Soundtrack

I have a secret addiction to blogsphere surveys.  I’m sure it’s related to my general self-absorption, but I enjoy reading these and filling them out mentally even as I glean perceptions from whosever page it is.

That may be, by the way, the first time I’ve ever actually written the word "whosever". I actually had to look it up to make sure I wasn’t imagining things.

Anyway, surveys are often more meaningful to the person doing it than the person reading it, but hopefully whomever stumbles across this will find it interesting.

By the way, ignore the weird HTML formatting stuff. If I remember, I’ll go back and fix it. Apparently, OD doesn’t like Microsoft Word.

 Soundtrack to Your Life

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button.
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool.

Opening Credits: Hello Tomorrow, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

(I heard this song on an Adidas commercial. It was officially release on I-Tunes, but I don’t believe I have a copy of it. I should get the full version.)

Waking Up: Bring Me To Life – Evanescence

(Genuine LOL at this one.)

Average Day: Four Strong Winds – Johnny Cash

From American V: A Hundred Highways. I became a Cash fan belatedly, within the last year. Wish I’d gotten into him sooner. 

Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high,
All these things that won’t change, come what may.
Well our good times are all gone, and I’m bound for moving on.
I’ll look for you if I’m ever back this way.

First Date: Wolf – Veruca Salt

Good song, though not completely appropriate. Obscure for most of you, too, I bet. Veruca Salt was a Chicago band, so in St. Louis we heard a lot of them and they played for us live frequently. I became a huge fan, and their second album got some critical acclaim but didn’t catapult them much further. This song’s about a failed relationship.

Falling in Love: St. Jimmy – Green Day

Ok, donno how this fits, except the part that goes..

I’m the patron saint of the denial
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal

Sounds like my relationship history, a’ight.

Fight Scene: Spiderman – Tenacious D

Haha.
An amusing song about Spiderman vs. Flash in Tenacious D style.

I’m scared of what the next one will be.

Secret Love: Selling the Drama – Live

Ok, that’s not bad. Certainly a lot of drama.

I’ve willed I’ve walked I’ve read
I’ve talked I know I know
I’ve been here before

Breaking Up: One Thing – Finger 11

Ah, I love this song. So much.

I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time

Getting Back Together: Scared of You – Nelly Furtado

Scared of you (and in everything I do I’m still thinking of you) oh, you
And I know you were scared of me (but everytime I tried to love you I just
fell through) too

Wedding: The Voice Within – Christina Aguilera

Young girl, don’t cry; I’ll be right here when your world starts to fall
Young girl, it’s alright; your tears will dry, you’ll soon be free to fly

Well, it’s inspirational.

Birth of Child: Special – Garbage

This one doesn’t harbinger pleasure and joy.

Ah, I used to adore you;
Ah, I couldn’t control you.
There was nothing that I wouldn’t do
to keep myself around and close to you.
Do you have an opinion? A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I’ve run out of patience–I couldn’t care less.

Great, I’m going to have annoying children.

Mental Breakdown: Photographs and Memories – Jim Croce

Ah, Jim. Sometimes it feels like I’m nothing but stitched together fragments of happier times.

Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day
When I called you mine

Photographs and memories
All the love you gave to me<br style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Courier New” />Somehow it just cant be true
Thats all Ive left of you

Learning a Lesson: All Apologies – Nirvana

Classic song. Wow, I just called Nirvana classic. I feel old.

What else should I be? All apologies.

Moment of Triumph: Ride Wit Me – Nelly

Well, it was certainly Nelly’s moment of triumph. The song speaks for itself. Another one that made me laugh for being so apropos.

Flashback:  Cheers Darlin’ – Damien Rice

The pain of seeing a woman you love marry someone else. Nice choice, gods of shuffle.

Cheers darlin’
Here’s to you and your lover boy
Cheers darlin’
I got years to wait around for you
Cheers darlin’
I’ve got your wedding bells in my ear
Cheers darlin’
You give me three cigarettes to smoke my tears away

And I die when you mention his name
And I lied, I should have kissed you
When we were runnin in the rain

Final Battle: Joining You – Alanis Morissette

This is one of my personal anthems. The lyrics are subtly brilliant, really; her talking to a suicidal friend.

We are each more than so much of what people think they are.

Death Scene: Gravity of Love – Enigma

No surprise that love and death are intertwined here, and if you just look at the title, it seems to fit. It’s about finding someone who will guide you and walk with you to the limits of your life.  A fresh start full of discovery and wonder.

On second thought, that sort of fits death well.

Funeral Song: Rocket Queen – Guns ‘n Roses

Ok, I can’t even pretend to make up a reason for this one. It was a good run, though.

End Credits: Over You – Chris Daughtry

Rofl. I admit it, I’m an American Idol junkie, and Chris was my personal favorite last year.  I said at the time you could put him on the radio immediately and he’d have a hit in that Creed/Nickelback genre of new rock.  His first album just came out, and this song is the one that’s most been on replay.  It’s partially representative of my recent breakup…and you know, if this theoretical soundtrack to my life has traced the journey from birth to death, it’s only too fitting that I’d end it with a song about such a topic.

Everyone has different way stations in their life. For some, it’s a city they lived in. For others, it’s the job they worked. It may be the birth of children, or the deaths of loved ones. For me, the markers interspersed along the road I travel? Relationships.

Every relationship but one is going to fail. I’m just tired of waiting for That One.

You took a hammer to these walls,
Dragged the memories down the hall,
Packed your bags and walked away.
There was nothing I could say.

 

Well, I never saw it coming.
I should’ve started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I’d doubt you,
I’m better off without you
More than you, more than you know.
I’m slowly getting closure.
I guess it’s really over.
I’m finally getting better.
And now I’m picking up the pieces.
I’m spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together.
‘Cause the day I thought I’d never get through,
I got over you.