Personal Music and Banality

Life is woe and ecstasy. But, more importantly than that, it's enormously embarrassing and it's filled with other people. I've deleted a few personal posts and rewritten a lot of drafts for posts which were too revealing. They're now all... just terrible. They have the senseless vacuity of the idiot coworker expounding their new-found belief in reincarnation and the same draining sort of banality you'd expect if you removed the pictures and number lists from Buzzfeed and tried to write their pages into worthwhile prose. And, from this, I deduce that such revealing embarrassment is the only method by which I can be interesting, which explains my love of class-clownism.

Here's one: make a random playlist of assorted important or significant songs. Don't think why they're important or significant yet, just make the playlist. Then write a sentence on two on why each of them are. Here's my effort with the songs removed:

• That artist represents the moment I realised that shrugging impassiveness was the best defence to every argument I'll ever face.
• This was the time I tried to introduce Queen to a friend using "Too Much Love Will Kill You". It set our friendship back 6 months.
• This was before I liked music and thought Britney was the height of sophistication. In my defence, I was very, very young.
• This represents THE cult film of university.
• This was the time that I decided I needed a new gimmick and determined I would officially recognise Carlsberg as my preferred lager choice.
• That was the time I stayed up all night crying because I only got 2 kisses on an important text reply. I was very, very young.
• This was the song I listened to at Reading during a moment which at the time I decided was a life-changing moment, but it wasn't.
• This was Nine Inch Nails.
• This was the time I was in a pit at Earl's Court and collapsed under half a dozen other people and thought I'd die.
• That was the song a high school love rival played at a minor Battle of the Bands event. It was impossible to enjoy the track for 8 years. I was very, very young.
• This is the song I've never shared with any acquaintances because it has to be uncontaminated.
• This was the time I discovered that some music suits some alcohol better than others.
• This was the best song in the world for years but is now unplayable due to the artist's subsequent involvement in heinous crime.
• This song's lyrics were a betrayal. And also pretty crass. I was very, very young.

I'm not sure what I learned through all that. Still, it killed some of this Saturday morning when I was supposed to have a lie-in but didn't.