Inspired by this post (onward), what would you like your personal theme to be? That is, the song/piece from which snippets of music are played whenever you "enter the room".

While you're thinking about that, you can also pick your action and love themes.

I'll be back in a bit with my own picks, once I've settled on something decent that doesn't involve clowns or mimes.

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Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs35CBGOxbc

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

I want these guys.

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Quaeso quousque humi defixa tua mens erit? Nonne aspicis, quae in templa veneris?

On a bad day, the sound effects used to introduce Jason in Friday the 13th.

On a good day, the opening verse of Nickelback's Figured You Out. Today being payday, its a good day.

Action theme: Powerman 5000 Worlds Collide, The Darkness One Way Ticket to Hell and Back, KoRn Coming Undone.

Love theme... Actually, I recently encountered a song by Tenacious D that fits the bill, but the name would get me banned in a nanosecond. Needless to say, Jack Black is my hero.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

right now all I can think is the pink panther theme.

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"Crazy," by Patsy Cline?

No, no. That's rude of me. "Crazy," by Seal?

No, that's not it, either. Give me a bit.

(Actually, on a serious note, I've always felt a line from Sting's "When We Dance" suited me--"And underneath the wheels of passion/I keep the faith in my fashion.")

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I'm leaning towards "I'm Still Standing" - Elton John with possibly Lemon Demon's Ultimate Showdown (of Ultimate Destiny) for the action scenes. Just the right mix of stoic futility and zany chaos that has been my life over the past ten years or so.

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[Dr. Horrible]___________________________[Penny]
Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

You Mean, "[Make Love to] her Gently" ...

I LOVE that Song, too ...

As for me, it'd Hafta Be "Superman", By Five for Fighting, Sometiimes I Feel Liike an Underappreciated Super-Hero, Man!

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That's the one

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" by the Kinks.

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Microsoft is over if you want it.

The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

"Rotten Apple" from Alice in Chains.

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"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher

" The Third Man Theme" . Interesting movie,......but I just enjoy the music.
And it's a lot of fun to play it well on a classical guitar.
Best regards, Dan

Personally, I'd go for the "Royal Entrance"

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Action - "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", the Thorogood version.

Love - I'll have to draw some inspiration from Doodler and make a similar choice, "Double Team", Tenacious D. Or "Sweet Little Angel" BB King.

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þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Either...

The theme music for the Avengers (For soirées)

or

The theme from Stingray (for my daytime appointments)

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-- Bender

The song I choose for the father/bride dance at my daughters wedding last fall.

"My Wish" from Rascal Flatts

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Haha, this is an excellent thread.

How about "Why Can't We Be Friends" for when I enter a room.

And for love theme, how about... "I Believe in a Thing Called Love."

Mine must be "All Along the Watchtower", because I keep hearing it all the time lately. It's almost like it's coming from outside me, somewhere around me... I think I'll have to track down its source sometime soon...

Right off the top of my head, the theme from Secret Agent. Not the original, but a cover done in the 80's by the White Animals.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Simple.

On days where things are going well, the opening of Mahler's Third:



On other days that are more typical and life is trying to beat you into a pulp, the opening of Mahler's Ninth:



Then there are those times where one is ready to throw in the towel, in which case the last 27 measures of the Ninth work just fine:



But then there are times where things are exceptional, like scaling another 14,000 footer, getting through to someone in production management that taking care of quality means just about everything else will take care of itself, or observing a new comet.

For those, the coda of Part I (Kräftig. Entschieden) of Mahler's Third does the trick. The liner notes, IIRC, for the Rafael Kubelik DGG recording back in 1966 nailed this music, "Part One of this hymn to Nature ends with a wonderful, clear vision of the stars and the Universe.":



It's an amazing thing for someone who grew up with the Toscanini Top Forty rammed down his throat (including Respighi presented as a major composer(!)) to see a symphony orchestra in Huntsville, Alabama, schedule Mahler's Third as the grand finale to their concert season. What a fantastic way to celebrate a year of music making.

It's good to be alive as Mahler's foresight proves true.

There's a bit of Mahlerian irony there as that article is from forty years ago. That's within a decade or two of the same time span between the article and when Mahler was prevented from writing any more music.

But, as one senses without sensing while listening to the Third, time is a relative thing, and, when great art is afoot, an hour seems as a minute.

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