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Day 16: A song you would play at 3am

Johnny Cash - Hurt

If I had to guess, I would say this song has made more appearances than any other in this thread (not counting repeats in the same prompt). Speaks volumes on the number of people it's touched in so many different ways. Impressive.
 
If I had to guess, I would say this song has made more appearances than any other in this thread (not counting repeats in the same prompt). Speaks volumes on the number of people it's touched in so many different ways. Impressive.
I love Trent Reznors' response to heating it for the first time, "Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend"

Here's the Music Radar article
 
Day 16: A song you would play at 3am
Nothing is out of bounds in this category for me. In my life, I've likely had more days awake at 3am than asleep. If you ever dated, you've likely been woken up more than once by me at or after 3 am. The town I grew up in, the bars closed at 2am and last call meant 1 question: "Where is the late night?"
Whenever I was home from college on break, I was given Saturday night to bartend at a local haunt. At 1:45a, the heavy curtains were drawn and the door was locked and bolted. If you wanted to leave, you had to find me to let you out the back door. I would leave the key to the bar under the mat on my front porch for the owner to pick up the next day. More than once she was waiting for me to get there with the key. Only once did I get scolded (she had cleaners coming at 8am and was waiting more than 30 mins). I still don't know when to go to bed, but I'm learning.

Im gonna find Nathan's thread rather than risk a spanking (no one wants to spank me today 🤭). This song seemed most appropriate:

 
3am playlist

Green Day "Brain Stew"

"The clock is laughing in my face"

Once in awhile I just can't string 2 consecutive hours together. When that happens I go sleep on the couch because I'm struggling to find that position that surrenders to slumber, and there's just something missing. For some reason, those nights require the couch.
 
Day 16: A song you would play at 3am
Umm... if I'm awake at 3am, there's a very very low likelihood I'm listening to any song.
However, there's a very high likelihood that I'm watching reruns of sitcoms I've already seen a dozen times before. So I'll go with the "Parks and Rec" theme song and opening credits.

I watch all tv/movies with subtitles, and I love when I’m watching Parks & Rec how the subtitles say “[triumphant music]” for the opening
 
Day 16: A song you would play at 3am
Nothing is out of bounds in this category for me. In my life, I've likely had more days awake at 3am than asleep. If you ever dated, you've likely been woken up more than once by me at or after 3 am. The town I grew up in, the bars closed at 2am and last call meant 1 question: "Where is the late night?"
Whenever I was home from college on break, I was given Saturday night to bartend at a local haunt. At 1:45a, the heavy curtains were drawn and the door was locked and bolted. If you wanted to leave, you had to find me to let you out the back door. I would leave the key to the bar under the mat on my front porch for the owner to pick up the next day. More than once she was waiting for me to get there with the key. Only once did I get scolded (she had cleaners coming at 8am and was waiting more than 30 mins). I still don't know when to go to bed, but I'm learning.

Im gonna find Nathan's thread rather than risk a spanking (no one wants to spank me today 🤭). This song seemed most appropriate:

Love the story about the bar. That sounds like so much fun. Reminds me of a restaurant I used to drink/smoke in, after hours when the bar next door closed.
 
I watch all tv/movies with subtitles, and I love when I’m watching Parks & Rec how the subtitles say “[triumphant music]” for the opening

Ron Swanson is one of my all time favorite characters. I’ve worn my Duke Silver T shirt on stage when singing. Very few people know who he is. Had a couple people tell me how cool he was.
 
I didn't know about you, but the only reason I'm getting up at 3am is for sex.
I'm surprised how alone I am in that assertion!
My husband was on a narco squad for years, weird hours, usually tip-toed in around 2 or 3. if I was even remotely awake I'd strip off my top, toss it at him, and say "do your job!", because I'm genteel & klassy like that.
 
Day 17: A song used in a TV show (not the theme/opening song)
I love Letterkenny. If you've seem me post, I use a lot of gifs from them, so it isn't revelation. It is lowbrow, and catchphrase driven at times, but aware of that and lean into it for comedy. At its core, The Tao of Letterkeeny is, "if a friend needs help, you help them." It is a strong core upon which a lot of ridiculous comedy is built. Most of it is all fluff and nonsense, with some outstanding music. Spoilers below.

One of the main characters is Katy. From her first scene, when you find she is in a relationship with two hockey players that seems very open, you see she is a character as in control of her own sexuality, absolutely and completely. And over the course of the show, you see she that regardless of that, she is very protective of her heart. She is free, and open, and committed to who she is with, but never on a deep, emotional level. Until Dirks. He is an American, very charismatic, and very similar to Katy. She has an open conversation where she tells him she is fine just having fun, no strings, but if he is interested in more, so is she. It is a nice scene, and Michelle Mylett does an outstanding job balancing Katy's cool and vulnerability at the same time. And Dirks says he is in.

He isn't. He tells her he is taking his cousin to Quebec for a strip club birthday. She trusts him, because you trust unless there is a reason not to. Then she gives up Day Beers Day with her friends to go help him get over his hangover, "because that is what girlfriends do, right?" In eight seasons, that is the first time she referred to herself as a girlfriend. While she is down there, her brother, Wayne, gets some info that she had reason to not trust. And the response of the town hit hard. It was one of the most intense emotional beats they ever made. And I remember rewinding it to watch and listen several times, somewhat flabbergasted. It wasn't that type of show. Until it was.

The only sound in the scene is "Do It, Try It" by the French electronic group M83. And the song is perfect.

"Do It, Try It," M83

 
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