Monday, July 16, 2012

New Study: Movies and Songs Minimize Roadway Fear

Last Sunday I was driving back to Oxford from a night of celebrating Sarah's upcoming nuptials to Mike.  I drove through a horrible thunderstorm and instead of focusing on my potential impending death from hydroplaning, I perfected my list of favorite movies and songs.  Jack and I play this game a lot and also at Sarah's dinner the night before we were having some "name your favorite" discussions. The rule I use is that it has to be something I am so excited about when I randomly find on TV or the radio and would never change the channel.  There are more that fit that category but I tried to stick to just 5 on movies.  That limit was too hard with songs so I justified that I could pick enough songs for a good playlist.

I also inspired Jack to perfect his list.

Sage's Movies:
1. The Departed
2. The Princess Bride
3. The Neverending Story
4. Goodfellas
5. 16 Candles
(runners up: Almost Famous, Ferris Bueller, Love Actually and I'm anticipating/hoping The Great Gatsby will be up there soon too)

Jack's Movies:
1. Caddy Shack
2. Life of Brian
3. Road House
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Billy Madison
(runner up:  Stoned Age)

Sage's Songs:
1. Just Live Heaven - The Cure
2. Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
3. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones (also like Indigo Girls version)
4. I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders
5. In My Life - Beatles (on my playlist it is the Johnny Cash version)
6. Runaway - The National
7. Time After Time - Cindi Lauper
8. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
9. Ready to Start - Arcade Fire
10. Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead
11. Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys
12. Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith
13. The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
14. Danny's Song - Loggins and Messina
15. Space Oddity - David Bowie
16. Creep - Radiohead
17. Indigo Girls - Joking (could not find for playlist)
Sage's playlist on Grooveshark:  Sage's Playlist

Jack's Songs
1. Highwayman - Highway Men
2. Don't You Want Me - Human League
3. It Was a Good Day - Ice Cube
4. Regulator - Warren G
5. Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead
6. Father and Son - Cat Stevens
7. Whatever You Like - T.I.
8. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
9. Kiss- Prince
10. The Diamond Sea - Sonic Youth
11.  Creep - Radiohead
12. Mercy - Widespread Panic
13. Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (also like J Cash version)
14.  Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
15.  Reba - Phish
16. TBD - Guns N' Roses (Note:  previous song listing was incorrect and I was accused of censorship)
17.  High Hopes - Pink Floyd
18.  Africa - Toto
19. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna 
Jack's playlist on Grooveshark: Jack's Playlist
(editor's note:  Hey, I'm just the messenger here....my response to half of these is "really???" )

So now I want to do one of those blog tag things because I've never done that.  I don't even know how so I'm just going to say I'm tagging these people to list their movies and songs.

An Unlined Page
Sadler Adventures
A Shower Fresh Garden
Just Roughen Along
The Metzner Family

5 comments:

  1. Challenge Accepted. Stay Tuned.
    -- Meg & Matt

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  2. I accept your challenge. But, at the rate I'm going with the whole blogging thing, it will be Christmas before I get around to it.

    And for the record, I am beyond shocked, surprised, and saddened that Total Eclipse of the Heart did not make your song list.

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  3. And "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" didn't make it on Jack's list?

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  4. oh, i'm totally thinking!! i feel like you playlist is so good that there is a lot of pressure on me!

    and can you impart how to make eggplant fries?

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  5. challenge completed. Ya dig?
    http://justroughenalong.blogspot.com/2012/07/challenge-accepted-all-time-favorite.html

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