piecesofalice | Fanmix: The Weight of Smoke

Fashion 70s goodness (including the return of Ugly Hipster Jumper and a scuba suit) tomorrow -

cutselvage has been here this weekend, so we had a good ol' time that sadly wasn't seventies related. Don't be too sad, guys. I promise you paisley!

Anyway, in lieu of fashion polls, I offer you a fanmix I've been sitting on for a while. I wish I could put "making really good fanmixes" on my resume, as I'm sure I'd be the CEO of Fandom Music Inc. easily. Here's one about my new favourite set of partners - Toma and Sebumi from Keizoku 2: SPEC (PARTNERS GUYS).

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NOTES: Not to toot ye olde horn or anything, but I think this is probably one of the best mixes I've ever made. I just love it - it's a little 'shippy, a little sad, a little angry, a little quirky - just like the show. If you're in the mood for a procedural with a quirk - like Life, but supernatural - then I recommend SPEC in a heartbeat. I also posted about the OST at Lost in Omo!, so check that out, too.

Enjoy!

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THE WEIGHT OF SMOKE | A {SPEC} MIx

I watch you walking
You look like smoke

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{1.} WASHINGTON | Holy Moses

I know, I know you're keeping all your secrets to yourself
I know, I know you're holding onto mine as well

{2.} OWEN PALLET | E Is For Estranged

Haven't you heard?
I am a flightless bird

{3.} PENDULUM | Girl In The Fire

{4.} AGNES OBEL | Close Watch

There's nothing much to choose
Between the right and wrong

{5.} DOVES | Spellbound

A heart shaped face with words as cold as stone
I can't believe this is my fate

{6.} THE DOORS | The Crystal Ship

The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

{7.} THE NATIONAL | Brainy

You’ll never believe me what I found
Think I better follow you around

{8.} LEE SEUNG YEOL | Lola (Our Lady of Sorrows)

Let's not forget
Who we were were

{9.} YOUN SUN NAH | Enter Sandman

Exit light, enter night
Take my hand

{10.} MASSIVE ATTACK | Man Next Door

I've got to get away from here
This is not a place for me to stay

{11.} JACK JOHNSON | It's All Understood

And fact is only what you believe
And fact and fiction work as a team

{12.} MY AUNT MARY | The Weight of Smoke

"You're the only light."

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They're the genderswapped Dani and Charlie. They really are. <3

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

If people don’t feel anything for the characters then something is missing.

That's it in a nutshell. I don't get it when people just seem to hate an actress because they get in the way of their OTP. Come on, people. I've not watched Nobuta wo Produce either, but when i was originally looking for info after watching SPEC, I was like, "geez, does Erika's character kill puppies or something?!" I have another drama of hers, Gal Circle, which I'm going to give a go. It looks hilarious, and appears to have a cowboy in it? ANYTHING to fill the time up! I'm rewatching Ikebukuro West Gate Park as I had the smart idea of making a Yukihiko Tsutsumi vid. Why do I think of these things?! WHY? (And you should watch Ikebukuro, if only for the Ken Watanbe action ;)

Ooh, thanks for the Ryo recs. I watched 'Scrap Heaven', with Ryo, Joe "I'm Far Too Attractive To Be Real" Odagiri and Chiaki Kuriyama. It was really, really good - he's just a phenomenal actor, full-stop. It's one of those films that speeds along at a great pace and then it hangs - not in a bad way, but in a painfully tense way. Really, really good. And even though it looks potentially very bad, I'll go see 'Reckless', just to see him on the big screen. Ugh. Why so amazing, Ryo?!

I Googled the SawaEri incident and...WTF? I hope someone told her to sit down. That's the sort of thing I always get worried the people you start to follow are actually like, and it's always a relief when they're normal. I always wonder if in Japan and Korea they're told to be very submissive and polite, so you never really get a good idea of their personalities or relationships. That's why I think I was so surprised that Erika's so deadpan and giggly. Nakama Yukie and Abe Hiroshi from 'Trick' have a really good relationship away from the show, which just makes me like the show more, as stupid as it sounds. And we all know what's TOTALLY NOT GOING ON with Miki and Atsuro. Not that I'm totally not a real-life shipper of any of those couple. Not at all. *twitch*

Tomorrow's my day off, so it's going to be all Keizoku, all the time. And probably SPEC, just because. At the very least, a picspam of Beautiful Dreamer, just because it's so...beautiful. Did you know they released it in the UK and Germany (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000FIH6CW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A2TUOLEQQ8CFXE) as a stand alone film?! I'm going to buy it because LOL. How weird is that, though? I wonder if it's edited, because damn. It would really hard to follow otherwise.

I actually can't imagine what we missed the first time around. (Remember when it didn't click that it could be a dream? Good times. ;) I think the reason why it sort of makes sense that the whole film was a dream is because both Mayama and Shibata were both conveniently injured at the end of the series and the SP. Maybe I just want the show to be a little more creative? IDK. It does piss me off a bit that people had to die, I won't lie. I don't think I'll ever get over Tsubosaka's wife with his head. :| (I thought his wife and kid died and that's why he was so crabby? WHAT GIVES, SHOW?!)

...'Dream is Collapsing' from the Inception soundtrack just came on my iTunes. IT KNOWS

I keep making bad Team Keizoku graphics for Tumblr. That's how much I want a cameo. It makes sense, though. Like, stupid sense. I'd like to think Director Tsutsumi is a big fan of referencing his other works, so I think it may happen. (Oh, you can spot Yabe in SPEC in the scene where Sebumi's walking to Unsolved Cases, and in a couple of other hallway shots later. I love that <3)

I'm starting to think the Asakura/Chii/Tsuda thing is going to break both of our brains. Could he be a thinly-veiled version of the devil, what with the whole underworld thing in Beautiful Dreamer and the trumpet guys sending Shimura to his death? I'm guessing he is the trumpet guys, because before he shot the guy he was playing chess with, you saw them as he cycled through his "faces". And I thought it was telling (maybe?) that it was the Tsuda face that shot Chess Guy and not the Chii face. Hmmm.

Fanmix: The Weight of Smoke | A {SPEC} Mix

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