#can you tell I was a lps girlie as a kid

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Gravity falls characters as lps (+ Layla) part1 ??????

Possum 1015

St. Bernard 76

deer 634 or rabbit 2461

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Buffy / Cordelia / Willow

*  Cloud 69 // Lowell

I'm like dynamite / need a cheerleader / let me throw you down / while I look at her / I'm like "Oh my god / I think I need a girlfriend"

*  Crazy // Au Revoir Simone

you knew me, wanna love to lose and to lose again / seems we're either giving up or giving in / but, uh, you girls, you drive me crazy

Willow / Tara

* There’s a Girl // The Ditty Bops

there's a girl that you might know / she's a friend at least I tell you so / but it might surprise you to find / there's something going on behind the door

* Horizon // Luna Blake 

you tower over me / you are sky and I am sea 

* Truthfully // Lisa Loeb

truthfully, I really can't explain / I'm floating, I'm smiling again 

* Room // Palehound 

she comes over / growing like a clover / in my room / in my room

* Sugar in a Pie //  Erin McKeown

love me sweet like a sugar in a pie / kiss me deep with a dreamy little sigh

Faith / Buffy

* Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover // Sophie B. Hawkins 

that old dog has chained you up, alright / give you everything you need to live inside a twisted cage / sleep beside an empty rage / I had a dream I was your hero

* Hologram // Katie Herzig

I'm gonna let you down / gonna toss you around / gonna make you want everything you haven't found / I'm gonna hold your hand / then ask you to stand / ten feet away

* Buy her Candy

she's a famous / she's the best / I cannot lay / my heart to rest / she is selfish / she is kind / no one can say / she is mine

* Nights with you // MO

I'll take you out tonight / leave it all at home / don't care about your boyfriend waking up alone

* Portions for Foxes// Rilo Kiley

'cause you're just damage control, for a walking corpse like me, like you (S6 Fuffy edition)

* Last 2nd Chance // Vaughan Penn 

this is the last second chance I’ll ever need / this is the last time you’ll hear sorry from me

Buffy / Cordelia-

* More like you // Hazel English

I could waste all of my time / thinking up ways to catch your eye / and I tried but it just didn’t feel right / and besides I'm just trying to get by

* She // Dodie 

and I'll be okay admiring from afar / cause even when she's next to me / we could not be more far apart  (late S1 - mid S2 coffy, either pov)

* Can’t / Naaz 

in my mind / I can be what we choose / but in life / we can't stand in those shoes

* Midway // Bad Bad Hats 

the shadows you were casting nearly swallowed the night /  but god, I could have kissed you (I imagine this as the night Cordelia drops Buffy home in Helpless or sometime in mid-late S3)

* Touch //  Shura 

I wanna touch you but I'm too late / I wanna touch you but there's history / I can't believe that it's been three years / now when I see you, it's so bittersweet  (if either had showed up in L.A or Sunnydale after Buffy was resurrected)

Tara / Buffy

* If I Could // Sophie Zelmani 

If I could help you with /  this part of life you've got to live /  you could load your weight on me

* Our Eyes // Lucy Rose 

I'm alive / I feel it now / I never knew I'll find it on you / out of line we got ourselves / in a look, wait we are not fine / wait, you are not mine 

* Wire // Alessi Ark 

I'm tired of walking this wire / it keeps me awake for heaven sake / I was made for this girl / I feel lonely / my friends don't seem to know me / like i thought they did

Willow / Cordelia

* Upper West Side // King Princess

I can't stop judging every thing you do / but I can't get enough of you

* Then If I’m Weird I Want to Share // Tender Forever

people told me / that you're too sexy / you're too sexy for me / but actually I just don't care / I think it's bullshit everywhere

Buffy / Willow

* Loners // Maddie Ross

one night alone in the bookstacks / summer to make all the kids sad / next fall we're back in the corner / nice girls love kissing the loners

* Ray of Sunshine // Go Sailor 

yellow hair, fiery stare / nothing's right, 'cause she's not here tonight 

* Explosion // Zolita 

it's a mindless love affair / one hot mess of bleach blonde hair / I could kiss her but your lips taste better / you could kiss him but my words are sweeter

* Sweet Moon // Sundarta 

when the world is big and I’m alone / I call you and I am home

Faith / Tara

* Will You Be My Girlfriend // Alanis Morissette 

I guess I fall and you stay intact is that right? I guess you hear me and won't attack me, is that right? guess I reach out and you reach back, is that right?

