You Can't Kiss A Movie: Mix by morganya

[rsadelle]

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Master Post

I've been making an effort over the last year and a half or so to listen to new-to-me music, so the first thing I was excited about with this mix was that I only knew one song on it. Then, once I listened to it, I was also excited about the way it fits with the story. I love that it sounds like a movie soundtrack, but not the glossy new-school, let's shove any music that we want to promote now onto it sort of movie soundtrack. This is an old-school, mellow soundtrack for a romantic movie, which is absolutely perfect for this story.

morganya, thank you so much for such a wonderful mix, and for choosing my story!


First, the spoiler free track listing:

You Can't Kiss a Movie
A fanmix

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Note: Mix title stolen from Jean-Luc Godard.

1. Buckcherry - For the Movies


2. Lou Rawls - Show Business


3. Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend


4. Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk


5. Morrissey - Certain People I Know


6. Elvis Costello - Episode of Blonde


7. Averi - In Tune


8. Beat Happening - I Let Him Get to Me


9. Kings of Convenience - Singing Softly To Me


10. *NSYNC - I Drive Myself Crazy


11. Human League - Don't You Want Me


12. Kirsty MacColl - Caroline


13. Gene - Your Love, It Lies


14. Matt Nathanson - Falling Apart


15. The Weepies - Somebody Loved


16. Ben and Jason - That Film With All the Kisses at the End

Below the cut is the spoiler-filled version.

1. Buckcherry – For the Movies

I want to get on top of this
I want to build that trust again
And if I give it all I got, I'm sure you'll do the same

Victoria shook off the memory. She'd seen Gabe around since then, and they'd nodded politely. Leighton had been filming on location for much of the last two years, so Victoria didn't have to see her, which was good. They'd been friends, before Victoria put Leighton in her movie. Leighton had betrayed her on a whole other level.

2. Lou Rawls – Show Business

And it's a rough, rough business.
Such a tough, tough business.
But it's my business, it's my life.

Gabe's mouth twisted into something that might have been a smile if it were softer. "And if I say no?"

"Then I say no." Victoria leaned forward and met his eyes directly. "I know you, and if there's one thing you care about, it's movies. You can say yes and we can make this," she tapped the script, "into one hell of a movie. Or you can say no, and someone else will do it." She sat back. "No one else will be able to do it justice the way we can."

3. Talk Talk – My Foolish Friend

Don't try to live my life
Upon this weary line
My foolish friend
Don't tell me if I'm right

In the middle of her own turmoil over working with Gabe again, she hadn't stopped to think how Nate would feel about it. He'd gotten almost as close to Gabe as she had, and she'd heard tales - from both of them - about the adventures they had when they went out drinking together. But Nate had chosen her, in the end. He'd been the one to hold her together after she threw the glass at Gabe, when she thought her sobs and the pain of her heart breaking would tear her apart.

4. Frightened Rabbit – Backwards Walk

I been working on my backwards walk
There's nowhere else for me to go
Except back to you just one last time
Say yes before I change my mind

Victoria had to swallow against the lump in her throat. She had to get herself under control. She couldn't make a movie with the guy if she kept letting herself get swept away by everything she felt every time she heard his name.

5. Morrissey – Certain People I Know

I trust the views of
certain people I know
They look at danger
And they laugh their heads off

"As I'm sure most of you have heard, our lead is Gabe Saporta. He can be an ass, but he's serious about the work. He and Crush are on board, but other than that, you're the only people attached to this project. If you have ideas about who else we should look at, let me know. I'm going to count on you to hire some of your own crews." Victoria glanced down at her notes to make sure she was covering everything she wanted to in her introductory spiel. "Any questions?"

6. Elvis Costello – Episode of Blonde

Did her green eyes seduce you and make you get so weak?
Was there fire engine red that she left upon your cheek?
It's such a shame you had to break the heart
You could have counted on but the last thing you need is another
Episode of blonde

"You said it, not me." Victoria smirked at him for a moment, then asked, "You think you can work with her?"

He shrugged. "Sure. She's a good actress, she took direction." He tapped his fingers against the back of the chair he was straddling. "I particularly liked the way she said wasn't going to sleep with me."

7. Averi – In Tune

Do you dream the things I dream?
Do you ever think of me?
And if all this could change
Would you still want it the same?

Nate had his laptop open to make notes. Jon leaned back in his chair and seemed perfectly at ease. Pete rested his elbows on the table, chin on his hands, and watched with an intensity that Victoria wouldn't have guessed at. Gabe nodded at some things and grimaced at others. The places he didn't like were the same places Victoria could see needed to be smoothed out.

