tagged - your life as a movie soundtrack
aquila posted an interesting and agreeably distracting mission, and tagged any takers.
the premise is this, to come up with your life's soundtrack all you have to do is put your music library on random... my problem is that i have imported music from all over the place, some of which i have never listened to before. i mean, where'd the grease soundtrack come from?! i did however listen to each song in the context of its scene, and it makes more sense than i expected! judging from my soundtrack my life would make a pretty wacky, sometimes ironic, art movie. somewhat like me.
if you do try it please remember to add a trackback, i'd love to see what your soundtrack is...
So, here’s how it works:
1. Open your music library
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 - I know you have Celine Dion in there somewhere…
01. Opening Credits: Look at me, I’m Sandra Dee – Grease OST
02. Waking Up: With or Without You – U2
03. First Day at School: Silent All These Years – Tori Amos
04. Falling in Love: a true story of a story of true love – the books
05. Fight Song: the nurse – the white stripes
06. Breaking Up: King of glory – WOW Worship
07. Prom/Matric Farewell: Passage de recherché - scanner
08. Life’s Okay: All along the watchtower – Dave Matthews Band
09. Mental Breakdown: Track 07 – Maxwell Embrya
10. Driving: Mall Radio – Max Normal
11. Flashback: Live Forever – Michael W Smith
12. Getting Back Together: Be here to love me – Norah Jones
13. Wedding: heartstrung - chill
14. Birth of a Child: Praise Medley (Psalm 150) – CeCe Winans
15. Death Scene: Inmigrant - Sade
16. Funeral Song: Fools gold – lock, stock & two smoking barrels soundtrack
17. End Credits: I bow down – Travis Cottrell
Labels: life, soundtrack, victoire
posted by victoire at 3:26 am
11 Comments:
Nice, I like the flashback song...
9:00 am
i love michael w smith's music. his album "stand" is really funky too... and yet again i learn not to judge a book by it's cover ;) have you seen his movie, "the second chance"?
10:57 am
wow...this is awesome and i think really fun to do... I just can't wait to try it...
6:24 pm
:) it is quit fun anna... also rather telling. cool, post back to let me know how it turns out.
10:35 am
hey victoire.. i just finished my life's soundtrack.. i enjoyed a lot...i'm thinking something a lot more exciting… why don’t we try tracking the soundtrack of the the most important people in our lives… through our playlist...may be a family member, a friend or from a past relationship... dare to try? :D
6:46 am
ooh have I been judged? (clenching heart)
Damn, what did that book cover look like?
9:44 pm
Yo Victoire...
Thanks for the soundtrack tag. I really dug doing mine. I went a step further than you though... I did the whole autobiography thang.
Blue skies
love
Roy
2:05 pm
@anna:
i don't know anna... sounds kinda daring... let me know how it works out for you.
or for a lovely twist on it, how about trying to figure out what the song means in your life story, as roy did?
@aquila:
ha ha ha!
@roy:
thanks for the comment & trackback roy! good to see you here again, i've been meaning to catch up with the coffee-shop schmuck.
nice take on the theme. i like. will perhaps have a look at it myself. i was also thinking it would be so lekker to actually have the songs available, so that people could listen to your soundtrack themselves... piracy issues. *sigh* ;)
9:47 pm
Heya Victoire...
Thanks! And I'm always round here. I subscribe to your rss feed, read it on Bloglines, and whenever I feel the need to comment, I zap off to your blogsite.
Re including the music.
It's REALLY easy in some cases. It's just (for a male person) a ballache. (I don't know what the equivalent is for female persons.)
It's really a matter of including links to wherever the songs live. Many sites now have previews of songs that you can link to.
I was THINKING of doing it, but it would have taken me around an hour or two of surfing just to find the links. So I scrapped the idea.
I've just been reading Seth Godin's post about Web 4. And here's an idea that fits into that...
Web 4 would see that I've got 'Billy Bragg -- Greetings to the New Brunette' in my blog post. And it would FIND the link FOR ME, without me having to do a single thing. It would offer me the choice of linking to it or not.
Blue skies
love
Roy
PS: If you're busy catching up on my schmuckness, you'll find that I've become obsessed with prickie.com. My button shop's at http://snipurl.com/buttonshop.
1:56 pm
ei, victoire.. have you seen my life's soundtrack? :D ... Roy got great idea of sharing the meaning of the songs in his life. nice idea... i might do something like that sometime soon... it's so nice to share something really important to people who also have the same passion. we'll keep in touch... or you might want to drop by at the newest music guide in the net, http://www.wikimusicguide.com/ for something new... thanks again :)
3:23 pm
@roy:
:) cool... nice to get to know the readers of my arb mutterings...
ummm... yes... it's too much of a *headache* for me to go to all that trouble. actually though, i just remembered that vox allows one to upload sound files. think i'll do that when i have faster internet. and time.
ooooooh... web 4... :) (*hears the voices of the little aliens in "toy story")
yes, i heard you had become obsessed with buttons from jo'blog.
@anna:
heh heh... yeah, i did... rather apt, most of it at least, for something that's so random. cool will do. :)
11:36 pm
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