* Not gonna Get Us // T.at.u 

soon there will be laughter and voices / beyond the clouds over the mountains / we'll run away on roads that are empty / lights from the airfield shining upon you (teenage runaway mehane)

* Love you Anyway // Jil Nisson & Marlene

I know what you've been getting / coz I sure got it too / don't, don't you forget it / the damage they do

* Walk The Line // Halsey

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine / I keep my eyes wide open all the time / I keep the ends out for the tie that binds / because you're mine, I walk the line

Willow / Amy

* Wherever We Are // Human Life

after the day we're chasing the sun / farther away the faster we run / feet on the ground our head in the stars / finding the sound wherever we are

* When We’re High // LP 

let’s swallow the moon and the stars / let’s wallow just right where we are

Amy / Faith

* Whiskey & Black Leather // Sapphic Lasers

some they want a girl next door / but that ain't what I'm looking for / I first saw your lips across the room / red like a blood moon

* Her Lover // Ally & Stevie 

she is like a cat in the dark / and then she is the darkness

* High Enough // K Flay 

don’t try to give me cold water / I don’t wanna sober up / all I see are tomorrows / oh, the stars were made for us

Cordelia / Anya

*  Only a Girl // Gia

soft touch, warm skin / nothing like my ex-man / slowly falling, I don't want my next man

* I Don’t Do Boys // Elektra 

I don't do boys, I just do girls / just do girls with style and class / I don't do boys, I just do girls / just do girls with kissable ass

Fuffy / Radison

* One More // Elliphant 

stay with me tonight / we can count the street lights / stay with me alright let's bring it all back to life (bad girls & smashed shennanigans)

Dark Willow / Anyanka + Darla / Drusilla + Lilah / Cordelia (Jasmine possessed version)

* Glory & Gore // Lorde

delicate in every way but one, / God knows we like archaic kinds of fun / chance is the only game I play with / baby, we let our battles choose us 

“ Your Lips are Red // St. Vincent

this city's red / this city's red from riding us into the ground / this city's black / this city's black from all the ashes in downtown

Willow / Anya

* Wishful Thinking // The Ditty Bops 

when the cold and lonely hours put your heart to the test / maybe I'll be the one that you like best (S7 Rosekins)

* The Happy Song // Kate Miccuci 

'cause isn't it nice to have the friends that you do? / and isn't it nice that the sky is so blue? / and isn't it nice to say "I love you"? (the cheery & matter -of-factly style of this song reminds me of anya)

Faith / Willow

* So-Called Str8 Grrrl // Gina Young

I think you want me / you know you want me / so why do you talk shit about me

* She’s so Lovely // The Butchies 

she's a rocker dressed like a killer / she's got lips like wine not sugar 

* Sum of your parts // Mary Lambert

I didn't know I was a phoenix till I learned how to speak / even with ashes in my mouth I was still born to breath / I wonder are you like me

* All I Want is To Be Your Girl // Holly Miranda

Well there's ghosts in the night and ghosts in my mind / and if we quit changing we'll be left behind / but I won't take another chance of screwing it up / so I stay where I am / but all I want is to be your girl

Buffy / Satsu

* Cliff’s Edge // Hayley Kiyoko

you turn me on / you lead me on / you got me on / a cliff's edge (satsu’s pov)

* One Night // Charlie XCX 

you are somethin’ special / twenty carats, solid gold / what we had was precious / but I had to let you go

Cordelia / Lilah

* Short Skirt, Long Jacket // Larkin Poe

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

Fuffy + Willow / Kennedy

* We Might be Dead by Tomorrow // Soko

give me all your love / ‘cause for all we know / we might be dead by tomorrow

Kendra / Buffy

* Eleventeen // Kimya Dawson

you may feel strange, well, you are an angel / stuck in tight pants stuck at a high school dance / stuck doing people things not knowing you have wings

* Supergirl // Anna Naklab

you can see in her eyes / that no one is her chain / she's my girl / my supergirl

Cordelia / Faith

* Can I Say Baby // GIRLI 

can I say baby? / I don't wanna be soppy / but I like your style / think you're kinda cool / I'm sort of into you

* Rebel Girl // Bikini Kill 

rebel girl rebel girl / I think I want to take you home / I want to try on your clothes

* Flowers and Rope // Princess Nokia

voices in my head, monsters under my bed / I'm alone again, I lost all my friends / wanna play pretend? hope this never ends

Fred / Faith

* Whiskey // Nicole Reynolds

you accept that i talk too much / i accept that you talk too little / but it's fine / i like a good riddle

