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List all the songs whose lyrics you've used for fic titles.

All The Crazy Married People (The Office/How I Met Your Mother crossover) - title from "Side by Side" from the musical Company
Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together (Stargate Atlantis) - title from "Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together" by Morrissey
Blinded by the White Light (CSI: Las Vegas) - title from "Untitled" by Simple Plan
California Dreaming (CSI: Las Vegas) - title from "California Dreaming" by The Mommas and the Papas
The Fate You’ve Carved on Me (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) - the title comes from "Gravity" by Vienna Teng
Friends in Low Places (CSI: Las Vegas) - title from "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks
The Girl With the Weight of the World in Her Hands (Stargate: Atlantis) - the title comes from "The Girl With the Weight of the World in Her Hands" by Indigo Girls
A Glacier's Patience (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) - the title comes from "This Tornado Loves You" by Neko Case
Hanging by a Moment (CSI: Las Vegas) - title from "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse
Hello, Young Lovers (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) - title from "Hello, Young Lovers" from the musical The King and I
I'm Gonna Need a Forklift ‘Cause All the Baggage Weighs a Ton (How I Met Your Mother) - title from "Almost" by Bowling for Soup
The Land of a Thousand Words (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "The Land of a Thousand Words" by Scissor Sisters
Last Year's War (Stargate: Atlantis/SG-1 crossover) - title from "Last Year's War" by Sarah Slean
Like An Idea She Came To Me (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "She Says" by Ani DiFranco
Now The Clocks Are Running (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "Love in the Lies" by Amos Lee
Outnumbered Like the Alamo (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "This is War" by Ben Kweller
Pity the Child (House, M.D.) - title from "Pity the Child" from the musical Chess
Round and Round the Roundabout (Back Where We Began) (CSI: Las Vegas) - title from "Turning" from the musical Les Miserables
she seeks the stars (and spirals up their stairs) (Doctor Who - 1963) - title from "She Lives in a Time of Her Own" by the 13th Floor Elevators
So hot with love, we burned our hands (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "Currents" by Dashboard Confessional
Tell Your Story Now (Boy Meets World) - title from "Shine" by Vienna Teng
We Make Our Own Gravity To Give Weight To Things (Stargate: Atlantis/SG-1 crossover) - title from "Hour Follows Hour" by Ani DiFranco
Well he's a mourning star with a champagne heart (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "Prodigal Son" by Bad Religion
You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son (Stargate: Atlantis) - title from "You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" by Wolf Parade

And that is how I will keep singing this song under my breath until spring, heh.



And then the snow,
And then the snow came, we were always out shoveling,
And we'd drop to sleep exhausted,
Then we'd wake up, and it's snowing again.

Also, I am still pissed that the person I spoke to at my job today tried to guilt trip me into working today. Dude, it snowed six inches over night, and there are 25 MPH winds and I can't see out my window, pretty much, and also, weather.com is saying not to venture outside, so suck on it. I mean, it's not even like my job is vital or anything, I'm a cashier, not a doctor or EMT. Jesus. Even my brother's store closed today!

This? Needs to be made into a fic.

Canadians = red shirts
Czechs = white shirts



Canadian Owen Nolan, the central figure in a wild melee at the world hockey championships, says he has nothing to apologize for. ... "As far as what I did, I'd probably do it again," Nolan said Thursday. "I've never seen stickwork like that in my life. I've never been speared so much in my whole career, let along one game."

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In Finland's largest daily newspaper, the Helsinki Sanomat, columnist Juhani Syvainen wrote: "The Canadian professionals . . . should be ashamed of themselves. Owen Nolan was not the only anti-hero on the ice. Canadians attacked the Czechs in such an organized way that you might have suspected the coach gave the order to attack." Canadian coach Andy Murray denied the charge, alleging the Czechs are considered the dirtiest hockey team in Europe because of their stickwork.

C'mon, Rodney and Radek would so fight about this.

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Also, three songs I posted to audiography:

Dar Williams - I Had No Right
And all my country saw were priests who broke the law.
First it was question, then it was a mission,
How to be American, how to be a Christian,
If the law is their cross, and the cross is burning...

