Some fun for Friday: Movie of Your Life

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I pulled this little game diversion from My New Plaid Pants.

QUESTION: If your life is a movie, what songs are on the soundtrack?

Here's how it works:
1. Open iTunes
2. Put it on shuffle and press play
3. For every question, type the song that's playing
4. Make up a Title and choose your Cast
I used my iPod instead of iTunes, but it should work for any portable MP3 player or MP3-playing computer programme, depending what you have access to.

I was utterly stumped for a movie title but as for my cast:

Playing me: Christina Ricci or Selma Blair




Mom: Cybill Shepherd
Dad: Paul Sorvino
Sister: Alicia Silverstone
Paul: Wentworth Miller

And here’s my movie biography’s soundtrack:

Opening Credits:
S.O.S. – Good Charlotte
Is anybody listening? Can they hear me when I call? I'm shooting signals in the air'Cause I need somebody's help.
Ah, the call of the punky pseudo-goth...

Waking Up:
Casino Royale trailer music
Well, at least it’s a dramatic intro with some nice choral music to introduce my…

First Day At School:
Lucky – Hoobastank
No more dark days, only sun rays, No more hard ways with you today.
School apparently isn’t such a traumatic experience in my movie.

Falling In Love:
Never There - Hoobastank
Ah, a one-way unrewarding relationship.

Fight Song:
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
So it’s going to be one of those sobby, cross-cut, glaring-at-the-phone fight scenes.

Breaking Up:
Nobody’s Listening – Linkin Park
And the eventual break-up is filled with frustration and rage.

Prom:
California Dreamin’ – Beach Boys
A mellow, dreamy dance to end my high school years.

Life:
Hotel California – The Eagles
You can check in any time you like, but you can never leave. Uh-oh!

Mental Breakdown:
Sk8er boi – Avril Lavigne
Hmmm, regrets and collapse over missed opportunities.

Driving:
Got The Life - Korn
Hate, something, someway, each day, feeling ripped off again. Why? This shit inside. Ah, lots of road rage.

Flashback:
Am I Not Merciful - Hans Zimmer (Gladiator)
Epic and threatening...

Wedding:
Hero – Chad Kroeger
Let's hope that my wedding isn't disturbed by a masked superhero and hover-board surfing villain.

Birth of Child:
Nobody Knows - Pink
Nobody knows, Nobody knows but me, That I sometimes cry
Secrets, trauma and maybe even post-natal circle the arrival of the little one.

Final Battle:
Little Bird – Annie Lennox
Apparently the final battle will involve a strip club and a pole…

Death Scene:
Night on Disco Mountain – David Shire
… And I die by dramatically being crushed by a mirror ball.

Funeral Song:
Drive - Incubus
A positive end, I suppose… Lately, I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself, my light is found Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there. With open arms and open eyes yeah

End Credits:
Goldeneye – Tina Turner
Seeing as my movie started with a Bond tune, it might as well end with one of the big Bond ballads.

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I did the Move of Your Life thing a second time and ended up with a far rockier soundtrack:

Opening Credits:
The Man Without Fear – Rob Zombie, Drowning Pool
Waking Up:
Mustang Sally – Andrew Strong
First Day At School:
Somewhere I Belong – Linkin Park
Falling In Love:
Sad Sad Situation – Bowling for Soup
Fight Song:
Complicated – Avril Lavigne
Breaking Up:
Close to Me – The Cure
Prom:
Barbara Ann – The Beach Boys
Life:
Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
Mental Breakdown:
Where the Streets Have no Name – U2
Driving:
Turn to Stone – ELO
Flashback:
To Know My Enemy – Hans Zimmer (Last Samurai)
Wedding:
Shut Up and Smile – Bowling for Soup
Birth of Child:
Rendezvous – Basement Jaxx
Final Battle:
Martyr – Depeche Mode
Death Scene:
Believe – Disturbed
Funeral Song:
Mindfields – Prodigy
End Credits:
Never Gonna Come Back Down – BT

Comments

Team America said…
You do know that to have Selma Blair playing your character you have to make out with Sarah Michelle Gellar .... one ... two ... three... GO
11:59 AM
RC said…
the death by mirror ball sounds fun!
3:02 PM
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