#11 - Music

April 11th, 2008

Directions:
1. Open your mp3 player.
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.
7. Don’t skip songs.

1.) Opening Credits:
Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush
Yeah, this works. I’m driving a 1987 Chevy Celebrity, the titles are some white (0xEEEECC ?) non-serif light weighted font at 20pt, going from the left to the right, stopping at the 80% mark from the right screen. It’s snowing.

2.) Waking Up:
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
Who cares. Nothing of interest to people outside of your own home happens an hour after you wake up. Might as well listen to Jackson. He made great music. I think I’ll put this on my cellphone and use it as an alarm.

3.) First Day at School:
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Works, I guess. Violent. You gotta fight for the good places on the hang-out steps / tables.

4.) Graduation:
Air - Mer du Japon
Ooooh, ethereal. I don’t have time to figure out the French here, so I guess it works. Looking out at the sea is an apt metaphor for graduating, right?

5.) Fight Song:
Nirvana - Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
This would work if you will filming a fight between 14 year old guys/burnouts where they didn’t know how to fight, and there was a lot of threatening and default insults (”your mother eats chicken feet.” or something) being bandied about. They’re fighting over a girl — listen to the lyrics.

6.) Breaking Up:
Charalambides - Drop
Nice gothy song. This song needs cheap ambient lighting — those Catholic candles atop of cans of Mountain Dew. I think it’s telling me that everything’s OK, but they’re talking in Vampire and I don’t understand Vampire.

7.) Happiness:
Jens Larkmin - Rocky Dennis’ Farwell Song
A song written in the key of H - the Happy Key.

8.) Life’s Okay:
Atmosphere - Little Man
Get this song. Best song on the list. Make your own comments.

9.) Mental Breakdown:
Legendary Pink Dots - Just Wave
This one didn’t work at all. Though, ANY other LPD song would have worked here, just not this one.

10.) Driving:
Coil - I Don’t Want to be the One
If I was in Iowa on Interstate 80 at 5 in the morning behind 5 trucks moving plastic crap that was made in 广州 to the Walmart Super center in Council Bluffs, I would like this song to be played. It’s better than AM radio: people calling to complain about zoning ordinances and to pick apart Hillary Clinton’s choice of what tie to wear.

11.) Flashback:
Beck - Broken Drum [remix by Boards of Canada]
Flashbacks are about the only thing Boards of Canada do, so good on this randomized list for putting it here.

12.) Getting Back Together:
Lady Sovereign - Blah Blah Blah
“ch-ching!” Cheese and Toast? Why does she always rap about rubbish food? I don’t know how this one would work. Whatever, only wusses get back together. ;P

13.) Wedding:
Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit
This is funny… “Hon, I swear I’ll stop the heroin, OK? Let’s just wait until all this wedding crap is over with! One, no, half of one, right before we go to bed, right?.”

14.) Birth of a Child:
Dominique Petitgand - Train-Train
I bought this during my learning French phase. It’s atmospheric instrumentals with samples of family in Belgium talking about kid-centric family things: baths, ghosts, closets, food. Not translating, sorry. I only know births from movies though, so this one would be a birth as presented in a CBC drama about a family who barely survived the winter in Saskatchewan. An older midwife dispenses advice, doors randomly shut as people who are unable to do anything try and act concerned, there’s water, and the music sounds like waiting. Not a song from the mother’s POV, I’d say.

15.) Final Battle:
Grandaddy - My Small Love
In a crappy anime youtube tribute video, where two sisters called A-ko and B-ko fight, maybe this works. In the end, one of them falls into lava (”burned in the sun”). B-Ko, she’s the one that dies.

16.) Death Scene:
Mathew Jonson - Typerope
I’m sure the people who scored those British crime movies like “Shallow Grave” could make use of this in a death scene. I can’t see how, though. GENIUSES!

17.) Funeral Song:
Outkast - Mamacita
It’s got Latin American women rapping, which I now will request at my funeral. Live ones, not a recording of them. (”Mamacita! Papadaña!”)

18.) Religious Views:
Handsome Boy’s Modeling School - It’s Like That (Feat. Casual), I am Complete (Feat. Tim Meadows)
The title works for describing religion REALLY WELL (except for the Tim Meadows part), but the song doesn’t really work.

19.) End Credits
Leonard Cohen - Be For Real
Oh god, such a cliche. Leonard Cohen. He says, “Thanks for the Song, Mister Night.” as “The producers would like to thank the citizens of Vancouver, Canada.” rolls down on the screen.

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