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

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

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MOST IMPORTANTLY: HOLY CRAP THAT MAGAZINE SCAN YOU LINKED!! Are they pointing guns at each other?! Is Tsuda wearing a bomb like Asakura in Beautiful Dreamer?! And is Sebumi looking sad in the doorway of Chiaki's house or something?! Arrgghhh! I wish we had some release dates, at least so we know how long to wait. The SP should be airing soon, I would have thought - and I assume if it's in magazines, they'd have to have a release date soon?

AND CHIAKI AND SEBUMI ON FIRST-NAME BASIS. Shit gonna be good. Maybe Toma's going to be wronged by her, and Sebumi refuses to see it, hence guns pointed at each other? (How does he break two legs?!) I'm thinking the battle field thing on their desks could hint at a war between SPECs? Oh god, HURRY UP AND BE IN FRONT OF MY EYES.

How is your Trick watch going? I was trying to articulate why I love it so much, and I think it's those moments of quiet shippiness that make it for me. Have you gotten to the end of Season Three? The finale. Oh my gosh. I don't want to spoil you, so I'm being deliberately cagey :)

Actually, come to think of it, quiet moments of shippiness are a real Tsutsumi thing, full-stop. I love his blog - he's an exceptional photographer, but I wish he'd stop posting pictures of the sky and have one of like, Erika and Ryo making out or something. I'll go down with the ship, too. Just like Titanic!

I think I'm going to start Liar Game this week, because I love Tabe Mikako (Deka Wanko: surprisingly good). I was going to start surmising that Erika is more invested in SPEC and Toma blah blah that's why she turned it down blah blah but maybe she just felt it was time to move on? I was going to attempt the Nakama Yukie/Ryo drama but it looks like it will make my teeth hurt so I'm going to put it aside for now.

As for graphics...oh god, they're not good at all, but they're at my drama Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/lostinomo). I also attempted some Keizoku and SPEC drabbles, but I don't know how successful they were. And just because, my BFF Liz posted about SPEC after I arm wrestled her into watching it, which is here (http://lizbee.livejournal.com/1200065.html). Spreadin' the love~

I should go to bed. I've saved the scans to my phone so I can creepily look at them tomorrow. And I'm planning a Keizoku fanmix - any song suggestions?

I'm so sorry it took forever for me to reply, it's been a crazy week as everyone's trying to catch up here, what with the whole student uprising and everything. We're supposed to finish our first semester (which should have been finished in july) ASAP, so we just started to take our finals. Anyway, I'm finally done, so it's back to dramaland for me, lol.

KEIZOKU BOOKS, omg. I think being able to buy stuff online is one of the main reasons I'm seriously considering getting a job this summer. There's some lovely merchandise out there, and damnit, I WANT THOSE BOOKS. And yes, if you eventually scan some of it, I would love to see it. I have zero knowledge of french, but a good friend of mine is a translator, so I could get him to look up some of those phrases if you want.
It's so amazing that you went to Japan. Is it as pretty as I imagine it to be? It's been my dream to go there since my dad went like 13 years ago and brought my sister and I a crapton of gifts and stories. He had to go a second time, and when he came back I just knew I had to go there someday. I took japanese lessons for almost three years, but had to stop after I started going to college. I will pick it up again someday, so right now I try to keep the language fresh in my mind by listening to a lot of japanese music, reading magazines and watching jdramas and movies, lol. I have even been reading some SPEC fic in japanese, which has really helped calm my anxiety.

I love kdramas as well. AND YOU KNOW KOREAN? Admiring you so hard rn. It seems like such a difficult language to learn, but it sounds so effin' beautiful, I can't even.... some of my favorite dramas of all time are korean. My name is Kim Sam-soon, for example. City Hall and Best Love had me obsessed for months. I wept like a baby with Stairway to Heaven (which strangely enough was aired here and did quite well), even though it's so dramatic and over the top, lmao. I'll pretty much watch anything if it has Cha Seung-won in it, haha. I remember reading that in South Korea CSW is absolutely everywhere, so I'm not surprised about Abe Hiroshi being everywhere in Japan, lol. They have a lot in common, apparently.
If Joe and Chiaki ever dated, it wouldn't be surprising. They have great chemistry. I think he got married a couple of years ago (to Kashii Yu, who is equally as quirky) and became a dad some time later.

I'm glad you're done with your finals :) Are the protests over? To be honest, it wasn't covered here in the press at all, so I only caught wind of it through work (I work in ~the travel industry~) and you mentioning it. Are you getting special consideration at all from your school? Or is it just business as usual?

THE BOOKS ARE AMAZING. I'm lucky in that there's a really reasonable proxy service based here in Melbourne (where I live), so Yahoo! Auctions are easy and cheap to bid on. Except...yeah, my pay cheque takes a big hit. But it's so worth it. The auctions always list that they're in "second-hand condition" and they all look as good as the day they were bought originally, I swear. I'll scan in some of the pictures this week, but here are some crappy ones I took with my phone:

The first picture in that uh-mazing photoshoot (lol mind my fingers in the picture) (http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l509/lostinomo/photo1.jpg)
Behind the scenes - Miki looks like she's trying to escape (http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l509/lostinomo/photo4.jpg)
Behind the scenes of the movie (http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l509/lostinomo/photo.jpg)
Behind the scenes again - practicing the end scene down the bottom and Atsuro and Sarina I'm guessing after their last scene together <3 (http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l509/lostinomo/photo3.jpg)
LOL HAIR (http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l509/lostinomo/photo2.jpg)

I'd totally recommend getting the Keizoku movie book thing, for sure. And I'll scan in the French bits so we can utilise your friend's translation skills :D

Japan was amazingly beautiful. Kyoto was my favourite place, but the whole place is just gorgeous. I kind of didn't want to leave, to be honest! I kind of want to go back and work there, teaching English or something, but we'll see. You have to go. I'll meet you there, we'll creep around all the drama locations ;)

I'm learning Korean, I don't know it all yet!! I do university part time. And you know almost three languages, so I'm admiring you so hard (you have to translate those SPEC fics, immediately. I assume there's a whole fandom I don't even know about?). Korean's a set alphabet, so it's quite easy to get that part down. The rest is just the honorifics and trying not to ruin it with my terrible accent! You'd pick it up easily, I think.