In the Margins // Ani Difranco

you are a rare bird / the kind i wouldn't even mind / writing in the margins of my books

Willow / Kennedy

* Pretty Girl // Hayley Kiyoko 

I can tell you’re real smart / world class piece of art / I can see you in the dark / all we have to do is start

* Let it Go // Allie Moss 

darlin' you see / the fear in me / and how I'd finally be / if I were willing to let it go

Buffy / Anne

* Annonymous Club //  Courtney Barnett 

let's start an anonymous club / I'll make us name badges with question marks

* Hideaway // IVY 

under stars and satellites / a thousand miles / from where we've been

Willow/Fred + Buffy/Tara

* I Was Made for Sunny Days // The Weepies

I was made for sunny days / and I was made for you

Faith / Kennedy

* Crimson and Clover //  Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 

ah, now I don't hardly know her / but I think I can love her

“ Honey // Kehlani

I like my girls just like I like my honey; sweet / a little selfish

Cordelia / Fred

* Genius // The Murmurs

she's kinda weird / she's kinda freaky / but I don't know / I think she's a genius

* There she goes // Sixpence None the Richer 

there she goes / there she goes again / racing through my brain / and I just can't contain / this feeling that remains

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Midnight: Behind the Mask

~A Conversation with Athenar at Psycho Las Vegas~

Interview and Photographs by Stephanie V. Cantu

One of the most fascinating and memorable acts at Psycho Las Vegas last summer was Ohio's MIDNIGHT. After their scorching performance, in which they literally lit up the stage, Stephanie tracked down frontman Athenar for an interview. What follows is the transcript of that interview. Midnight recently dropped the new record Shox of Violence on Hells Headbanger Records. (Editor)

This is Stephanie with Doomed & Stoned, on behalf of Psycho Entertainment, we have here Midnight. Let’s give our unholy welcome…

Welcome, unholy people.

Let’s roll on into the first question. The question on everyone’s mind: Can we expect a new album to be written this football season?

(laughs) Well, there’s probably a couple of albums ahead already. There’s an EP coming out. There’s an album coming out next year. And there’s already work done. So yeah, probably this football season we’ll get some inspiration for you all, so yes. That’s on everyone’s mind.

Who’s your team?

My team? Steelers. Can’t stop steel.

I know when you first started out, your music was intended more on the solo project end. That really comes from the love of creation, you know, that solitude and that genius space that takes one mind to muster up. How has the dynamic changed for you more and more over the years as people have discovered your music?

Nothing has changed as far as the dynamic. Everything is done pretty much exactly as I’ve done it ten years ago. Yeah, you’re right it’s something I do for a hobby, a way to not go completely crazy. So it’s kinda like some people build model airplanes, make garbage music, but yeah. Nothing’s really changed.

I have to keep talking about this dungeon space because when one is doing solo projects... As time has progressed, would you say performing live is something like your forte, something you enjoy doing, or is it more of a duty for your fans?

I always say it’s the last show. I hate it. I always say it. I don’t like pretty much any part of it except the time that you’re playing a gig, but yeah. Leaving home, dealing with other things that kind of get in the way, I don’t like. But the gig itself is always usually something that keeps me entertained.

The crazy feat that you all did today. You set your bass on fire, then crowd surfed all the way to the pool, which seemed like a pretty damn strategic move. Was that an impromptu sort of thing? How did you know that it was going to go right? You know what I mean? You just envisioned it?

Yeah, yeah. If you’re playing at the pool and it’s hot… why not take a dip? I mean, it just seemed to be natural. There’s a way you needed to put the bass out on fire, so you got fire, you got water. There’s elements. There’s air. Fire and water -- make use of em.

The security guards nearly tried pulling you back, but you just jumped into it. Was there ever maybe a thought that ever crossed your mind, or that the people who were carrying you along the way were in sheer terror? Or was everyone completely all for it and you knew it was cool?

You feel it. I mean, I don’t think. Well, there you go again…thinking? I didn’t do that. Thinking was out the window. But it’s all to get people to loosen up, you know? Not just sit there and take life too seriously.

There were many people who said, “I saw a fireball go into the pool from my window! What was that all about?” So it was actually pretty cool to be there and experience that as well.

So tell me where you find the most comfort while both rehearsing and recording. What’s the vibe of your jam space?

Band practices for live things?

I would say both, maybe where you might find your riffage and also where you come together with the guys.

