a random sampling experiment meme

Saw this on epiclevelregina and coyotegrrrl's journals, figured I'd give it a try. Of course, my iTunes MP3 collection is only a small fraction of my music (too lazy to rip all my CDs), but it's still enough. I created the playlist in iTunes creating a new Smart Playlist with "limit to 10 songs selected by random".

1. Once Bitten Twice Shy (Great White) [4/5] - Lyrics
What a great, sad song. There's so many places in my life where this would be playing in the soundtrack. The most apropos time would probably have been through a fast-forward sequence of my life when I was spending a lot of time with Maya, as I stood still in slow motion watching as Maya went through her childhood and young adulthood in fast-forward.

2. Coming of Age (Damn Yankees) [3/5] - Lyrics
If only I had the courage and self-esteem in my youth that I almost have today, this song might have been appropriate. The best fit for the song now would be as I go throughout my day and I meet a beautiful blonde stranger, I try not to stare and admire, then make eye-contact ...

3. 10,000 Feet (David W. Jacobsen) [4/5] - Lyrics
I don't know what it is about these songs, or about me tonight, but again, this song would be playing in one of the moments where Maya and I were alone together, as I'd ask myself why she did the things she did and why I was still there. It'd be a sad song disguised as an upbeat tune, for sure.

4. Rag Doll (Aerosmith) [3/5] - Lyrics
This would be playing during the heyday of my mis-spent youth. Either right before college, or during my freshman year. Oh, those were the days ...

5. Icculus (Phish) [2/5] - Lyrics
Just another song that would have been playing on the CD player in my freshman dorm room. Background noise in the Den of Iniquity that was the freshman dorm room ...

6. Dry Spell (David W. Jacobsen) [4/5] - Lyrics
It's the anthem of the lonely single guy. Probably playing throughout my teenage years ...

7. Nobody's Fool (Cinderella) [3/5] - Lyrics
The turning point in my life when I stopped waiting for my actual life and love life to resemble that fantasy life I'd been dreaming of in my mind ... this song would have been playing then.

8. Peek-A-Boo (Siouxsie & the Banshees) [4/5] - Lyrics
There's a story behind how I got introduced to Siouxsie -- Mike M. at MIT who was teaching a digital circuits class explained how waking up to Mozart's Requiem vs. an upbeat song like Peek-A-Boo. Having never heard the song or of the group before, I went and got the CD. So, this song is part of my actual life's soundtrack: I listen to it on my morning commute on those mornings when I just can't get my ass into gear. It really gets me going ...

9. Waiting on the Rain (Deep River) [5/5] - Unsigned
If memory serves, this tune was written about the drought we had back in 1999 for months leading up to Hurricane Floyd. Hurricane Floyd hit right at the time I was getting married in September 1999. This song would most be most appropriate, because it would be ironic, playing on the day the hurricane started, which was the day we went down to the municipal building to register for our marriage license. That building, the next day, was submerged under seven feet of water and we had to go to a neighboring town where the municipality set up temporarily, to file for another marriage license so we could get married.

10. Silent Lucidity (Queensryche) [4/5] - Lyrics
In my life I've only ever been to one funeral. It was for Jeanne P. who I worked with for several years. She died of small-cell liver cancer and while I miss her, I'm glad that it took her quickly: she suffered for less than a year. She's survived by a daughter, Tara, who I didn't really know and only met at the wake, but I hope she's doing well. This song most definitely would have been appropriate as I knelt beside Jeanne's casket, wishing this was all a sad and twisted joke and that I'd wake up and she'd be fine, but reality is even more sad and twisted than my dreams, sometimes.