This Is My [A-->B] Life

As promised, here is an alternate version of an itunes survey that I'm going to take using my playlist on shuffle. I can't get enough of these. They're so fun and eerie depending on what your responses are. To mix it up, each song represents a track to the soundtrack of my life. I'm playing the first 18 songs that come up on my itunes, no matter how embarrassing. You can do this too if you feel like it. This is how she goes:

Track no. 1: Opening Credits
Bob Dylan - "Ballad in Plain D" (Cool, that'd make a sweet opener)

Track no. 2: Waking Up
Beirut - "The Penalty" (I can picture it well. Great ukulele song, even better than that ukulele version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow)

Track no. 3: First Day of School
Coldplay - "How You See The World No. 2" (Yes indeedy)

Track no. 4: Falling In Love
Pinback - "Messenger" (I'm with a girl who's stationed far from here...)

Track no. 5: Fight Song
Clinic - "Family" (We will fight psychedelically!)

Track no. 6: Breaking Up
Jenoah - "Man In Me (Bob Dylan cover)" ('It ain't me babe, it ain't me you're looking for babe.' Wow, that's insanely accurate)

Track no. 7: Prom Night
Thrice - "Digital Sea" (Sorta techno-y style. I can dance to it like nobody's business)

Track no. 8: Life's Okay
Pete Yorn - "Black" ('I’m just a lonely guy in my youth, waiting for you is all I wanna do.' That's me to a tee)

Track no. 9: Nervous Breakdown
The Frames - "True" (What a soothing breakdown it'd be)

Track no. 10: Road Trip
Wilco - "Sunken Treasure" (Seriously good driving tunes)

Track no. 11: Flashback Montage
Grandaddy - "Under the Western Freeway" (It certainly lends itself to a trippy flashback sequence, doesn't it?)

Track no. 12: Making Up
The Beautiful Mistake - "Walking Wounded" (I had to cheat and shuffle two more times because Wilco and Coldplay came up again and I wanted a more diverse group of artists to contribute to this list. I apologize for the inconsistency, but this song suits it much better anyway)

Track no. 13: Wedding
Cake - "Race Car Ya-Yas" ('...the land where large fuzzy dice still hang proudly like testicles from rear-view mirrors...' Hahaha only at my wedding)

Track no. 14: First Baby
Project 86 - "Rebuttal" (Strange, I think my cheating messed this up. Or maybe it didn't? My first baby is really gonna dig some macabre rock n' roll)

Track no. 15: Final Battle
Eddie Vedder - "Long Nights" (Picturing this in my head it looks so EPIC!)

Track no. 16: Death Scene
My Morning Jacket - "Heartbreakin Man" (I do in fact want to die listening to this one song)

Track no. 17: Funeral Song
The Clash - "White Riot" (Haha, what does that tell you about me? I'm white and there's gonna be a riot at my funeral apparently. Nice)

Track no. 18: Closing Credits
As I Lay Dying - "Collision" / City and Colour - "Hello, I'm In Delaware" (This is interesting. I know As I Lay Dying is still on my itunes, but I think I kinda hate them now. I've lost a taste for the harder, metal music and developed into a folk/acoustic sensibility. City and Colour is a reflection of this new taste in music style. It was on random and I didn't pick it personally, but it fits me so well)

So as you can see, a few times I had to cheat and skip to the next song, partly to add more variety, partly because I keep forgetting that I still have some metal bands on my itunes that I never listen to anymore. I think it went well. It was fun and a lot of the songs were relevant to each aspect of my life soundtrack. As for the later half of my life that I know nothing about, that remains to be seen. Now I need to find a cooler survey to take next month. Cheers!