A Non-Lyrical Interpretation of the Wakefulness of dave aL deLusionaL

Definitely, it's an hour after midnight. I should be asleep by now. But what am I doing? Except for chatting with Hannah, I'm scouring for songs--ever since, I've always been fond of making playlists/mixes for friends, even people I've just met. That's me drawing a Mona Lisa, or interpreting such encounter through sound--often I base song selection on the personality of the person I am going to give it to.

Tonight, I am doing something for Dave. Quite a guy. I am actually happy I'm doing this, because when I thought about songs that would fit him (I'm just assuming that he'd like it, given that I don't know anyone else who listens to such songs!) I thought about the songs I used to listen to two years ago. I don't know how to classify them because for me they are a mix of everything; although they are considerably of the rock genre.

While making the playlist, I try to imagine Dave in rotoscope animation--in all his glorious wakefulness (ehem) on a Tuesday morning, yet timidly walking towards the door, out onto the sidestreet, jeans too long: dragging on the pavement, wearing that devil-may-care attitude, bonnet cap on, bicycles, people, and cars moving the other way, birds pissing, cats hissing, dogs vomiting, sunrise reaching for shadows.

There are two songs that shouldn't be on the list because they seem like some such songs you listen to at 4 in the morning. My story happens at 6 in the morning with just enough sunshine for Dave not to step on dog poop or used condom. Other than Polyphonic Spree's Light and Day (yes, the soundtrack of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Straylight Run's Existentialism on a Prom Night, all the other songs have strong percussion/beats and guitar elements. There are also electronica bordering on the rock genre. The beats are also fast, the kind of speed you'd need if you're walking as if you're the only man on earth.

(Okay, I'm lost in my thoughts na naman LOL.)

AHA! Gaduroy! LOL I don't know what on earth that is in English right now (my brain's numbing), but yeah! He's like just passing through amidst chaos. Just a soul, an old one at that. A ghost? Well. Haha! The hell, I'm sleepy na. I'll dig up my thoughts tomorrow. I can't think more intelligently than a worm right now. So Dave! Hope I do justice to your image LOL.

(Listen to the first lines of Who Cares? by Gnarls Barkley. Yeah. That defines you, a bit.)

Tracklist:

1. Light and Day / Reach for the Sun by Polyphonic Spree
2. Existentialism on a Prom Night by Straylight Run
3. This Could Be Beautiful by Metronomy
4. Who Cares? by Gnarls Barkley
5. El Mañana (Metronomy Remix) by Gorillaz
6. My Heart Rate Rapid (Remix) by Metronomy
7. Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above by Cansei de Ser Sexy
8. Destroy Everything You Touch by Ladytron
9. 4.35 in the Morning by Saint Etienne
10. D.A.N.C.E. (Extended) by Justice
11. Air War by Crystal Castles
12. Future by Cut Copy
13. Romantic Rights by Death From Above 1979
14. Art Bitch by Cansei de Ser Sexy
15. Paris by MSTRKRFT
16. Music Is My Hot Sex by Cansei de Ser Sexy
17. Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Remix) by Death From Above 1979
18. Sugar by Ladytron