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Mark, I think that's just you having a constant porno of limitless subgenres running in your head. As opposed to me. Instead of a porno running through my head, my mind runs a nostalgic movie about either 1980's teenagers or early 90's Grunge College students learning universal truths while going through the pitfalls of coming-of-age while listening to great music and wearing period clothing.

Well, Tim, 9/11 IS just around the corner.

Chapter 50 -When Brad talks to Lark, and helps him get a fresh new start. "The L.A. Song" by Beth Hart (acoustic version) -When Brad burns all of Lark's clothes and identification as they begin their plan to get Lark down to Mexico. "The Better Life" by 3 Doors Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGjuz-Ak3OE -When Brad relates to Robbie what happened with Wade and Matt, with Brad and Robbie finally settling their issues. I hope. Dear GOD, I hope. "Babylon" by David Grey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP-f8TDb2n4&feature=related I knew when I started this scoring this story that "Babylon" was going in. Without a doubt, I knew it was going in. That song hits at the soul of this story, I think. "Babylon" is one of my favorite songs from the 2000's.

Brought this point back up because I thought it was an interesting point to make...do people feel an overload of the Hayes and/or Cramptons? I don't, per se, one thing I've been thinking about is the point that every single protagonist, if they are not a Hayes themselves, winds up dating/hooking up with a Hayes. It's been a continual theme- Steven got with Aaron and Nathan. JP got with Jeff, Frank, Marcel, and Matt. Stefan got with Jeff and Matt. Brad got with Robbie and Marcel, and flirted with the idea of getting with Matt. Wade(he did do a stint as narrator) got with Matt. It's been an interesting theme, but I hope Brad's kids snap that streak because it's been done so many times. I don't want Will hooked up with some correspondingly-aged Hayes kid that he meets up with in Claremont or something. Not to say that I'd be against yet another Hayes kids showing up, but having Will get his very own Hayes boy would kinda turn me off. I think it's part "we've been there, done that", and also just the fact that Will's grown up with Robbie as his father that makes the idea kinda squicky to me. Your mileage may vary, of course.

In this thread I'll be doing song recs of the Bloodlines era, which I see as 1996 to 1999. Please feel free to add any tunes of your own! 1. #1 Crush - Garbage, 1996 2. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins, 1996 3. Lovefool - The Cardigans, 1996 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6i_JhbVsc&feature=related 4. How Bizarre - OMC, 1997 5. Across the Universe - Fiona Apple, 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvhtf09V4g 6. The Rockefeller Skank - Fatboy Slim, 1997 7. Adia - Sarah McLachlan, 1998 8. Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin, 1997 9. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve, 1997 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo&NR=1&feature=fvwp 10. Candy - Mandy Moore, 1999

Since I'm stuck inside because of the snow storm hitting the mid-Atlantic, I figure I could continue with the fun. This time, I'm showcasing the music of the If It Fits era, which I see as 1992 to 1995. Feel free to rec some tunes of your own! 1. Creep - Radiohead, 1992 2. Mr. Vain - Culture Beat, 1993 3. What Is Love? - Haddaway, 1993 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpN60KKBAjc 4. Return to Innocence - Enigma, 1994 5. Sweet Dreams - La Bouche, 1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8RjRquFIWA&feature=related 6. One of Us - Joan Osburne, 1995 7. Come Undone - Weezer, 1995 8. Another Night - Real McCoy, 1995 9. In the Summertime - Shaggy, 1995 10. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis, 1995

That's really cool, Blue. You hit on the reason why I get such a kick out of doing this- I like introducing music to younger people who weren't around when those songs came out, and I like reminding older people of the songs from their youth. Of course, when next story comes around and I'm back to having the songs being primarily contemporary, we'll be the older people, and Tommy will be the younger person. LOL.

Now I'll go ahead and rec songs from the A Summer Love era, which I see as 1987-1991. Quite possibly one of my favorite eras for music. Maybe because its the first era of music I personally experienced. Like in the threads before, if you have anything to add, please do! *looks expectantly at Tim for some dance era tunes* 1. Just Like Heaven - The Cure, 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_ux2H473I 2. It's the End of the World - REM, 1987 3. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode, 1988 4. Under the Milky Way -The Church, 1988 5. Always on My Mind - The Pet Shop Boys, 1987/1988 6. What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, 1988 7. Fight the Power - Public Enemy, 1989 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDWNT0TnZE 8. Groove is In the Heart - Deelite, 1990 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJvELMEjJUc&feature=related This one is for you, Tim. 9. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - The Spin Doctors, 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fI9P472H6o 10. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1991

Thanks. Plus IUP doesn't do grade inflation the way UD does, so there's that as well.

