Two iPod Surveys...

... since you know I don't want to trouble everyone with a bulletin about this stuff. I'm also completing two of these, just to see if the iPod is a consistent method of accurately portraying the past and correctly predicting the future.

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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: "Born Entertainer" - Veruca Salt
- at least it's peppy

waking up: "Leif Erikson" - Interpol
- nice vibe for waking up, but why am I a "slave to the details?"

work song: "We Can Work It Out" - The Beatles
- slightly humorous seeing as how I have a work meeting today

falling in love: "Trust" - The Cure
- "There is truly no one left at all / there is only you"? A little depressing.

fight song: "Nothing Good Will Ever Come of This (alternate version)" - The Arrogants
- perhaps one song early?

breaking up: "Send One Your Love" - Stevie Wonder
- "Send her your love / with a dozen roses"? Maybe these two songs should have switched places.

club song: "I Second That Emotion" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
- I hope it's a drum-n-bass remix

life's just ok: "Sweet Dreams" - The Lightning Seeds
- Hopeful and upbeat (perhaps deluded), but stop calling me "she."

mental breakdown: "You Might Think" - The Cars
- Oddly appropriate.

driving: "Drive" - The Cars
- This really did come up here. You know I'm telling the truth because it's actually a shitty driving song, and it's also the only Cars song I actively hate.

flashback: "What'd I Say" - Bobby Darin
- Why'd I get the white-guy version of this song?

getting back together: "Pleasant Valley Sunday (single version)" - The Monkees
- A perfect pop song about slow, suburban death? Sign me up.

wedding: "Everybody's Talkin'" - Harry Nilsson
- "I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin' / through the pourin' rain"

finale battle: "More Love" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
- Damn it, Smokey. You're cramping my death-dealin', drunken monkey style. (I guess I'm starring in a love story.)

death scene: "See Saw" - Aretha Franklin
- A little upbeat. "Up, down, and all around." Perhaps I've died bungee jumping.

funeral song: "The Best Is Yet to Come" - Tony Bennett
- Now this is just some sort of sad, sick joke. Unless I've been wrong about Heaven this whole time...

end credits: "Erecting a Movie Star" - Shudder to Think featuring Liz Phair
- Quite appropriate for this little biopic exercise, and happily, a song I like a great deal.

eating: "Blow Out" - Radiohead
- First off, why do these topics seem to be out of order? Secondly, I don't eat this fast. But it is "sugar-coated."

shower: "Souvenir" - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- "My obsession / It's my creation / You'll understand / It's not important now"

bath: "Somewhere Along the Way" - Nat King Cole
- "How could I know I'd lose you / somewhere along the way?" Says the person with a stand-alone shower and no tub.

car chase: "Mambo Italiano" - Dean Martin
- It seems that my car chase will be humorous, possibly involving an Italian restaurant and/or a bicycle.

emo scene: "What You Gave Me" - Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell
- Since it seems I'm starring in a romantic comedy, this is fitting for an "I miss you" film montage.

sleeping: "PDA" - Interpol
- "We have two hundred couches / where you can sleep tonight"

crying: "Love You Madly" - Ella Fitzgerald (written by Duke Ellington)
- "Better fish are in the sea / Is not the theory for me"

during college/ school work: "Our Midnight" - The Maybellines
- "I'll kiss you here in the starlight" Ahhh, school work.

while getting ready to roll out: "Such Great Heights" - The Postal Service
- And what, exactly, are we getting ready to roll out to?

goodbye: "Panama" - Van Halen
- And here's a Diamond Dave high-kick for you.

song for hugs: "Get Back" - The Beatles
- Jo Jo bought some California grass.

song for kisses: "Being Boring" - The Pet Shop Boys
- "We were never holding back / worried that / time would come to an end"

song for being awesome: "Time of No Reply" - Nick Drake
- It's a mellow awesome.

song for making your mama cry: "Ava Adore" - The Smashing Pumpkins
- We must never be apart?

song that will be your ultimate doom: "Solitude" - Ella Fitzgerald (also written by Duke Ellington)
- "I sit in my chair / I'm filled with despair"

fuck off: "Ego Tripping Out" - Marvin Gaye
- Because nothing says fuck off like really early rap (that sounds more like spoken word).

Second survey will come with the second post.