Fanmix: The Break-Even Point

[moogsthewriter]

faye_dartmouth , being the wonderful and amazing person she is, has humored me and my crazy ideas and created a fantastic and massive crossover between Hawaii Five-0 and the Ocean's trilogy in which Danny Williams and Turk Malloy are one and the same (which we will continue to explore in future fics):

Title: The Break-Even Point
Author: faye_dartmouth 
Summary: Turk knows that reality is mostly perception, and the fact is he doesn't know how to separate Danny Williams from Turk Malloy anymore. The lines are blurred and the guise is deeper than the reality. He's not one or the other, but he's a little of both.

Link to Master Post: It starts as a bet. 

I have created a fanmix to accompany the story, and Faye made a fantastic album cover for it. Feel free to download even if you don't want to read the story (although you really, really should because it's amazing) and let me know if there are any issues with the download.

The Break-Even Point

1. A Little Less Conversation--Elvis Presley

A little less conversation, a little more action please.
All this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning me.

2. Not Your Year--The Weepies

Scattered shadows on a wall, you watch the long light fall;
some impressions stay and some will fade.
Tattered shoes outside your door, clothes all on the floor,
your life feels like the morning after all year long.

Every day it starts again.
You cannot say if you’re happy;
you keep trying to be.
Try harder, maybe this is not your year.

3. Count Me Out--Meese

Looking for a place to go,
but you’re all out of reasons.
Wonder if you’ll ever know,
but you’ve just got a feeling.

You can count me out;
I’m not going anywhere tonight.

4. Ruled by Secrecy--Muse

You’re working so hard,
and you’re never in charge.
Your death creates success;
rebuild and suppress.

5. Impressions--Jarrod Gorbel

If all you need is a change,
can’t you fall through, make it that way
‘cause you made your own restraints,
stirring up smoke in the same place.
You made your own restraints.

You can’t wash this off your skin;
leave the wreckage of your sins,
feels a lot like a new beginning.

6. The Funeral--Band of Horses

I’m coming up only to hold you under;
I’m coming up only to show you wrong.

…

To know me as hardly golden
is to know me all wrong, they warn.

7. The Sound of Settling--Death Cab for Cutie

Our youth is fleeting; old age is just around the bend,
and I can’t wait to go gray.
And I’ll sit and wonder of every love that could have been
if I’d only thought of something charming to say.

8. How the Day Sounds--Greg Laswell

Who would have ever known this
could be this easy?
I was a long, long way off.

…

And I think I like how the day sounds,
like how the day sounds through this new song.

9. This Is Home--Switchfoot

Belief over misery; I’ve seen the enemy,
and I won’t go back, back to how it was.

And I got my heart set on what happens next,
I got my eyes wide; it’s not over yet.
We are miracles, and we’re not alone.

This is home;
now I’m finally where I belong.

10. Don’t Walk Away--Ryan Levine

Never knew exactly what I’d find,
looking down the road of another life.

…

No, don’t walk away;
tell me all the steps I need to take.
No, don’t walk away;
I know what a fool I’ve been,
and I’ll clean the mess I’ve made.

11. Falling Out of Trees--Barcelona

I’ve got this all wrong.
My heart is scared, my heart is gone.
And now, looking around, there’s no one here to hear my fall.

12. The ­­Show Must Go On--Queen

I guess I’m learning; I must be warmer now.
I’ll soon be turning ’round the corner now.
Outside the dawn is breaking,
but inside in the dark I’m aching to be free.

The show must go on.
The show must go on.
Inside my heart is breaking;
my make-up may be flaking,
but my smile still stays on.

BONUS TRACKS

13. Clair de Lune--Philadelphia Orchestra (from Ocean’s Eleven)
14. Thé à la Menthe (The Lazer Dance Version)--La Caution (from Ocean’s Twelve)
15. Clair de Lune--Isao Tomita (from Ocean’s Thirteen)

 

Download the zip file here.

Comments

[faye-dartmouth.livejournal.com]

This so, so wins. I think my favorite selection here is "How the Day Sounds," but "The Sound of Settling" is right up there, too. And, well, of course "A Little Less Conversation."

You've done a great job of capturing the arc of the story in your musical selections and it makes for a great listen :)

Thank you!!

[moogsthewriter.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm glad you like. It was definitely a lot of fun to come up with. And it's just been fun to work with you on this entire project. :D

[am41.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed this fanmix. And after going back and re-reading the story (seriously amazing!) it all fit kind of perfectly. Thanks so much for sharing. ♥

[moogsthewriter.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. I'm so glad you liked it. :D