when the Godfather stated during the briefing that, “Maintaining grooming standards is mission-critical,” all I could think of was, “That’s the best title for an Arthur fic ever, either that or a line he snarks back at Eames about twenty times a job.”

Vidders: I’ve Chewed my Bite, Time for the Heimlich

Sooooo… oddly enough this story starts with Cally.  Who showed me an awesome vid about BoyKing Sam set to a song sung by Maynard James Keenan.  Now, either of these things can obliterate my ovaries independently — in concert, it just plain wasn’t fair.  Ovaries splattered against my kidneys, I have reverted to pre-pubescent Veruca Salt state and decided “I want one.”

But of course, my story is the Superception Sam-Arthur thing and even though I know a LOT of music, it took me awhile to find one that works with them.  I found it eventually, of course, because I’m obsessive, but the great joy was that Seu Jorge had found it first.  I am speaking of David Bowie’s Life on Mars which Seu Jorge transformed into a beautiful song about roughly the same emotions using the same chords, notes, and rhythms, but completely different Brazilian Portuguese lyrics.  Which, along with the acoustic guitar and the general feel, fit the Sam/Arthur at Stanford, Arthur POV better than Mr. Bowie’s original, absolutely no insult intended to either version intended.

Of course, I don’t speak Portuguese, much less any of the Brazilian dialects, but I looked at the literal translations and a few idomatic translation attempts on the internet (is it the future or the subjunctive, is he doing a Hamlet “to be or not to be” third person abstract that’s actually first person personal or does he just hate conjugating verbs?) before deciding to meld them around Arthur’s character and take a little poetic license in my translation back into English.  After all, I’m taking my example from Senhor Jorge himself - translating Bowie straight into Portuguese just wasn’t going to work.  I ran my telephone-lyric-poem past Lass, who has much more translation experience than I do, and came up with a set of subtitles I rather like.  (I think we’re already up to three derivative works and I haven’t even touched a frame of video yet).

I’ve now gone through the song and matched my subtitles up to the time (by millisecond) of the Portuguese lines in my copy of the song (the Amazon mp3download).  Now, this being my very firstest ever attempt at vidding, ever, I think I’ve done sufficient due diligence to put out my first cries for “HAAAALLLPPP!  I’ve bitten off more than I can chew, but I’ve got a pretty poem/song thing for people to help show me how to pick out video bits (mostly from “The Lookout” and “Stop Loss” for Arthur, for Sam, anything where he’s young, crying, and or creepy shit is going on - a lot of season one and any of the Colin flashbacks) and then throw subtitles on top, and then overlay the song for the audio.

So, if there’s anyone feeling game, let me know.

terminalmigration replied to your photo: Sadly, this is the closest I’ve gotten to…

Seriously unfortunate considering you basically made Sam/Arthur my Sam crossover-OTP. (I would volunteer, but alas, I don’t have photoshop.)

Awww… thanks.  But I love knowing (even though I retain my admiralship in the Eames/Arthur fleet) that somebody out there is shipping Sam and Arthur as hard as I do sometimes.  They just give me such emooooooceans, and then I try to write Stanford-era fluff with them and somehow there winds up being tentacles.  I blame Cally.

Fic: Sad Sappy Suckers (Inception-SPN), (Pre-Slash Sam/Arthur, PG-13)

Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural crossover-fusion AU
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,562
Pairings:Sam/Arthur
Timeline: Part of the Not Such As I Was ‘verse, pre-canon, at the very beginning of the Stanford period.
Contents include: Language, disturbing dream imagery
Summary: Everyone needs their secrets, Arthur knows that, but there’s something huge he’s missing here and without it, Sam’s a puzzle he can’t quite solve.

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