my name is colin and i write derivative fiction.

[behindthec]

...if, hypothetically, ryan were to suddenly reveal the results of his piano lessons (which he mentioned he was taking, years ago in interviews), what do you think he might like to play that brendon could walk in on and see? atm i'm leaning toward this. anyone who's seen the truman show will appreciate.

link me to your youtube choices? doesn't have to be classical, but i'm thinking something gentle and romantic. btw, chapter 1 of pccf is underway and i maybe kind of love it a lot. \o/

before i go, a few recs, which i never bother with unless i don't think they've been publicized as much as they deserve.

Reinvent Love by my dearest new friend ella; i'm proud to say i've been helping inspire her, supposedly, since chapter 5-ish. it's almost done; by the time you catch up, the last chapter might be up. it's a classic ryden chronicle without being cliche; she's only been writing slash two months and she's off to a great start, just made a masterlist too, so check it out. the italy!fic she's writing me, omg. ♥ also, the elf!fic series by moku_youbi, which i meant to rec awhile ago; specifically the jon/spence/ryan, is possibly my favourite thing i read all last year; so proud to have been the beta. also, becca's vampire!fic, the only het i've been able to read in the past five years and actually love. she worked long and hard (lolz) on it and it was all worth it.

also, thanks to everyone for all the great bits of conversation on my last post, about fic theory and genderswap and whatnot. some of the comments are really interesting if you care to read. my new friend j_plash says lots of cool things (like calling fanfic "derivative fiction," which is the awesomest term ever and i'm going to go around telling everyone i know that i write DERIVATIVE FICTION, because it sounds SO COOL). it's really nice that we can all talk like that, express differing opinions in respectful ways, instead of arguing like stupid internet drama queens. hah. thanks guys.

p.s. this is why we have been friends for six (seven??) years. jesus. also, another cheer from my boss. also i do an interpretive dance. no, really. and then because that wasn't embarrassing enough, i came home and keri and i made this.

happy friday!

Comments

[bunniesontoast.livejournal.com]

lol, 'derivative fiction'.
i still give people shit for thinking that all fanfiction is slash, because, y'know, i was originally in het. HP fic fandom, so i like to defend me roots. lol.
i do have to admit that slash is way better than HP het. was. lol.

...how many times have i said 'lol' in this so far? jfc.

[lolab.livejournal.com]

LOL. but there's nothing wrong with slash! we must stick up for ourselves, or the view of fanficcers (derivative fiction writers) will never be elevated to legit.

/activism. XD

[stereotypeloser.livejournal.com]

this is one of my favourites, and probably always will be, despite its mass popularity at weddings.

this is my favourite to play, and it's not very hard until the middle, really.

IF you don't want to only stick to classical stuff, these are good songs with piano in them..
Brick
Vienna
Comfortably Numb (my fav)
Hurt
Echoes (also my fav)
Do You Realize
Viva La Vida
Clocks
and that's it before i go even more overboard.

[lolab.livejournal.com]

oooh, fantastic! i shall check them all out. thank you.

sex.

[lolab.livejournal.com]

ahhh, fur elise. i learned it years ago, all the way through... nowadays i couldn't play past that opening bit if my life depended on it. :P fail.

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

The piano parts to Clocks and Viva are awesome fun. Must check out the others...

Pachabel's Canon and Fur Elise are both awesome (the middle part of Fur Elise is *made of win*), cliche risk though :P

Right, stopping stalking piano recs now. I haven't had a good romantic piano music discussion in waaaay too long XD

[chicken-cookie.livejournal.com]

Your Youtube madness scares me a little, tbh...
*backs away slowly*

[lolab.livejournal.com]

heh. :P

[sarah-snazzy.livejournal.com]

you know, you guys should go on america`s best dance crew because, obvi, your hips don`t lie.

my beta got too tired of correcting my stuff and quit (actually, she`s in college and is too busy, but still). i`ll def read that when i get back from ice skating.

[lolab.livejournal.com]

ahahaha. oh god, never.

have fun ice skating!

