Soundtracking

Sometimes I leave my iPod on when I get off the train and listen to music as I walk to work, soundtracking my journey. Sometimes a happy accident happens: when two unrelated events conspire for a unique effect. Lots of people claim that if you start playing The Dark Side of the Moon at the same time that The Wizard of Oz has started, there are all sorts of meaningful coincidences. Mine was walking through the ticket barrier and into the vast interior of Liverpool Street Station during the crescendo of Radiohead's All I Need, right where the drums kick in. It gave an implausible poignancy and weight to the moment, as if I'd overcome huge obstacles to be reunited with, well, something in the train station.