This morning I drove a good friend to SFO well before the buttcrack of dawn. He's flying out to Hawaii to visit his girlfriend whom he hasn't seen since she went back to school in August. We enjoyed the end of the Leonid meteor shower en route to the airport and had a nice, if still drowsy talk. After I dropped him off at the terminal and bid him farewell, I plugged in my iPod and decided I needed a musical to keep me awake on the return trip.

Having recently gone through 'Light in the Piazza', 'Legally Blonde' and 'Spamalot', I settled on 'Jekyll and Hyde'. After listening to the entirety of my compilation of various performances on my drive home, I've come to a few conclusions:

1.) Anthony Warlow is an orgasmic-voiced badass.
2.) Linda Eder is still my favorite Lucy.
3.) There used to be this video of this kid on Youtube doing an INTENSE rendition of The Confrontation-- he won some kind of crazy award at a high school broadway festival... but I can't find the link to share it! It must've been removed... D:
4.) Two songs from this musical I believe could (and perhaps should!) be picked up by the cast of Glee: In His Eyes, to be performed by Rachel and Quinn; and even though I see Rachel more fitting to role of Lucy, Puck and Quinn should sing Dangerous Game.

Man, I really wish I could find the clip of that HS kid singing the Confrontation... it was epic. Suffice it to say I was happy with my audio choice. It, and the triple-shot latte, made my one class this morning a fun affair.

On another note, I know I've been slacking on the HIMYM Music... I need to re-watch a few episodes, hunt some things down, ect. ect.... But I'm not sure if I have the heart. The most recent episodes haven't been quite up to scratch, and one of my friends spoilered me for next week's episode. Fortunately, Glee, Heroes, and Big Bang Theory continue to satisfy. Finale of Project Runway this week is something else to look forward to.

What's with the fucking rerun, HIMYM? Way to put the rancid cherry on top of the shit sundae that was today.

I want to smash something and smash it now. But I have a two essays to write, a German test to study for, star coordinates to learn, two self-portraits to draw, make a new sourdough starter, and finish the lab coat for my boyfriend's Halloween costume. RAWR.

On the up side, I'm going to try and be Raptor Jesus for Halloween, myself. Depending on if I can make the raptor head or not.

BUSY WEEK IS BUSYYY.

So far, Season 5 is lookin' pretty good! Double Date has far surpassed Best Burger, and there was so much I like about it. L'anyhoodle, I know what you guys are here for, so here's the music for this week's ep!


5.02 Double Date
Disc 5 of the Megamix continues with "Rewind" by Goldspot.
Download it now, or wait it out until December when all the songs of the first half of season 5 get condensed into a RAR.


Megamix Note:
The shiny, newly revamped How I Met Your Megamix can be found here.

Megamix Patch 2 has been re-completed, save for one song. I thought I had it on my computer, but now it is mysteriously missing... Anyways. "Love Is Strange" by Mickey and Sylvia, if there are any Dirty Dancing fans out there that care to share...

MEGAMIX REVAMP!

The background of the Most Epic of All Epic Music Compilations is finally COMPLETE! (Or... as complete as I can make it.) All the music featured in episodes throughout the first four seasons has been tracked down and mashed together to be enjoyed by rabid HIMYM fans and general music-lovers alike.

HOLD IT!
What’s this you say? You’ve already downloaded most of the Megamix from the original post and are only missing the songs that were found and posted recently? No worries! The Megamix Patch 2 is the RAR for you!
(List of songtitles included in Megamix Patch 2 can be found here.)

However, if you’ve not encountered this before: below, in all it’s completed glory, the How I Met Your Megamix resides; songs that have been featured in all four-and-counting seasons of our beloved show. For the sake of my sanity, I’ve separated them by season. Please, download and enjoy!

( A great mix is ALL. RISE. )

On a final note, a big giant ENORMOUS thank you to everyone who’s helped me track down missing songs. This Megamix would not have been possible without you guys!

HAY HIMYM GUYS, NEW SEASON MEANS NEW MUSIC!

After being AWOL all summer, there was no way I could come back without bearing gifts of tunes. Here, the first of many!


5.01 Definitions
Disc 5 of the How I Met Your Megamix begins with a catchy little number, 'Oxford Comma' by Vampire Weekend, followed by the good ol' Indiana Jones Theme (composed by John Williams), polishing off the music for this ep. Oh and btw, TED IS SO INDY. xD

You can download both new tracks HERE or wait until December when I'll mash the first half of Season 5 music into a big zip folder.

Enjoy!


( On a related Megamix note: )

After re-watching all four seasons again, I compiled a list of songs that are keeping the How I Met Your Megamix from being complete.

GREEN songs have been found and added.

RED songs are still missing.

As they are found, green items will be added to their respective Season Disc Folders.

Edit B: Now that everything is in green, all songs have been Rar'd into the Megamix Patch 2.


