That movie score meme
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pjthompsonIF 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
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:
"I Feel the Earth Move" - Carol Kane
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky come running down
I feel my heart start to trembl-in'
Whenever you're around...
(I am an Earth sign, after all.)
Waking Up:
"Brazil" - Xavier Cugat
Quite a peppy old tune, actually. I always picture Carmen Miranda. I also featured it in a unfinished novel I wrote about UFOs, elves, and Mardi Gras. Maybe I should dig that one back out. Wake it up, so to speak.
Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June
We stood beneath
an amber moon
And softly murmured "Someday soon"...
First Day At School:
"Time of the Season" - Zombie
It's the time of the season
When the love runs high
In this time, give it to me easy
And let me try
With pleasured hands...
Hmmm. I don't remember school being much like that. Well, maybe high school.
Falling In Love:
"Diamonds and Gold" - Tom Waits
What some men will do here for diamonds
What some men will do here for gold
They're wounded but they just keep on climbin'
And they sleep by the side of the road...
Whatever.
Fight Song:
"Follow Through" - Gavin DeGraw
Oh, this is the start of something good
Don't you agree?
I haven't felt like this in so many moons
You know what I mean?
And we can build through this destruction
As we are standing on our feet
So, since you want to be with me
You'll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
You to stick around
I'll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
Such a girl song, but it does it for me, each and every time. I guess following through could be construed as fighting? Seems a bit dubious.
Breaking Up:
"Once I Had a Secret Love" - Doris Day
Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free
So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I'm so in love with you
Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils
At last my heart's an open door
And my secret love's no secret anymore
Yep, that's just about when my romances break up. (But I did lol when this one came up.)
Prom:
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" - Annie Lennox
Gee, I think that was my prom's theme...
We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray.
And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale...
Actually, that last sounds more like after the prom
Life is Good:
"Planet Claire" - The B-52s.
Has a good beat and you can definitely dance to it.
She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars
That shine after 3:30 in the morning
WELL SHE ISN'T
My life in a nutshell, pretty much.
Mental Breakdown:
"Just Like a Woman" - Bob Dylan
That's too weird. Sort of my theme song for those "special" moments.
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
Driving:
"Jingo" - Santana
Certainly cool to drive by. All those drums and organ and wheel-spinning rhythm. Picture the L.A. sky at sunset in the fall, the particulates turning it midnight blue-fuchsia-purple-gold, the top down on your red, cherry Impala with the white sidewalls...
Flashback:
"How Do You Do" - Shakira
You've made mistakes
Well that's OK 'cause we all have
But if I forgive yours
Will you forgive mine?
Forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who have trespassed against us...
Getting Back Together:
"Berimbau/Consolacao" - Sergio Mendes
No speak the Portuguese, but this sounds upbeat enough for a reconciliation...It's probably about serial killers, for all I know.
Wedding:
"Universe and U" - KT Tunstall
A fire burns
Water comes
You cool me down
When I'm cold inside
You are warm and bright
You know you are so good for me...
Paying the Dues:
"Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say It" - Buffalo Springfield
Do I have to come right out say it
Tell you that you look so fine?
Do I have to come right out
And ask you to be mine?
If it was a game I could play it
Trying to make it but I'm losing time
Got to bring you in
You're overworking my mind
Indecision is crowding me
I have no room to spare
And I can't believe she'd care...
The Night Before The War:
"Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash
I laughed so hard.
Final Battle:
"The Last Time I Saw Her Face" - Gordon Lightfoot
A rather girlie song for such an epic.
The last time I saw her face
Her eyes were bathed in starlight
And her hair hung low
The last time she spoke to me
Her lips were like the scented flowers
Inside a rain-drenched forest,
But that was so long ago that I can scarcely feel
The way I felt before
And if time could heal the wounds
I would tear the threads away
So that I might live some more...
Her laughter was the steeple bells
That ring to greet the morning song
A voice that called to everyone
To love the earth we walked upon...
I guess it works. Final moments, final thoughts. It would be just like me to spout poetry at a time like that.
Moment of Triumph:
"Maybe I'm Amazed" - Jem
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you...
Love the banjo in this one, for what it's worth.
Death Scene:
"Tenderly" - Rsoemary Clooney
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly
I guess you could make some sort of spiritual message out of that last.
And boy, did George's auntie have some great pipes.
Funeral Song:
"17 Again" - Eurythmics
Yea though we venture through
The valley of the stars
You and all your jewelry
And my bleeding heart
Who couldn't be together
And who could not be apart
We should have jumped out
Of that airplane after all
Flying skyways overhead
It wasn't hard to fall
And I had so many crashes
That I couldnt feel at all...
And it feels like
I'm seventeen again
Feels like I'm seventeen...
Okay, I could go for that.
End Credits:
"Eyes" - Tracy Bonham
there's a rock that holds you down
so take a chance of letting it find
forgive me baby but you have but to realize
the summer took the stars in the skies
and put them in your eyes
like flying saucers and records spinning
I see them smiling and I am
Okay.
That was some fun catwaxing, and some weird movie. (Although I would never literally catwax. Min would really be mad at me then.) (As it is she can't stand it when I sing along with the songs.)
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
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:
"I Feel the Earth Move" - Carol Kane
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky come running down
I feel my heart start to trembl-in'
Whenever you're around...
