The Soundtrack to my life

I've been a bad blogger. I've been inconsistent with the topics I write about. I've made promises that I don't keep. I've never stuck to a deadline or written on a regular basis. I'm sure my spelling and grammar are atrocious. And I wish I could blame that on being busy with work or school but the fact is that since starting my blog I've only written 4, and worse, I've only published 3. Mostly due to laziness, partly due to a lack of self confidence in my writing. When ideas start swirling around in my head of topics to write about they seem to flow almost lyrically. But as I go along putting them down on paper or typing them out here they seem to lose their luster. Maybe it's because the internal monologue that narrates my life occasionally speaks in the voice of either Christopher Walken, or Sean Connery (depending on the day of the week and just how much charisma is needed to get me through the business at hand) and attempting to translate that into the distinguished art of blogging seems to insult the nature of these two fine Gentlemen. And as I'm sure that both of them frequently Google themselves to find references to their names in recent blogs, when they read this I want to do them no injustice. So to remedy this I've decided to just follow the lead of pretty much every other blogger on the planet and make some kind of list.

This is the soundtrack to my life. Every time I hear these songs I'm reminded strongly of something I was doing at a time when I heard them.

1) Born to Be Wild- Steppenwolf: When I was 16 and had recently received my G1 license my uncle let me drive his brand new convertible Mustang with this blaring at full blast (as all music should be listened to). I may not have followed the speed limit. I definitely didn't get caught.

2) Your Spirits Alive - Dropkick Murphys: On my first trip to Baldwin to go skydiving we listened to the entire warriors code album and Your Spirits Alive really stuck out in my mind as I was getting ready to jump.

3) Copperhead Road- Steve Earls: My brother used to own a really nice blue truck. It was a lowered chevy s10 that had so many different motors put through it I don't even remember which one was in it at the time he took me for a drive. he put on Copperhead Road and started heading down some back roads. I don't know exactly how fast we were going because the speedometer only went up to 220 km/h.

4) Knockin' on Heavens Door- Bob Dylan: when my niece Marlee was born I made a short video of her and I set it to the intro of Knockin' on Heavens Door.

5) Rocket Man- Elton John: this brings back strong, it not hazy, memories of the Hawaiian party I threw at my house and the lovely rendition that I did with my best friends. An entire night wrapped up in one intense song.

6) My Hero- Foo Fighters: Reminds me of my father

7) Could Not Ask For More- Edwin McCain: This is the first song I ever slow danced to. It was with Jessica Lisk, who i grew up with and eventually took to prom.

8) Numb- Linkin Park: I don't know where we were going but i remember being in a car with Ted, Alissa, their friend Brent and his girlfriend Ashley and listening to Numb at full blast. It was really dark out and the inside of the car was glowing blue. The speakers were right behind the seat and it tickled me when the bass pounded. I remember we were going really fast again.

9) 3 am- Matchbox 20: We listened to this continuously one May 24 weekend while staying at Scott's grandparent's cottage at Sauble Beach. I was really sick with some kind of flue and had to go home early. A real shame since we were freezing our asses off the for the first 2 nights.

10) Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd: This was playing on the radio while I got my first (and hopefully not last) tattoo.

11) Audience of One- Rise Against: I downloaded Rise Against's new album hours before getting on the bus that would take me to the airport to go to Spain to visit Erica and I listened to the whole album over and over again while I was there. Now every time I hear a song from it, it reminds me of Spain.

These are the ones that stick out in my mind the most. Here are a few more that don't really have a back story but that still mean a lot to me.

Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget- Toby Keith

If Everyone Cared- Nickelback (I know... please don't judge me)

Tuesday's Gone- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Beast Of Burden- The Rolling Stones

Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve

Walking in Memphis- Marc Cohn

Accidentally In Love- Counting Crows

Fly Away- Lenny Kravits

Video Killed the Radio Star- the Presidents of the United States of America