[Duncan Ryder] Need some music advice

[Duncan Ryder]

Ok, I need some help here. My musical tastes are...not typical

 

So tell me...

 

What should the ring tone be on Matt's cell right now? :

 

What do we know about Matt... well...he's a 22 year old college student who, beneath that calm detached surface, is holding in an incredible amount of anger. Underneath it all, is a very good sweet person but he"s been through some brutal, self destructive things, trying to bury his insecurtiies with the hard partying fringe of the gay community and is recovering both from a drug and an allcohol problem (not a true, full fledged addiction, fortunately; he doesn't have an addictive personality, but a lot of pain he's trying to hide from that way.)

 

So...his cell is about to ring and Luc is about to hear it for the first time and...

 

what should his cell phone ring tone be?

 

And why?

 

(And ideally a link so I can hear it. )

[J_Ross]

Alibis, Marianas Trench. Mostly because I had to play it after I read Matt's scene...

 

From the scrapes and bruises

To the familiar abuses

I'd kick and scream but it never changed anything

 

I could spill my guts out

Wearing my best little girl pout

And I almost missed it

But nobody said that this was gonna be easy

 

This is not the man I hoped to be

And I'm just trying to stop the bleeding

I don't know how to word it

I just started to deserve it

And all my, all my faces are alibis

And me, I'm half the man I wanted to be

 

Most times it all comes out wrong

I don't know the words but I'll hum along

There's nothing famillar here anymore

to anyone or anything left to feel alive

 

And I still taste that sickness

And it makes me crazy without it at best

I'm in the same place I used to be

But I'm trying harder not to be

 

This is not the man I hoped to be

And I'm just trying to stop the bleeding

I don't know how to word it

I just started to deserve it

And all my, all my faces are alibis

And me, I'm half the man I wanted to be

 

So what am I? What am I? So What Am I?

 

And all my, all my faces are Alibis

This is not the man I hoped to be

And I'm just trying to stop the bleeding

I don't know how the words go

I just started not to say no

 

Don't want it, Don't get it

I know you won't regret it

Don't surface, Don't surface

And I feel so damned worthless

Another day is gone and all my faces are alibis

all my faces are alibis

 

and me, I'm half the man I wanted to be

Edited May 10, 2009 by J.Ross

[J_Ross]

But wait... you said ringtone. So, I lied.

 

I'm going with Lady Gaga's Pokerface. Or Breaking Benjamin's Had Enough for something angrier...

[Duncan Ryder]

Alibis, Marianas Trench. Mostly because I had to play it after I read Matt's scene...

 

I love this. It's perfect. It's Canadian. It's wonderful.

 

Um....why can't it be a ring tone?

 

Can't anything be a ringtone?

 

(said Duncan who's blackberry rings the way it rang out of the box and has no idea how to set ring tones... )

[Cynical Romantic]

The real question is, in what year is this story set?

 

Matt's musical tastes would probably be current, if nothing else. He won't have last year's music as his ringtone.

 

And I don't see any specific references to date or time in your story, other than it obviously being contemporary. For all I know, it could have been set five years ago, or a decade ago.

[Cynical Romantic]

I love this. It's perfect. It's Canadian. It's wonderful.

 

Um....why can't it be a ring tone?

 

Can't anything be a ringtone?

 

(said Duncan who's blackberry rings the way it rang out of the box and has no idea how to set ring tones... )

 

I guess all CJ meant was that this is a more melancholy, personal type song. Most people - Matt especially -would probably have something a bit more fun and upbeat as a ringtone.

[J_Ross]

I love this. It's perfect. It's Canadian. It's wonderful.

 

Um....why can't it be a ring tone?

 

Can't anything be a ringtone?

 

Lol, yeah, anything can be a ringtone. I was just took a look at my own and realized that the songs I use and the ones the people around me use, aren't usually songs that we relate to in any way or songs that define us in some way.

 

Ringtones, for me, are more about the person that's calling. I have one that's an annoying little voice saying 'This is one of my ex's calling, I'm not gonna answer this call' and a sappy one that I assigned to my s/o and an upbeat song I assigned to friends, and the theme from Halloween for my job.

 

But my default ringtone is Angels on the Moon by Thriving Ivory, and I wanted that because it makes me feel a certain way every time I listen to it so... *shrug* I think it just depends on the person, and I changed my mind because Matt seems private, and like the kind of guy that would only listen to a song that he related to, or that spoke to him on that level in private, and not have it broadcasted. Anyone can hear ringtones.

 

But...yeah, anything can be a ringtone.

 

I chose 'Pokerface' because you said 'partying fringe of the gay community' and there isn't a club around her, gay or straight, but especially gay that isn't playing that song. Lady Gaga has the stuff gay icons are made of. And I threw

in there just because it was the first angryish song that came to mind.

 

Matt's musical tastes would probably be current, if nothing else. He won't have last year's music as his ringtone.

*nods* My taste in music is all over the place but I'm pretty sure the songs I listed are fairly current. The oldest is from 06. I think.

 

And yeah, that's totally what I meant.

[Duncan Ryder]

I chose 'Pokerface' because you said 'partying fringe of the gay community' and there isn't a club around her, gay or straight, but especially gay that isn't playing that song. Lady Gaga has the stuff gay icons are made of. And I threw

in there just because it was the first angryish song that came to mind.

 

Pokerface (which I can't stand...can't stand Lady GaGa...so take away my gay card) it is because yeah, all that. It's kind of expected so Matt will hide behind it. And Luke will hate it <G>.

 

Merci!!!!!!

[Former Member]

But my default ringtone is Angels on the Moon by Thriving Ivory, and I wanted that because it makes me feel a certain way every time I listen to it so... *shrug*

I love that group! I've seen them live twice, and they really are great.

 

I'm a bit different in my tastes than most. I regularly listen to many different decades worth of music in one sitting. Gotta love those oldies

[Rebel]

J. Ross, thank you for posting the Alibis song, I'd not heard of this group before. What a beautiful song.