Musicals

I like having thousands of songs at my fingertips. Practically every CD I own stored into a little white box. However, I also like the fact that my iPod gives me the ability to create playlists--my favorite songs to be played whenever the mood hits me.

One of my playlists contains music that to me is nostalgic, not because the music is old, but because they conjure up certain feelings and memories.

Some of the most played songs on my iPod are:
"Collide" by Howie Day.
"100 Years" by Five for Fighting
"Ordinary People" by John Legend
"Tiny Dancer" by Tim McGraw (no Elton on my pod)
"Must Be Doing Something Right" by Billy Currington
"No Ordinary Love" by Jennifer Love Hewitt--doesn't induce many memories, but doesn't she have great cleavage?
"For Once in My Life" by Stevie Wonder
"My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas
"You're Beautiful" by James Blunt
"Since You've Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson
"Independence Day" by Carrie Underwood
"You and Me" by Kenny Chesney

No matter how many times I listen to these songs, most of them draw forth the same memories from my vast wasteland of knowledge, otherwise known as my brain. I can even remember minute details like the way the air smelled and what I was thinking at the time.

I don't know why, but I create these "videos" in my mind to the songs that are on my iPod and they are modified versions of the memories that are drawn when the song pops up. The outcome is always the same, the storyline is just Hollywooded--you know my friends and I look better (I don't have a gut and I'm 6 ft tall). Plus the setting is better-- beachfront instead of poolside, restaurants instead of picnic tables and Jamaica instead of a backyard). We never tapdance, never sing, nor is anyone wearing ruffles (although a few times they are eating them). But the song plays as backdrop to my memory. The song ends and then so does a memory, until the next song pulls a new one back up again.