There is a playlist meme going around that I saw at Some have hats.
Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.
How does the world see you?
Afraid To Shoot Strangers – Iron Maiden
I guess that’s a good thing.
Will I have a happy life?
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
Wrong question anyway, will my life be joyous? Well I have found what I am looking for and my heart is less restless when I rest in him.
What do my friends really think of me?
Let It Be – The Beatles
Good answer, just let that question be.
What do people secretly think of me?
A Man Needs A Maid – Neil Young
Well I am a little messy. In fact I once worked with a guy who was a compulsive cleaner who actually cleaned my desk one day when I had gone to chow. When I came back and chided him for cleaning my desk he said a "A messy desk is the sign of a messy mind." I looked at his desk and asked him "What is the sign of an empty desk?"
How can I make myself happy?
I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Well what did you hear through the grapevine?
What should I do with my life?
Soil – System Of A Down
Good reminder for Lent – ‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.’
Will I ever have children?
Flaming Telepaths – Blue Öyster Cult
Well it doesn’t take a flaming telepath to answer that I have two children.
What is some good advice for me?
Little Bit Of Emotion – The Kinks
Well I can be a bit stoic at times.
How will I be remembered?
Fame – David Bowie
Woo hoo
What is my signature dancing song?
Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
Well I guess an orchid would be appropriate for formal dance.
What do I think my current theme song is?
Nobody’s Home – Deep Purple
Hey is that some kind of slight on my mental acumen?
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
I’m Ok – Styx
What song will play at my funeral?
True Believers – The Cult
Well that title I hope is prophetic.
What type of men/women do you like?
If You Want The Sun To Shine – The Smithereens
What is my day going to be like?
Flight To Nowhere – Tesla
Sounds ominous.
The next one on my playlist was more religiously oriented.
Walk on Water – Audio Adrenaline
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Some of the answers were kind of scary when I tried it.
How does the world see me?
You’re Crazy – Guns N’ Roses
Will I ever have children?
With a little help from my friends – The Beatles
But this was sort of touching-
What song will play at my funeral?
Welcome Home – Metallica.
As for what is my day going to be like?
The Imperial March.
Why yes, I do feel like ruling the world today.
ditto on the scary:
How Does the World See You? Conspiracy Theory, Steve Earle (this is completely true as I work for the US gov’t)
What Do People Secretly Think of Me? I’ll Do Anything, Jason Mraz
What does everyone else think your current theme song is? Falling, Ben Kweller (sounds about right)
What song will be playing at my funeral? All Along the Watchtower, U2 (actually, that’s kind of cool)
What type of women do I like? Monumental Freaks, East River Pipe (I kid you not)
I don’t mean to spoil the fun, but isn’t divination contrary to Catholic practises? I know this is a plaything, but so is the horoscope for many people, till they start finding connections and interpret them as true predictions.
What do you people make of all these “coincidences”?
As long as you take it as a game, and don’t think any of this is real, I don’t see a problem with it. I read my horoscope, but mostly to laugh at how ridiculous it is, and how the advice is so general that it could only be made-up.
I posted all of mine on my blog yesterday, but the most interesting ones were:
How does the world see you?
The Extra-Ordinary Beast (Cathy Barton and Dave Para)
The song is about Lewis and Clark’s discovery of and attempt to catch a prarie dog. You figure it out.
Will I ever have children?
Mama Don’t Allow (Asylum Street Spankers)
Does this mean I won’t be allowed to have children, or that my children will be little terrors who always do the opposite of what I tell them?
How will I be remembered?
Never on Sunday (Pink Martini)
This has several possible implications…including that I’ll be a saint, and my feast will always be moved if it falls on Sunday. (yeah, right)
This doesn’t work well for me…I only listen to classical Japanese flute music…so most of the answers to my questions were things like “Dew on Lillies” and “Geisha Trips on Silk Sash and Smushes a Zen Toad Into Jell-O.” OK, so maybe my Japanese isn’t so good.
Fr. Philip
Will I have a happy life?
Unanswered Prayers � Garth Brooks
What do people secretly think of me?
Turning Japanese � The Vapors
What do my friends really think of me?
Kyrie � Mr. Mister
How will I be remembered?
The End of the Innocence � Don Henley
I don’t own such a player, but the last tune I danced to was Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine. I shop often at Hancock Fabrics, which always plays sensational music, and the manager is rather a crony of mine. The boys were leery enough of going in there with me as it was, because I’m too much inclined, in their view, to sing along with the PA. When we arrived on that day, however, Marvin was belting it out and my friend the manager was singing backup and sort of bopping along with the music. I joined her, at which point the boys fled to the parking lot. Teenagers seem never to like it when their parents have any fun.
I tried it but so much of my music is Classical, so it came up with weird answers…
True. To ask “What do my friends really think of me?” and get the reply, “Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto” would be cryptic, and uncomfortably ambiguous if the song to be played at one’s funeral were to turn out the Chorale movement from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
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