So me and Connie Chung popped down to the Philadelphia Free Library to take in a book reading from Chuck Klosterman earlier this evening. Klosterman is of course the Spin Magazine writer responsible for the books "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs", and the brand new masterpiece Mike and I can't put down; "Killing Yourself To Live:85% Of A True Story".
Klosterman was fairly hilarious in his reading a chapter from the new one, telling a couple stories about the making of the book and answering a Q and A session from the crowd. His books mostly combine his love of music and pop culture, and relate them back to his everyday existence on this rock we live in. In talking about his new book, he used a soundtrack to describe it, and how music people listen too become more important to them as they hear it relating to specific situations they experience. Thus it becomes the soundtrack to their life. This struck me as very interesting, and I asked him what songs he would use to make a soundtrack to this book. As the main plot sees him going to different sites of rock stars deaths, he proposed he would use mostly songs from the bands he visited (a Sex Pistols song, Lynyrd Skynyrds "Gimme 3 Steps, a Buddy Holly song, etc. etc.)
Then I got to thinking as I do, what would my soundtrack sound like? I mean with my bizarro memory I can specifically remember 3 different instances of listening to Fallout Boy's "Take This To Your Grave" (driving down to Baltimore for the Weekend Of Insanity with Jgo, driving around lost in Delaware on Halloween, and going the entire length of Broad Street on my way to a Phillies - Braves game.) I remember I listened to Taking Back Sunday's "Where You Want To Be" on the morning I drove to Gate 1 Travel to work for the first time and also the morning I drove to Gate 1 Travel the day I got fired.
I distinctly recall jamming to "Nuthin But A G Thang" while returning from Six Flags in the year 2000 going through Pennsauken, NJ.
I got into car accidents while listening to Rob Zombie's "Dragula", and Jimmy Eat World's "Work". And so on and so forth. Name a pop song that came out in the past ten years and I'm sure I can attach it to some situation I was in. But what will the future bring?
In Klosterman's new book he raises the question (although previously raised by Elizabeth Wurtzel) what song would you listen too if you were committing suicide? And that is a damn good question. I mean I wouldn't want it to be something derivitive or expected like Nirvana or Dashboard Confessional. I'd at least want something where people would be like...wtf was he thinking? And so I ask the following...In these soundtrack situations, what songs would you choose for your own personal mix?

1.Next song to play when your making out with someone?

2.What song should be playing next time your eating ribs?

3.The song that would play while your drinking yourself into a blind stupor would be?

4.If you had a theme song to be played every time you entered a room what would it be?

5.Say you could telepathically insert a song into your ex's head to be played on constant repeat...what song would you stick in there?

6.The song that is constantly playing in your head while you dream at night is...?

7.You just won the Superbowl/Hot Dog Eating Contest/Lottery/something else where you triumph...the celebratory song is?

8.You just met the man/woman of your dreams. What song suddenly comes on (ala Dream Weaver in Wayne's World. Your song CANNOT be Dream Weaver however.)

9.Lets throw the suicide song in too? What song do you play? Chuck noted he probably would play The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows", but that he probably could not bleed to death in a minute and 56 seconds.

10.And finally at Mike's Suggestion, what song do you play when your team loses the World Series? (I'll also open it up to after your team has been knocked out of Playoff contention officially, or for you Football fans, when your team ...lets say the Eagles, lose the Super Bowl. What song did you guys play in January?)

Feel free to post your picks. I probably will at some point. Probably tomorrow. Probably.