6 posts tagged “buffy”

My most bloggable present from Christmas was from my parents, who got me Buffy's Radio Sunnydale CD off my wishlist.

I resisted getting this soundtrack back when it first came out because I wasn't enamored by the number of songs on it.  But the more and more I watch the show again, the more I wanted to have some of these songs that were unavailable elsewhere.    Mainly the super Blue by Angie Hart (talked about getting it stuck in my head in this post).  Some of the other songs are great, too (just noticing that the beginning of Bohemian Like You is reminds me of Real Gone by Sheryl Crow from Cars, LOL!)  I already had purchased the Aimee Mann song on this album because I liked it so much, so I have two copies now!

There's also a Sarah McLachlan song on here that I couldn't easily get, The Prayer of St. Francis, and I love making my Sarah-collection more complete.  Funny thing, this made me notice that somehow when I ripped my music in, Surfacing never made it in, so Full of Grace, another song used on a Buffy ep, wasn't on my computer.  Most of the songs I liked from that CD were on Mirrorball, so I guess I hadn't noticed.  Fixed now, Surfacing is all ripped.

While listening, I start digging for other Buffy-on-episode music that I didn't yet have that was available on iTunes, and I added a nice pile to my wishlist (Tip: for a low-tech personal wishlist in iTunes, just create a new playlist and drag the 30 second clips into it) 

While Buffy Guide is the best overall site for anything related to specific episodes, I wanted to find a site that listed out the songs played in each episode rather than clicking through to each.  I found Dusk 'till Dawn, which has a really nice short overview of each song, the artist, and the brief summary of when it plays for most of them.  That works!

Oh, and I'm really excited right now about Buffy because right before Christmas, I used some Amazon gift certificates to finish up my collection when all the seasons were on sale.  That was the 3 remaining Buffy's I needed and the 3 final Angel's, too.  I'm adding them to my Vox when I finish them, and we'll be done with Season 2 of Buffy the next time we sit down to watch - I won't watch Becoming I without watching II at the same time, so it'll be a double feature :)  We watched the one before those over the weekend, Go Fish, which is fun because it has not only Shane West (of ER, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), but Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) too :)

Pretty soon, I'm going to have to decide if I want to watch Buffy and Angel intermixed like they played on TV, or finish out Buffy and then start Angel.  I hadn't thought of that until E said something, but the more I think about it, the more that makes sense for the timeline and the things that did cross over a little.  That'd be 4 seasons worth that match up: Buffy 4/Angel1, Buffy 5/Angel 2, Buffy 6/Angel 3, Buffy 7/Angel 4.

I think I'll have to pick up Angel: Live Fast, Die Never at some point too, because even though most of it instrumental, it's got Christian Kane's LA Song too. ;)

And there's my fangirlyness that made me all happy even though I'm a bit worn out from the festivities!

Back in March, there was a QotD about TV shows on DVD, and I answered about the 3 seasons of shows that I owned so far.  I got some recommendations in the comments, and I started watching sales at my fav stores for more sets I was wishing for.

We've found that now that we are cooking more, we enjoy sitting down to watching a Tv episode with our meals.  Since we are only on the 1 dvd at a time through netflix deal, and our TiVo is upstairs so we don't watch anything new, the TV series that we own are the things we watch when we don't have a netflix movie/show to watch.

Right now, we own quite a few more than we did in March (3 vs 10 seasons!):

• 3 season of Roswell
• 2 seasons of Tru Calling
• Full season of Firefly
• 2 seasons of Buffy
• 2 seasons of Angel

All of these shows except Firefly I've seen on TV the first time around, and Firefly, I saw on SciFi before I bought the DVD.  We've watched Firefly, the first two seasons of Roswell, and both seasons of Tru Calling. 

Next up, we'll start in on season 3 of Roswell - we didn't have that one yet when we finished season 2, so we started on the next thing we did have.  After that, Buffy and Angel even though we don't have the whole series on either.

In the meantime between the ones we own, we've been getting TV DVDs from Netflix.  We watched 3 seasons of The 4400, and omg, love!  I'm only sad that I didn't start watching it soon enough that I would have been able to watch season 4 in real time (I think it's just finishing up for the summer).

