A Musical Interlude

It's a well-known fact about me that I tend to associate songs with people and events. For example, I associate my friend Emily with The Cranberry's "Zombie", despite the fact that it was not her solo song in The Greenleafs, which she long since quit anyway. My associations dont need to make sense.

So why am I making this post? Not for the reader's benefit. No, this blog is ultimately for me, so this post is basically just for me to remember, if in 20 year's time I forget something. Why do you think my 4-day Kakadu experience was turned into 8 massive posts?

Anyway, lets start with my college. Since they'd never stop playing Kaiser Chiefs songs, notable "I Predict A Riot", that's an easy bond to make. The Beat, that perennial favorite, leaves me with the last song I danced to there, Pink's "U and Ur Hand". While most of my individual friends back in Bris-vegas didnt get their own song, Pune has the Scissor Sisters neo-classic "I Dont Feel Like Dancing". He brought it upon himself.

The Great Barrier Reef, understandably so, is associated with "Girl Sailor" by The Shins, and really, their whole Wincing The Night Away album as a whole. It's really quite good. But the boat itself is recalled by Foo Fighter's "Long Road To Ruin", or Santana's new collaboration with Nickelback. That's all they ever played on what appeared to be Cairns only radio station. Top 40? Hell, Top 8.

Sydney seems to be associated best with Jimmy Eat World's "Big Casino", and to a lesser extent, "Dizzy". I didnt like that album back in Brisbane, but it grew on me living in the Cross.

And of course, the people. Rihanna's popular hit "Shut Up And Drive" is forever correlated with that cute if completely tranced-out dancer I met in Arq, while Kylie's "2 Hearts" is tied to the frightening drag show in the always terrifying Stonewall, and Australian cutie Ricki Lee's single "Sunshine", which she performed for us in Arq, will for the conceivable future be associated with my online pal who I ended up groping laviciously in Arq.

Luckily, Ricki Lee is not popular in America.