Edit A: Holy hand grenades, Batman! The Patch is done! blandinavian basically knocked out this entire list single-handedly in one epic swoop... nice! And THANKS!!

How I Met Your Megamix: Patch 2

Song	Artist	Episode It’s From
Give Up The Funk	George Clinton	Where Were We?
If I Could Split	Kite Flying Society	Singles Stamina
I’ve Had The Time of My Life	Bill Medley	First Time in New York
Ooh Child	Five Stairsteps	The Platinum Rule
Beautiful Beat	Nada Surf	No Tomorrow
Boys Don’t Cry	Grant Lee Phillips	Where Were We?
Skyway	The Replacements	Singles Stamina
Always Love	Nada Surf	First Time in New York
Twilight Voices	Guided by Voices	Columns
Nine Words	Oppenheimer	Lucky Penny
No One Here	The 88	Something Blue
Sea Green, See Blue	Jaymay	Something Blue
Here Comes A Regular	The Replacements	Showdown
November Rain	Guns n’ Roses	Something Borrowed
Ladies’s Choice	Mandy Moore	Wait For It
Nothing That You Are	Mandy Moore	Wait For It
Somebody’s Me	Enrique Iglesias	We’re Not From Here
Passenger Side	Wilco	Third Wheel
Commit	The Blakes	Little Boys
Save It For a Rainy Day	Jayhawks	How I Met Everyone Else
I Am A Scientist	Guided by Voices	How I Met Everyone Else
Black Tears	Miss Derringer	The Platinum Rule
Siobhan	The Tossers	No Tomorrow
The Painter	I’m From Barcelona	Everything Must Go
Vertigo	Anya Marina	The Stinsons
Cecelia	Simon and Garfunkle	Right Place, Right Time
Prophets	AC Newman	The Leap
Still Alright	Adam Merrin of The 88	Slapsgiving
Love is Strange	Mickey and Sylvia	First Time in New York
We’re #1	The World Record	Aldrin Justice
Jump Up	Reggae Revolution	Little Boys
Monday	Mike & the Gypsys	Shelter Island

I feel I must explain and apologize for the lack of fics and megamix now that classes are over until August. ( Sailing on the USS Drinkytown )

This entry is going to be me spazzing about the pilot of Glee, among other things. A warning: this is all very scattered. I'm sleepy, and full of happy. :D

( Glee, HIMYM, Heroes, and Pushing Daisies. )

My head aches from the explosions of awesomeness. Time to sleep. <3

Title: Knots: Pratt
Author: oboeshoes
Fandom: HIMYM
Pairings/Characters: Sam and Persephone
Ratings/Warnings: Future!fic
Wordcount: 800-ish
Summary: The long-awaited follow-up to Persephone’s Tie.
Note: Research paper? Why write a research paper when I seriously owe you guys Samfic?
Anyways, serious apologies for this one (and like... the next four), guys. I was half-delirious with a fever. x_x

The Pratt: The Pratt knot is unusual in that its starting position is 'reverse side out', as does the Nicky knot. It uses less length than the Half Windsor or Windsor knots, and so is well suited to shorter ties. Unlike the Four in Hand knot, the Pratt method produces a symmetrical knot. It is of medium thickness.

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( Did you know action movies usually lie about how easy it is? )

Title: Knots: Four-in-Hand
Author: oboeshoes
Fandom: HIMYM
Pairings/Characters: Sam and Mitchell
Ratings/Warnings: Future!fic
Wordcount: 300-ish
Summary: A follow-up to Mitchell’s Tie.
Note: Rampant mistakes, I apologize. Been sick.

The Four-In-Hand: Also known as a simple knot or schoolboy knot, the four-in-hand is believed to be the most popular method of tying ties due to its simplicity.

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( Maybe I'm gay. )

I'm dreading to think I may have pneumonia again; this 'cold' is starting exactly like it did last year. Depending on if I'm worse tomorrow, a visit to Kaiser (*shudder*) may be in order. Maybe I'll get another x-ray technician to laugh at my lungs.

Aaaaanyways.

Tonight's HIMYM. Two words. ( Two glorious words. )

EDIT: ( Oh wait, one more thing! )

So, I saw WATCHMEN on opening night. IN IMAX. It was so ridiculously amazing, I'm going to go see it again. Maybe this weekend, maybe next weekend. But soon. They did amazing things with that film, and I can't even begin to describe my happiness after the initial viewing.

Now to my point: Have YOU seen Watchmen yet? Have you not?
Either way, go take a looksee at this. HILARITY.

Silly question time: does anyone have a download of the movie Moulin Rouge! by any chance? I've been jones-ing to watch it, but I don't own it, the local vid-store doesn't have it, and I can't find it anywhere on the internets (which is really weird). Plus, I'm supposed to be designing a cake around the movie (I'll post pictures when I make it!) for my friend's 22nd birthday coming up at the end of the month...

