The Background

Sometimes you need a little challenge, and so I got this one off the LJ:

Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
Write a ficlet related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the ficlet; you start when the song starts, and stop when it’s over. No lingering afterwards! Do ten of these, then post them.

Not songfics per se, more like ficlets inspired by song. I like exercises like this because they let me spontaneously let things flow, which is fun when you are working on so many structured stories. Think of these as little scenes that may fall within “What It Means” or “The Saints Aren't Coming” or maybe even in their own alternative universes. Probably contain spoilers, but nothing blatant. As for the songs they are as follows:

Vampire Weekend Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Band makes it big through blogging? Indie goes mainstream at its finest)

Lucy GossettStrong Enough (my musical muse and her lyrics can be found in NOLA Rising)

Mandippal Jandu Everything I am (A little find from Toronto, good laid back music)

The Magnetic Fields Xavier Says (This whole album is a little trippy and was hard to write to)

Rufus Wainwright Baby (I heart Rufus and his baroque pop, but it was nice to have something not so over the top to come up)

The Hives You got it all...wrong (I need a little angry music every now and this and I totally think this is a chase scene song)

The City Life Mendenhalla(I love these guys and not just because they are friends, check out their myspace page thecitylife1)

StereophonicsMaybe Tomorrow Live (I have loved them since first hearing them in 1999, and even though I normally hate live albums, but this one actually works)

Irma Thomas Wish Someone would care (A classic and I worship her, if you don't know who she is, you are missing out)

Kasier Chiefs Ruby (I can't even begin to tell you why I found their songs hawt, but I do!)

And I will admit I did clean them up somewhat before I published them, so if the song ended in the middle of a sentence, I either finished it or deleted it. Fandom being CSI:NY, these are mostly Flack centric, but assume Gus is around.