CHA SEUNG-WON IS MY BIAS, you know that right?! Your taste is impecable. City Hall was basically the drama that pushed me over the edge, and I can't bring myself to finish Best Love because I don't want it to end. Yes, I know how stupid that sounds, just go with it.

Ooh link me to the blog! I'll Google Translate that shit, yes sir. SEBUMI COLLECTS FIGURINES. Of course he does. Hopefully that means we'll see inside his house. And if he has a giant diorama on his desk, maybe he's more comfortable with Nonomura and Toma? OVERANALYSING

Re: the gun pointing thing...idk, I've watched a lot of ~partners~ type shows and there's always that moment where they doubt each other. Dramatic tension blah blah. Maybe one Asakusa inhabits one of them or...I'm just taking a stab in the dark. I wonder if Chiaki's character will end up being evil, and Sebumi, wanting to trust someone again from his past, may believe her over Toma because of their history together. But I have no doubt who's side he'll end up on. If not, I'm flying to Japan and punching people. And yes, everyone needs to stay alive because I can't take finally loving Aya and having her killed. Like, what the fuck was that. [/bitter]

A TRAILER IN DECEMBER. I can't even. Is there any idea when the SP will come out? It says 2011, so hopefully December? I honestly haven't been so excited for something since 'Athena' (the sequel to IRIS). The day it's due, I'm calling in sick and just watching it over and over, I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK.

(I'm participating in the Kaleidoscope Exchange (http://dark-agenda.dreamwidth.org/) this year, and I got SPEC (a prompt I'm a bit side eye about, but I won't say it here in case the recipient is reading) - I might have to run past some ideas I have for the fic, as I'm worried I'm going to kill the characterisations with my not so subtle writing style. Sigh.)

TRICK <3333 I'm glad you loved it, so so so so glad. I forgot how much I loved the season three finale - they're just so not touchy-feely that her little head in his chest gets me right in mine. I will admit to you I got a little teary at the end of the last movie, because it was so final. I do hope they pick it up again, in the future - I can totally get behind a show where they're a crime-fighting married couple with a baby who fight constantly. There's just something so special about it, I can't put it into words. A lot of people I've recommended it to tend to stop halfway through season one because they think it's too out there, so I'm so glad you watched the whole way through. There's a bit of good fic at (blergh) FanFiction.net here (www.fanfiction.net/anime/Trick/), randomly in the anime section. I found it accidentally!

Yes yes hit me with Keizoku songs! I've started a vid to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-I-Lqy06g'>this song</a>, so fingers crossed it's not a huge mess of crossfades and angst. I've done 6 second, go me! (btw, here's my email addy: nouveaufille at gmail dot com - just in case replying to comments is getting tiring :)

There's this blog that I bookmarked at home that regularly posts info on the upcoming SPEC movies and SP. The person who owns it kinda gathers the staff's tweets and info in magazines and posts it up (I'll fetch you the link ASAP). If I read it right, we might be getting the trailer in December! I'm so excited it's not even funny. And it's just a trailer, ffs. I wondered a lot about the diorama in the spoiler pics, but I think I know what it is about after I looked through the drama website today. Apparently, Sebumi is a figurine maniac, lol. He collects gundam figurines, castle figurines and war figurines. The one on his desk is a war diorama involving british troops, lmao. I don't know why, but the fact that his hobby turned out to be something like this makes a lot of sense to me, rofl.
I'm hoping they're pointing the gun a someone from different directions, or that they used a different camera angle for them, idk. I'd hate it if Sebumi believed anyone else over Toma, considering how loyal she is. And although this is SPEC, I really hope they won't go the Keizoku way and someone ends up being stabbed/shot/drowned/etc in the end. I NEED EVERYONE ALIVE SO WE CAN GET A NEW SEASON, tyvm.
I have seen your graphics, and they're lovely. I've been "liking" them and saving them to creepily stare at them when I have time, lol. And if you ever feel like posting those drabbles, please let me know, I'd love to see them.

I FINISHED TRICK!!! Fantastic experience. I adored the season 3 finale (even when he trolled her in the end lmao), and was legit pissed off when they retconned their relationship in the subsequent SP, UGH. I was glad we almost got a confession in the latest movie, though. But it's like it's alway one step forward and three steps back with these two. Anyway, I hope the seasons, movies and SPs keep coming, because it's a great series, and Yamada Naoko is glorious and ahravfhasgsbd. I was genuinely sad when I finished it, so I started watching Keibuho Yabe Kenzo right away. It's not as amazing, but Namase Katsuhisa rocks and I love seeing Trick characters showing up every now and then.

I'll search through my songs to see if i find anything Keizoku appropiate... I'm really looking forward to that fanmix!

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