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debetesseA meme! My standard "This is from my Everything That Doesn't Suck playlist" applies.
The soundtrack for the movie of my life
Opening Credits
Moonlight Sonata: First Movement by Beethoven. Sounds...ponderous. And it's possibly that my life has turned into a period piece. Either that or a piano recital. Interesting note: you rarely hear all the movements of this one played. Because one of them (I forget which. I want to say the last one) is wicked hard, particularly compared to this, more famous, movement. Ok, maybe not that interesting.
Waking Up
Kid Fears by The Indigo Girls. Well, the mood hasn't shifted much, and certainly not to the happier. Apparently my impulse that we're montaging my childhood over the opening credits was right on.
An Ordinary Day
Any Moment/Moments in the Woods from Into the Woods. I'm choosing to focus on the latter. Still, it's a fair assessment, if an odd choice. Really, must it all be either less or more, either plain or grand? Is it always 'or': is it never 'and'? That is to say, can't there be some balance of the grand things and the common things?
Falling in Love
The Asteroid Field from ESB. Umm....oh, dear.
The Rumble
Anyone Can Play Guitar by Radiohead. Guitar Hero rumble! Ok, no. Really, this could work. Although it does rather write the idea of The Rumble somewhat larger that the West Side Story exemplar.
The Break-Up
Alone by Lisa Loeb. Apparently, we broke up because I'm being such a girl. Given how long the break-up apparently lasts, the sentiment of the song works fairly well.
Getting Back Together
Take Me as I Am from Jekyll & Hyde. (Not a damn word from any of y'all! Not one. My bar for "not sucking" for this playlist is really embarrassingly low, and I don't have enough music to have to start having to not have everything I've ever had on CD in the library). Overwrought, but if it were going to be anywhere, this is the where in the movie.
Life is Good Montage
Moonlight Sonata: Adagio Sostenuto by Beethoven. Yes, this is exactly the same piece as over the opening credits. A different recording, though. Points for the call-back, but, seriously, this is the "Life is Good" montage music? Really? I mean, really, really? And, lord help me, this recording is even longer than the other. Yes, listening to it, he is, indeed, playing even slower. (I can count on one hand the number of times in my life when I have said of a musical performance, "You know, that could have been slower"; whereas, if I had a dime for every time I wished a performer would speed up, I wouldn't have student loans. And that's even not counting that, technically, I can count to whatever number you like (ok, up to 9,999) on one hand.)
The Breakdown
Little Bird, Little Bird from Man of La Mancha. Well, there are 3 basic options. 1)The don Quixote parallel, 2)The lost love angle, 3)Going for the extreme wtf mood.
Adrift
Amon Hen from FotR. When I am adrift, I am epically adrift. Like with Uruk Hai and "My brother, my Captain, my King" moments. I guess that means I do get out of adrift-ness.
The Flashback
I Know This Town by Cheryl Wheeler. I have to say, I continue to be slightly sick of this song, as I accidentally put in in a playlist twice, and then proceeded to listen to that playlist a lot on the iPod. However, rather perfect for a flashback, if not the normal tone associated with such things (that would be more like the next track on the FotR soundtrack. "All we can do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us" and all that.). Back to Indiana, it is (especially when combined with the repeat of Moonlight Sonata)
The Party
Getting to Know You from King and I. Oh, for Fuck's sake. Apart from the "when you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught" angle, just...too twee for words. And this is the party? Hopefully, we're using it ironically. Please? Otherwise, just shoot me now. I couldn't even buy a pre-made wedding card, they were all too too for me to be able to get behind the sentiment (I can't wish her every happiness. There are mutually exclusive happinesses out there, people)
The Dance Break
If I Had Words from Babe. The version The Boss actually sings to Babe (there's a version sung by the mice on the soundtrack). I do like the song, and, well, I suppose that is a dance break for the last 45 seconds or so (It's less than 2 minutes long, all told)
Regrets
Lullaby of Broadway from 42nd Street. Awwww, Jerry. Actually, I did a tap routine to this song at one point. 42nd Street was also the first show I Stage Managed (and the first I didn't try out for, which isn't saying that much, since it was the second show of my HS career) in High School, which spun out a whole lot of things that could be regretful, I suppose, depending on the rest of the story. Could be a metaphor, as well. A whole It's A Wonderful Life/The Wish sequence, even.
The Long Night
The Man's Too Strong by Dire Straits. I like to think that my morality would be a little less relative than that. Even so, it works, in a very depressing sort of way. I'd like to think that my life would be a little more Disney movie than that. But, then, I am going into education.
A Death
Someone to Watch Over Me by Ella Fitzgerald. What the Hell? Now we get this stuff? I mean, it could work, in that nostalgic way, and it's not like we haven't had the eclectic thing going.
End Credits
Nature Boy by Nat King Cole. Oddly, this doesn't strike me as odd. After all, the greatest thing you'll ever learn really is just to love, and be loved in return. Even if Baz already got there, cinematically.
