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I haven't been doing much of interest lately, so a silly music meme is under the cut. Music-meme "Soundtrack of your Life" from 
ariston. Put your music player on shuffle and write up the song that comes up for each item. I skipped mini-songs and a few others. Comments in parentheses.
Opening credits: "Good Day," The Dresden Doll (A little depressing, I think.)
First Scene: "Pree Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye," Neutral Milk Hotel (Wildly inappropriate!)
Waking up: "On Top," The Killers (I don't know about you, but I never feel that determined when I wake up.)
Getting Dressed: "You're Crazy," Guns N' Roses (Sure, Axl Rose singing 'YOU'RE FUCKING CRAZY!' runs through my head every morning as I dazedly struggle into my jeans.)
Average day: "Your Song," Elton John (Maybe if I were in a really sappy relationship, one of those couples who freak out when one member of the pair has to go to the bathroom, in other words, if I were Richandamy, this would be my average day. Alas, it is not.)
First date: "Who Could Win a Rabbit," Animal Collective (I have not gotten an appropriate song yet!)
Meeting Bestfriend: "Promise," The Violent Femmes (If my best friend is a fucked-up, socially uncomfortable English major, then this works.)
Getting Caught Making Out: "Criminal," Fiona Apple (The best one so far.)
Running Away: "Kamera," Wilco (You know, if you kicked up the tempo considerably, this would work pretty well.)
Graduating Highschool: "Busted," Johnny Cash (Eeeeehhhhh...)
Falling in love: "Dark As the Dungeon," Johnny Cash (My god, this is possibly the worst-fitting song on the entire list!)
Love scene: "Goodbye," Elton John (?!)
Fight scene: "Lust For Life," Iggy Pop (I would kick some ass to this song.)
Last Date: "Goodbye, Love," Rent (This one actually kind of works.)
Breaking up: "Tainted Love," Soft Cell (This one too!)
Getting back together: "Sailing Through," Jeff Mangum ("It's about, um, people fucking each other all the time.")
Marriage: "Leaves That Are Green," Simon and Garfunkel (A bit too lighthearted.)
Honeymoon: "Come On Eileen," Dexy's Midnight Runners (:p)
Secret love: "Chale Chalo," Lagaan soundtrack (Well, it's all in HIndi, so I'm not totally sure what the lyrics are, but they could well be about secret love.)
First Affair: "Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye (Oooooooh yeah.)
Rejection: "20th Century Boy," T. Rex (I only wish I could be this upbeat when I'm rejected.)
Divorce: "Red Morning Light," Kings of Leon (As far as I can tell, it's about a pretty slutty girl, so I say it works.)
Life's okay: "Good Year For the Roses," covered by George Jones (Dammit, I should've gotten this one for divorce.)
Mental breakdown: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," Tom Waits (If this is the soundtrack to my mental breakdown I will get better IMMEDIATELY!)
Hopitalization: "Of Angels and Angles," The Decemberists (Appropriate musically but not lyrically.)
Driving: "Color Bars," Elliott Smith (Mentions traffic, so I guess it's good.)
Learning a lesson: "Midnight Radio," Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack (And that lesson is... lady rockers are the coolest of all rockers.)
Deep thought: "I've Changed My Plea to Guilty," covered by the Decemberists (Mmmm, lovely song.)
Flashback: "Corpus Christi Carol," Jeff Buckley (Lovely voice.)
Partying: "Come Together," Spiritualized (This works only if we assume 'party' to mean 'lots and lots of hard drugs'.)
Coming Down After the Party: "Nailed," Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack (NOT hangover music.)
Happy dance: "Radio Cure," Wilco (Again: wildly inappropriate!)
Regretting: "Waltz #1," Elliott Smith (Good.)
Going to College: "Nice Boys," Guns N' Roses (Man, college should be this rock and roll.)
Long night alone: "I was a landscape in your dream," Of Montreal (Pretty.)
