Tag Day: Soundtrack of Our Lives

I borrowed today's idea from a bulletin that Anna answered on MySpace, the world's most poorly designed social networking site. Simply load your entire playlist on your favourite music-playing device (be it an iPod, WinAMP, your 99-disc CD changer, or a comely soprano named Katya) and hit the Shuffle button. Then, use the shuffled playlist make the soundtrack for the movie of your life, using the life events in the table below. The choices Shuffle bestows upon your life will range the gamut from completely nonsensical to eerily perfect.

Long time readers will remember that the movie of my life is currently in production, so creating the soundtrack is the logical next step. I now tag Mike , Brianne , and CC . The running commentary is unnecessary -- feel free to just do the column where you shuffle your playlist if you are feeling lazy.

Event	Fate's Soundtrack	Commentary
Opening Credits	Coldplay - One I Love	This is one of several Coldplay songs that involves singing random phrases over a nondescript vamp for three to four minutes before fading out -- a perfect underlay for the extensive credits, since some of my stars will not want to share the same screen of credits with their rivals.
Waking Up	Procul Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale	This choice doesn't make sense at all for a wake up song. I would choose the aptly-named "Wake Up" by XTC because I could take the metrically ambiguous beat and mix it in with the sound of a digital alarm clock for extra artsiness.
First Day of School	Natalie Imbruglia - Counting Down the Days	Though the "I don't wanna be here" is apropos, this song seems too girly to start school with. All the other boys would make fun of me (rather, the actor playing little me, a.k.a Short Round).
Prom	Monkees - Giant Step	Apparently, it's a retro prom.
Life's Okay	Vertical Horizon - Forever	This is a good, upbeat, status quo song. Good work, Mr. Shuffle.
Driving	Aerosmith - What It Takes	Not quite impatient or fast enough to accurately characterize my insane driving skills.
Falling in Love	Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine	"So I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer, for the good times and the bad times we know will come"... Such a positive forward-thinking way to start an affair of the heart.
Breaking Up	Chopin - Preludes 28 #16	Apparently, the break up occurs in black and white, after which I don a Charlie Chaplin hat and comically run through a general goods store causing mayhem. I then rob a bank in subtitles and escape with white canvas sacks that have $ emblazoned on the side.
Mental Breakdown	Henry Mancini - Shot in the Dark	Not a bad choice at all.
Reconciliation	Blood, Sweat and Tears - And When I Die	I don't know why Shuffle would match this song with that event, but maybe it's so I can yell "Yeehaw!" afterwards.
Wedding	Candide - Oh Happy We	This is the song in which Candide and Cunegonde have completely different perceptions of what married life is like and sing about how happy they will be after marriage. I swear I didn't manually pick this -- you can't make this stuff up!
Sex Scene	Muse - Feeling Good	Based on the music, this might be the most disturbing sex scene in cinema. However, moviegoers will get to see Daniel Dae Kim get it on with Rachel McAdams and Alyssa Milano, so box-office receipts will probably be overflowing regardless.
Birth of Child	Peggy Taylor - I Can't Sleep	Very appropriate. I almost hit Shuffle one more time, because it was too good and I didn't want it to look like I was influencing the results. However, what you see is what I got.
Dance Sequence	Mitch Rider - Devil With a Blue Dress	At first glimpse, not a good choice. However, I then realized that this was one of the songs from the Marching Virginians which had a dance in the middle of it, so I expect the sequence would somehow involve "Shopping", "Riding the Burro", and "The Butt". All of these will get good acclaim at the Sundance Festival, but a better choice for the masses might have been "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" by the Scissor Sisters , which is (no doubt) destined to be this generation's Dancing Queen.
Flashback	J.J. Abrams - Theme from Alias	Perfect.
Final Battle	Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk	I did not realize that my nemesis in life would be a clowny, oafish pachyderm. It may not be the most intense boss fight of all time, but it'll certain draw the chuckles!
Death Scene	Erin McKeown - Born to Hum	With my final dying breaths (after being gored by the elephant), I gather my closest friends in a circle and sing folk songs until the end.
Funeral Song	In-Grid - Only Lies	The funeral will be held in a French discotheque (after which Carlos Adolfo Dominguez will take all the ladies to the movies).
Closing Credits	Decemberists - O Valencia	No one sticks around for the closing credits anyhow, so might as well go with a song that no one knows!

On another note, new cat pictures were added here (scroll down) and new weekend pictures were put here .

Happy Birthday Jason Mirick!