If anyone knows where Moulin Rouge! is hiding on the internets (I have no money, elsewise I'd buy it T__T), or has a download they could send my way, I'll love you forever and ever. And maybe write a fic of your choice? o:

Here lies all of the Samfic I've written. Figured he should have a page all to himself since it seems I've run wild with him.
Future stories will also end up here, so if someone wants to read any Samfic, they won't have to go searching and searching to find the one they want. :3


Oneshots
• Feminine Side -- Robin cheers up a teenaged Sam.
• Sunday Afternoons -- Sam and Grandma Patty/Loretta have a weekly ritual.


Multi-Chapter

• Twenty-One Suits -- This multi-fic spans the first 21 years of Sam's life. Three years per set, timeline jumps around.
|| First Set || Second Set || Third Set || Fourth Set || Fifth Set || Sixth Set || Final Set ||

• Ties -- Unable to satisfy my Sam-obsession, here's a pseudo-follow-up to 21 Suits, with Sam being featured along with one other person of importance in his life.
|| Sergei || Persephone || Luke || Daphne || Leia || Mitchell ||

• Knots – A series of follow-ups to 'Ties'. Still in Progress.
|| Half-Windor (Leia) || Four-in-Hand (Mitch) || Pratt (Persephone) ||
(More to come)

Happy March to all! February for HIMYM showed a distinct lack of music. How disappointing! Don't know what else to post other than I'm slowly being beaten to a pulp by school, my hours at work got cut because business is slow (stupid economy!) and my poor puppydog is really beginning to show her age. For most yellow lab/rottweiler mixes, 13 is ooooold. She's still got the mind and attitude of a puppy, but her hips and back legs don't cooperate the way they used to.

Aaaanyways.

Fanfic
• Sunday Afternoons -- Oneshot (Sam/Grandma)
• Knots: Half-Windsor -- Leia's Follow-up (Sam/Leia)
• Staten Island and Brooklyn -- Oneshot (Lily/Barney)

Music
None this month. Stupid re-runs! D:

Title: Staten Island and Brooklyn
Author: oboeshoes
Fandom: HIMYM
Pairings/Characters: Lily and Barney
Ratings/Warnings: PG
Wordcount: 200 exactly! Double-drabble, whoot-whoot.
Summary: Directly after Little Minnesota. Lily and Barney at MacLaren's.
Another Note:I was sorting through all my HIMYM documents today when I got home from work, and look what I found? I didn't know whether or not I wanted to add to it, so I'm just gonna post it anyways so it's not just sitting on my comp doing nothing. Lol. I'm... a dork.

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( The place was surprisingly full, but Barney was going through the whole process: )

Title: Knots: Half-Windsor
Author: oboeshoes
Fandom: HIMYM
Pairings/Characters: Sam and Leia
Ratings/Warnings: Future!fic
Wordcount: 700-ish
Summary: A follow-up to Leia’s Tie.
Note: I know Seph's follow-up was most wanted, but this one somehow became easier to finish first. May finish the others soon, hopefully. Just wanted to see what you guys thought of this one.

Half-Windsor: Unlike the other common knots (Four-in-hand, Windsor) a half-Windsor incorporates a twist in the tie, so that the bottom strand lies seam side up and looks odd unless covered by the upper strand of the tie.

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( What did he think she was, blind? )

Several reasonings behind this one.

First, fellow LJ'ers. To understand my username, I ask you to find your nearest calculator (now, this doesn't work with all calculators, unfortunately) and type in the number 530453080. Now, turn your calculator upside down. Hey-hey, lookie there! Oboeshoes! (I first learned of this from regularly checkin' my SBemails. ^^)

Second, I actually do play the oboe, among other things. I picked up oboe the beginning of my high school years because there WAS no oboist, but there was an overload of flutes (my primary). My director was thrilled when I offered to take it up, but I knew little of what I was getting into. I love oboe, but it does not always love me. So, the order of proficiency goes: flute/piccolo, oboe, alto sax, clarinet, french horn.

Thirdly, and I love drawing on shoes. These are my favorites so far.

And lastly, I'm actually working on making myself a pair of Oboeshoes. I've got some black canvas vans and I'm drawin' oboes and music-things on them. I've been working on them since November, but I keep getting distracted.

But mostly, I think it was the SBemails.

And that, friends, is the story of OboeShoes.

Title: Sunday Afternoons
Author: oboeshoes
Fandom: HIMYM
Pairings/Characters: Sam and LorettaPatty
Ratings/Warnings: PG, Future!fic/Samverse
Wordcount: 550-ish
Summary: Sam raises a question and Patty questions her grandson’s judgment.
Another Note:Straight from my Sociology notebook, written about an hour and a half ago during the dinner-break. For those of you who've read the rest of the Samfics, I apologize for the heartstrings it might tug.
Dankeshoen to roland44 for cleaning up my wordvomit <3

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( I bet you were wild when you were younger, weren’t you? )