music, sweet music

This isn't so much a real Pinto FST as a collection of music that tells the magical journey of Zachary Quinto and his adventures in Hollywood, as he grows and matures, with absolutely no help from one C. Pine. It's also a breakup-makeup mix and heavily influenced by 1297's fic Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (which you should read!)

I believe music is always open to individual interpretation, so I curbed my urge to ramble about the minute meanings in each lyric and key change and just decided to give short guides to why each song is where it is.


PITTSBURGH the lemonheads. [dl]
with a little bit of common sense you can lose a lot of innocence in this world
Zachary Quinto was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 2nd June, 1977.

THE WORLD AT LARGE modest mouse. [dl]
i like songs about drifters, books about the same, they both seem to make me feel a little less insane
Leaving home. This is about being the kind of person who is smart, but maybe not so sure of themselves, and it is pretty much my standard song for both of them.

ZERO yeah yeah yeahs. [dl]
try and hit the spot, get to know it in the dark
Welcome to Hollywood. Leave your soul at the door.

HUNTER 30 seconds to mars (bjork cover). [dl]
i thought i could organize freedom - how american of me
Zach gets Heroes, then Star Trek and learns a little about the importance of being himself.

GOLD GUNS GIRLS metric. [dl]
i just wanna be your friend while you're giving me a hard time
Chris Pine is more than just your average Hollywood pin-up boy, even if he's kind of a dick. And he's Zach's friend. (Is it ever gonna be enough?)

THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING bloc party. [dl]
passive yet aggressive - drunk on schadenfreude
It's about bitterness at someone else's success, which is sort of standing in for bitterness over other things, like the fact that you're waiting for that same person to fall desperately in love with you and maybe give you a goddamn handjob already.

THEY NEVER MEAN WHAT THEY SAY voxtrot. [dl]
if you really love me, quit petting for affection, and burn the fucking house down now
Title track. So they get together, but it's tough because they're famous and Zach is still trying to reconcile secrecy with his aversion to bullshit.

HOW TO BE DEAD snow patrol. [dl]
you're a big boy now so let's not talk about growth
Sometimes even when you love a person a lot you can fight with them, and not the fun kinds of teasing mock-fight that leads to kissing, either.

DOG PROBLEMS the format. [dl]
when I said, "i hate what i've become", i lied, i hated who i was
The post-breakup FUCK YOU. I literally cannot put into words why this song is so utterly, utterly Zachary Quinto for me. If you only download one of these songs, make it this.

I STAND CORRECTED vampire weekend. [dl]
but I've been at this far too long to act like that when we should be in perfect harmony
Apologies and make-up sex. Lyrics do double-time for their verbal sparring and Chris trying to catch up his vocabulary.

ART STAR yeah yeah yeahs. [dl]
i've been working on a piece that speaks of sex and desperation
Interlude: being a Serious Artist and also a pretentious motherfucking hipster oh my god.

CAN'T STOP red hot chili peppers. [dl]
your image in the dictionary, this life is more than ordinary
Love, love, love, love love. Love which expands to encompass life, the universe & everything. Glorious, mind-blowing, crazy love.

NORTHERN DOWNPOUR panic! at the disco. [dl]
i missed your skin when you were east, you clicked your heels and wished for me
Travel, together and apart.

HOMECOMING kanye west feat. chris martin. [dl]
now i'm coming home again, maybe we can start again
Let's go back to the start. Finding out who you are always requires acceptance of who you used to be.


Even if you don't agree, I hope you enjoy the music.
only crossposted to my dreamwidth.