{"id":33,"date":"2005-11-23T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:30:35","slug":"my-lifes-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/my-lifes-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"my life’s soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first song I learned was Jesus Loves Me. It came from my grandmother. The second was Sixteen Tons<\/em><\/a>. I got that one from her husband. At three I didn’t know a lot, but I knew who loved you and I knew who owned your soul. If you were a coal miner it wasn’t Jesus. <\/p>\n

When I turned four my horizons broadened. I started hanging out with my 13 year old aunt and her friends. I fell in love with Boy George and sang Karma Chameleon to anyone who would listen. Went something like this ‘come-a, come-a, come-a chameleon<\/em>‘ and ‘every day is like a bible<\/em>‘. I still have a crush on the man. <\/p>\n

Those are the songs I remember the most. The ones that send me back to Iaeger and childhood. There are others. Music and lyrics that remind me of important times and feelings that I’ve almost forgotten. So here I go. Here’s me being Nick Hornby. If my life had a soundtrack, this would be it. <\/p>\n

Sixteen Tons<\/strong>, Tennesse Ernie Ford
\nYou load sixteen tons, what do you get. Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store…<\/em><\/p>\n

Karma Chameleon<\/strong>, Culture Club
\nIslands in the Stream<\/strong>, Dolly Parton
\nCountry Roads<\/strong>, John Denver<\/p>\n

American Girl<\/strong>, Tom Petty
\nWell she was an American girl. Raised on promises. She couldn’t help thinkin that there. Was a little more to life, Somewhere else. After all it was a great big world. With lots of places to run to. Yeah, and if she had to die tryin. She had one little promise she was gonna keep…<\/em><\/p>\n

Groove Me<\/strong>, King Floyd
\nCrimson & Clover<\/strong>, Tommy James & the Shondells
\nAprils Fool<\/strong>, Rufus Wainwright
\nBeethoven’s Ninth Symphony <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Freebird<\/strong>, Lynyrd Skynyrd
\nIf I leave here tomorrow. Would you still remember me? For I must be travelling on, now. ‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hotel Yorba<\/strong>, The White Stripes
\nBe For Real<\/strong>, The Afgan Whigs
\nSittin on the Dock of the Bay & That’s How Strong My Love Is<\/strong>, Otis Redding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first song I learned was Jesus Loves Me. It came from my grandmother. The second was Sixteen Tons. I got that one from her husband. At three I didn’t know a lot, but I knew who loved you and I knew who owned your soul. If you were a coal miner it wasn’t Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}