I got 2 A's and a B. That brings my grad school GPA to a 3.66. (IUP does not do A- or B+ grades like UD, so there's a little less inflation here.) I was really hoping I could pull off a 4.0, but eh...I'll live. I have some mixed emotions here- I really did work my ass off in all the classes. I really was hoping for a 4.0. And the B kills it, and makes it impossible for me to ever have a 4.0 accumulative in grad school. I'm pretty disapointed, but I also know that I really did all I could do. The funny thing is that I got the B in the class I thought I'd get an A in, and the A in a class I was sure I was getting a B in. I think if it had been the other way around I could handle this better. Still, it's a good semester, and a 3.66 GPA is pretty good, considering the grading scale at IUP, so I am pleased with myself. I made it through that first semester.

Thanks for those picks, Tim! Now here's more of my Be Rad Era playlist.... 11. Heartache Tonight - The Eagles, 1979 http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/song?q=heartache%20tonight%20the%20eagles I used this to score a party scene in Be Rad. Song's over thirty years old now, but god does it ever describe the mating rituals at the bar and the college party. 12. Follow You, Follow Me - Genesis, 1978 (okay, this one is a bit of a cheat) 13. Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow, 1979 14. Rock N Roll High School- The Ramones, 1979 15. When You're Young - The Jam, 1979 16. Call Me - Blondie, 1980 http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/song?q=call%20me%20blondie 17. Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley, 1980

Alright, so now I'm doing music recs of songs from the Man In Motion music era, which I see as 1982-1986. Check 'em out! And like I said in the other thread, please free to add any recs you have of songs that came out from 1982 to 1986! 1. Love My Way - The Psychelic Furs, 1982 2. Melt With You - Modern English, 1982 3. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow, 1982 4. White Lines - Grandmaster Flash, 1983 5. Drive - The Cars, 1984 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTjzZzfR7w 6. 88 Lines About 44 Women- The Nails, 1984 7. Tenderness - General Public, 1984 8. In-Between Days - The Cure, 1985 9. But Not Tonight - Depeche Mode, 1986 10. If You Leave - OMD, 1986

Thanks for the link, Daisy. That was pretty funny. I'm thinking JJ will do a routine to this circa 2003. God, I could imagine the jaws dropping... God, that'd be an amazing song to do a performance to.

Alright, I've got plenty of time on my hands right now, and I feel like listening to some music...so I thought I'd rec songs that are from different eras associated with Mark Arbour's stories. I'll start with Be Rad...say 1979 to 1981. If you got any song recs from that era, please share! 1. Video Killed the Radio by the Buggles, 1979 2. Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie, 1980 3. Cars by Gary Numan, 1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw 4. Souvenir by OMD, 1981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQoYeMAS5qo 5. Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol, 1981 6. Jesse's Girl by Rick Springfield, 1981 7, Pretty in Pink by the Psychelic Furs, 1981 8. The Stroke by Billy Squier, 1981 9. Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode, 1981 10. Once in A Lifetime by the Talking Heads, 1981 If you can't tell, I really, really preferred 1981 music to 1980 music. I think 1980 was a weird transition year for American music. 1980 music in the UK was much, much better.

It'd be a "Meh" reaction to me. Of course, I went to a high school that didn't have sports, so what do I know?

With all this Will talk, I figure I might as well go ahead and reveal what Will's going to look like when he's grown up: Sean Faris. *drools* I told Mark I thought Sean Faris would be a pretty good pick of someone who looks like he could be the spawn of both Jeanine and Brad. He agreed. Mark gave me the go-ahead to post this, so eh...there you go. Sean's a model/actor, so there's a pretty wide variety of pictures out there, but I picked this one because this is how I picture both Will's circa-2005 hairstyle, and the kind of clothes he's going to wear- short-sleeve vintage rock shirts over long-sleeved shirts. Very '03-'05ish kinda clothing.

Haven't you ever heard of "vow renewals"? Plus, with Wade being from D.C., I like the idea of them doing a wedding there. Beau could be Wade's best man, while JJ could be Matt's best man. Elizabeth Danfield, having come around to the idea, decides to throw a big wedding bash. The California wedding could have been a simple, tasteful ceremony on the beach, while the D.C. wedding could make Princess Diana's wedding look cheap. Or maybe for Matt and Wade- it won't be a straight shot to 2008 and/or 2010....maybe some bumps along the way? They do have legitimate reasons for drama looming- how to deal with having possibly fathered children, and what they plan on doing after college, and if those plans include each other. They graduate in 2002, an election year, which means there would be plenty of work going on in DC for a well-connected man interested in politics.... Good point. I do think both Darius and JJ were pretty interesting kids, though. I think introducing Matt was a good idea of shaking up the CAP saga while giving us a good new protagonist. Darius is totally straight so I don't think Mark intends on giving him a story, and both JJ and Will were/are too young to lead a story just yet. None of Mark's fans wants to read about the sexual adventures of a 12-year old. At least, I really hope not. Agreed. It's not that the older generation doesn't have stories to tell, but I think the CAP saga is at its best when it deals with coming-of-age. (Unless we are talking about Marcel's coming-of-age. LOL.) Stefan and JP are pretty settled, and I think Brad and Robbie are pretty settled as well. The 2000's was a pretty dramatic decade, and it'll be interesting to see how these kids deal with what's going to be thrown their way- 9/11, Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Virginia Tech, the Economic meltdown- etc etc. Right. Everyone is different. Just because Darius likes to brag about his sex life doesn't mean that either JJ or Will would be interested in talking about their own. In the case of JJ, he HAS to remain on the downlow about whatever kind of stuff he gets into, because of the pristine image that a figure skater has to maintain. I dunno, I think JJ would make damn sure that whatever sexual stuff he doesnt' won't get on tape. I think he'll realize that a sex tape scandal would kill his career.