First child: "A Baby For Pree," Neutral Milk Hotel (Perfect!)
Illegitmate child: "One Song Glory," Rent soundtrack (Completely irrelevant.)
First Major Job: "Chicago," Sufjan Stevens (I guess that job could take place... in Chicago? Whatever, I give up.)
Old Age: "I Wanna Be Your Dog," Iggy and the Stooges (Also irrelevant, but a great song!)
Cancer: "Inna Gadda Da Vida," Iron Butterfly (Oh, to die of such a cancer!)
First Love Dies: "Lonely Planet Boy," New York Dolls (That one's actually a pretty good fit.)
Fired: "Clementine," Elliott Smith (About a drunk sitting in a bar at closing time, so I guess it could work.)
Death scene: "Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run," Sufjan Stevens (Wonderful! I can see my soul floating up out of my body to this song.)
Conspiracy Scene: "Search and Destroy," Iggy and the Stooges (One damn tough conspiracy.)
Funeral Scene: "Lady Lady Lay," Bob Dylan (Only if you're there trying to pick up chicks.)
Closing credits: "Spitting Games," Snow Patrol (Always nice to leave the theater with some bounce in your step. Actually, I think I might pick this for closing credits if I were editing the movie of my life.)
Basically all I'm doing lately is worrying about AP exams and sleeping a lot. I saw Silent Hill on Friday--it scared the living shit out of me, but wasn't a very good movie. Oh, and I watched Boogie Nights yesterday, and enjoyed it a lot, even though it was basically two hours of cocaine-induced bad taste.
P.S. My mom just called me over to help my brother with his Algebra I homework, and it was truly hellish. He started complaining about the fact that finding slope and y-intercept actually involves multiple steps, and my mom kept asking over and over if there was a shortcut, which there isn't, and I was fighting very hard not to be condescending or impatient ... and failing, of course. It's just that this is the absolute basis of everything I've done for the past five years of my mathematical education, so it's hard for me to explain it. I could probably have explained basic integration to him more easily than how to find x- and y-intercepts. GWAH math.
ariston. Put your music player on shuffle and write up the song that comes up for each item. I skipped mini-songs and a few others. Comments in parentheses.
Opening credits: "Good Day," The Dresden Doll (A little depressing, I think.)
First Scene: "Pree Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye," Neutral Milk Hotel (Wildly inappropriate!)
Waking up: "On Top," The Killers (I don't know about you, but I never feel that determined when I wake up.)
Getting Dressed: "You're Crazy," Guns N' Roses (Sure, Axl Rose singing 'YOU'RE FUCKING CRAZY!' runs through my head every morning as I dazedly struggle into my jeans.)
Average day: "Your Song," Elton John (Maybe if I were in a really sappy relationship, one of those couples who freak out when one member of the pair has to go to the bathroom, in other words, if I were Richandamy, this would be my average day. Alas, it is not.)
First date: "Who Could Win a Rabbit," Animal Collective (I have not gotten an appropriate song yet!)
Meeting Bestfriend: "Promise," The Violent Femmes (If my best friend is a fucked-up, socially uncomfortable English major, then this works.)
Getting Caught Making Out: "Criminal," Fiona Apple (The best one so far.)
Running Away: "Kamera," Wilco (You know, if you kicked up the tempo considerably, this would work pretty well.)
Graduating Highschool: "Busted," Johnny Cash (Eeeeehhhhh...)
Falling in love: "Dark As the Dungeon," Johnny Cash (My god, this is possibly the worst-fitting song on the entire list!)
Love scene: "Goodbye," Elton John (?!)
Fight scene: "Lust For Life," Iggy Pop (I would kick some ass to this song.)
Last Date: "Goodbye, Love," Rent (This one actually kind of works.)
Breaking up: "Tainted Love," Soft Cell (This one too!)
Getting back together: "Sailing Through," Jeff Mangum ("It's about, um, people fucking each other all the time.")
