Post by nopersonality on Jul 5, 2010 4:11:29 GMT -5
Imagine that your life is a movie / TV series, but you're still living it. Create scenes for it and tell us what music they might play to the scenes.
Opening Credits: Sheryl Crow - "Leaving Las Vegas"
Narration / Main Theme: Posies - "Dream All Day"
Waking Up: Whale - "Kickin'"
Chores: Kahimi Karie - "Elastic Girl"
On the School Bus: Matthew Sweet - "Come to California"
First Day of School: Imperial Teen - "Yoo Hoo" (walking down the hallway), Luscious Jackson - "Sexy Hypnotist" (exiting the Cafeteria / the "going somewhere" moment)
Getting a Ride from a friend / Car Music: Tracy Bonham - "Navy Bean"
The "Risky Business" Scene (house all to yourself): Boss Hog - "White Sand"
Goin' to a Concert: L7 - "Crackpot Baby"
Personality (miscellaneous): Air - "Universal Traveler" (walking home on an autumn day), Poe - "Choking the Cherry" (a grumpy mood), Plastilina Mosh - "Monster Truck" (the "Feeling-of-Accomplishment" moment), Cadallaca - "Night Vandals" (revealing a secret), The Dandy Warhols - "Good Morning" (the surreal moment - everything glows)
Crushes: Air - "Sexy Boy" (love at first sight), Heather Nova - "Heart and Shoulder" (Valentine's Day)
Flirting (maybe in a dream): Lamb - "Lusty"
Extended Fantasy: Love and Rockets - "Pearl" (slipping into a dream, looking at the ceiling), Missy Elliot - "Beep Me 911" (warm day, summer background, but something is missing...), Lords of Acid - "Stripper" (city / modern dream), Sneaker Pimps - "Spin Spin Sugar" (fever dream)
Longing in Love: Kylie Minogue - "Get You Out of My Head" (when you think they want someone else) Bis - "Chicago" (wandering the streets day and night) Bjork - "Come to Me" (lonely scene)
Standing Up for Yourself: Tracy Bonham - "Meathook"
Strutting: Elastica - "Never Here"
More Dreaming: Merrie Amsterburg - "Undertow" (dream of summer), Beck - "Steal My Body Home" (dream of the past), Heather Nova - "Island" (guilt and regret)
Day at the Beach: Veruca Salt - "Sound of a Bell" (getting there early), Bjork - "The Modern Things" (storm clouds roll in / swimming in the rain)
Playing Video Game: Suzanne Vega - "Ironbound / Fancy Poultry"
Clubbing: Bis - "Eurodisco" (real dancing - ignoring the problem), Moby - "Very" (dancing close with/grinding with someone you're not involved with)
Sick of School: Bis - "Kandy Pop" (sick of every last person's ugly face), K's Choice - "Wait" (walking home on a summer day), Bis - "Listen Up" (telling it like it is)
Personality Conflicts: Bis - "Lie Detector Test"
Fight Song: Lords of Acid - "Young Boys"
The Party's Over: Brendan Benson - "Crosseyed"
Working Out: Bis - "Are You Ready?"
Breaking Up: Stone Temple Pilots - "Sour Girl" (as they walk out the door & subsequent scenes alone), Ben Folds Five - "Air" (some time has passed), Veruca Salt - "Benjamin" (seeing that person again almost a year later but not talking to them)
Mental Breakdown: L7 - "Questioning My Sanity" (Repulsion moment) Imani Coppola - "Soon (I Like It)" (a moment of reflection), Whale - "Electricity" (freaking other people out)
Laying in the Snow, Looking Up at the Sky: Bjork - "Aurora"
Turning Points 1: White Town - "Wanted" (in the crowd- no one has a face / everyone blurs together), Boss Hog - "Stereolight" (right before the "Snap Out of It!" scene),
Prom: Sublime - "Wrong Way" (the rowdy dedication, Class of '97 Song), Luscious Jackson - "Beloved" (the scene where nobody dances), Garbage - "My Lover's Box" (the best-looking couple walks into the room), Goldfrapp - "Lovely Head" (the Slow Dance)
Driving (a long sequence in my life): Moby - "Inside" (through the countryside at night / snowing - then through a field with no snow, looking at a large barn), Carl Craig - "Red Lights" (through the rain / city-lights, yellow green red, blur into each other), Posies - "Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?" (top-down, wind blowing through your hair), Cardigans - "Carnival" (driving home with other people, after a party)
Life is Good: Butter 08 - "Butter of 69" (someone else cleans up after the party), Goldfrapp - "Ride a White Horse" (Blasting in my car in the school parking lot), Concrete Blonde - "It'll Chew You Up & Spit You Out" (rocking-out), Hooverphonic - "Out of Tune" (speed-boating), Bis - "Why Are We Waiting?" (destiny turns on the radio)