Les Miserables - Do You Hear the People Sing?
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart, echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes

Assassins - Another National Anthem
There are those who love regetting,
There are those who like extremes,
There are those who thrive on chaos
And despair.
There are those who keep forgetting
How the country's built on dreams

Five For Fighting - America Town
Here in the borders of America Town
All of the dollies are spinning round and round
Hail to the chief
Let's just drag them all down
There's got to be a hero somewhere

Kate Rusby is probably one of my favorite singers in the known universe. So. Um. Sharing her. *grins* And one Fall Out Boy song because he's, um, singing about another guy's mouth tasting sweet. Yes.

Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?

I lay here; I'm weeping for the stars they have come,
I lay here not sleeping; now the long night has begun.
The man in the moon, oh he can't help but cry,
For there's no one to sing me lullabies,
Oh there's no one to sing me lullabies

( Lyrics )

All God's Angels

Will you marry me sir
Oh tether me down
For I am too free
Will you walk hand in hand with me
For I do carry a child by thee

( Lyrics )

Our Town

Up the street beside the red neon light
That's where I met my baby one hot summer night
He was the tender and I ordered a beer
It's been twenty years and I'm still sittin' here

( Lyrics )

I Am Stretched On Your Grave

Do you remember the night
Oh, the night when we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the touch of the frost?

( Lyrics )

Sailor Boy

Da da dum day, da da dum dee
Drift away sailor boys on the deep sea
Worry no more for you're safe now with me
Rest in my arms and my sweet melody

( Lyrics )

Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

One night and one more time
Thanks for the memories
Even though they weren't so great
"He tastes like you only sweeter"

( Lyrics )

This week's challenge was threesome songs. And I chose John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan/Evan Lorne as my threesome, because they're in my head and won't get out. Why? I'd prefer Rodney/Radek/Sam or Rodney/Radek/anyone, but no, John/Teyla/Evan are in my head. *shrugs helplessly*

Mary MacGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers

This is a pre-relationship song for them, well for all three of them together. From what Teyla knows of Earth culture, a relationship between three people doesn't seem to be accepted, and yet she finds herself drawn to both men.

( Loving you both is breakin' all the rules )

Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time

They're in the Pegasus Galaxy, facing the Wraith and other unfriendly natives. With that sort of situation, they decide to take what they can get, and screw what other people might think.

( Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime, but nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight )

Chantal Kreviazuk - Feels Like Home to Me

A John song for me, where he's contemplating life on Atlantis, and how he never expected to find a home, and not one, but two people to love, and many others he cares about.

( It feels like I'm all the way back where I belong )

Tina Arena - Love's Funny That Way

...Well, love does have a wicked sense of humor sometimes. If just in this situation seeing Rodney's reaction -- "Two? Two?! Of course, you're with both Teyla and the major-- huh. I wonder if Radek would be-- hm."

*snickers*

( So when you don't understand, should just leave it in love's hands; just live, laugh, see love's funny that way )

Both mp3s.

Dar Williams - The Kid

I'm the kid who thought we'd someday be lovers
Always held out that time would tell
Time was talking, guess I just wasn't listening
No surprise if you know me well

( Lyrics )

Dar Williams - Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart

Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart
Among the rags and the bones and the dirt.
There's piles of lies, and the love gone from her eyes,
And old moving boxes full of hurt.
Pull up a chair by the trouble and care.
I got whiskey, you're welcome to some.
Oh Lord, I have made you a place in my heart,
But I don't reckon you're gonna come.

( Lyrics )

So I'm going to have to pimp this: Giant Fandom Fanmix

The basic idea of this whole project is to comment with a fandom and/or fandoms you love and the songs that you associate with those fandoms. There is no limit to how many you can enter, and there's no rule that says you need to upload said songs. (it would be GREAT if you did, but I'm not going to force it).

Go check it out, download songs, check out the fandoms if you want, and maybe post a few songs of your own. :)

Here are the songs I'm giving them:

SGA

Zed - Renegade Fighter (John)

Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son (Ronon)

Dar Williams - By Way of Sorrow (Ronon)

Elisa - Fever (Radek to Rodney)

Five O'Clock Shadow - I'm Right (Rodney)

KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See (Teyla)

Heroes

The Eurythmics - I Saved the World Today (Peter)

Megadeth - Blood of Heroes (General)

The Weakerthans - Aside (Claude)

Jake 2.0

Semisonic - Secret Smile (Jake/Diane)

Feel free to help yourselves. :)

This week our topic was Ronon Dex, so here we go. :) They're all mp3s, and anyone can feel free to download!

Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son
This song I used for my Ronon Dex/Rodney McKay fic by the same name for the sga_santa this year, and well, just look at the title. Need I say more?
( You are a runner with a stolen voice, and you are a runner and I am my father's son )

Lea Salonga - The Journey
This is a song that epitomizes Ronon's determination. He's constantly moving, constantly *living* -- and despite everything he's been through, his life, his story isn't even close to being finished.
( What a journey it has been and the end is not in sight, but the stars are out tonight and they're bound to guide my way )

Alexi Murdoch - Dream About Flying
This is a pre-"Runner" Ronon song for me, in his early months or years as a Runner.
( Five years old I climbed up on a wall, Mother warned me but I took no heed, and like all creatures great and small, I took a fall and learned that I could bleed )

Breaking Benjamin - Unknown Soldier
Another one of Ronon as a Runner, doing what he has to survive.
( Count me in, violent, let's begin, feeding the sickness; how do I simplify, dislocate - the enemy's on the way )

Dar Williams - By Way of Sorrow
And to end on a happier note, this is Ronon when he first comes to Atlantis, when Sheppard and Teyla try to make him feel welcome, and he gradually begins to see the promise of home that Atlantis holds for him.
( You've been taken by the wind, you have known the kiss of sorrow, doors that would not take you in - outcast and a stranger )

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Okay, one more song, because, um, blue_raven and I had WAY too much fun with this song and Rodney being at a dance school but who isn't gay, damnit, no matter what Cadman says, and, yes, well, enjoy the song. It's a lot of fun.

Jackpot - Psycho Ballerina
( I can't be your Superman 'cause no one's really that super, but I'll steal the neighbor's cat with you; believe me when I say I'd love to run faster than a train someday and say all the right things to sweep you off your feet )

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And now for fanfic recs!

...Okay, I am title whore. I know this. And minervacat? I admit to a bit of worship when it comes to her titles. What's even better? The actual stories are wonderful too!

The Towers On The Heights Reach To Heav'n's Own Blue by minervacat

(Gen, SGA/SG-1, R) This is all about sports. ...Seriously. But that shouldn't deter you. It didn't deter me and the only sport I know anything about is soccer. The summary reads: "In which John Sheppard hates cricket and accidentally starts an intramural soccer league, and Cameron Mitchell thinks McKay's sister sucks." A lengthy story (it's a little over 9,000 words), it's humorous, witty, and has wonderful characterizations of the SGA cast, as minervacat's always do.

The senior staff each got their own compressed file from the SGC's bi-weekly databursts; Elizabeth's was mostly personnel reports, expense accounts, administrata -- Rodney's files were from Sam Carter and Dr. Lee and Jeannie, half personal emails (Jeannie) and half project reports on various pieces of Ancient tech (Carter and Dr. Lee). Everyone had personal emails in the databurst, except for John, because there wasn't anyone on Earth who John wanted to hear from. Or who, if John had heard from, John would write back to.

John got weapons specs to check out, and the occasional mission report from General Landry, if the General thought the battle information was important. One of the Marines -- one of the only Marines who'd liked him while he was commanding SG-9 -- occasionally sent him sports scores, but that was it. No personal email, filtering down from the databurst files and popping into his inbox, days after they'd been sent.

It was kind of a relief, actually. John didn't mind at all. (Rodney hated the way the databurst handled emails sent from outside the Atlantis network; he filtered everything that came from the SGC into a folder and sometimes didn't look at them until weeks later. "They waited a week," he said to Elizabeth when she complained about Rodney's email habits. "They can wait another week.")

we were never good soldiers (or very good fighters) by minervacat

(Ronon/Teyla, R) Spoilers up to "The Return I." Baby!fic! A lovely, slightly melancholy but beautifully hopeful look at how life goes on, how it MUST go on, in the Pegasus Galaxy.