[aspiring2be.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxFAT581T4&feature=channel_page
<<<< a good peice in my op.

[lolab.livejournal.com]

ooooh, beautiful. thank you!

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

Oh, I *love* this piece, but it needs the strings. The piano part sounds like it should stand alone, and it's still lovely, but try sitting down and playing with it a little - even the opening where the strings are so understated just doesn't have the same magic without the string part.

CLASSICAL DORK HERE

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1k3PF8bupg
please. oh my god. listen to the whole thing. it's gorgeous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Colki_YMhw8
not the best recording quality, but SDIOFJS:DOIFJ:OSIDJFKLJSDFK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpV7L4YHuU
fucking BEAUTIFUL, although i prefer the tempo a little slower and more... drawn out, like you're pulling taffy. /wow, NERD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atejQh9cXWI
okay, i think i like this the best (for the scene you've described).

all these pieces (to me) are the kind that you can really put weight and beauty and emotion into. sooo... let me know which ones (if any) you like :)

Re: CLASSICAL DORK HERE

[lolab.livejournal.com]

ooooh. the last one really does feel like ryan to me... although since you gave me debussy now i'm leaning toward clair de lune (even if stupid twilight ruined it for the universe for all time to come)... damn it. i don't know. there's so much i want him to play. lol. (meanwhile ryan's glaring at me like, "dude, i've only been taking lessons a couple years, lemme alone.") i'll have to think about it. thanks!

Re: CLASSICAL DORK HERE

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome, someone found a proper recording of the reverie. Ignore my rec of it below, this vid's better :D Gods I love that piece. The last minute and the first 30 seconds make me shiver.

Number 2 I do not know well, but agreed, keysmash. Gorgeous. Possibly a little hard for fic use (well, you could always have Ryan being a complete natural and awesomely good, but it would be so much more fun to have Brendon much better than him, no? :P)

Number 3 - aaaaahhhh how did I not think of this. *shiver* I adooooore this piece. Must locate my sheet music *immediately*. Agree on more drawn out - not necessarily slower, but just a touch more rubato dragging on the peaks of the first (and last) part to accentuate the way it pulses and soars and overtakes and just...guh. Debussy is amazing.

Number 4 - now, what was this used in recently? Was it in a movie last year? Maybe it was on an ad...it is indeed lovely, anyhow. I loooove...sort of 1:05-1:15 (odd part to like, I know :P) and 2:30-2:45.

Nice picks.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

I don't know what happened but I wrote you comment porn the other day and it never went through. I will have to do that again soon. Stupid blackberry. :(

[lolab.livejournal.com]

DAMN IT!!!!!!! FAIL!!!!

[callie-the-bear.livejournal.com]

Whilst waiting for Battlestar Galactica to load I felt it of vital importance to suggest Ryan play the Pride and Prejudice theme tune. (Keira Knightly version)
I am learning it too, and it sounds SO AMAZING.
Maybe soundsa bit too happy.
um. linkage....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vYY0aRH46I&feature=PlayList&p=C79A84B51551562A&playnext=1&index=40

[lolab.livejournal.com]

oh, wow. that's beautiful! i totally want to use that. thanks!

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I can't believe I haven't heard that. Dario Marianelli is always awesome. It reminds me a *lot* of something, and I can't think what...meh. Must obtain music and learn, just for that gorgeous opening :D

[neon-is-love.livejournal.com]

hmmm. I'm not so good with sonatas and all, but I DO know that Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" (OR Moonlight Sonata, whichever you want to call it) by Beethoven was written during the late-classical early-romantic period.

I know the piece is like, 30 mins long (the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts all together) but the first movement is kind of dark-ish, romantic-ish? yes. ;D

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

Moonlight sonata is lovely. A little overused, but gorgeous nonetheless. And the well-known part's very easy, which is a plus.