(I am an Earth sign, after all.)
Waking Up:
"Brazil" - Xavier Cugat
Quite a peppy old tune, actually. I always picture Carmen Miranda. I also featured it in a unfinished novel I wrote about UFOs, elves, and Mardi Gras. Maybe I should dig that one back out. Wake it up, so to speak.
Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June
We stood beneath
an amber moon
And softly murmured "Someday soon"...
First Day At School:
"Time of the Season" - Zombie
It's the time of the season
When the love runs high
In this time, give it to me easy
And let me try
With pleasured hands...
Hmmm. I don't remember school being much like that. Well, maybe high school.
Falling In Love:
"Diamonds and Gold" - Tom Waits
What some men will do here for diamonds
What some men will do here for gold
They're wounded but they just keep on climbin'
And they sleep by the side of the road...
Whatever.
Fight Song:
"Follow Through" - Gavin DeGraw
Oh, this is the start of something good
Don't you agree?
I haven't felt like this in so many moons
You know what I mean?
And we can build through this destruction
As we are standing on our feet
So, since you want to be with me
You'll have to follow through
With every word you say
And I, all I really want is you
You to stick around
I'll see you everyday
But you have to follow through
Such a girl song, but it does it for me, each and every time. I guess following through could be construed as fighting? Seems a bit dubious.
Breaking Up:
"Once I Had a Secret Love" - Doris Day
Once I had a secret love
That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love
Became impatient to be free
So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I'm so in love with you
Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils
At last my heart's an open door
And my secret love's no secret anymore
Yep, that's just about when my romances break up. (But I did lol when this one came up.)
Prom:
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" - Annie Lennox
Gee, I think that was my prom's theme...
We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray.
And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale...
Actually, that last sounds more like after the prom
Life is Good:
"Planet Claire" - The B-52s.
Has a good beat and you can definitely dance to it.
She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light
Planet Claire has pink air
All the trees are red
No one ever dies there
No one has a head
Some say she's from Mars
Or one of the seven stars
That shine after 3:30 in the morning
WELL SHE ISN'T
My life in a nutshell, pretty much.
Mental Breakdown:
"Just Like a Woman" - Bob Dylan
That's too weird. Sort of my theme song for those "special" moments.
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.
Driving:
"Jingo" - Santana
Certainly cool to drive by. All those drums and organ and wheel-spinning rhythm. Picture the L.A. sky at sunset in the fall, the particulates turning it midnight blue-fuchsia-purple-gold, the top down on your red, cherry Impala with the white sidewalls...
Flashback:
"How Do You Do" - Shakira
You've made mistakes
Well that's OK 'cause we all have
But if I forgive yours
Will you forgive mine?
Forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who have trespassed against us...
Getting Back Together:
"Berimbau/Consolacao" - Sergio Mendes
No speak the Portuguese, but this sounds upbeat enough for a reconciliation...It's probably about serial killers, for all I know.
Wedding:
"Universe and U" - KT Tunstall
A fire burns
Water comes
You cool me down
When I'm cold inside
You are warm and bright
You know you are so good for me...
Paying the Dues:
"Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say It" - Buffalo Springfield
Do I have to come right out say it
Tell you that you look so fine?
Do I have to come right out
And ask you to be mine?
If it was a game I could play it
Trying to make it but I'm losing time
Got to bring you in
You're overworking my mind
Indecision is crowding me
I have no room to spare
And I can't believe she'd care...
The Night Before The War:
"Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash
I laughed so hard.
Final Battle:
"The Last Time I Saw Her Face" - Gordon Lightfoot
A rather girlie song for such an epic.
The last time I saw her face
Her eyes were bathed in starlight
And her hair hung low
The last time she spoke to me
Her lips were like the scented flowers
Inside a rain-drenched forest,
But that was so long ago that I can scarcely feel
The way I felt before
And if time could heal the wounds
I would tear the threads away
So that I might live some more...
Her laughter was the steeple bells
That ring to greet the morning song
A voice that called to everyone
To love the earth we walked upon...
I guess it works. Final moments, final thoughts. It would be just like me to spout poetry at a time like that.
Moment of Triumph:
"Maybe I'm Amazed" - Jem
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you...
Love the banjo in this one, for what it's worth.
Death Scene:
"Tenderly" - Rsoemary Clooney
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly
I guess you could make some sort of spiritual message out of that last.
And boy, did George's auntie have some great pipes.
Funeral Song:
"17 Again" - Eurythmics
Yea though we venture through
The valley of the stars
You and all your jewelry
And my bleeding heart
Who couldn't be together
And who could not be apart
We should have jumped out
Of that airplane after all
Flying skyways overhead
It wasn't hard to fall
And I had so many crashes
That I couldnt feel at all...
And it feels like
I'm seventeen again
Feels like I'm seventeen...
Okay, I could go for that.
End Credits:
"Eyes" - Tracy Bonham
there's a rock that holds you down
so take a chance of letting it find
forgive me baby but you have but to realize
the summer took the stars in the skies
and put them in your eyes
like flying saucers and records spinning
I see them smiling and I am
Okay.
That was some fun catwaxing, and some weird movie. (Although I would never literally catwax. Min would really be mad at me then.) (As it is she can't stand it when I sing along with the songs.)