Teyla crossed her arms across her chest, and every man in the gate room backed up; even the Marines were a little intimidated by her on a good day, and since she had demonstrated that she could still beat them at even their own games, even when she was eight months pregnant, intimidation had slid a little toward fear and a lot toward respect. No one was going to step between John and Teyla, not even if she couldn't fasten her vest shut anymore, not even if she had to rest her arms on her stomach when she crossed them.

"If anything happens to you or the baby," John tried again, "Ronon would eat me for lunch."

Teyla raised an eyebrow.

"Ronon, make her go back to her quarters and see that she stays there," John said, in his best I'm-the-military-commander-of-Atlantis voice, the one that no one actually listened to unless death was on the line.

Ronon, who handled the idea of becoming a father with a great deal of grace and Zen calm, stared at his wife, who had shifted her level stare from John to him. Ronon stared at his Teyla, stared at her round, full belly, and said, "But how am I supposed to pick her up?"

Teyla glared harder. John hid behind Rodney.

Belling the Cat by mklutz

(Gen, SGA, MENSA-verse, G) Contains minor spoilers for “Sunday” about Lorne, but nothing plot-related. But this cute piece, where Ancient technology strikes again, and you get to see Rod, Lorne, and Zelenka as cats and hilarity ensues, was inspired by the MENSA Remix Challenge over at mensa_au, which y'all should check out. This piece is short, adorable, and just made me smile the entire time. And I loved dork!Sheppard. A lot.

"You're taking this pretty personally, Dr. McKay," Sheppard sighs after the meeting ends. He's sitting ramrod straight in his usual seat and blinking behind his glasses. "This is an excellent research opportunity and you should appreciate the sheer multitude of possible applications."

There are so many ways Rod could reply to that, but all he manages is a growl-hiss that’s really less masculine than he would like.

"Besides," Sheppard continues, oblivious, "if you would come to our Mensa meeting this week you could be the first cat to win a game of Power Barons. In space!" Sheppard likes adding "In space!" to the end of things, possibly to remind himself that he is actually living in an Ancient Alien city in another galaxy.

So, atlantis_vids is doing an awesome challenge.

Vidders, lurkers, passing ships in the night, anyone who likes can reply to this post and suggest a song they would like to see made into a vid.

If you're interested, check the challenge out here. They'll accept songs until February 9th, and vidders have until March 11th. :)

*cough* And I, uh, got a little over-enthusiastic, probably, but if anyone wants to steal some of the music I put up for the challenge, just click here.

The songs are:

Falling Like a Star - Cara Dillon
Other Side of the World - KT Tunstall
The Sound of White - Missy Higgins
Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
Song Beneath the Song - Maria Taylor
My Poor Friend Me - Bad Religion
The Tower – Vienna Teng
Fever - Elisa

The topic this week was songs we could picture being played in the background of a liason on Atlantis. *grins* Here's my five, which aren't nearly as interesting as yours, lilyayl. (I have surprisingly few sexual songs on my computer. *eyes it*)

All songs are mp3 unless otherwise noted. :)

The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
This is the song for secret love affairs, and with the rules about fraternizing being as they are in the military and chain-of-command and whatnot, I figure this song would work for a lot of secret relationship

( Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret )

Ben Harper - Sexual Healing
This is, um, a very sexual song. *grin* Not sure what else I can say about it.

( Just grab a hold and take control of my body and mind soon we'll be making love )

Ben Folds - I Touch Myself
This isn't my favorite version of the song, which is too bad because I adore Ben Folds, but it's the only one I had, and I think this is a very playful song.

( When you're around I'm always laughing, I want to make you mine )

Bruce Springsteen - Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)
One-night stand, anyone? *grin* With the way life is in the Pegasus Galaxy, I can see a lot of people rationalizing one-night stands like this.

( Time is now maybe we could get skin to skin )

Garth Brooks - The Red Strokes (wmv)
If I had a Top 10 Songs, I would probably include this one. It's sweet and sensual, and it has some of my favorite lyrics ever, elegant and lovely and poetic.

( Oh, the blues will be blue and the jealousies green but when love picks its shade it demands to be seen )