[j-plash.livejournal.com]

Derivative fictionnnnn! Yes! *dies laughing* XD (I have spent *all day* researching for this epic bandom fic I am now writing :P I hate you :P)

Oooh, piano. Gods. Um, yeah, the concerto they use in Truman Show *is* beautiful, and mostly very playable, if we're looking at Ryan not being epically good. What else...the Raindrop Prelude (more Chopin) is beautiful and not all that hard (maybe a little harder than the concerto, but not all that bad), and has the advantage of being mostly quiet and beautiful and romantic but having the passionate, muscular, stunning middle section that could be awfully fun to write about Ryan (or Brendon :P) playing. You probably know it (wait, you play, y/y?), but probably the most popular recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=825Ekk1u3mQ. I like it with a bit more pedal and a touch more rubato (and speed?) in the opening of the middle section, but I am completely unqualified to say that in the face of Vladimir Horowitz's legendariness :P

Um, what else...oh, oh man, um, there is a Debussy nocturne in my head that is incredibly beautiful and romantic and I can't think which one it is. There's lots of wonderful Debussy that's quiet and romantic, though. Oh, man, or if you're up for a minor key (no idea what kind of scene you're wanting this for, lol, but you can so picture it, night, a single dim light on the piano, and the melancholy notes of Ryan's song filling the moonlight...mmm), there's the classic one, Chopin's Nocturne in E Minor, um...here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIj8SeiKNEA. Wow, haven't played that in ages. I must pull it out. It's incredibly beautiful and romantic and just *melts*, especially right at the end. Seeps into your heart and lungs and the pores of your skin.

Oh, and I know which Debussy I was thinking of! Not a nocturne, the Reverie for Piano. Um...wow, there is a lack of professional recordings of it on youtube. This one's not bad though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhccX_LIsEo It's dreamy, like Debussy's slow stuff tends to be, and has those occasional odd moments of light discord that're always there in his work, but it's incredibly beautiful, *particularly* the opening...haha, I'm listening to it now and it reminds me of that interview Ryan gave where he said he was inspired by things like Paris and love stories.

Hm, now I'm trying to think of composers Ryan and Brendon have mentioned liking...and I can't remember :P I'll stop throwing things at you, anyhow. Soooo many options, lol. I wants to read this scene :D

Nom nom nom recs. And you are hilarious :P

[lolab.livejournal.com]

DERIVATIVE FICTION FTW.

OMG YOU'RE WRITING. OMG. okay, you must send me everything as you write it. or i will nag you and nag you. ask anyone; it's how i roll. :P if i know you're writing, i must have it all the time.

yeah, plus i love the truman show myself, and i can see it being the sort of movie ryan would fangirl, and why he might choose it. i am running my laptop on its battery right now so if i go to your youtube selections it will die on me in like 3 minutes, but i will totes check them out when i get back to my charger (i can't be assed to get out of bed atm lol).

i'm thinking... not too melancholy, because he's not sad when he's playing it. LOL I DONT REMEMBER THAT INTERVIEW, but oh god, that is so something he'd say. ryan is such a lame romantic at heart. although that particular quote was probably ref'ing moulin rouge, because he's such a MR fanboy it's ridiculous. how so ghey, ryan.

i don't know that i've ever heard them mention classical composers, but brendon's playing liszt in my fic and it's not even an option. XD originally i was going to have him do hungarian rhapsody #2, but it gets too...jovial? toward the end, so i switched him to la campanella. he plays it when he's very confused, frustrated, and lost, and he explains to ryan that it felt fitting; the notes are always chasing each other, like they can't quite catch up, like they're searching.

[alphabetatoast.livejournal.com]

In your journal, stalking you for a bit Colin.
Man, those videos made me laugh so so much.
I actually love your boss. :)
And you can shake some moves! And we don't only love you because you embarrass yourself! Although that is part of it... we also do because you write fucking amazing fic. *nods*

And yes, You now write DERIVATIVE FICTION. So much cooler and more classy. :P

[lolab.livejournal.com]

:D my boss is kind of special.

DERIVATIVE FICTION IZ ~CLASSY.

i need a song for brendon to spontaneously "serenade" ryan with in a pccf flashback. they are working on music together and need a break. something soft and sweet, but not sappy. anything pop into your head?