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"Paranoid Android" Radiohead
I'd choose this because it reflects my music tastes both artistically and technically, and in the greatest (albeit incomplete) measure. It has a layered (linear) structure (influenced by the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun") that always draws me in and speaks to me. Structurally, it takes some risks. Artistically, it has shifting moods and touches on a number of themes, all of which I can relate to and are predominant in my own mind. In many ways, the song can stand in as a manifestation (i.e. a snapshot, if you will) of my mind if you could observe it for a certain time and at the right time.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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