we are the ones with the parts and the motion / we fill up the sky and we burn with devotion

[vanitashaze]

When I first heard "La Familia" off of trinityofone's Four Quartets playlist, I was not impressed. Being a rather good classical singer myself*, I tend to, eh, look down on those artists who have childish, or nasal, or talk-singing voices - one of the reasons that I still cannot get into the Mountain Goats, despite their obvious brilliance - and Mirah was like, okay, yet another girl-soft indie songwriter, move on. But I am so glad that I gave her another shot, because really, she's kind of brilliant. Gorgeous imagery, songs about sex & complicated relationships, and boom-boom bass lines? I'm listening to Advisory Committee and am completely hooked, with eleventy million fic ideas spiraling off each song. (Chief among them: a rather angry "Cold, Cold Water" McKay/Keller fic dealing with this.)

Also, the comments at SongMeanings are so cute.


*And yes, that was the sound of my horn tooting you heard.

Comments

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

for starters, Jennifer basically dies of consumption in a hospital bed! she's this super-doctor, yet we don't see that she even gets to attempt to think of a cure or anything before she kicks the bucket!

I think what they were going for is that she didn't notice it until it was too late - maybe it was just the television-episode pacing, but it seemed to me that she was dead within a matter of weeks, if not days.

She does do conflicting well, that Mirah. And oh, yeah, bluflamingo! I'd forgotten about her. Didn't she write some lovely Katie Brown pieces as well, or am I thinking of someone else?

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

That may be the case with respect to TV pacing; it's the passivity of Jennifer's fridging that really got me. (With respect to "The Last Man" and SGA's problems in general and in S4 in particular, I agree pretty much 100 percent with hth_the_first's review (http://hth-the-first.livejournal.com/68017.html?mode=reply&style=mine) of "The Last Man," which is thorough and concise and well worth reading.)

bluflamingo's written a gen Katie Brown fic and a few Katie Brown / Laura Cadman stories, yeah! (My own favorite Katie fic is puritybrown's "Night Bloom," (http://puritybrown.livejournal.com/382076.html?thread=1247356&format=light) which is a gen short about Katie after Atlantis, and what friendship Katie and Teyla struck up while she was living there; the author wrote it for halfamoon. I love the focus on the women themselves, unmediated by men; it's one of the things I've loved about halfamoon.)