The Ol' Blog Shop: The Decade In Theme Songs

When I was young, I thought of my life as a movie.

Now, with the slow accumulation of minor incidents building to occasional Season Finales of suspense and drama, I think of my life as a long-running, low-rated HBO series with a small but dedicated cult following.

And, just as HBO promos often feature thematically evocative songs to hint at future seasons, I typically find some tune stuck in my head this time of year (which more often than not winds up fitting nicely with the drift of events in my life and the lives of those around me).

At the moment, Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" seems to have nominated itself for my 2010 theme song, but the month is young so we'll see...

As for the rest of the decade's theme songs, they generally applied eerily well to the years they previewed, and if you buy me a beer sometime I'd be happy to recount the twists and turns of the past ten exciting seasons (though even without the recaps, you can probably guess the general gist of some of them based on the soundtrack below...)

And so, as the era of New Year's Eve glasses featuring funny OOs for eyes draws to a close, please to enjoy the following selections, courtesy of my psyche:

2009 SEASON: "Sex Changes" by the Dresden Dolls (which, I should note, had nothing to do with me actually getting a sex change operation...)