Marriage: "Leaves That Are Green," Simon and Garfunkel (A bit too lighthearted.)
Honeymoon: "Come On Eileen," Dexy's Midnight Runners (:p)
Secret love: "Chale Chalo," Lagaan soundtrack (Well, it's all in HIndi, so I'm not totally sure what the lyrics are, but they could well be about secret love.)
First Affair: "Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye (Oooooooh yeah.)
Rejection: "20th Century Boy," T. Rex (I only wish I could be this upbeat when I'm rejected.)
Divorce: "Red Morning Light," Kings of Leon (As far as I can tell, it's about a pretty slutty girl, so I say it works.)
Life's okay: "Good Year For the Roses," covered by George Jones (Dammit, I should've gotten this one for divorce.)
Mental breakdown: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," Tom Waits (If this is the soundtrack to my mental breakdown I will get better IMMEDIATELY!)
Hopitalization: "Of Angels and Angles," The Decemberists (Appropriate musically but not lyrically.)
Driving: "Color Bars," Elliott Smith (Mentions traffic, so I guess it's good.)
Learning a lesson: "Midnight Radio," Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack (And that lesson is... lady rockers are the coolest of all rockers.)
Deep thought: "I've Changed My Plea to Guilty," covered by the Decemberists (Mmmm, lovely song.)
Flashback: "Corpus Christi Carol," Jeff Buckley (Lovely voice.)
Partying: "Come Together," Spiritualized (This works only if we assume 'party' to mean 'lots and lots of hard drugs'.)
Coming Down After the Party: "Nailed," Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack (NOT hangover music.)
Happy dance: "Radio Cure," Wilco (Again: wildly inappropriate!)
Regretting: "Waltz #1," Elliott Smith (Good.)
Going to College: "Nice Boys," Guns N' Roses (Man, college should be this rock and roll.)
Long night alone: "I was a landscape in your dream," Of Montreal (Pretty.)
First child: "A Baby For Pree," Neutral Milk Hotel (Perfect!)
Illegitmate child: "One Song Glory," Rent soundtrack (Completely irrelevant.)
First Major Job: "Chicago," Sufjan Stevens (I guess that job could take place... in Chicago? Whatever, I give up.)
Old Age: "I Wanna Be Your Dog," Iggy and the Stooges (Also irrelevant, but a great song!)
Cancer: "Inna Gadda Da Vida," Iron Butterfly (Oh, to die of such a cancer!)
First Love Dies: "Lonely Planet Boy," New York Dolls (That one's actually a pretty good fit.)
Fired: "Clementine," Elliott Smith (About a drunk sitting in a bar at closing time, so I guess it could work.)
Death scene: "Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run," Sufjan Stevens (Wonderful! I can see my soul floating up out of my body to this song.)
Conspiracy Scene: "Search and Destroy," Iggy and the Stooges (One damn tough conspiracy.)
Funeral Scene: "Lady Lady Lay," Bob Dylan (Only if you're there trying to pick up chicks.)
Closing credits: "Spitting Games," Snow Patrol (Always nice to leave the theater with some bounce in your step. Actually, I think I might pick this for closing credits if I were editing the movie of my life.)
Basically all I'm doing lately is worrying about AP exams and sleeping a lot. I saw Silent Hill on Friday--it scared the living shit out of me, but wasn't a very good movie. Oh, and I watched Boogie Nights yesterday, and enjoyed it a lot, even though it was basically two hours of cocaine-induced bad taste.
P.S. My mom just called me over to help my brother with his Algebra I homework, and it was truly hellish. He started complaining about the fact that finding slope and y-intercept actually involves multiple steps, and my mom kept asking over and over if there was a shortcut, which there isn't, and I was fighting very hard not to be condescending or impatient ... and failing, of course. It's just that this is the absolute basis of everything I've done for the past five years of my mathematical education, so it's hard for me to explain it. I could probably have explained basic integration to him more easily than how to find x- and y-intercepts. GWAH math.