The 4400 is super and definitely fits my kind of show with some action, drama, and scifi all in one.  I'm so glad quornflour thought to suggest it!

Earlier today, it was "Blue"  by Angie Hart, which is crazy-insane because I haven't heard it for a long time, probably since I saw the rerun of the epidode of Buffy that had it on.  I saw when searching that it's a track on the Radio Sunnydale album, so I put that on my wishlist because there's a couple tracks on there I was excited about, and unfortunately, they aren't on iTunes.

Now, it's "I'm just a little black rain cloud" ala Winnie the Pooh, because I was doodling little clouds on my paper (they looked suspiciously like vox logo bubbles, too!)

What a goof I am!

Back when I watched everything on the WB, there was a promo video that I absolutely loved.

Features stars of Buffy, Angel, Dawson's Creek, Jack and Jill, Felicity, Charmed, 7th Heaven, Roswell, and more.  This evening when I was reading feeds, I see that it was mentioned on PopCandy.  I was so excited to see it again.  Not too long ago, I found that this artist (thisway) had the song for sale on the iTunes Music Store and immediately added it to my shopping cart.  Just because of this promo. :)

It was so nice to actually see it again.  And realize just how many people I still love were featured.  These are the people that I always have to try and see the movie if they are going to be on it, and I have wishlists in my TiVo for at least 5 of them.  It was the start of me developing my love for series TV, the first years that I was on my own and could pick my own shows to watch.  And watch I did, wowie ka-zowie. :)

Seeing this makes me sad for the end of the WB (coming up really soon), but I know that I haven't loved WB as much as I loved it in 1999 for a while anyhow!

Remember sniglets?  Do you have any favorites?  Have you ever made up your own word?  (Now's as good a time as any.)

I make up words all the time.  Like probably at least once a day.  One of my favorites is beautimus or gorgeousmus - it's like the next level of pretty ;) 

I'm such a big buffy-fan that I'm always saying buffy-like words, too, and many in that category are silly smushed together words.

What are your three favorite album covers of all-time? Any honorable mentions?

Question submitted by Tamara.

Fun question!  Even though I'm a day late, I definitely wanted to play :)

The easiest one to think of is Mirrorball by Sarah McLachlan.  I think it is SUCH a pretty cover.  The colors, the mirrory ball in a cool shape and the swirlies behind that to give it texture are just amazing

When I made my first design for love-productions, I was very inspired by this feel, although the album is way  prettier.  I love the font too, i'm always drawn to the lettering on albums (note: i do love fonts ;) )

I'm also quite a fan of Vanessa Carlton's first album, Be Not Nobody.  The illustrations around her picture and again, the font choice really draw me in.  I loved the music before seeing the album, but it didn't hurt that I thought it was beautiful when i finally got it.  I love the colors too.

For a simple cover that's just beautiful in it's simplicity, I like the elements of BareNaked by Jennifer Love Hewitt. It's a really pretty picture of her.  The soft colors, and the sash on her back are very nice.  And a gorgeous flowy font (it may be her handwriting, I'm not sure.

Runners up?  I like the style of P!nk's I'm Not Dead.  It's probably not my normal style, but something about it just hits me as great.  And the Once more with Feeling album has a great old movie poster feel.  They did a cool treatment on the actors faces, along with fun stylized elements behind them that really were musical-feel. (Besides, I loved this episode of Buffy, that makes me love it even if the cover wasn't cool to look at).  And finally, d.c. talk's Jesus Freak has a nice weathered look like Mirrorball.  Classy logo in the middle that looked too pretty to be on a CD cover.

One fun tool I use to grab album covers on songs that don't have them when I'm playing in iTunes is the Amazon Album Art Widget from the Widget Foundry.  All I have to do is zoom over to my dashboard and click a button when a song shows up with out a cover.  It'll search for it and then add it to itunes.  That's pretty handy.  Another cool tool that is new to me is Cover Flow to browse through your album art.  (thanks to Mark for the link!)  Once I get a new remote for my mac mini (shh, don't laugh, i think it fell in the trash can the very first week I had it) then I'll use Front Row again and I will be able to see my albums all pretty from across the room too!