Imagine for a moment, a la pro wrestling, you had a theme song that plays when you go places. You enter a restaurant, the lights dim, and your music plays, business meetings, wherever you go your theme song introduces you to those around you.
What would your theme song be?
I’m torn between the Kill Bill Theme (“Battle Without Honor”), “Minister of Rock and Roll” by Lenny Kravitz and “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys.
Me: ‘I’m An Adult Now’ by Pursuit of Happiness.
…I’ve got my own reasons to drink now
Think I’ll call my dad up and invite him…
I can sleep in 'til noon anytime I want
Though there’s not many days that I do
Gotta get up and take on that world
When you’re an adult it’s no cliche, it’s the truth…
…Adult sex is either boring or dirty
Young people they can get away with murder…
…I can’t take any more illicit drugs
I can’t afford any artificial joy
I’d sure look like a fool lying dead in a ditch somewhere
With a mind full of chemicals like some cheese-eating high school boy…
Hmmm … I’m torn. I’ve got a few ideas, but I think my favorite’s got to be “She’s Actual Size” by They Might Be Giants.
Although I certainly wouldn’t mind Princess Leia’s theme … but that’s kinda flouncy and girly … two things that don’t describe me all that well.
No, wait, I’ve got it. I hereby declare my official theme song to be “New Jersey Girl” by Nerf Herder. New Jersey girl, New Jersey girl, with your crazy, fucked-up hair … Yeah, that’s me.
"Hey, man I’m alive I’m takin’ each day and night at a time
I’m feelin’ like a Monday but someday I’ll be Saturday night
Hey, my name is BEAR, where did I go wrong
My life’s a bargain basement, all the good shit’s gone
I just can’t hold a job, where do I belong
I’m sleeping in my car, my dreams move on
My name is BEAR NENNO, my love was bought and sold
I’m only TWENTY-FIVE, I feel a hundred years old…
And Tuesday just might go my way
It can’t get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain’t been kind
But somehow I’ll survive
Hey man I’m alive I’m takin’ each day and night at a time
Yeah I’m down, but I know I’ll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man gotta live my life
Like I ain’t got nothin’ but this roll of the dice
I’m feelin’ like a Monday, but someday I’ll be Saturday night
Now I can’t say my name, and tell you where I am
I want to roll myself away, don’t know if I can
I wish that I could be in some other time and place
With someone elses soul, someone elses face
Oh, Tuesday just might go my way
It can’t get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, Fridays ain’t been kind
But somehow I’ll survive
Hey, man I’m alive I’m takin’ each day and night at a time
Yeah I’m down, but I know I’ll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man gotta live my life
I’m gonna pick up all the pieces and what’s left of my pride
I’m feelin’ like a Monday, but someday I’ll be Saturday night
Saturday night Here we go
Some day I’ll be Saturday night
I’ll be back on my feet, I’ll be doin’ alright
It may not be tomorrow baby, that’s OK
I ain’t goin’ down, gonna find a way, hey hey hey
Hey man I’m alive I’m takin’ each day and night at a time
Yeah, I’m down, but I know I’ll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man, gotta live my life
Like I ain’t got nothin’ but this roll of the dice
I’m feelin’ like a Monday, but someday I’ll be Saturday night…"
The uber-cheesy song from Transformers: The Movie?
Mine would be trancecontrol’s Beginning of the End. If I have to pick something with words, then… hmmm… Nine Inch Nails and Davie Bowie: I’m Afraid of Americans.