Music (pick one):
- a 70's emotional-blackmaily song, think Turn, Turn, Turn
- a softer, ballady Waits, think Jersey Girl; Good Vibrations
- Baba O'Riley
- something by a lady singer-song writer, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman or Tori Amos
- a Monkeys-esque pop song
- a 90's hip-hop song, maybe Hip Hop by Dead Prez
- Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Coldplay
- Johnny Cash covering something from the '90's
- something Hawaiian involving a ukulele
- a song from Carmen or any other well-known opera
Clips (pick ten or more):
- Women shopping
- couples fighting then crying
- lots of wistful, faraway looks
- someone, forehead to glass, staring, sadly out of a moving car in the fall
- people laughing around a big table, eating dinner, drinking red wine
- a very quick succession of clips all depicting the same thing (weddings, rednecks getting hurt, slaps, girls screaming)
- a middle-age woman who sinks to the floor after answering the phone)
- an audience rising to a standing ovation
- a person comforting another person, in tears, while sitting on the last three steps
- birds-eye view of a funeral
- a single tear slipping down a man's cheek
- someone swiping everything off a desk
- commencement/valedictorian speech followed immediately by the grads throwing their caps in the air; a tear falling on a letter/telegram
- really hot twenty-five year olds strutting down a high school hallway
- a messenger riding his bike down a tree-lined street
- airport arrival scene
- the smashing of a wine-filled glass on terra-cotta
- a burlesque dancer shimmying
- a child on Christmas morning
- someone running through the woods in the rain, illuminated by lightning
- teenagers kissing in a pool
- a family in a waiting room, not speaking
- painful-looking high school talent show
- a person standing with their back to the camera, watching a plane take off through a large window
- a group of teenagers running down a busy New York sidewalk, knocking into an older businessman
- a man slipping to his knees in a back yard in the rain, hands at his face.
This here is my most favourite montage video. Swearingen! Nate! Carmella! Larry David? Every time I watch it I go a little warm and gooey in my frontal lobe.