Bad omen

Especially when pulled into a work scenario that I can only use the term "goat rodeo" to describe - as has been the case since late last week - my drive in to work each day is the closest thing I get to zen time. This is not because suburban Chicago traffic is so pleasant to navigate, but it is instead because of the 20GB mp3 player installed in the trunk of my car.

Today's theme, though, would strike me as a bad omen (if I was the sort of person that believed that an mp3 player was trying to tell me something):

• Jeane, The Smiths
("I don't know what happiness means/But I look in your eyes and I know/That it isn't there")
• Only Happy When it Rains, Garbage
("You can keep me company as long as you don't care")
• Lose That Girl, St. Etienne
("She said 'cancel everything'/And like a fool/You never know what's happening")
• Here's Where the Story Ends, The Sundays
("And whoever would have thought/That the books that you wrote/Were all I loved you for?")
• Roads, Portishead
("I got nobody on my side/And surely that ain't right")
• I Know It's Over, The Smiths
("I know it's over/And yet it never really began/But in my heart/It was so REAL")

My interpretation of my mp3 player's subliminal message? It's a toss up between the fortune cookie-esque "You are about to be unlucky in love" to the slightly more pragmatic "You were very angst-y in the late '80s and early '90s".

Posted by Dan on January 29, 2004 at 08:52 AM | TrackBack