I bet you all forgot <user name=starry_sea> was even here! Because I've been neglecting it shamefully!

Well, for 3WfDW I have finally finished a fanmix I've only been working on since I started the community: the fanmix for Diane Duane's novel <i>The Wounded Sky</i>.

I say "fanmix", but it's really much more a Fan Soundtrack, because as usual, I went way overboard and put in an audio track for every major event in the book. Since this is a story that's full of music beginning to end, it seemed necessary.

This is possibly the geekiest mix I have ever made. I should probably warn that as a result it contains some music that is very strange, and some music that is very Christian (although I hope not strange in an unlistenable way and not Christian in a way that would be unfamiliar to fans of the book.)

<h1>Dragline Silk: FST for <I>The Wounded Sky</i></h1>
<img src="http://melannen.katycat.net/starrysea/anentropiaf.jpg" alt="Dragline Silk: A Fanmix for The Wounded Sky"> <img src="http://melannen.katycat.net/starrysea/anentropiab.jpg" alt="Tracklist for Dragline Silk (transcript below)">
<b><a href=
<img src=http://melannen.katycat.net/fanmix/anentropia.zip>Click here to download the full Dragline Silk mix (anentropia.zip)</a></b>

<cut text="Expanded songlist"><h3>Liner Notes</h3>
(Artist names link, when possible, to official websites. Song titles link, when possible, to legal downloads or streams of the song.)
<ol><li> <b>Meet the <i>Enterprise</i></b>
<a href=http://starry-sea.dreamwidth.org/4079.html>Enterprise, Starship </a>
sung by <user name=Wintercreek>
words by Diane Duane
music by John Denver

And though we are strangers in your silent spaces, / While we're in your world we can learn from your night, / To be constant as stars, to reach ever outward, / Laughing and loving and *being* the light! --</li>
<li><b>The New Inversion Drive</b>
<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc>A Glorious Dawn</a>
Music and mix by John Boswell and <a href=http://www.symphonyofscience.com/>Symphony of Science</a>
Words by Carl Sagan (feat. Stephen Hawking)

A still more glorious dawn awaits / Not a sunrise, but a galaxyrise / A morning filled with 400 billion suns / The rising of the milky way</li>
<li><b>Docking at StarBase18</b>
<a href=http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/Spidroin.htm>Spidroin: Dragline Silk</a>
Music by the power of evolution
Made audible by <a href=http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/samples.htm>Dr. Mary Anne Clark</a>

(AGQGGYGGLGSQG) [AGRGGQGAGAAAAAAVGAGQEGIRGQG]
(AGQGGYGGLGSQG)
[SGRGGLGGQGAGAAAAAAGGAGQGGLGGQGAGQGAGAAAAAAGG]</li>
<li><b>K't'lk gives a briefing</b>
Entropy
Sung by <a href=http://www.youtube.com/user/therealmchawking>MC Hawking</a>
(with assistance from Ken Lawrence)

That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y, / the reason why the suns will one day all burn out and die. / Order from disorder is a scientific rarity, / allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.</li>
<li><b>First Inversion</b>
<a href=http://www.lordoftherings-soundtrack.com/>Shelob's Lair</a>
Music by Howard Shore
Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

O Elbereth Starkindler / from heaven gazing far, / to thee I cry now beneath the shadow of death. / O look towards me, Everwhite.</li>
<li><b>Enterprise destroys the Klingons / Second Inversion</b>
Control
Music by <a href=http://realpoe.ning.com/>Poe</a> (feat. Tad Danielewski)

Come a little bit closer / Let me look at you / I gave you the benefit / Of the doubt it's true / But keep in mind my darling / Not every saint is a fool</li>
<li><b>The Wolf-Rayet Star</b>
<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA>Why Does the Sun Really Shine?</a>
Music by They Might Be Giants

The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma / The sun's not simply made out of gas, no, no, no</li>
<li><b>An Evening in the Captain's Cabin</b>
Life After Death (and Taxes)
Music by <a href=http://relientk.com/>Relient K</a>

Never forget / there's life after death and taxes / and forgiveness comes / and all of the rest / is what passes away / Death and decay can't touch us now</li>
<li><b>Third Inversion</b>
<a href=http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/cd.html>Creation Dream</a>
Music by Bruce Cockburn

