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Date: 10.16.18 -- Day 99 ("30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  -- Day 16)Music: "Wheel In The Sky" / Journey & "Free Bird" (Cover) / Rufus (Non-funk Rufus) - Lynryd Skynyrd  Prompt -- Share a list of your top 5 favorite songs and tell us why they’re your fave. The music continues! This prompt gave me a bit of an existential crisis because it meant that I would have to choose. After reading the prompt last night, I knew this was going to take planning, which also means I was gonna overthink things because that's what I do. I made lists! I paced my living room! I consulted with people! It's really ridiculous. So, after two o'clock this morning rolled around, I decided I'm going to do my Top 5 from the five most recently playlists I've assembled or revised. Five sets of five. Is this cheating? I'm so, so sorry. You've found my kryptonite. I am weak. I will then preface this by saying that these are in no particular order because that would make me choose and quantify them even more, and I do not possess that kind of will-power as you just read. So here is more information and music than you asked for!  Top 5 Road Trip Songs on the I-5 / 99-NThis particular playlist comes from the brown hills stretch of highway that heads up to San Francisco as well as the flat plains leading to Fresno. I made these two treks often with my mother from the ages of about 8 to 16. There was a good chunk of time where we were making this run daily. She'd pick me up after school, and I would do my homework in the back seat while we rocked out to music on the cassettes we stored in the glove box for such occasions. It's not the most interesting of views, but if we were lucky, the sky would fade into the most beautiful shade of gold I've ever seen. "Wheel In The Sky" -- Journey "I'm On Fire " -- Bruce SpringsteenAt night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head "10,000 Miles " -- Mary Chapin Carpenter Oh don't you see That lonesome dove Sitting on an ivy tree "Tell Me Why " -- WynonnaAnd it's a real bad sign I'm walking on a real thin line A fool in love with a fool that never cared "One Way Ticket " -- LeAnn RhimesThere's a new horizon and the promise of a favorable wind I'm heading out tonight, traveling light I'm gonna start all over again  Top 5 Songs About Solace from FilmFilms get epic scores. They should. Scores can be the backbone of any decent film, especially if the composer is allowed to branch out a bit. Most of the time, the scores are perfection while the films are not so much. These are songs from scores that touch on the emotion of solace. Defined as comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness, solace is an emotion built on layers. Too nuanced, and you've lost the thread. Not nuanced enough or contrived, the audience doesn't engage the way you want. A solid score can do the heavy lifting when it comes to solace and provide a needed context. Sometimes the solace comes from within the film, and sometimes the solace comes in spite of the film. These are some of my favorites because they capture of essence of this complex emotion. "A Small Measure of Peace " from "The Last Samurai" -- Hans Zimmer"On The Nature of Daylight " from "Arrival" -- Max Richter"Learning to Forget " from "Little Women" -- Thomas Newman"Farewell " from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" -- Tan Dun / Yo-Yo Ma"Elysium " from "Gladiator" -- Hans Zimmer / Lisa Gerrard Top 5 Songs I'd Commit Ocean's-Style Crimes ToIn the vein of the Ocean's 11 franchise as well as lovely television shows like "Leverage", I've compiled a playlist of songs of which I would commit high class robbery to. $10,000-a-plate galas. A fine arts museum in broad daylight. A casino or three. The one where everything is going like clockwork and you get a cool moniker after you do the impossible. Here is part of the soundtrack to my cons, grifts, and robberies. "I Awake " -- Sarah BlaskoOf this world, and all unseen No one knows just why we're here "Sinnerman " -- Nina SimoneI said rock What's the matter with you rock? Don't you see I need you, rock? "Why did we fire that gun? " -- WaldeckThis conversation It strikes me No need for words It's all understood "State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U) " -- Jim JamesWe've got out wires all crossed Our tubes are all tied And I'm straining to remember Just what it means to be alive "That's Alright " -- Laura MvulaI will never be what you want and that's alright I play my own damn tune, I shine like the moon  Top 5 Preludes to A Dystopian FutureAlthough the tide seems to be ebbing on the prevalence of dystopian novels and films, the impression of such a future, especially in our current times, is still a visceral feeling that seems to linger. When I listen to these particular songs, that's the first thing that pops into my mind. Clicking keyboards, crumbling infrastructure, and various shades of black highlighted in neon blue. "Everybody Wants To Rule The World " (Cover) -- LordeActing on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world "Take It All " -- RuelleWhere worlds collide Blood divides When darkness falls Fate calls "Burn My Shadow " -- UNKLE featuring Ian AshburyI have burned my tomorrows And I stand inside today At the edge of the future And my dreams all fade away "Head Full of Lies " -- Georgi KayA fatal spin Beneath your skin Residue flows within "I'd Love To Change The World " -- JettaI'd love to change the world But I don't know what to do So I'll leave it up to you  Top 5 Road Trip Songs on the I-80 EThis playlist comes from the trips on the road with my father while I was living in the Bay Area and he was working in Owens Valley. When the snow cooperated, we would make the long drive through Stanislaus National Forest. This playlist is also heavily influenced by one of my father's favorite movies, "Elizabethtown". The drive, no matter the season, is beautiful. The last time we did this, the national park was still recovering from a deadly fire. It was bleak. You could still smell the char from the trees. And yet, there was beauty in that too as you could still see the forest trying to come back to life. "Io (This Time Around) " -- Helen StellarThis time around This love of ours "Trouble So Hard " -- Vera HallOoh Lordy, troubles so hard Don't nobody know my troubles but God "Come Pick Me Up " -- Ryan AdamsWith the windows clear And the mannequins eyes Do they all look like mine "It'll All Work Out " -- Tom PettyNow the wind is high and the rain is heavy And the water's rising in the levee Still I think of her when the sun goes down It never goes away, but it all works out "Free Byrd" -- Lynyrd Skynyrd (I provided the scene from "Elizabethtown" instead of the original Lynryd Skynyrd song because this is one of the funniest moments in the movie, and the song does a wonderful job in framing it. You don't really need to know the context of the movie to understand the scene. Just know, like "Titanic", the band played as the whole thing went down. As you do.) |
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