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I've spent the past several weeks working away at my Sweet Charity fic, and I've found myself listening to the same music over and over again. This is a writing mix, not necessarily a fic mix--it doesn't tell a story so much as show you what I listen to, sometimes, when I'm writing. (Actually, all of my mixes do that, heh.) Lately I've been on an instrumental kick of all different kinds--classical, modern, post-rock, totally random stuff, and some of it seemed to come together quite nicely into a mixy sort of thing for Castiel. The instrumentals are bracketed by two a capella pieces, Rachmaninov's setting of Psalm 103/4 from Op 37 (Vespers) and my absolute favorite Renaissance piece, Thomas Tallis's motet Spem in alium.

The title plays with a notion insight2 mentioned to me, regarding angels, voices, and exploding glass, the vox divina and all that. So.... What happens when an angel can't speak?



( sine uoce, angelus non sum [Voiceless, I'm no angel] )


.art: And I wake up blind, like my dreams were too bright
Cover for strangeandcharm's lovely fic, which you can read here. It has so much I love--mindfuckery, Castiel, Jimmy, confusion, angst, pain, and an ohmyheart ending.



( and I wake up blind, like my dreams were too bright )

devilc passed on some Johnny Winter to me, and since I had such an awesome time putting together Nine O'Clock Blues (and omg, I'm so thrilled you guys liked it, seriously, the blues are so great), I raided my blues collection a second time and scrounged together one more fanmix. Seriously, these things are addictive... I mean, listening to my favorite music and being all "Dude, back in 1970 Johnny Winter totally knew and shared the Winchesters' epic man pain" in the manner of a twelve-year-old girl, what's not to love?

Like the last mix, 'Blues for the End Days' is kind of general SPN-ish, mostly S4, though. I have a very, very deep fondness for, in particular, Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version of "I Put a Spell on You" and John Lee Hooker's "Serves Me Right to Suffer." But I think you'll agree that Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" was totally written for Dean Winchester. Y/Y.



( Blues for the End Days )

Okay, so this is possibly the first fanmix I've ever done... Very likely with the exception of Robert Johnson and Chris Thomas, Dean would hate every song on here, but too bad. It's taken from music I listen to when trying to get ideas together for art and fics, and it occured to me that the lyrics of some of the songs might plot a nice trajectory from S3 through S4 and into a future where I imagine an ending that is not completely blood and pain. The final track is one of my favorites, but I kind of love everything on here.



( The Apocalypse for Beginners )

In other news: I am super excited about my Sweet Charity stuff! There are Ideas starting to foment. On a vaguely related topic, No Parachute was nominated for this monthly award-thingy over at The Readers Have Spoken(?) and if you'd like, you can vote for it here. And, on a topic not at all related to any of the above, I should probably clean stuff today.