Do you remember I wish scenarios, kids sometimes play?
I used to wish I could I could fly, or if I couldn’t, my bicycle could. I wanted to be as agile and acrobatic as the gymnast I saw on television and meals that didn’t include vegetables, but always had french fries. I also remember longing to be invisible, a fantasy I haven’t outgrown.
Old habits die hard. I am attending an event in a few days and it’s makes me so anxious that I’ve actually contemplated rolling in poison ivy so I wouldn’t be required to attend. Right now, I wish I owned the tiniest of bluetooth ear buds, unnoticeable to others, but capable of receiving data from a discretely located Mp3 player. It would relay music without interfering with conversation. Basically, it would provide a soundtrack to life, without others being aware. Like music that naturally plays in your head, but with all the lyrics and better quality bass.
I don’t want to completely tune people out (okay I do, but…). I just want to hear music that makes me more at ease, whether it be the lyrics, the fluidity, or the momentum
. I’m less uptight when I’m absorbed in the image of seventy year-old woman walking from the refreshment table to the chorus of Garbage’s I’m only happy when it rains….and it doesn’t scar me life like picturing some people naked.
Other music included on my pretend soundtrack:
The Eels: Mr E’s Beautiful Blues
Elizabeth and the Catapult: Taller Children
Aimee Mann: Humpty Dumpty
The Shins: Gone for Good
The Commodores: Brick House
Hem: Carry Me Home
Modest Mouse: Float On
Neko Case: Porchlight
Sia: Breathe Me
Train: Mississippi
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
Tori Amos: A Sorta Fairytale
B-52′s: Roam
Air: Alone in Kyoto
Sir Mix-A-Lot: Baby Got Back
Beck: Earthquake Weather
Beth Orton: Stolen Car
Carbon Leaf: Let Your Troubles Roll By
The Cardigans: You’re the Storm
Counting Crows: A Long December
James: Laid
Liz Phair: What Makes You Happy
Mike Doughty: I hear the Bells
My Morning Jacket: I’m Amazed
The Bloodhound Gang: Fire Water Burn
Patty Griffin: Change
Placebo: Running Up That Hill
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals: Everybody knows
Turin Brakes: Painkiller
Cake: Sheep Go To Heaven
Right Said Fred: I’m Too Sexy
William Shatner: Common People
Ben Folds: Jesusland
Josh Joplin Group: Camera One
Cowboy Junkies: A Common Disaster
Harold Faltemeyer: Axel F
Village People: YMCA
you can’t take someone with you, someone to make snarky comments about the seventy year-old woman to? They do make bluetooth stereo headphones, I don’t know how discrete they are, though.
next time you need to be a little more specific regarding your background music, this list is kinda short.
I’d never heard of Neko Case until last Saturday – she was a guest on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” NPR quiz show. Great sense of humor.
I’d like to hear more of Elizabeth and the Catapult.
Bob, not the most brief music selection, eh? But something appropriate to cover all possible encounters.
If you go here, you can listen to an NPR concert from Elizabeth and the catapult, or here if you find neko case intriguing