Soundtrack 1
Being a musician (not a practicing one at this time, but a musician none-the-less) I pretty much have music going through my head all the time. Snippets of things I hear on the radio, things I’ve played in the past, scales and arpeggios, fingering excercises, ornamentation, made up crap. You name it, it runs around in my head. Add it to the rest of the crap up there and you have a veritable junk yard of creative schmutz.
Usually I have songs stuck in my head first thing when I wake up. Or sometimes things are on a loop playing for hours in the background of everything I do. I’ll find myself humming it in the shower or singing lyrics as I work or drive.
You may think this is not so odd, that I probably just heard the song just before I fell asleep or as I was waking up. But I don’t listen to mainstream radio very often. I normally listen to NPR news and classical music or WRFG blues and talk. So tell me, where does this list come from???
- Overkill – Men at Work
- One Donut a Day – Hoops & Yoyo (yes the greeting card cartoons)
- Accidentally in Love – Counting Crows
- Harry Potter Theme – John Williams
- Orinoco Flow – Enya
That was all I remember for first thing in the morning this week. There were others swimming around during the day while working, but I can’t remember what they were. I’m going to start writing them down, though.
I also make up a lot of songs. Mostly about stupid people and the stupid things they do. Or songs for the silly dogs who are always under foot around here. Sometimes songs just to make munchkin or hubby laugh.
Add this to the fact that hubby, munchkin and I are always playing with the lyrics of songs. Most notably Diary of Jane is now Diarrhea Jane and the chorus of Hey There Delilah is “ooo watching people pee”. What can I say, I’m surrounded by boys! 
So I thought I might start posting my weekly playlist, or soundtrack if you will, of songs only I can hear. Every Monday, sometime during the day, I will put up my list of songs I remember throughout the week. Feel free to chime in with your own weekly soundtrack.
I can’t be the only one afflicted by this… can I?