The soundtrack for the movie of my life
Opening Credits
Moonlight Sonata: First Movement by Beethoven. Sounds...ponderous. And it's possibly that my life has turned into a period piece. Either that or a piano recital. Interesting note: you rarely hear all the movements of this one played. Because one of them (I forget which. I want to say the last one) is wicked hard, particularly compared to this, more famous, movement. Ok, maybe not that interesting.
Waking Up
Kid Fears by The Indigo Girls. Well, the mood hasn't shifted much, and certainly not to the happier. Apparently my impulse that we're montaging my childhood over the opening credits was right on.
An Ordinary Day
Any Moment/Moments in the Woods from Into the Woods. I'm choosing to focus on the latter. Still, it's a fair assessment, if an odd choice. Really, must it all be either less or more, either plain or grand? Is it always 'or': is it never 'and'? That is to say, can't there be some balance of the grand things and the common things?
Falling in Love
The Asteroid Field from ESB. Umm....oh, dear.
The Rumble
Anyone Can Play Guitar by Radiohead. Guitar Hero rumble! Ok, no. Really, this could work. Although it does rather write the idea of The Rumble somewhat larger that the West Side Story exemplar.
The Break-Up
Alone by Lisa Loeb. Apparently, we broke up because I'm being such a girl. Given how long the break-up apparently lasts, the sentiment of the song works fairly well.
Getting Back Together
Take Me as I Am from Jekyll & Hyde. (Not a damn word from any of y'all! Not one. My bar for "not sucking" for this playlist is really embarrassingly low, and I don't have enough music to have to start having to not have everything I've ever had on CD in the library). Overwrought, but if it were going to be anywhere, this is the where in the movie.
Life is Good Montage
Moonlight Sonata: Adagio Sostenuto by Beethoven. Yes, this is exactly the same piece as over the opening credits. A different recording, though. Points for the call-back, but, seriously, this is the "Life is Good" montage music? Really? I mean, really, really? And, lord help me, this recording is even longer than the other. Yes, listening to it, he is, indeed, playing even slower. (I can count on one hand the number of times in my life when I have said of a musical performance, "You know, that could have been slower"; whereas, if I had a dime for every time I wished a performer would speed up, I wouldn't have student loans. And that's even not counting that, technically, I can count to whatever number you like (ok, up to 9,999) on one hand.)
The Breakdown
Little Bird, Little Bird from Man of La Mancha. Well, there are 3 basic options. 1)The don Quixote parallel, 2)The lost love angle, 3)Going for the extreme wtf mood.
Adrift
Amon Hen from FotR. When I am adrift, I am epically adrift. Like with Uruk Hai and "My brother, my Captain, my King" moments. I guess that means I do get out of adrift-ness.
The Flashback
I Know This Town by Cheryl Wheeler. I have to say, I continue to be slightly sick of this song, as I accidentally put in in a playlist twice, and then proceeded to listen to that playlist a lot on the iPod. However, rather perfect for a flashback, if not the normal tone associated with such things (that would be more like the next track on the FotR soundtrack. "All we can do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us" and all that.). Back to Indiana, it is (especially when combined with the repeat of Moonlight Sonata)
The Party
Getting to Know You from King and I. Oh, for Fuck's sake. Apart from the "when you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught" angle, just...too twee for words. And this is the party? Hopefully, we're using it ironically. Please? Otherwise, just shoot me now. I couldn't even buy a pre-made wedding card, they were all too too for me to be able to get behind the sentiment (I can't wish her every happiness. There are mutually exclusive happinesses out there, people)
The Dance Break
If I Had Words from Babe. The version The Boss actually sings to Babe (there's a version sung by the mice on the soundtrack). I do like the song, and, well, I suppose that is a dance break for the last 45 seconds or so (It's less than 2 minutes long, all told)
Regrets
Lullaby of Broadway from 42nd Street. Awwww, Jerry. Actually, I did a tap routine to this song at one point. 42nd Street was also the first show I Stage Managed (and the first I didn't try out for, which isn't saying that much, since it was the second show of my HS career) in High School, which spun out a whole lot of things that could be regretful, I suppose, depending on the rest of the story. Could be a metaphor, as well. A whole It's A Wonderful Life/The Wish sequence, even.
The Long Night
The Man's Too Strong by Dire Straits. I like to think that my morality would be a little less relative than that. Even so, it works, in a very depressing sort of way. I'd like to think that my life would be a little more Disney movie than that. But, then, I am going into education.
A Death
Someone to Watch Over Me by Ella Fitzgerald. What the Hell? Now we get this stuff? I mean, it could work, in that nostalgic way, and it's not like we haven't had the eclectic thing going.
End Credits
Nature Boy by Nat King Cole. Oddly, this doesn't strike me as odd. After all, the greatest thing you'll ever learn really is just to love, and be loved in return. Even if Baz already got there, cinematically.
