Let Me Tell You About Rose Marshall

Well, I'm supposed to be off the tubes tonight, hanging out at my mom's and watching horrible crime shows with her and the kitties. But due to an unanticipated alignment of Friday the 13th-type circumstances (including melodramatic car trouble, my mom getting stiffed by a client, and the boyfriend winning the World Douchebag Trophy), that didn't quite happen. So instead I am getting up at the asscrack of dawn tomorrow so we can go help a friend move into her new apartment, and I have tonight free to do whatever I want. Which, as it turns out, is working on the Loew/Messi Fic of Utter WTF and making plans with hanjuuluver to go into town this week and stalk David Tennant. And making a music post! Because I got a new CD for my birthday last week, and something as awesome as Seanan McGuire really needs to be shared.

5 Awesome Seanan McGuire Songs (that make me think about other characters)

1. Take Advantage of Me

The kitsune girl with the sakura smile,
She winks as she pours out the tea,
And the mockingbird choir performs in vaudeville style,
‘Won’t you take advantage of me?’

It’s a cabaret of changes; it’s a night you won’t forget.
It’s the sort of invitation men would trade their lives to get.
It’s the place where who you are meets who you haven’t been yet;
You may wake up broken-hearted, but you’ll never regret
This single night of pure lunacy --
Won’t you take advantage of me?

This song is like Seanan McGuire reached into my head, found Fox and Jamie, and made a song about them. It is freaky how well this fits the two of them (aside from the fact that Fox is very much not a girl this go-round). It makes me want to write a story about the first time Fox takes Jamie to his favorite bar in the Lost Quarter, and Jamie's eyes just about fall out of his head.

2. Downhome Aphrodite

She was a down-home Aphrodite and her eyes were like the sea
And the minute that I saw her, lord, she had the best of me
And I said ‘Darling...won’t you let me take you home?
Because the night is dark, and faith is thin,
And ‘though I don’t know where you’ve been
This world ain’t a place for a woman all alone.’

I said ‘let me be your Vulcan’, she said ‘honey what’s your angle?’
I said ‘ain’t got no angle at all...
I’m just looking for a woman who knows how to roll the dice
And who doesn't give one good god-damn ‘bout where the cards may fall.’

Another Fox/Jamie song. I'm still not sure I understand what a thousand-year-old fox god sees in a geeky little twenty-something cartoonist, but the sheer depth of Fox's besottedness never ceases to amuse me. Oh boys.

3. Paper Moon

I don’t want to live so afraid to die
I never leave the ground, I never take a chance.
So you can find me out there in that endless sky;
Some people run away, but I prefer to dance.
Though I’m somewhere off the beaten track,
That’s no guarantee that I won’t come back.
So tell my lover don’t forget me soon...
He can see my face in the paper moon

Paper moons and tinsel stars
Light your way no matter where you are.
I can fly forever, never go too far...
If a man don’t reach, then what’s a heaven for?

Doctor/Master. It's odd - I have a huge playlist of Doctor/Master songs, but almost all of them are Master POV, which means they are mostly about loving someone who leaves you or doesn't love you back, with a little bit of bitterness and creepy stalking thrown in for good measure. But this song is definitely from the Doctor's perspective. So of course it's about running away.

4. In This Sea

I've always loved the lily-maids, the lighthouse keepers' daughters,
The children of the river and the keepers of the waves.
I take them to my bed and let them take me to the waters,
To the mysteries and silences no hero ever saves.

I've always loved what's best unloved, the ones bound fast to leave me,
The empty-handed maidens who have placed their swords in stones.
I take them to my bed, although I know that they'll deceive me;
It's better to be lost at sea than found, but all alone.

Doctor/Companions. I don't necessarily think this is how the Doctor would say he feels about his Companions. But it remains that the Doctor keeps taking in and (platonic or not) falling for people he knows will leave him, and I love that he knows what will happen and does it anyway, and I love how wistfully resigned this song is to the whole thing.

5. Pretty Little Dead Girl

Now she’s a pretty little dead girl in a coup de ville,
And she’s looking for a drag race up on Dead Man’s Hill,
And if you’ve got a brain, boy, you’d better drive on by.
Because she looks real sweet and she smiles real nice,
But you’d better take some well-meant good advice:
If you race with Rose, then you’re probably gonna die.

I..okay, fine, I don't have a pairing for this song. But it was too awesome to leave off! IT IS A SONG ABOUT A GHOSTLY TEENAGE DRAG RACER, WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? NOTHING, THAT'S WHAT.