I wouldn't say closet case, just as Blue said, more of a private person because he won't be social king at his high school like Ace and Brad were. He won't be unpopular or anything like that, and people will know he's gay if they ask him and he's close to them, but he won't go around wearing the rainbow-colored shirt. I definitely don't see him trying to cover up being gay like Brad and Matt did. I think Will not saying anything about messing around with Drew was less about being scared about what people would think of him for being gay and more about Will just being very shy and not used to talking about his feelings. Which, as I've said before, is going to be pretty interesting for Mark to write, because he's never really had a character who went to a high school where homosexuality wasn't a big deal. Of course, Will could wind up dying in a tragic surfing accident, so who knows?

I just post the music selections. Don't really expect a conversation unless someone is moved by the music. I miss Tiger. He used to comment on my music slections a lot. I have the official title of music director on Mark's writing team. Mark used to do the music selections, but he found that it was keeping the chapters from going up faster. I took over for him starting with Be Rad.

I have to agree with you on Will. I think Will really wasn't that interesting of a character. Mark had done a great job with developing Darius and JJ as characters, but I don't think Will ever really registered. Having seen what would happen with a story that didn't have an interesting lead character(think Marcel in A Summer Love), I was hoping that Mark would do a good job with making Will into an interesting side character before giving him a lead story. It's what Mark did with Brad, and it worked pretty well. Mark's done a good job with getting Will to seem like an interesting person, and one that would be worth having as the lead narrator for a story or two. Not sure if he's going to END the saga, so to speak... as I kinda think that should go to Matt as he marries Wade in 2010 D.C., but he's definitely become as interesting of a character as Darius and JJ have been. It'll be interesting to see what kind of drama Mark will cook up for Will as he navigates senior year at 2005 Malibu High. It's not going to come from coming out since that's already been done several times by Mark and it's not really an issue for Will. I think general relationship stuff and dealing with the stress of getting into college will be enough drama- maybe Will could meet a boyfriend while on the Habitat For Humanity trip that he's using to build his college resumes. Hot guys dressed in construction gear while building towards a cause...could work out quite well...

I don't know if I'd call Will the "crown prince" for his generation. I mean he can along with JJ could definitely carry a story, but this generation feels a lot more egalitarian than Brad's generation was. All of the kids just kinda do their own thing- no one really comes off as the "Leader". Brad and Claire's kids seem to have elected for a constitutional democracy as opposed to monarchy. LOL. It's definitely not like Be Rad, where Brad was king and Claire was queen with Ace as the duke and Billy as the rogue heir trying to take down Brad. Darius, JJ, Will, Marie, and John come off more as being close without having a hierarchy among them. I think it helps that they go to different schools, and Darius is so much older. They're a little less thrown in together, I think. I'm glad Lark is fine. He needs a little bit of redemption after the way his character was written off in If It Fits.

Chapter 49 -When Brad gets the news Lark committed suicide and reads his note...only...it's not really true. "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum -When Brad has that encounter with Wade and Matt. "Back That Ass Up" by Juvenile -When Brad muses about Robbie, and remembers the people he lost to AIDS... "Yellow" by Coldplay Coldplay. Welcome to the 2000's, CAP saga!

Darius decides to attend Tulane University....when Mayor Nagin decides to declare an evacuation of New Orleans...Darius ignores it. As the water rises above his head, his last thought is, "Damn, damn, damn...:

Sterling Knight is on a Disney show called Sonny With A Chance. Horrid show, but he's actually pretty good on it. He was also in Seventeen Again with Zac Efron as well. Pretty cute guy, and I thought about it and was like, "You know, he actually would make a better JJ than Jesse McCartney would." Bonus is that his body type actually seems better suited for figure skating anyway. Matt Barr is on this CW show called Hellcats, but he's best-known for his role as Pyscho Derek on the teen soap One Tree Hill. He did batshit crazy extremely well. I'm not normally into that whole Nordic blonde look, but damn he's hot.

Chapter 48 -When Brad figures out that Jerry is the Mole. "The Backstabbers" by The O'Jays -When David leads Brad and Robbie on a trust exercise, and Brad realizes the strength of their bond. "Only You" by Yazoo http://www.vimeo.com/6158027