The Universe is Expanding: A Martha Jones/Liz Shaw fanmix

[stunt_muppet]

As part of my Martha/Liz Day o' Pimping over at who_otp, I've put together a small musical tribute to my OTP-that's-never-met.

When I try to imagine a story for Liz/Martha, I usually end up somehow using Martha and the Doctor's trip to 1969 as a plot device. This fanmix vaguely follows such a plotline, starting by introducing Martha and Liz and proceeding through their meeting, their friendship, their tentative relationship, the bond that develops between them, their eventual goodbyes as Martha returns to her own time - and maybe, just maybe, their reunion.

Romantic? Me? I've no idea what you mean.

(click for full images)

Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond

I want a girl who knows what’s best

I want a girl with shoes that cut

and eyes that burn like cigarettes

…

I want a girl with a short skirt

and a long…jacket.

Changes - Butterfly Boucher with David Bowie

I still don't know what I was lookin’ for

and my time was running wild

a million dead-end streets

every time I thought I'd got it made

it seemed the taste was not so sweet

3 Women Walking - Ottmar Liebert
Instrumental

I Move On - Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellwegger (from the soundtrack to Chicago)
So there's no doubt we're well cut out
to run life's marathon.
We just move on.
Yeah we move on.

Space - Bond
Instrumental

Masterfade - Andrew Bird
I saw you standing all alone in the electrostatic rain
I thought at last I'd found a situation you can't explain
with GPS you know it's all just a matter of degrees
your happiness won't find you underneath that canopy of trees

Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
I don't think you unworthy
I need a moment
to deliberate...

Topaz - The B-52s
New city by the sea.
Skyscrapers are winking.
Some hills I'll never see.
The universe is expanding.

Caramel - Suzanne Vega
I know your name, I know your skin
I know the way these things begin.
But I don't know how I would live with myself
what I'd forgive of myself
if you don't go.

The Scientist - Coldplay
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
you don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
tell you I set you apart
tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
oh let's go back to the start.

Lucky - Bif Naked
It's time to let you know
time to sit here and say
I know we are
we are the lucky ones

(The crack-tastic bonus track which has nothing to do with the storyline:)

Still Alive (end theme to Portal) - Jonathan Coulton and GLaDOS
Look at me still talking when there's science to do.
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you.
I've experiments to run
there is research to be done.

The Universe is Expanding (.zip download at MediaFire)

Artwork by me (with input and help from my lovely flist, to whom I'm deeply grateful); thanks to biichan, kayliemalinza, atraphoenix, pimpmytardis, silly_cleo, and the lovely folk of legsofsciencefor all their help as well!

Comments

[revolutionaren.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you have just converted me to the good ship that is Matha/Liz :D

[nentari.livejournal.com]

Lovely music choices :)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I'm going to snag that fanmix and revel ! Thanks for making and sharing !

Edit - well I would do, but I'm getting an error message saying the file's not available... :(

Stupid fanmixes, always throwing snogs at me!

[rainbowstevie.livejournal.com]

...I totally meant to say "songs" in the subject there. Apparently my subconscious had other ideas. Where I was going with this? Oh yeah, I was realizing one of the ways my annual music list explodes out of control, since I am powerless to resist the temptation of such collections with lyrics and everything.

Anyway! That is an excellent title, and I am going to sno - SNAG! SERIOUSLY, BRAIN. - snag the music from you and admire the pretty galaxy on the cover while I do so. I only know two of the songs, but I like them both (Short Skirt/Long Jacket - which is always going to mean Abby Sciuto to me, since the first time I heard it was a video about her - and Uninvited), so hopefully I'll find some new stuff to enjoy.

*pokes download* HURRY UP, stupid not-school internet speeds...

[rhia-starsong.livejournal.com]

Aw, this turned out lovely!

[atraphoenix.livejournal.com]

Brilliant song choices!

(And I'm so glad I helped, even a teeny tiny amount.)

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Yay, Suzanne Vega! And I so love that title. It's so dreamy.

Re: Stupid fanmixes, always throwing snogs at me!

[pimpmytardis.livejournal.com]

Lovely choices!

(The cake is a lie?)

[jtree.livejournal.com]

Those songs are lovely. ^_^ And I think I really quite like this ship now.

[livii.livejournal.com]

This looks like a fab mix - will be downloading, thanks! And I'm alllll about a femslash ship, esp. a rare pair one. :D

Feel free to pimp your pimp post (heh) at dw_femslash, by the way, would be thrilled to have that content there!

[rainshaded]

Oh, excellent! Thank you so much for doing this!

Are you going to link to this at legsofscience? You are most welcome, nay, strongly encouraged to do so!

[padawanpooh.livejournal.com]

Lovely stuff! Thanks for the mix - I don't have a lot of those tracks - am d/ling.

Out-of-the-blue comment which isn't at all creepy, honest!

[copper-kestrel.livejournal.com]

So, I feel the need to first defend myself saying that I'm not a completely creepy person's who's ended up on your LJ, but I was looking for some Martha fanmixes, came across this, spent a happy half-hour investigating Liz Shaw, deciding that I really want to watch some of her episodes, and was going to snag this. But mediafire is saying that the file is invalid or deleted, so I was just wondering why that was =).