In the film based on your life...

[Plaid Adder]

...what would be the music used for the opening credits? And what would the film show you doing?

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[khashka]

1. Sick but true

Dido's Lament by Purcell - aria and recicative

Blowing some guy in the back room of a porn theatre.



I'd sue. And I'd win. I'd never do anything like that!

Khash.
(well you did ask!)

[tjwmason]

2. You really think you'd win?

Just don't call any DUers as character witnesses. :P

[khashka]

11. Of course I'd win

I am as pure as the driven snow.

OK, that snow has been driven through more than a few times. But you can't prove it! :P

Khash.

[Misunderestimator]

9. What a thought...

Dido's Lament! LOL ... I can see your head popping up with every "Remember Me" :)

[khashka]

10. That really made me laugh!

But you should see me when it reaches "with drooping wings cupids come"

Pretty damn spectacular.

Khash :)

[JimmyJazz]

3. Opening music: I wanna be sedated - the Ramones

Then there would be some stuff and then some more stuff and then the movie would conclude with - I fought the law and the law won :D

[ET Awful]

4. Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel

It would just show me being me, it's be almost Seinfeldian (a show about nothing) :).

Time it was and what a time it was.
A time of innocence, a time of confidences.

Long ago it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you.

[Dhalgren]

5. Bowie's "Moss Garden"

And it would show a boy materializing out of red,clay dirt...

[Goathead]

6. Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"

Climbing a mountain.

[khashka]

12. The Glorious Ninth is a great choice

but end credits, surely? I mean after that, what are you gonna finish with????

Khash.

[Richardo]

7. "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now" by Dirty Dozen Brass Band...

...over a fast-motion time-lapse of my typical day: waking early, hour commute, two jobs, home, bed, etc.

[LiberallyInclined]

8. "Can't Get Enough of You" by Moose-

and the opening shot would be of me at 19- driving fast, on drugs, while getting my wing-wang squeezed and not spilling my drink.

the song at the end would be "Black Metallic" by Catherine Wheel.

[solinvictus]

13. "The Loop" by Morrissey..

I've always felt that song deserved to be used in opening credits. It would likely show me driving.

[MissMillie]

14. Talking Heads "Wild, Wild Life"

It would be a collage of different parts of my day--my morning routine (feeding cats, exercise, shower) working, cooking, carting kids around, doing laundry...

[luvLLB]

15. Texsas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughn, with me floating down the

Guadelupe river tokin' a blunt.

[Plaid Adder]

16. I KNEW it!

I went tubing a couple times when I was living in Austin, and I always figured half the other people on the river were smokin' them funny cigarettes.

Wish I was tubing now, instead of cubing...

The Plaid Adder

[keithjx]

17. Opening would be:

Highway 101 by Social Distortion. The movie would be me on a motorcycle cruising by billboard with scenes of my life, good, bad, otherwise. end of the movie would be stopping at the edge of a cliff, looking out over it, and swan-diving off.

Or something equally predictable.

What about you, PA? You posed the question....
:hi:

KJ

[Plaid Adder]

21. Elvis Costello, "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love And Understanding?"

Not sure about the visuals, will have to give that some thought.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[progmom]

18. opening: June Christy singing "I Want To Be Happy"

other featured songs:

I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Nina Simone
Autumn Girl - Kirsty MacColl
Slipped & Tripped - The Sweet Inspirations
The Nitty Gritty - Gladys Knight
I'm Diggin' You (Like An Old Soul Record) - MeShell NdegeOcello
If I Were A Bell - Carmen McRae
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
I'm Gonna Live Until I Die - Sarah Vaughan

[Atlas Mugged]

19. "I love to be unhappy" - Gilda Radner

I love to be unhappy
I live to be a pain
When days are full of sunshine
I'm lookin' for the rain



The rest of the film's music would be Bernard Herrmann's score from 'Mysterious Island'. I have a thing for tubular bells and timpani.

What would I be doing? Tossing a life size inflatable doll, stuffed with fresh meat and compost, off the top of the Space Needle.

[WindRavenX]

20. Opening song: Some Days Are Better Than Others

The film would be about my college experience.

[last_texas_dem]

22. "Reflections of My Life" by the Marmalade

It's about life, it's emotional, reflective, and overly maudlin (like me) and has a great bass solo. :-)

ON EDIT: I think it might actually be better for the end credits; I'll have to think more about what I'd put on the beginning credits.

[saltpoint]

23. Opening tune for credits: James Taylor's "Night Owl."

Within the film, Nick Drake's "Joey Will Come to Say Hello."

Closing credits roll to the Brahms Intermezzo in A Major.

The script I hope will be written by Joan Didion. Damn can that woman write.

[skygazer]

24. Bob Seeger's "Roll Me Away"

It would show me in December of 1998 when I got in my little $400 car in Vermont and took off for California, just me, a bag of clothes and my two dogs.

It would tell the story in flashbacks. I'd be played by Angelina Jolie who would make me look better than I have any right to.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Estimated Prophet by the Grateful Dead

What else?