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[quigonejinn]

Dear Hodder Headline Audiobooks:

If you take a cat, cut its ears off, use acid to burn off the legs, pluck all the fur off of it, graft cow organs onto it, all the while using evil technology to keep it alive despite the torture, and then use brainwashing electrodes to brainwash it into thinking that it's a duck that likes bread crusts and swimming, is it still a cat?

Or, intead, has it become some TERRIBLE, AWFUL HYBRID THING THAT SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF ITS MISERY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE?

If your anwer "no" to the first question and anything resembling "yes" to the second, perhaps you should re-consider your version of Lieutenant Hornblower, stripped as it is of the Hornblower-Bush dynamic and every thing that makes it the lively, lovely book it is. Even Ioan Gruffudd and the Cutest Accent Ever won't do it for me if the script excludes 98.9% of Bush's characterization and features, instead, shitty atmospheric music and acting directions like, "Ioan, squeak like they have your balls in a clamp!" or "Narrator! For Captain Sawyer's voice, imitate Michael Jackson trying to talk sexy! It'll be really effective, and your audience will be frightened and not, you know, so revolted that they're tempted to throw the cassette player across the room!"

No love,

quigonejinn

(admittedly, I only listened to the first fifteen minutes or so, and I know this is a really extreme reaction, but I'd really been looking forward to hearing Gruffudd talk about Bush and Hornblower locking eyes for the first time, etc, etc. I'll give listening another shot when I'm not quite so impatient and have lowered expectations.

And no, the original text up there didn't make sense. FEATHERED CATS! PUT IT DOWN TO TOTAL RAGE.)

...

So. Because it's the weekend. Tell me a scene -- canon, EU, fanfiction, whatever -- from a fandom that we share, and I'll upload the song that they should play in the background. For example, I'll tell you the song in my head that corresponds to the first time that Obi-Wan Kenobi sees the sun rise on Tattooine after he's exiled there or what is so totally the porno theme song for when Bush and Hornblower go off on their two days debauch in Kingston or even, you know. A scene from something you've written. :D

Alternatively, leave a comment, and I'll just send you a song that, for some reason, I associate with you or think that you should hear.

Comments

[black-hound.livejournal.com]

*smites the audiobook people*

When I listened to FC and found NO HAND HOLDING. I didn't listen to anything else. Yeah, that shitty atmospheric music, creepy foreign accents and no Bush!Hornblower love.

*throws tapes out the window*

And you know I want desperately to hear the porno theme for the Kingston 'shaken and limp' debauch. XD

am watching sea of souls and about to DIE FROM HOW HOT MCGANN IS

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Words cannot even expres my rage. The shitty, shitty, shitty editing starts at the very beginning -- no description of Hornblower and his sunken cheeks tanding by the rail. No evaluation of Hornblower as a hothead. No little twinkle. No "OMFG I MUST NOT GET A CRUSH ON THIS MAN W/IN FIVE SECONDS OF MEETING HIM." No creeepy, manipulative Sawyer. None.

JUST LOTS AND LOTS OF MUZAKLICIOUS SEA SHANTIES *rends hair*

fuck 'em all day, fuck 'em all night.

Artist and song info in the ID3 tag. It's a little tongue in cheek, but it ties into how I think Bush has a very limited use for women in his life. They're either relatives, to be supported, or uh. You know.

And how the hell can you get "shaken and limp" from gambling? No, I remain firmly convinced that Bush fucked his way from one end of the officer's leisure section of Kingston to the other, and then, when he was too bleary to stand, got screwed on his knees by a newly minted Commander. :D

How about a swop?

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

One for Archie in Kingston

<a href="http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=25VDNEW8M9YEC3MUJ7OWDZL903> And one for Edrington. Either shooting his horse, or just in general.</a> And gods know, I have more. I make huge honking playlists for writing, and they sort of stick with me. :)

Re: How about a swop?

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Buggery! screwed up a link!

And One for Edrington. Possibly for the end of F and L, but in my happy delusional world :), it's post-Kingston

I have more. You somehow knew this, right? :)

[iansmomesq.livejournal.com]

Here's the scene to set to music for me: When Hornblower is seasick as he first comes aboard the Justinian. ;) Aww, poor ickle Horry. *barf* 'Scuse me.

And OMG I'm very glad I never ordered those audiobooks. Very glad. Thanks for that warning there. Very glad.

And yes, it is hard to get beyond teh hotness in Sea of Souls, innit? *wuh*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

AM DYING. AM UNABLE TO CONCENTRATE ON THE PLOT. AM JUST. HOLY FUCK. THE SUIT. THE SUIT. BOOKS. BOOKS AND MCGANN. HOW DO J:LKDHG:IEU:LFJD:LKGH:LDKJF:LKDSJF:LDKJF.

I mean, I look at him, and all I can think about is all the dirty, dirty, dirty things I'd like to do in his office with him. *____*

Am thinking about the song. :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. So. OK. I have no idea what sort of music best embodies "seasick," so here:

baby goes to sea!

You can just imagine that the doot-doot-doot-doot bit at the end is Horry running around desperately trying to find a place below deck where it looks like he can vomit. XD Each clap is a staggery step he takes!

And I love this song way too much anyways.

