Ouch. I Have Lost Myself, Again.

My brain mostly associates music with video. Like, I'll hear a tune playing in the project room, and I'll immediately think about some movie where I first heard the song. A few months ago, "Where is my Mind" by the Pixies came on and I was, "Oh, that's the music playing over the final scene of Fight Club." Similarly, Rogue Traders' "Voodoo Child" will always be associated with Dr. Who in my brain.

The other day, I was playing the soundtrack to Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events; I really like the tune from the closing credits which is fun and perky while at the same time managing to be a little dark and broody. (The tune is here, starting about 30 seconds into the video. It was also reused in the trailer for the Dead Like Me direct-to-DVD movie).

One piece on the soundtrack suddenly stood out to me: part of the tune reminded me, strongly, of the soundtrack to The Shawshank Redemption, and I was off to IMDB. Sure enough: Thomas Newmann composed both Lemony Snicket and Shawshank.

My latest fascination is with "Breathe Me" by Sia, which is the tune that plays over the final sequence of the final episode of Six Feet Under. I've played it probably two dozen times in the last few days. I like the simplicity of the song. I also like the pause that occurs about a minute and a half into the tune and seems to hold just longer than I always think it will.

An interesting thing I found myself thinking about after watching the video for "Breathe Me" was how much both the video and the piano reminded me of the Bell ad from a few years ago: the one with the cyclic pan out of people holding pictures. I dunno why; after watching them both, they're not that similar, but there's something about them that seems similar in my mind.

Speaking of the series finale of Six Feet Under: I thought the final sequence was absolutely beautiful. There's so much to squee over.

( Spoilers? )