She hadn't loved working with him just because she'd been in love with him.

8. Beat Happening – I Let Him Get to Me

I think about how I feel this way
I think about it most every day
I try to change the way I feel about you
but when I try I see that I'm not being true

She should have been annoyed; Gabe was acting awfully presumptuous, and this wasn't before, when he'd had the right to. But he'd made sure she had something to eat and the promise of a cigarette, and he'd sent the quietest of the PAs to do it. She bit into the sandwich and couldn't be anything other than grateful.

9. Kings of Convenience – Singing Softly to Me

I didn't know you then, now did I, girl?
I couldn't hear you singing softly to me.
I didn't know you then, now did I, girl?
I didn't see the brave girl so near me.

"I think you underestimate yourself."

Victoria looked at him instead of past him, and found herself caught by the intensity of the look on his face.

"You," he said, and then he shook his head. "You're amazing," he said softly, and she wanted to step forward and lean into him, feel the force of that belief against her body.

She didn't trust herself to touch him, or speak, so she just nodded and stepped around him to see what her designers needed.

10. *NSYNC – I Drive Myself Crazy

You confessed your love, undying devotion
I confessed my need to be free
And now I'm left with all this pain
I've only got myself to blame

"We need two more to do an NSync song," Alex called back, and Victoria started laughing as Gabe grabbed one of the other PAs and pushed him toward them. He corralled a second unoccupied PA, until the Alexes had become a group of five.

11. Human League – Don't You Want Me

You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find
You think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

She nearly froze when she had to sing, "I still love you," but she sang it to the audience and didn't look at Gabe.

She gulped at the end of her drink when the song was over, and carefully made her way down the steps and back to her place next to Nate. The roaring of her heart in her ears drowned out the clapping.

12. Kirsty MacColl – Caroline

How can I want you so bad
She has to lose again
How could you walk out on her
And turn to her best friend
It was wrong from the start
I wish I'd turned you away
And my head said go, but my heart, my heart said stay

"How in love with him were you?" She hadn't recognized it before, when she was in so deep she couldn't see anything but Gabe. She might not have recognized it now, except for the way Nate looked so miserable confessing to her.

Nate jerked back as if she'd slapped him, but said, after a moment, "Not as much as you were."

"And you chose me."

"How could I not?" Nate slid forward on the couch and drew her into a hug that was just as awkward for the angle as for the moment. "You're my director."

13. Gene – Your Love, It Lies

Your love, it lies
those hands deny the hatred in your eyes
so turn that down
and give me a reply,
but I'm still left wanting more

Gabe put his burrito down. "Sometimes," he said, "I wish you would lie to me."

"Do you really? I thought there were enough people in your life who lie to you." It was something he'd told her before, and she didn't think, until after she'd said it, about the way her repeating it would tell him she remembered that.

"Okay," Gabe conceded, "maybe not really. I guess I wish the truth were easier to take."

"That's one of those things you have to work for."

"I'm willing to do that."

Victoria wanted him to work for it, to work for her, so much it made her heart ache.

14. Matt Nathanson – Falling Apart

All I say, it doesn't matter anyway.
I've given up, so call my bluff.
Cause I just need to be reminded who I am.
I'm falling apart.

Gabe's hands moved to clutch at her shoulders. "I can't do that again."

"You don't have to." Victoria stroked her hands up and down his back. "We got it. You don't have to do that again."

His eyes were wide when he looked at her. "Victoria." She could hear that his voice was on the verge of breaking.

15. The Weepies – Somebody Loved

Now my feet turn the corner back home
Sun turns the evening to rose
Stars turning high up above
You turn me into somebody loved

He looked up at her, and his eyes seemed to catch and linger on her face. "What are you thinking?"

Victoria didn't lie to him, and she chose not to evade the question either. "I like you when you're just being you."

"Well, Miss Asher," Gabe said, "I always like you."

16. Ben & Jason – That Film With All the Kisses in the End

Are we together again?
Are we in that film with all the kisses at the end?
Kiss me anyway

"No." Victoria reached across the scant space between them. Gabe stayed perfectly still, as if he were afraid moving would make her stop. "I never stopped loving you." Their kiss, when she pressed her lips to his, was perfect, and she wasn't even thinking how to frame it.

Comments

[mayqueen517.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a beautiful and fitting mix!

<3

[rsadelle]

Isn't it perfect?