Last Day of School: The Sugarplastic - "Don't Look Down" (taking pictures with friends and acquaintances for the yearbook), Letters to Cleo - "I See" (the bell rings at the end of the day), Cake - "The Distance" (someone in homeroom turns on the CD player), Luscious Jackson - "Fly" (reminiscing with that last friend right at the end of the day after ditching half of your last class)
Flashback 1 ("this is What I've Learned"): Veruca Salt - "Twinstar"
Karaoke Club: Shonen Knife - "Banana Chips"
Relaxing Shower / Bath: Madonna - "Secret Garden"
Turning Points 2: Imperial Teen - "My Spy" (your life isn't broken after all), Tracy Bonham - "Thumbelina" (casting a voodoo curse on your worst enemy), Hooverphonic - "The Magnicent Tree" (humbled by nature), Spacehog - "Space is the Place" (worst enemy gets hit by a car)
Getting Back Together: Alanis Morissette - "Head Over Feet" (initial reuniting, bad feelings put aside), Gus Gus - "Superhuman" (getting reacquainted / talking alone in quiet restaurant)
(Private Scene 1, if you get my meaning): Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"
Flashback 2 (happy, elated, "journey's-not-over yet but it's all been worth-it"): Joan Jones - "Wide Eyed Devil"
Wedding: Dressy Bessy - "Big Vacation," Joan Jones - "U Were There," Twiggy & Twiggy (Ramirez) - "I Only Want to Be with You"
Last Dance: Goldfrapp - "Crystalline Green"
(Private Scene 2) Lords of Acid - "The Power is Mine"
Sky Diving: Electrasy - "Renegades" (dissolves into) Bjork - "Undo"
Final Battle: Goldfrapp - "Utopia"
Death Scene: Cardigans - "Happy Meal II"
Funeral: Veruca Salt - "Sleeping Where I Want"
End Credits: Meredith Brooks - "Bitch," Whale - "I Miss Me," David Bowie - "Cool World"
Opening Credits: Sheryl Crow - "Leaving Las Vegas"
Narration / Main Theme: Posies - "Dream All Day"
Waking Up: Whale - "Kickin'"
Chores: Kahimi Karie - "Elastic Girl"
On the School Bus: Matthew Sweet - "Come to California"
First Day of School: Imperial Teen - "Yoo Hoo" (walking down the hallway), Luscious Jackson - "Sexy Hypnotist" (exiting the Cafeteria / the "going somewhere" moment)
Getting a Ride from a friend / Car Music: Tracy Bonham - "Navy Bean"
The "Risky Business" Scene (house all to yourself): Boss Hog - "White Sand"
Goin' to a Concert: L7 - "Crackpot Baby"
Personality (miscellaneous): Air - "Universal Traveler" (walking home on an autumn day), Poe - "Choking the Cherry" (a grumpy mood), Plastilina Mosh - "Monster Truck" (the "Feeling-of-Accomplishment" moment), Cadallaca - "Night Vandals" (revealing a secret), The Dandy Warhols - "Good Morning" (the surreal moment - everything glows)
Crushes: Air - "Sexy Boy" (love at first sight), Heather Nova - "Heart and Shoulder" (Valentine's Day)
Flirting (maybe in a dream): Lamb - "Lusty"
Extended Fantasy: Love and Rockets - "Pearl" (slipping into a dream, looking at the ceiling), Missy Elliot - "Beep Me 911" (warm day, summer background, but something is missing...), Lords of Acid - "Stripper" (city / modern dream), Sneaker Pimps - "Spin Spin Sugar" (fever dream)
Longing in Love: Kylie Minogue - "Get You Out of My Head" (when you think they want someone else) Bis - "Chicago" (wandering the streets day and night) Bjork - "Come to Me" (lonely scene)
Standing Up for Yourself: Tracy Bonham - "Meathook"
Strutting: Elastica - "Never Here"
More Dreaming: Merrie Amsterburg - "Undertow" (dream of summer), Beck - "Steal My Body Home" (dream of the past), Heather Nova - "Island" (guilt and regret)
Day at the Beach: Veruca Salt - "Sound of a Bell" (getting there early), Bjork - "The Modern Things" (storm clouds roll in / swimming in the rain)
Playing Video Game: Suzanne Vega - "Ironbound / Fancy Poultry"
Clubbing: Bis - "Eurodisco" (real dancing - ignoring the problem), Moby - "Very" (dancing close with/grinding with someone you're not involved with)
Sick of School: Bis - "Kandy Pop" (sick of every last person's ugly face), K's Choice - "Wait" (walking home on a summer day), Bis - "Listen Up" (telling it like it is)
Personality Conflicts: Bis - "Lie Detector Test"
Fight Song: Lords of Acid - "Young Boys"
The Party's Over: Brendan Benson - "Crosseyed"
Working Out: Bis - "Are You Ready?"
