so the saga of "six feet under" finally ended and i must say, what a great show! fuck man, i have seen many a series finale in my day but this was up there with greats series finales ever. this might have been that i watched the show over a 4 day period but i really think that objecitively it was a great finale. Dawson's was up there too because it gave you closure. As was felicity. I need shows that show me the future, let me know that everything is going ot be ok. And i know i always hate future oriented episodes but for a series finale they are tre necessary. but this, this was just beyond. I am going ot give some spoilers, but fuck it, they are irrelevent if you watch the show or not. the point is i was in such a state of mind that they deeply deeply touched me!

in the end scene claire is going to leave LA to move to New York to pursue art and she has to say bye to her family and she's all sad liek she doesn't want to go but everyone knows she has to go. And so she gets in her brand new prius (i secretly want a hybrid) because her old hearse got totalled, and she pops in a mixed CD that her republican unhip boyfriend made her (my boyfriend is an unhip republicanish!!) and the song starts, and it's just so fucking moving. brilliant brilliant brilliant song choice!!!! fucking amazing. if you have not heard Sia "breathe me" which i think at this point everyone and their mom has, i suggest you sit down in a dark room, download it off of itunes, and close your eyes and just FEEL the music because it will touch you too! it touched the cold calloused heart of my dear from Tory, it's that good. Anyways the song starts playing and she's driving on the highway sad about leaving and the cars are rushing by her and then the montage starts. god montages are so excellent! and the montage tells us in essence how everyone dies and it shows each of the main characters at their deaths, and at significant moments in their lives like weddings and such, and the song gets stronger and stronger and at this point i just started like bawling. buckets, guys, buckets. Because it was at that moment when it hit me, fuck i'm moving! and i wish that i could have a soundtrack to my life and have montages of key moments! And this song would be on the soundtrack to my life!! also on that soundtrack would be Desree "kissing you" and of course a lot of Sufjan Stevens becuase Sufjan moves me too!

I had this brilliant idea once for an ad campaign for IPod. it came to me one night while me and my peeps were out camping in some mountain. Emily and I brought our ipods even though the othe rpeople said we were lame and city girls for bringing ipods but emily and i were absolutely positive that mood music was essential to getting the ideal camping experience. So we spent weeks making mixes and compiled them ot have morning mixes, evening mixes, drunk mixes, late night high mixes, and back up mixes for songs that don't belong in a particular mix but that we might need to hear at any given moment. I mean really, and in the end everyone was so grateful for those damn mixes because it was the soundtrack to our camping trip. but point being, i had an epiphany one moment while we were all high looking at the stars and "pink moon" started playing in the background. Imagine that there are these commercials and they each have different scenes in life. Like ok scene one you have people out in the wilderness camping and then you hear "pink moon" in the background and the people are like having a good time and chatting and it seems like the music is an added effect of the commercial and then the camera zooms out and you see the little white ipod and the little ipod light and then the camera zooms to the stars and it says "IPod, the soundtrack to your life." You see becuase you think it's soundtrack music but it's actual music that the ipod is playing because ipod allows you to have a soundtrack to your life! are you eseing it?? another example commercial like you are in a car or at a park of in some setting and it's a girl and a guy and they are real nervous cuz they are about to make a move on each other, the first kiss, and some romantic song starts playing in teh background and the couple doesn't notice cuz again, it's all part of the commercial, or so you think! and then the couple kiss and the camera zooms out and you see the ipod light and the shiny white ipod and then camera zoom to the sky and you see "IPod, the soundtrack to your life." Aren't you feeling the idea???

this brings me to another point, why doesn't anyone but cathy comment? comment people! and my first assignment to you is that you comment by giving me some other ideas for awesome ipod commercials that could be but never will. or maybe comment on what songs would be included in the soundrack to your life...

****edit: other song included in Cristina's soundtrack to life Sufjan Stevens "holland." listen to it, feel it, tell me you don't love it!! granted i also like slow, thought provoking type music so take this into account before listening to either of these songs. But i like slow thoughtful songs that have a real build up and that you get real involved in emotionally and by the end you are just drained. you know!