My Life In Song

Music's on my mind tonight. Was just looking over my long lost OST. Figured I'd do the planning in case someone ever decided to make a movie on my life. I like having that kind of creative control :P Funny how for someone who is tone deaf, can't sing and can't play a single instrument, I love music. Actually, I think I just love stories. And songs tell me stories. I don't think I ever listen to a song without associating it with a situation, whether in my real life or my imagined one. That's how my OST came to be. I actually started toying with the idea when I was 9 and realized everytime I listened to 'Some Where Out There' I felt like I was back on that last flight from Saudi Arabia to India, looking out at the clouds. The list has gone through many changes over time, but here you are - the story of my life. In song.

Side A
Everybody - Backstreet Boys
Yesterday - Beatles
Would You Like To Swing on a Star - Bing Crosby
Some Where Out There - Philip Glasser and Betsy Cathcart
The Winner Takes it All - ABBA
Stop Draggin My Heart Around - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Losing My Religion - REM

Side B
November Rain - Guns n Roses
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Baba O' Riley - The Who
Take it On A Run - REO Speedwagon
Living on A Prayer - Bon Jovi
Time Of Your Life - Greenday
Love Song - The Cure
Perfect - Smashing Pumpkins

Side C
Here is Gone - Oasis
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana
Superman - Five For Fighting
The Missing Piece - AFI
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Objects in the Rearview Mirror - Meatloaf
One Love - U2
Fire - Switchfoot


Side D
We Are The Champions - Queen
Mama, I'm Comin Home - Ozzy Osbourne
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez
Hang Me Out To Dry - Cold War Kids
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler
Don't Stop - Journey

It has been a long time since I added one to the list. The last song addition was in 2009. I feel like adding one today. It's a different genre, not one I've particularly been fond of. But it was a perfect fit. The first song in Side E -

I Know Him So Well - Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson.

Love the lyrics. Especially the beginning -
Nothing is so good it lasts eternally
Perfect situations must go wrong
But this has never yet prevented me
From wanting far too much for far too long...

Rush and Rain

Clear skies, flowering trees, a Kindle and some AFI. This was going to be the perfect walk home, in the 'partially sunny' world I've come to love. My perusal of wars and magic was disturbed by the snowflakes (yup, snowflakes in April) clouding my kindle screen. Forced to put the kindle away but determined to enjoy the walk, I began to marvel at the scene around me - cherry blossoms in the snow, made for each other. While reaching for my phone to capture the moment, I was distracted by a thunderous peal of well, thunder. My walk ended with me making a mad dash up the hill in the pouring rain. I will say this, no matter how my walks begin, they always ends in the same vein. They always end in euphoria, with rush and with rain.