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Hey dudes! Two things.

1) So you remember when I posted Paparazzi from Hell like two entries ago and said I was never going to be happy with my first mashup? Apparently I lied, because last week in a fit of "productivity" I said screw it and redid the whole thing from start, and since the first time I made it I've learned better techniques (e.g.: use the Time Shift tool, don't do it the moron way) and basically I am just a million times happier with it, so! Since you guys were so nice and encouraging about Paparazzi from Hell, here is my other Celldweller vs. Gaga mashup, Louder Than Bad Romance. This one has even more ridiculous backstory than Paparazzi from Hell, but it still all boils down to "lol, injokes", essentially, so let's skip it.

If you couldn't tell from the (uninspired mashup-style) name, it's Celldweller's Louder Than Words mashed with Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. Eventually I will do something that is not Celldweller vs. Lady Gaga. Probably.

[Download 'Louder Than Bad Romance (Celldweller vs. Lady Gaga)' by Skulldilocks.]


2) I recently got a new computer, a laptop which I love to death and back, and yesterday I finally bit the bullet and decided to see if Sims 2 runs on it because I miss that game like burning and also, I confess, I miss some people in the community too. Long story short, halle-fucking-lujah, it runs! Pretty well, even. Maybe better than on my old desktop. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get Kingfisher Green or my old downloads off my orphaned hard drive, which means I get the joy of building a neighborhood and a downloads folder from scratch. But I wasn't crazy about all the stuff packs I had installed before, so maybe this will turn out to be awesome instead of ujherkgjrhekjhfjksdffd-inducing.

So, um, yes, I'm simming again! At least once I get downloads sorted, and probably on a much more limited basis, given that I have more important commitments like the novel I am co-writing with my bestie, not to mention my own novel, and a job (omg ew, work) and probably school. But SIMS, GUYS, OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED EJUHEFjzkhskdjshd as you can see because I keep degenerating into keysmashes.

So, hey. I made a thing. Not a sims thing, unfortunately, but a thing nonetheless. All the backstory behind it would take a lot of telling and it's pretty boring unless you're actually involved in it anyway, so, to be brief: hi, I'm Azaya, I like mashups. Both listening to them, and making them. So far, my thing has been mashing up Celldweller with, um, Lady Gaga. There's reasons behind it beyond just "I love Celldweller and I dig Gaga", but again, lengthy and in-jokey.

The first one is technically done but I'm pretty sure I'll never be satisfied with it, while this one I'm quite happy with, and I'm a little bit proud of it so I'm sharing it around. It's Celldweller's instrumental track Solaris smushed up with Gaga's Paparazzi, made because I couldn't find a version of Paparazzi that was creepy enough for a playlist I was making. I'm a writer, I make playlists at the drop of a hat. And obsessively edit songs for them too.

I am, as I said, rather proud of this, and it's certainly not professional or anything, I mean I made it in Audacity, but it serves its purpose. (Paparazzi is really creepy when the background music is F minor instead of A flat major.)

Um. So yes. Have at it, if you like!


[Download 'Paparazzi From Hell (Celldweller vs. Lady Gaga) by Skulldilocks.]

Sorry for the two-posts-in-one-day nonsense, but I figure some of you fine people might like to get your mitts on this as much as I did. Wish Upon A Blackstar chapter 2 came out today, and like the slavering fangirl I am, I snapped that shit up. And so here it is for you, as I've appeased my guilt by paying for it*. Again.

It's quite different in style from chapter 1-- heavier, like some of the later songs on Celldweller. I'm enjoying 'Eon' in particular (it may even temporarily depose 'Birthright' as my most-listened to, as 'Louder Than Words' did when it first came out), but they're both wonderful.

[Download 'Wish Upon A Blackstar Chapter 2' by Celldweller.]


*I'm going to be a freak for a minute and encourage you to pay for it too, if you like it. It's seriously like two bucks at the Fixt store.