Nightdreamer OST

This is totally ramblingvirus’s fault. He didn’t tag me but it was such an awesome meme I can’t help not stealing it, kind of like a kid in the candy shop. If anyone starts talking about music I light up, even if it’s "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of Nipples and Potatoes". Anyway, if you think tagging games are faggotry then you can come back some other time when I will write deeper analysis of faggotry. If you pronounce meme as meh-meh (just like I do) just to mock it then you can, of course, also come back some other day. But the rest, the rest of you who want some unadulterated sexy (what the hell is unadulterated sexy?) and insightful analysis of my relationship with my ipod, read on.

The RULES:
1. Open your music library (iTunes, Media Player, iPod, Winamp etc.)
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question/subject, type the song that’s playing.
5. When you go to the next question, press the next button.
6. Don’t lie and pretend you’re cool.

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1. Opening credits: 

Oleo – Miles Davis

Oleo is, like, a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils. I don’t really know jack squat about how it fits into ANY opening scenes, unless if it’s Rachel Ray’s biopic, which would be like the most annoying movie ever.

2. Waking up:

Pele – Dizzy Gillespie

Wha, I don’t think I ever woke up believing I was that Brazilian football player! Would be awesome if I actually was him, though.

3. First Day of School:

Search for Peace – McCoy Tyner

Oh please, I know I was a bit troubled, but surely that didn’t start from my first day now, right? RIGHT? OH GOSH!

 4. Falling in love:

Do You Feel The Way I Do – Rahsaan Patterson

This makes sense. I mean, whenever I fall in love it’s the first thing I wonder.

5. First song:

Lazy Bird – John Coltrane

Oh rub it in why don’t you. 

6. Breaking up:

Mad Issues – Angie Stone

Gotta love how Angie pontificates in her chorus. “You’ve got mad issues”. Haha.

Cuz you got mad issues
And you tend to misuse
Every opportunity to right your wrong
You’re causin’ more problems
With no way to solve them
The time has come to leave well enough alone 

7. Prom:

A Very Precious Time – Gil Scott Heron

Ok, Gil, no offense meant and you’re like the shiznit, but my prom wasn’t a very precious time. It does not deserve lyrics like:

Was there a touch of spring?
Did she have a pink dress on?
And when she smiled, her shyest smile
Could you almost touch the warmth?
And was it your first love, a very precious time?

Was there the faintest breeze?
And did she have a ponytail?
And could she make you feel ten feet tall,
Walking down the grassy trail?
Was it your first love, a very precious time, time?

But thanks for asking, master.

8. Life:

Rock Wit U – Alicia Keys

Hey, you know, that’s kinda cool!

Theres no escape on the spell you have placed
Leaving my heart and my mind
Foolish am I if I was to try to ever leave you behind

9. Mental breakdown:

Smile – Tony Bennett

HUH THAT’S SICK!

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through for you

10. Driving:

Panic!!! – The Roots

WHA-?!

I woke up in the darkness at 12:17…to shots and sirenes
Look out the window, peep the high beams
Now they searchin, the cops lookin for the person…
That pulled the trigga
Medical figures is nursin the kid that got shot
Some innocent ak that would front
To flip the rock on them at King Street block
I tried to tell him to stop cuz yo, it’s ghetto red hot
Similar to the blood now floodin his top
I take a step out the spot, to the point of attack
And see the shorty wop heart blast out his back
Damn, I’m thinkin it don’t cease, it’s no more peace
Police level increase, but what the f-…
It’s still crime on the streets
I can’t breathe, now what’s goin on?
One minute you alive, the next, you’re gone
Illadel-P-H-I-A Hell
Bust off into the heavens for the n- who fell
And hit the L, for the n- who fell
When that could have been prevented
In front of the flat your moms rented
And no one expect that from you, cuz you was timid
F-in with them cats from outside city limits
Funny how this whole thing changed, an off minute
Yo, dig it, Panic!!!!!
None of this is ever granted
Drownin in a nightmare, stranded

And why is everything jazz or rnb or rap? I have a lot of rock tracks too, you know! At least gimme Velvet Underground! Ya hear? Velvet Underground! I don’t care if it’s Lou Reed saying he’s contemplating breast enlargement surgery, GIMME VELVET UNDERGROUND! Femme Fatale, for one, could go to number 15!

11. Flashback:

All in Love is Fair – Stevie Wonder

And what’s that trying to say, that my failings in nabbing the girlz were like just fair?!

All is fair in love
Love’s a crazy game
Two people vow to stay
In love as one they say
But all is changed with time
The future no one can see
The road you leave behind
Ahead lies mystery
But all is fair in love
I had to go away
A writer takes his pen
To write the words again
That all in love is fair 

12. Getting back together:

No – De La Soul

Haha how concise. Still, VELVET UNDERGROUND! Fine, JIMI HENDRIX!

13. Wedding:

Now/ At The Party – Maxwell

Now I know
Now I found
Now I feel just like this
So united
Now I feel somethin’ special
(ohh, mmm)
I can’t even describe it to ya 

Nothing better than a scene of the entire church getting groovy. Hey why not. Ask my bride to cartwheel instead of stroll the wedding aisle!

14.Birth of a child:

Young At Heart – Brad Mehldau

The birth of a child will, of course, make me so happy I feel young again, even if it’s supposed to remind me that I’m about to have a more elderly responsibility.

15. Final battle:

Straight Life – Freddie Hubbard

I was hoping to get Femme Fatale by Velvet Underground. Bummer. And straight life? But what a long final battle that would be then. It would last 17 minutes.

16. Death scene:

Computer Blue – Prince and The Revolution

GOODNESS I HOPE NOT! It says:

Where is my love life?
Where can it be?
There must be something wrong with the machinery

Where is my love life?
Tell me, where has it gone?
Somebody please please tell me what the hell is wrong”

What on earth is my iPod doing, mocking me?!

17. Funeral song:

Minor Swing – Stephane Grappelli

That’s really stupid. Who swings on funeral anyway?

18. End credits:

Dream a Little Dream of Me – Louis Armstrong

Oh, how apt.

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me, yes.

I actually fast forwarded to another song and got “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2” Thank goodness it didn’t become the end credit. I love that song though.

Still, I’m bummed that Night Dreamer by Wayne Shorter didn’t show up.

And go steal this already, sheesh, must I mention who you are before you go play this tag game? I’m tagging liz though because I know she hates tag game. I’ll be damned if she can resist this. If she does, I’m going to write a new book called Liz Shrugged.