This is actually something I do while I’m driving to pass the time, and I thought it might be fun for y’all.
Premise: Someone in Hollywood had the bright idea that your life would make a fantastic movie. They’ve written the script, casted it with all the hottest young (or old, depending on your age) stars. You’ve whined that you’ve had no control over the film at all, and the Hollywood muckety-mucks decide to let you choose a song to correspond with each scene. What songs would you pick?
Here are some suggested scenes. Feel free to add or subtract scenes to fit your own life (or dramatization thereof). And don’t worry about copyrights. That’s what the studio execs have lawyers for.
Romantic interlude
1a) Sex Scene
Car Chase (what a life you’ve led!)
Stirring oratory at the end of the film
Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in
That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care?
Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing)
Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe
Feel free to pick anything. For example, if you’re just essentially a brain in a vat, your answer to all the above might be “Tiny Bubbles.”
(Just so you know, most of my answers would be Nine Inch Nails songs (I’m a fifteen year old Goth kid trapped in a 30-year-old lawyer’s body), except my car chase song would involve banjos in some way.)
The piano exit from Layla by Derick (Eric Clapton) and the Dominoes. Would be the recuring theme and have long shots of me staring at the road I’m supposed to walk. Mars by Gustov Holst. This would be any time in the film before a big event like a move, birth of a child or birthday party. Just another day in Paradise by Phil Vasser would be the romantic music. I’m not into country, by my romainic other is. Thunder Road andNo Surrender by Bruce Springsteen would be the begining and end titles.
Oh man I’m in line to see this, whos with me?
Romantic Interlude
“As We Go Along” - The Monkees. Sweet but goofy, kind of like me when I try to be romantic.
1a) Sex Scene
“Grey/Afro/This Time He Has Come” - Skip Spence. (No pun intended with the titles, you just have to hear the songs.) Or possibly “Sanctuary” by Miles Davis.
Car Chase
“Friendly Little Finger” - Frank Zappa. Always wanted to hear this song put to a car chase.
Stirring Oratory
“Balada Do Luoco (Ballad of the Lunatic)” - Os Mutantes.
Pensive Moment
“The Credits: Out-takes from Terry’s Movie” - Leo Kottke.
In the car outside ex-love’s house
“At The Crossroads” - Mott the Hoople
6)Action Scene
“Blank Frank” - Brian Eno or “El Distorto De Melodica” - Everclear.
7)Uplifting orphan tripe
“The Ballad of Mack the Knife” - Lotte Lenya.
Shocking moment of realization of a double cross or a betrayal
“The Letters” - King Crimson.
Cheesy Hollywood ending where I get the girl and we drive off together at the end (fade out to the credits)
“Thunder Island” - Jay Ferguson.
10)Alternate Ending for the DVD
“M1A1” - Gorillaz.
Romantic interlude - This Twilight Garden by the Cure
1a) Sex Scene - Hard On For Love by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Car Chase (what a life you’ve led!) - No One Lives Forever by Oingo Boingo
Stirring oratory at the end of the film - Born in Xaxax by Nina Hagen
Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in - Wait by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire
That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care? - Bad Liver & a Broken Heart or The Part You Throw Away by Tom Waits
Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing) - Dragula by Rob Zombie or Angel With the Scabbed Wings by Marilyn Manson
Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe - God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday
Romantic interlude-Love Reign O’Er Me by The Who
1a) Sex Scene-Thorn In My Pride By The Black Crowes
Car Chase (what a life you’ve led!)-One Armed Scissor by At The Drive-In
Stirring oratory at the end of the film-Across The Universe by The Beatles.
Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in-I am trying to break your heart by Wilco
That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care?-The Wretched by Nine Inch Nails or Fade by Staind
Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing)-Far Away by Sleater-Kinney
Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe-Under Pressure by QUeen and David Bowie.
1] Opening credits: Whitehouse - A Cunt Like You
2] First time I’m seen on screen: Converter - Death Time
3] Scene in which I open fire utilising decidedly badass weapons in a decidedly badass manner: Patsy Cline - Back in Baby’s Arms
3] Insane and vaguely violent sex scene: Smashing Pumpkins - God
4] Moment of truth: Underworld - Born Slippy
5] Denouement: Tear Garden - You and Me and Rainbows
6] Closing credits: Imminent Starvation - Ire
Romantic interlude
–Dissolved Girl, by Massive Attack
Car Chase
–Save Yourslef, by Stabbing Westward
Stirring oratory at the end of the film
–Like Spinning Plates, by Radiohead
Pensive moment while you ponder the deeper meaning of life while staring at the tide coming in
–I Have Seen, by Zero7
That moment in the film when you’re parked in front of your ex-love’s house wondering where everything went wrong, sobbing gently, and holding a single rose, just to see the cold-hearted jerk walk out with another person on their arm (Even though in real-life, you ended up in custody for stalking, the movie plays out differently). Don’t they even care?
–Gunning Down Romance, by Savage Garden (Stop laughing!)
Action scene (kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing)
–The Red, Chevelle
Scene in which you help the juvenile delinquent crippled orphans fix up the Orphanarium, thus teaching the kids the value of teamwork, and teaching you to believe in hope again, or some such tripe
–Sing, Travis