.:Dreams and Swords:.

Chasing Pavements

Great song. Awesome title. Captures the sentiment of my life/mood at the moment.

Life is somewhat screwed up right now. I could tell you the basics but that's too personal. So, to distract my troubled mind I've found something useless to do. Here is the challenge issued in a random blog bulletin on the MySpace homepage -- Hit "Generate Playlist" on your mp3 player or music engine and see what it says about you at the moment. List the first 30 (playlist selects 75 on mine). No skips. No deletes. No repeats.

Its lik a musical mp3 fortune cookie... damn am I pathetic. Here's my fortune cookie playlist, but keep in mind that I've been helping my five year old little brother Z with his newly acquired Rock Band system while he's been recouping from a terrible ear ache... wow, I have no life.

Love Lockdown - Kanye West
Chasing Pavements - Adele
Warning - Incubus
Fine Line - Little Big Town
Say It Ain't So - Weezer
Float - Flogging Molly
Stepping Stone - Duffy
Running Up That Hill (Deal With God) - Placebo
Decode - Paramore
Blue From Down Here - TV On The Radio
Hero ft. Keri Hilson - Nas
Noche Frio - Robi Rosa
A Song For Assata - Common
Creep - Radiohead
Lie To Me - Jonny Lang
I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
Keep Ya Head Up - 2Pac
No Air ft. Chris Brown - Jordin Sparks
Tear Your Apart - She Wants Revenge
Twenty-Four - Switchfoot
American Boy - Estelle
Paloma Negra - Chavela Vargas
Like A Stone - Audioslave
Love Remembers - Craig Morgan
Next Lifetime - Erykah Badu
A Light On The Hill - Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos
Nocturne Op 55 No. 1 - Fredric Chopin
What Happens When The Heart Just Stops - The Frames
Broken Bridge - Darling Daughter
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
Last Call - Lee Ann Womack

Some of the artists missing include Patsy Cline, Led Zeppelin, Katie Gray, Sarah McLachlan, Salsa Celtica, Jimi Hendrix, Norah Jones, War, Tears For Fears, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, System Of A Down - you get it.

Okay... even if I didn't know the lyrics to these songs I could still tell that my future might not be so bright by the titles. Talk about a dark cloud of the new year, yet not entirely unexpected. I've decided to call this my Gloomy Fortune Mix. Its either that or taking a giant dose of anti-depressant and a fifth of Jack Daniels.

Take the challenge and see how your's turns out. Here's to thinking positive.

Merry Christmas everyone.