The riffage just can come at any time. Most of the time you come up with something and you’re not even thinking of the guitar thing. You’re just thinking of a vocal line or a chorus. You can make up a whole song without picking up a guitar, but for me, to record the demos, it’s more comfortable in a basement. It feels more so at home, in a basement. Live rehearsal stuff, it’s where we sound the best. Not at the gigs. Playing in the rehearsal space is always best for the band. It’s not live.

There’s something pretty cold and dark and sinister about basements.

Yeah, I think so, too. When you go in, it’s kinda right here. It feels natural.

Moving from the time of handcrafted DIY CD sleeves and really that time in which you’re having to put forth the effort yourself to get your music out to fans for the first time. What is it like now having professionally printed LPs, I mean over the process of years, how is it now for you? I still see the whole DIY spirit, with Midnight’s banner and whatnot.

Like I said, nothing has changed. Nothing’s really changed at all. Hells Headbangers who put out the records, it’s basically a DIY thing. They live half an hour from me, everything kind of goes, “What do you think of this, what do you think of that?” Nothing is run by the big machine at all, it’s just people feeding off each other’s ideas. I wouldn’t want it any other kind of way. I wouldn’t want to just throw together a cover or just print a bunch of hoodies without me knowing. Or make a bunch of girly tank tops. They’re really good at just keeping the intentions there.

Whenever you all make a girly tank top, let me know. Just kidding. (laughs) So what is vocally, speaking of the vocal section, what is your inspiration for this viciousness and this bitter darkness that’s not only in the delivery, but also in your lyrical content? Because like I was saying, the whole underworld vibe, it seems to tap a little further than human suffering and agony. It’s a little further than that.

That’s a pretty deep question for a rock n roll band, but the vocal delivery, I guess, comes from the way I hear natural rawness of Little Richard, David Lee Roth, and Jeff Becerra from Possessed, and Cronos and Lemmy. But it’s just something you feel. Like I was saying before, you gotta get something out. Somebody has to do something with their free time. So it’s just something, if I didn’t do that, I’d probably be doing something really not right in society.

Also too, there’s that very heavy satanic element. Is this something you identify heavily with, something you’ve got to get out?

As a kid, that’s the kind of stuff I was always drawn to. Always the bad guys, the villains, more sinister type things. As far as Satan, that kind of stuff, I really at this point in my life, don’t think there’s some guy with a pitch fork hanging out. It’s more of, do what you feel is right and what you like to do. Live by your own rules.

Hell yeah. So, speaking of evil, the illustrations for your album covers are pretty gory and suggestive. To the average person, can be frightened by. How did you go by selecting your artist and driving forth the whole vibe you wanted to put out.

The cover I like because it’s twisted artwork. Not your standard heavy metal cover or death metal cover, but it’s really kind of, the way it’s drawn is pretty crude. Somewhat perverse, somewhat creepy. A little weird to look at (laughs) the artist did a great job.

Football and beer go hand in hand. With that being said what’s your ale of choice?

(laughs) I don’t drink. I just watch em and pay attention to the statistics. Statistics, that’s fun for me. Sorry I let you down, but I’m not a beer and football person. I’m a football and iced water guy.

What would you say is the best area you guys ever gigged at that was to you, a home away from home?

Japan was great, just because of the record stores. That was really interesting. A completely different culture. Brazil really just felt, people were really genuine and welcoming. Really were hungry for heavy metal still. So that was really cool, I liked that. It was fun.

How is it playing a festival like Psycho Las Vegas?

Good and bad. Playing the stage was good. There’s always a lot of horseshit and BS that goes on playing the Hardly Rock. There’s certain doors you can’t go in, this way, you got to go that way. For someone like me, well what’s the difference of going through that door or that door? Why can’t I just go through there? Something like that is annoying, but if that’s the most annoying thing I have to worry about, then that’s okay.

What was some of your favorite acts on the bill?

Blue Oyster Cult, of course. Arthur Brown, which I didn’t get to see, because of the policies of Hard Rock. We got our tickets and passes and were kind of late when we got in Friday. After the security guard sees that we’re waiting and waiting and finally get em. Okay let’s go see the last song, then says “No, you can’t come in. We don’t let people in the last ten minutes of the show.” And it’s like, we can’t just go in? Also Alice Cooper, we watched Lecherous Gaze, and that was cool. I probably didn’t get to watch as many bands as I should have, but I had to stay in a certain spot to get to a certain place.

Any last words?

I would say something really vulgar and offensive, but you’re too nice and we’re in a nice setting here. (laughs)   Thanks a lot for even considering, taking time out to do an interview, and anybody watching and listening to even give a shit about it.

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