World Spinning Round
A Boy Meets City Fanmix 
for Major John Sheppard
compiled by Melannen

1. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helicopter String Quartet
2. Willie Nelson - Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (fond of each other)
3. The Weepies - Antarctica
4. Brian Wilson - Smart Girls
5. The Beatles - Fool on the Hill
6. Starsailor - Shark Food
7. The Generics - The Seventies, Then And Forever
8. William Shatner (feat. Lemon Jelly) - Together

HELICOPTER
This is the song that Rodney wrote for John, in another universe. 
(In this universe, the symphonies Rodney writes take flight in 
other ways.) On his bad days, it's the only music John needs.

COWBOYS
The week he first heard this song*, John's CO spent a week straight 
ranting about how disgusting it was, so John and Dex made a point
of having it on whenever he was in range. ("Oh, the US Military isn't
allowed to listen to good ol' country music any more, sir?") It was 
even funnier because the CO had just given John another periodic
lecture on how to stop being a damn cowboy and follow orders
for once. (John's fairly sure Dex never saw it as anything but a joke.)

ANTARCTICA
John's never actually heard this song. But he once spent a dinner
in the commissary talking to a woman he didn't know was on
the continent through the Artists and Writers Program. That's one
reason John liked the place: nobody wondered why you were
there. They were all there for the same reasons, in the end.

SMART GIRLS
John managed to be in just the right time and place that this was the 
first Brian Wilson song he ever learned. He wound up joining the Air 
Force instead of becoming the World's Greatest Surf Rapper like he'd
planned, but he still likes to quote lines from it just to watch Rodney 
splutter. When people ask what it's like the chair, he tells them to get 
high and put this song on repeat. Luckily, they never believe him.

FOOL ON THE HILL
John doesn't _want_ to be the hero of every story. But it happens
anyway. So he sat on a hill over the city and flipped a coin for it.
Teyla, on the other hand, thinks late-period Beatles are an expression
of Earth's profound spiritual truths. John's not entirely sure she's wrong.

SHARK FOOD
One thing about an international expedition is that here's all kinds
of music. John's never really been that into it (especially the pop 
stuff. Unlike some people), but this album was on the iPod that was 
some genius's personal item, and he learned to like it despite himself.
"Sunshine to the glory skies" still gets caught in his mind, sometimes,
standing in the atria early mornings.

THE SEVENTIES
John learned to appreciate disco in Antarctica. And deep in his 
secret heart, he's the sort of person who can have an unironic love
of camp: it's why he can still spend hours arguing flux capacitors with
Rodney. And it's also the only reason he still had his sense of humor
after that first year in Pegasus.
He's still never going to confess which of them he thinks of as 
Lola, though.

TOGETHER
Because being Kirk's not always a bad thing.
Not when it means you've got a flying city who loves you
and a team at your back
and a whole galaxy to explore.