God Awful Things

Noooo, not more 25 things! Oh well, this one should be difficult. This should probably just be called 25 songs I like right now, because there are so many more than 25 I listen to regularly.

Or maybe, 25 songs I can listen to over and over and not get tired of.. anyway, let me think.

Alright, I just took a shower and have determined this will be 25 songs I need if I am the last man on earth. The soundtrack to it I suppose.

1. For when I have to fight a pack of ferrel dogs for some food and I need to get pumped up? Bone Crusher – “Never Scared”. Why? “My pistols getting thirsty and it needs something to drink” “My guns my favorite bitch and she’s got a permanent PMS”

2. For when I am just wandering the wasteland looking for anyone? Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “East Hastings”.

3. For when I am left trying to sleep in some abandon apartment overlooking the city? Red House Painters – “Katy Song”.

4. For when I have finally gotten that cow tipper welded onto the front of a jet powered car and I can now cruise the wastelands in search of petrol? My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult – “Kooler Than Jesus”.

5. Song I would learn how to play on a piano to a room full of corpses I have strategically placed after I have truly lost it? Richard Hawley – “Roll River Roll”.

6. Song for watching the sunset after having gotten a good looting from the small town grocery store in the midwest as I eat a can of beans with Bubs? Early Day Miners – “Summer Ends”.

7. Song for cruising midwest back roads looking for small town grocery stores to loot when it rains but thank god your windshield wipers still work on this rust bucket with a cow tipper welded to the front? Do Make Say Think – “Goodbye enemy Airship”. Why? Sentimental reasons. It just reminds me of the last time I did that.

8. Song for having to explain to a dog why I can’t have another traveling companion, “it’s just me and bubs, buddy.. I’m really sorry”? Spackle – “Flux Capacitor 1″ Why? “There is a girl and I will never leave, she’s my only friend and she believes in me, someday we’ll travel this world together, the love we share will last forever”, and obviously that’s about my ginger haired bubby! You’re my girl bubs! Oh yeh, plus it’s awesome for air bassing.

9. Song for bubs and I on a three wheeler cruising the countryside inspecting a burning stone shack in the middle of nowhere? Big Country – “In a Big Country”.

10. Song for taking a small single prop boat up a river in vietnam wondering if there is something in the trees watching me? Microstoria – “Run? I Jolly Well Won’t Run. I’ll Be Happy To Get You Chaps Another Ball”. Yes it is their mixing of an Ui song.

11. Song for when I decide it’s time to upgrade my body armor to something with more spikes and far more leather to protect me from those damned roving bands of ferrel dogs? Combichrist – “Get Your Body Beat”.

12. Song for after I have constructed a Teddy Ruxpin like airship and Bubs and I can float over the east coast and see all the death and destruction from whatever caused this mess, oh my god are those survivors!?! no.. just crows picking at the corpses making it look like they moved? Lustmord – “Part III”

13. Song for when I stumble across some old 8mm films of some families happier times, a parade, oh, ol’ dad showing off that monster catfish he caught, put my hand against the paint peeled wall the images dance upon and sob? Antony & The Johnsons – “Another World”.

14. Song for while I sit in a canoe on a pond trying to catch some fish an hour before sunrise to surprise bubs with on our anniversary? Great Lake Swimmers – “Moving Pictures, Silent Films”.

15. Song for when I lose it and am so lonely I dance to the flicker of candles with a mannequin in a wedding dress? The Ink Spots – “Puttin’ and Takin’”.

16. Song for when I’ve got to do something ridiculously dangerous and stupid and Bubs is all “Meow!” and I’m like “No bubs, you can’t come, this is something I’ve got to do on my own” and she’s all “Meow!” and I’m like “No bubs, I’m sorry! I’ve got to do this” and I walk off, and she follows and I’m like “Bubby! You can’t come! Go on home!” and she’s like “Meow!” and I wipe away a tear as I throw a rock at her to scare her off? Paw – “Jessie”.

17. Song for when I am suffering from Island Madness and have had too much sun and too much rum and am delirious and think there are other people there and oh yeah, I’m wearing a flower print shirt and lenin pants? Loggins & Messina – “Lehaina”.

18. Song for when we have trudged for days looking for water through the desert and finally get to our destination, but it’s not there, it’s just more sand. Then Bubs sees something and wants my attention, and we dig a little then it hits us, the whole city has been buried in sand, so I stand up holding me head taking in the whole desolate intensity of this discovery? Dead Can Dance – “The Host of Seraphim”.

19. Song for when I discover another living man, but he has gone mad, or have I? and he is hunting me, but I must outwit him, so the hunter becomes the hunted, and I use a reed as a breathing tube and hide under water waiting for him to cross the bridge and fall into my trap? Front 242 – “Headhunter v.1″

20. Song for when I finally get to the mainframe, and plug the interface into the datajack that has been installed in my skull, download my feelings which have been removed and inadvertently download the memories and files of the team that created this experiment that devastated the planet and set all of this in motion? Telefon Tel Aviv – “What It Is Without the Hand That Wields It”.

And finally..

21. Song for when I wake up and realize it was all just a dream, and you’re there, and you, and you.. all of you! oh and Bubs!. The Middle East – “Good As Gold”.

Anyway, If you don’t know any of these songs I hope you check them out as the songs will explain themselves.