Musical Mystery Tour

I was going to do my own (non) celebrity playlist like Adriana, but I'm just not as cool as her. Instead, here are some random musings on some songs I have on iTunes.

"Momentum" by Aimee Mann off the "Magnolia" soundtrack. Sometimes I feel like I'm living this damn song. Here are the lyrics if you're curious.

"Brick" by Ben Folds Five. Matt's got Dave Matthews. I've got Ben Folds. Guess who won that coin toss. This song always makes me want to cry. No, I was not aborted, but thanks for asking.

"She"/"Tous les Visages de L'amour" by Elvis Costello/Charles Aznavour. I always feel a little dirty because it was used for "Notting Hill" but it's still beautifully romantic. Bonus nerd points because my favorite version would be made up by the first half of the French version with the second half of the Costello cover.

"El Guerrero" by Enanitos Verdes. A nice song that helped me get through a heart-fracture (didn't quite make it to heartbreak). Also, once while driving with Karla, it came on the radio and I started to sing it. She joined in and then told me I was off key. I never sang in front of her again. Good times... good times.

"Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals. Although it's married in my mind with the Copacabana date sequence in "Goodfellas" (see end of post), the innocence of the lyric and the genuine emotion in the singing always gets me.

"The Jeep Song" by The Dresden Dolls. This song perfectly captures the feeling of running into an ex object of affection. A nice choking feeling (or so I've been told). Every time I hear this song I remember the time I thought I saw a girl I liked at Cielo Vista and almost felt like dying, then, ha-ha, it wasn't even her. I still hated her for making me feel that way by proxy, though.

"I Want You" by Elvis Costello. My favorite Costello song. A couple disintegrating and the obsession that follows.

"Love to Hate You" by Erasure and "Cruel to be Kind" by Nick Lowe. They pretty much epitomize my idea of love during my early teenage years. BIG mistake since I'm not that kind of guy, but of course it would take years to figure that out. I'm still apologizing.

"Evil" by Interpol. Perla introduced me to Interpol. Thinking it was Joy Division only made me realize I'm old.

"Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright. I put in on Perla's iPod and we listened to it as we drove to Houston to drop her off at the airport for her trip to Spain. She asked me to sing it and I butchered it because I was doing Jeff Buckley's version. She loved it. I will always sing in front of Perla.