Just to\u00a0preface this blog, I wrote this more as a piece that I’d like to hear on radio. \u00a0I drew inspiration for this from some of my favorite radio stories, though to be honest, it is not really like any of them. \u00a0I don’t have a good enough microphone to try to do that justice, so instead you will get the text version of this. \u00a0I invite you to read it in my voice if you know what that sounds like or anyone else’s for that matter and think about what this might mean to you.<\/p>\n
My Life as a Soundtrack\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I decided recently that my life needs a soundtrack.\u00a0 One day I want to be followed around by the ghosts of Glenn Miller\u2019s band, playing as I perform the average tasks of a twenty-two year old living at home with my parents.<\/p>\n I want to watch Frank Sinatra looking puzzled as he tries to come up with the right words to describe me as I stare at the different packages of romaine hearts, looking for the right one for my lunches for the week.<\/p>\n I imagine the bands of my soundtrack would have a bit more fun with it watching me cook. They\u2019d see me standing by the kitchen countertop mixing together a salad dressing and drowning out the sound of my bickering at the television.\u00a0 I really hope it\u2019s Louis Armstong\u2019s trumpet drowning that out.<\/p>\n I have to hope that Rod Stewart would make an entrance into my life soundtrack.\u00a0 Hopefully he\u2019d come by to give the perfect background sound to turn parts of my life into the chick flick I imagine his songs could create.\u00a0 Who knows, he might be able to improve my luck in that category.<\/p>\n There are a few songs I\u2019d like to make sure are not in this soundtrack of my life if I can be so bold.\u00a0 Do you think we could avoid playing the theme to Jaws in my life?\u00a0 I like all of my limbs and unless I hear the theme at Universal Studios, I can\u2019t imagine anything good could be happening if I hear that song.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to avoid any song by Nickelback and Avril Lavigne, as I believe this could be a sign of an awkward turn of events in which I end up at Avril and Chad\u2019s wedding (I had to look up his name, I promise). Maybe we could avoid anything with a deadly theme like James Bond or Star Wars.\u00a0 Like I said before, I like my limbs and don\u2019t like my chances in either of those situations.<\/p>\n My music should send me traveling around the world.\u00a0 I want to hear the words of Matisyahu\u2019s Jerusalem as I walk through the Old City and chow down on some schwarma or some schnitzel.\u00a0 I\u2019ll somehow find myself face to face with Benjamin Netanyahu discussing foreign policy, which I know less about personally than I do about the books of the bible that come after the Fives Books of Moses.<\/p>\n With a glass of Havana Club and Tu Kola in one hand, I want to hear Frank Delgado singing Loco Por Ti.\u00a0 Hopefully, when this song is playing, I am starring into the eyes of some lucky girl\u2019s eyes (okay, let\u2019s be real, I\u2019ll be the lucky one) and find myself surrounded by the whole Cuban gang.\u00a0 There is no question that Ariel will be ripping up the dance floor by the time Qva Libre comes up to play Buena Suerte and I\u2019ll be just trying to keep up with him.<\/p>\n I fear one day I\u2019ll hear tunes reminiscent of the ones that played Steve Job\u2019s funeral in my soundtrack.\u00a0 It will signal the death of someone important and recovery will take a long time.\u00a0 I will sit around and ask myself why I wanted a soundtrack in the first place.\u00a0 I will give John Williams the stink eye for standing behind me while I try to wipe my eyes off.\u00a0 He just wanted to offer me a tissue, but I would have no part of that, because I will have told him it was just allergies.<\/p>\n At some point, maybe I will hear the national anthem of this great nation and serve my country in elected office.\u00a0 I will find serving in office to be a constant struggle, yet a joy at the same time. \u00a0I’ll hear something like Bach’s Cello Suites or something that equally academic. \u00a0I’m hoping maybe I’ll Also Hear Fanfare for the Common Man, because that would just be cool. \u00a0It will be a truly special part of my life.<\/p>\n My hope is that this lifetime soundtrack consists of more highs than lows along the way.\u00a0 It is filled with more memories than I would bother you with. I\u2019m so early in the soundtrack that few of the musicians have even been chosen.\u00a0 There is plenty of noise on the outside that can serve as distractions along the way, but I know that it will all be special.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just to\u00a0preface this blog, I wrote this more as a piece that I’d like to hear on radio. \u00a0I drew inspiration for this from some of my favorite radio stories, though to be honest, it is not really like any of them. \u00a0I don’t have a good enough microphone to try to do that justice, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}