Lines of power / Bursting outward / Along the channels of your song</li>
<li><b>Anentropia</b>
Dark Star
Music by <a href=http://www.mikeoldfieldofficial.com/index.php>Mike Oldfield</a>

~~~~tubular bells~~~~~</li>
<li><b>Fourth Inversion</b>
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Sung by <a href=http://www.kidjo.com/>Angelique Kidjo</a>
Original by Jimi Hendrix

Well I stand up next to a mountain / Chop it down with the edge of my hand / Pick up the pieces and make an island / Might even raise a little sand</li>
<li><b>Fifth Inversion</b>
<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMsUIUw5mEM>One Voice</a>
Music by <a href=http://www.thewailinjennys.com/home.aspx>the Wailin' Jennys</a>

This is the sound of all of us / Singing with love and the will to trust / Leave the rest behind it will turn to dust</li>
<li><b>Uphill Going</b>
<a href=http://www.archive.org/details/ShoutAllOverGodsHeaven>Walk Over God's Heaven</a>
Traditional African-American Spiritual
Performed by the Apollo Jubilee Quartette

Gonna put on our shoes / We gonna walk / We gonna talk / All over God's Heaven</li>
<li><b>Gestalt</b>
Feelin' Good
Words by  Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
Vocals by <a href=http://twitter.com/#!/realnichelle>Nichelle Nichols</a>

Birds flying high you know how I feel / Sun in the sky you know how I feel / Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel</li>
<li><b>Meeting the Great We Is</b>
<a href=http://www.thenewpornographers.com/media.html>The Laws Have Changed</a>
Music by <a href=http://www.thenewpornographers.com/>The New Pornographers</a>

Sing all hail, what'll be revealed today / when we peer into the great unknown</li>
<li><b>The Gift of Multiplicity</b>
<a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdeZXjWO5WQ>Build God, Then We'll Talk</a>
Performed and arranged by the <a href=http://www.vitaminstringquartet.com/>Vitamin String Quartet</a>
Composed by Panic! At the Disco

Raindrops on roses and the girls in white dresses / And sleeping with the roaches and taking best guesses</li>
<li><b>Singing the Universe</b>
<a href=http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/WOV/799>When Long Before Time</a>
Performed by the congregation of <a href=http://www.standrewsames.org/>St. Andrew's Lutheran Church</a>, 
Words and Music by Peter Davison

When long before time and the worlds were begun, / When there was no earth and no sky and no sun, / And all was deep silence and night reigned supreme, / And even our Maker had only a dream—-</li>
<li><b>K't'lk's Apotheosis</b>
<a href=http://www.inspirewebdesign.com/home/mpaw/soundindex.asp>Stedman Cinques</a>
Music by mathematical permutation
Performed by the <a href=http://www.glengroup.org.uk/St%20Laurence's%20Surfleet.htm>Surfleet Bells</a> ringers

12, 12-0-9 in F</li>
<li><b>Coming Home</b>
<a href=http://jonimitchell.com/music/transcription.cfm?id=447>Woodstock</a>
Music by <a href=http://jonimitchell.com/>Joni Mitchell</a>

We are stardust / We are golden / And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden</li>
<li><b>K's'tlk Hatches</b>
It's Going to Take Some Time This Time
<a href=http://www.richardandkarencarpenter.com/index.html>The Carpenters</a>

So it's one more round for experience / and I'm on the road again / and it's going to take some / time this time</li>
<li><b>Proceedings of the Vulcan Science Academy</b>
<a href=http://www.echoschildren.org/Songs/ActsofCreationtune.html>Acts of Creation</a>
<a href=http://www.echoschildren.org/>Echo's Children</a>

We are reaching for perfection, and it's not beyond our scope: / Every act of creation is an act of hope.</li>
<li><b>Bonus Track</b>
I keep thinking I should put David Bowie's <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0djHMegmc>Glass Spider</a> on here, but I was always stymied by the fact that I can't stand that song, or, in fact, that entire album. So you can just pretend, if you want!</li></ol></cut>

...if anyone wants the even more ridiculously expanded expanded liner notes, with full commentary on all the song choices, just let me know ^_^;;;