Friday, 26 June 2009

Soundtrack to my life. Mobile Reflection 2.

I swear, one day I will catch up with posting these.
This is one that I like from my phone;
I was travelling to London to visit Jess and on the train I was listening to random playlists and I had a realisation.
Backdated from May 09
'Have you ever found yourself considering your life as a music video?
If so, what songs define your present situation? Your future? The journey you're presently embarked upon? You as a whole?
I am currently sat on a train and have my music running through shuffle, and I've had three songs that sparked my imagination, three saw me viewing my life as music videos in three parts.
Firstly there was Jack's Mannequin with 'Spinning';
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I felt this song playing through my situation as I was experiencing it, everything going madly out of control, but managing to be upbeat despite not being able to 'remeber when the earth turned slowly' and also realising that 'I lost my place but I can't stop this story'. This song holds as a reminder of not letting it all crash down on top of me. Also see Swim by Jack's Mannequin.

My second song was from The Postal Service, 'Such Great Heights'.

For Facebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOkfI7wCrI
It highlights something very close to my heart, Jessica. The song talks about being a mirror image, an opposite, of the one you love and how God makes people that way. We are very definitely opposites, we highlight, and cover up all in the same breath each others flaws and weaknesses, we're two sides of the same coin. I could see one of those really cheesey but incredibly lovely montage videos of a couple together. It was my memories of us.

My final song of this particular journey is one that has always held a special place in my heart, ever since I first heard it on MTV2, 'All I Need' by Air;

For Facebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqBCOBRcMqc
Today this song feels perfect, particularly with the accompanying video. I'm on a train listening to a song that sounds and feels like a journey, a journey viewed from the third person, utilising muted tones, follow shots, time-lapses, and looking almost stop motion. Taking the video I love so much out of the equation, I can see my own in my mind even now as I re-listen to the track though I highly doubt I could ever do justice to what I am viewing within myself.

So let me finish with this, love your imagination, imagine your music video, visualise it. How does it look for you?
Realise the soundtrack to your life.'

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