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

I am vaguely curious about the Obi-Wan song - having watched Revenge of the Sith today - but I would really like to know what music goes with the memorable peg-leg-boyfriend/wacko-repressive-boyfriend breakfast:

Bush ran an appreciative eye over the loaded table, and at Hornblower's invitation sat down with appetite. Bush had been poor, too, most of his life, with a host of indigent female relations dependent on his pay. He was not yet surfeited with luxury. But Hornblower's characteristic cross-grainedness had got the better of him; he had wanted coffee, and he could not have coffee, and so he wanted nothing at all. Even lemonade was a mere mockery; he ate resentfully. It seemed to him that Bush, spreading potted char liberally on a biscuit and eating with all the appetite one might expect of him after a night on deck, was doing so deliberately to annoy him. Bush cocked an eye at him across the table and thought better of his first idea of making an appreciative comment on the food. If his queer Commodore chose to be in a bad mood it was best to leave him to it — Bush was better than a wife, thought Hornblower, his acute perceptions noting the gesture.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Have figured out songs and will upload after I come back from dinner. :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

This may very well be cheating to use music from another film, but: riding into sunrise

And the Breakfast of Total True Love Doom :D

[(Anonymous)]

When xanatos kills himself while qui-gon watches :O

[mozart.livejournal.com]

woops. that was me :P XD

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed about the tape. It sounds terrible. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING.

Does Ioan speak in a Welsh accent??

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

IT IS HORRID. AND AWFUL.

No, not a straight one. I was kind of spasming too hard in pain to pay strict attention, but I think it's a bit Welshier than than the usual one that he has.

[karabou.livejournal.com]

I want a song!

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

It was hard figuring out a song that you would like and that you hadn't heard before -- here's to hoping that you haven't heard the Cold Wind EP. :D

And oh look...

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

One for Horatio, even. Bloody Stupid Horatio :)

And I totally told BH I had to upload Pretty In Pink for Pellew :)

Re: And oh look...

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

will not burst out laughing like a 12 year old over the notion of "hard love" for Hornblower

will not burst out laughing like a 12 year old over the notion of "hard love" for Hornblower

will not burst out laughing like a 12 year old over the notion of "hard love" for Hornblower

*fails, burts out laughing hysterically, draws hearts around Horry and his hard, horny-handed boyfriend*

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

*stumbles out of cave of sickness and despair*

Music? *perks up* You are, like, the nicest person on LJ.

I want to know what song goes with... Anakin and obi-Wan meeting again in the afterlife. Be nice. ;)

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Also, this song sums up Mustafar (Anakin vs. Obi-Wan) for me:
http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=163KDR8DY0B1L2LUHOMDJRA09F

I know you don't like Anakin, but that scene gets to me a lot and this song is so perfect for it.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Me? Be mean to you? It would never happen. :O

Did I ever tell you, by the way, that I have the half-beginnings of an entire Obi-Wan/Anakin soundtrack on my HD? I'd been trying to figure them out, and one of the big way sthat I figure shit out liek that is listening to a given song and figuring out the ways in which the pairing is both like and unlike the song. :>

Anyways: one song from the FST because this song is utterly A/O to me and the one you actually asked for. I suspect the latter is a bit less cheery than you want. XD

:D

[marvolo.livejournal.com]

*meekly raises hand* You're pretty much the only person on my friends list with music taste that I find bulletproof, so lay it on me. I'd be particularly interested in anything that reminds you of AM, or AACP, if there is anything in particular that does. *sits on own Imp. playlist and whistles*

Re: :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Dude, SHARE IT DAMN YOU. I've realized that my Imperius addiction is like one of those slow-cycle addictions -- you know, it stays with you for years and years, but the cravings only flare up once in a while? When they come around, though, I'm pretty much cruising the streets of inner-city Detroit with one arm held out the car window and already tied off.

And hah. My musical taste bulletproof? You are being entirely too kind. Let's see if you still think that after hearing these:

AACP and the the last days in London (If it sounds familiar, it's a track from the Constant Gardener OST, which adgjdklfj.)

Attie: the narrow margin between the haves and the have-nots.

Also: Attie and Pansy during the trip out to South America and while they're trying to get set up in life.

it's such a pity :( :( :( It's A/P in their angsty teenage stage or something. Shut up, I'm a plebe. There's one other decent song on the album, but the rest of it sucks so hard. I always KNEW that Harvard was bad for people. XD

*drags self off with blood spurting from a dozen bullets to the body*

[flameofdeath.livejournal.com]

Hm. Because I'm Nita and you loved me even though I'm smelly because I just hand-mopped the whole kitchen floor...

...can I have one that reminds you of Order 66. *weeps* Or of Wellesley---NOT WELLINGTON---upon finding out how Simmerson fucked up majorly in Eagle.

XD Angst-whore.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Alas, I cannot think of one for Wellesley at that point, but:

For Order 66:

the Republic is dead. Unless you have amazing speakers or the volume jacked up really high, you're not going to hear much on the first 30 minutes of this track. Beware, it's a big file -- I don't know if you're familiar with Godspeed You Black Emperor, but their tracks tend to the long side.

dividing man from brothers. And this is for the actual detruction of the Temple itself

and the fight on Mustafar.

And if I ever make a Sharpe vid, I'd like to make it to this song.

For some reason, that last song reminds me a bit of you, too. <3