Life Soundtrack Meme
This is all the fault of my Number One Internet Fanboy.
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here’s how it works:
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 (feel free to annotate, since snarky commentary is half the fun)
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend that you’re cool…
Opening credits: “The Herald’s Creed,” Heather Alexander — Yeah, I’m a fangirl. And a Herald. No, really. I fulfilled all the requirements. Why else would I have a Hawkbrother feather on my arm, which goes with the shield of Valdemar on my beloved’s arm?
Waking up: “Wherever You Will Go,” The Calling — I’ve never figured out if this was a love song to a lover, a promise to a child, or an oath from beyond the grave. Or maybe all of them. Anyway, it nicely represents my tendency toward tenacity.
First day of school: “Islands in the Stream,” Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton — Yeah, I got nothing here. Okay, here’s a theory: I always felt isolated as a child. Might be why I spent the first 3 decades or so of my life trying so hard to belong. And mostly failing. *shrug*
Falling in love: “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” Green Day — I met my first love in the month of September. Other than that, I can’t think of how this song relates…aside from the lines, “The innocent can never last” and “Twenty years has gone so fast.” And I love the way the song starts out so softly, with very little accompaniment, and then the music just crashes in strongly and beautifully about halfway through.
Love scene: “Scotty Doesn’t Know (Euro Mix),” MC Jeffsky featuring Igor — This probably says something about my really awful behavior toward most of my boyfriends (okay, and husbands) when I was younger. Yeah, I was a bad, bad girl. Never in Europe, though.
Breaking up: “Pushing Me Away,” Linkin Park — “I’ve tried, like you, to do everything you wanted to / This is the last time I’ll take the blame, for the sake of being with you” … and … “The sacrifice of hiding in a lie, the sacrifice is never knowing / Why I never walked away, why I played myself this way” Yeah.
Life is good: “the middle,” Jimmy Eat World — This song used to make me cringe. Now it makes me dance. So, is all good.
Mental Breakdown: “Release Me,” Wilson Phillips — “I’m not going back to you anymore / Finally my weakened heart is healing though very slow.” Not entirely appropriate, but then again there were a few obsessive bits in my life. Bad times, that.
Driving: “All You Zombies,” The Hooters — Such a lovely song, and strangely enough, it does make a good driving song. Strong beat, aggressive theme, making a promise to those “people in high places” who want to slow you down. Nice metaphor.
Flashback: “Like A Prayer,” Madonna — It’s about God…and passion…and love…and power… Very pagan, really. *grin*
Getting back together: “We Belong,” Pat Benatar – Wow, this one FITS. I’ve always primarily thought of this song as being mine and Brenda’s, although it has fit other relationships in my life, too. But I’ve known Bren for (omg!) 25 years now, we have so much history, we’ve been through so much together.
Wedding: “The Other Side of Life,” The Moody Blues — Strangely fitting. It was my late husband’s favorite band, one of his favorite songs, and I suppose you could say he now is on the other side of life. “So take your share of the gifts that are there / They all belong to you / And come what may, at the break of each day / We all begin anew once more, we all begin anew.”
Birth of Child: “Xena Warrior Princess Theme Song,” Xena Soundtrack — I shit you not. Don’t know if this is a reflection on my eldest child, or the fact that I went through twenty-two hours of labor to bring her into the world. If that doesn’t qualify as warrior-related, I don’t know what does.
Final Battle: “Take On Me,” a-ha — If you’ve seen the video, you know it fits. Kinda.
Death Scene: “Dream On,” Aerosmith — Just. Entirely. Awesome.
Funeral song: “Draw the Circle,” Meg Davis — Another fangirl song. Very pagan, and nicely fitting. “Draw the circle ‘tween two worlds, Celestial fire to cleanse the girl / One to watch, and one to pray, and two to bear her soul away / The moon is every woman’s friend, to her your goodness condescend / And let this night, in visions see, the emblems of our destiny.”
End Credits: “Invincible (Theme from Legend of Billie Jean),” Pat Benatar — I’ve loved (and taken to heart) this song from the first time I heard it, when I was maybe 16. Of course, since I started reading military sci-fi, I can’t hear this song without thinking of killing Posleen. *grin* But yeah, this is one of the songs that most speaks to me.
