Friday, January 30, 2009

Music for My Movie Meme

Here's a fun exercise that Sisterfilms put on her blog FilmAching. Let's see how it goes. Like SF, I am going to keep the Christmas music out of it, since I have so much that this would become either a Christmas movie or something too, too ironic for words.

So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc). 

2. Put it on shuffle.

3. Press play.

4. For every question, type the song that's playing.

5. When you go to a new question, press the next button.

6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...


Opening Credits:

Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley by Lonnie Donegan


Waking Up:

Missing by The Roches


First Day of School:

Sufferin' by Gordon Bok


Falling in Love:

Tuba mirum from Mozart Requiem in D Minor, Berlin Philharmonic, von Karajan, soloists


Fight Song:

Paint me, Redoute by June Tabor


Breaking Up:

Waltz Down the Aisle from Anything Goes


Prom:

Mending Wall by Robert Frost, read by the poet


Life's Just OK:

The Lady is a Tramp by Frank Sinatra


Mental Breakdown:

I'll Take My Sorrow Straight by Iris DeMent


Driving:

I'm Walking Behind You by Frank Sinatra [this is really funny since I don't drive!]


Flashback:

Safe at Anchor by Kate Wolf


Getting Back Together:

The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan (D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.)


Birth of Child:

The Homestead on the Farm by The Carter Family


Wedding:

Bill Morgan and His Gal by Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen 


Final Battle:

World in Union by the South Wales Burma Star Male Voice Choir


Death Scene:

Walk Down by the Water by Bill Staines


Funeral Song:

The Me I Used to Be by the Austin Lounge Lizards


End Credits:

The Twa Sisters by Dorothy Fourbister, collected for The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (i.e. the Child Ballads)


Well, what this proves is that I have a fairly eclectic music collection. I have to say this probably doesn't work as well with Windows Media Player as it would if I had an iPod. I ended up just pressing the "next" button a random number of times without looking. Let me know in comments if you play and where.

4 comments:

Onkel Hankie Pants said...

I asked Sisterfilms to explain this further before I read your post. But I still don't understand. What are the questions?

Auntie Knickers said...

I did this again, in a more technologically savvy way, this morning and posted it on Facebook as a note. If I were really doing a movie of my life, I might combine the two sets of answers.

Sisterfilms said...

In response to Onkle Hankie Pants: It's not so much questions as it is a soundtrack list. So if I were making a film of mommy's life I'd use "Hang Down Your Head" as the opening credits were rolling and so on and so forth.

Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Muses said...

I am loving these iPod shuffling things!! too fun! I went looking for our iPod so I could play too, but seems Donald's laid claim to the darn thing and has left it at work. Probably just as well 'cause it does not have near the neat stuff on it yours does.