The soundtrack of your life

[threemonkeys]

It has been a while since I posted anything. In fact it has been a while since I interacted with the world in more than the minimum work-eat-sleep cycle. A friend even rang me up on the weekend to see if I was OK - so quiet had I been. It isn't a big mystery though. Like so many of you, I have had a dose of the flu or some such virus and it has been quite draining. The debilitating after effects have slowed me down so that I don’t really have the energy for much beyond the minimum to get through a day.

Anyway, I'm not trolling for sympathy here. Why I have summoned up the energy to write is because it seems at times like this the soundtrack of my life becomes more obvious. There are songs which seems to come to mind in certain life circumstances which complement my state of mind. Do any of you do that? Have songs or bits of songs that spring into your mind given certain triggers?

Anyway, the song which has been coming to mind in the last week or two has, of all things, been the theme song to Petticoat Junction. Why? Well it contains the line "...and that's uncle Joe, he's movin' kinda slow ...at the junction". Just think of me as being like old Joe - I'm movin' kinda slow.

I suppose I should be glad that another of those songs isn't coming into play. I know things are really bad when the soundtrack for the day is Magazine’s Song from under the floorboards. It starts "I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin. My irritability keeps me alive and kicking".

What is your soundtrack today?

Comments

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

I just watched episode one of Wonderfalls yesterday and will be watching number two today (in a sec). Lot's of quirkiness to keep me amused and I think I am going to enjoy it.

"Has anyone ever told you stealing is wrong?"
"Has anyone ever told you not to talk to strangers? Now piss off!"

My soundtrack of the day would be:

"I'll laugh until my head comes off
I'll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I"

Radiohead: Idioteque

Harder to explain than yours but something to do with me being up in the air and a bit lost of late...

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

"We're bobbin' along in our barrels..."

See even as I was writing the above, I was thinking, "I bet Mark gets this".

[littenz.livejournal.com]

Iggy Pop "Lust for Life" some of the time (too many trips to hospital), Monkees "D W Washburn" or MC5 "Kick out the Jams" or Stiff Little Fingers "Alternative Ulster" (dependent on frustration levels), or the Doors "When the Music's Over" (fatalism to the fore).

The sentiments (if not the lyrics) of Magazine's "Secondhand Daylight" creep in occaisionally too.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Things are pretty bad when early Magazine songs creep into your life - especially that album. Mind you, I listen to The Cure when I want to cheer myself up, so I'm in no position to talk.

Song for today - Echo & the Bunnymen's Villiers Terrace

[lauriefleming.livejournal.com]

In Darkness Let Me Dwell, John Dowland.

In darknesse let mee dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,
The roofe Dispaire to barr all cheerfull light from mee,
The wals of marble blacke that moistned still shall weepe,
My musicke hellish jarring sounds to banish friendly sleepe.
Thus wedded to my woes, and bedded to my Tombe,
O let me living die, till death, till death do come.

Just kidding. It's a great song though.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

"Just kidding" - oh you mean its too upbeat :-)

I have this theory that music that makes the leap from entertainment to personal life soundtrack tends to be melancholy. If you are happy, there is no need to underscore your life with accompaniment.

Or possibly its because whistling a jaunty tune is (almost) a lost art.