Breaking Up: Stone Temple Pilots - "Sour Girl" (as they walk out the door & subsequent scenes alone), Ben Folds Five - "Air" (some time has passed), Veruca Salt - "Benjamin" (seeing that person again almost a year later but not talking to them)
Mental Breakdown: L7 - "Questioning My Sanity" (Repulsion moment) Imani Coppola - "Soon (I Like It)" (a moment of reflection), Whale - "Electricity" (freaking other people out)
Laying in the Snow, Looking Up at the Sky: Bjork - "Aurora"
Turning Points 1: White Town - "Wanted" (in the crowd- no one has a face / everyone blurs together), Boss Hog - "Stereolight" (right before the "Snap Out of It!" scene),
Prom: Sublime - "Wrong Way" (the rowdy dedication, Class of '97 Song), Luscious Jackson - "Beloved" (the scene where nobody dances), Garbage - "My Lover's Box" (the best-looking couple walks into the room), Goldfrapp - "Lovely Head" (the Slow Dance)
Driving (a long sequence in my life): Moby - "Inside" (through the countryside at night / snowing - then through a field with no snow, looking at a large barn), Carl Craig - "Red Lights" (through the rain / city-lights, yellow green red, blur into each other), Posies - "Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?" (top-down, wind blowing through your hair), Cardigans - "Carnival" (driving home with other people, after a party)
Life is Good: Butter 08 - "Butter of 69" (someone else cleans up after the party), Goldfrapp - "Ride a White Horse" (Blasting in my car in the school parking lot), Concrete Blonde - "It'll Chew You Up & Spit You Out" (rocking-out), Hooverphonic - "Out of Tune" (speed-boating), Bis - "Why Are We Waiting?" (destiny turns on the radio)
Last Day of School: The Sugarplastic - "Don't Look Down" (taking pictures with friends and acquaintances for the yearbook), Letters to Cleo - "I See" (the bell rings at the end of the day), Cake - "The Distance" (someone in homeroom turns on the CD player), Luscious Jackson - "Fly" (reminiscing with that last friend right at the end of the day after ditching half of your last class)
Flashback 1 ("this is What I've Learned"): Veruca Salt - "Twinstar"
Karaoke Club: Shonen Knife - "Banana Chips"
Relaxing Shower / Bath: Madonna - "Secret Garden"
Turning Points 2: Imperial Teen - "My Spy" (your life isn't broken after all), Tracy Bonham - "Thumbelina" (casting a voodoo curse on your worst enemy), Hooverphonic - "The Magnicent Tree" (humbled by nature), Spacehog - "Space is the Place" (worst enemy gets hit by a car)
Getting Back Together: Alanis Morissette - "Head Over Feet" (initial reuniting, bad feelings put aside), Gus Gus - "Superhuman" (getting reacquainted / talking alone in quiet restaurant)
(Private Scene 1, if you get my meaning): Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"
Flashback 2 (happy, elated, "journey's-not-over yet but it's all been worth-it"): Joan Jones - "Wide Eyed Devil"
Wedding: Dressy Bessy - "Big Vacation," Joan Jones - "U Were There," Twiggy & Twiggy (Ramirez) - "I Only Want to Be with You"
Last Dance: Goldfrapp - "Crystalline Green"
(Private Scene 2) Lords of Acid - "The Power is Mine"
Sky Diving: Electrasy - "Renegades" (dissolves into) Bjork - "Undo"
Final Battle: Goldfrapp - "Utopia"
Death Scene: Cardigans - "Happy Meal II"
Funeral: Veruca Salt - "Sleeping Where I Want"
End Credits: Meredith Brooks - "Bitch," Whale - "I Miss Me," David Bowie - "Cool World"