If you’re going to ask me what my favorite song of 2025 is, it’s definitely the second Foo Fighters song they released that year, “Asking for a Friend”. I love the music so much that I wrote a love letter about it, and I have heard it 700+ times as I type this entry. (Thank you for keeping track, Last.fm.) I also assigned it as one of my alarm clock tunes along with “Run” (my favorite track from the album Concrete and Gold) and “The Pretender” (my all-time favorite song). Those are good reasons already for it to be my Song of the Moment.
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Song of the Moment XCII: Ramin Djawadi’s “Person of Interest”
Have you ever opened your music player, listened to it (either through your earphones or the speakers), and then it played the right song at the right moment? I have had many experiences like that lately, and I’m loving it.
For example, at midnight yesterday, August 23, I was listening to my favorite songs playlist on Spotify while chatting with a friend. During the chat, I thought it would be fitting to pull a quote from my all-time favorite series, the American sci-fi crime thriller/drama series Person of Interest (created by Jonathan Nolan, co-screenwriter of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises [two of my favorite Batman films and overall films ever]). And when I typed in the show’s exact title, Spotify played the show’s opening theme. What?
Side note: Person of Interest’s opening theme was conducted by Ramin Djawadi (yes, the composer for Game of Thrones) and written by the show’s executive producer J. J. Abrams (creator of the spy thriller series Alias and director of the Star Wars films The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker).
The moment Spotify played my favorite show’s intro, I felt goosebumps. And yes, I have played other songs more times after that moment. But Person of Interest’s intro theme deserves to be my Song of the Moment because of how Spotify played it at the perfect moment. At that perfect moment, I felt like I was truly being watched by The Machine.
But wait, Dewey. What “machine”? Can’t relate? If you haven’t seen Person of Interest, and if it’s in your streaming apps, please watch it (starting from the pilot episode). I highly recommend the highly underrated series, and I will definitely discuss the show one of these days.
See you in the next post… and that’s tomorrow!
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Header image: Jürgen Jester from Pixabay. Edited in Adobe Photoshop 2025.
Song of the Moment LXXXVI: Joey McIntyre’s “Stay the Same”
Tonight, while I was drinking my favorite Jack & Coke Zero and listening to my favorite songs on Spotify in peace, I remembered a few people again—one of them is a significant person in my high school phase, Lyra. And strangely enough, Spotify played Joey McIntyre’s “Stay the Same”, the same song Lyra dedicated to me at one point in our fourth year in high school.
What’s up with that, Spotify and the universe? But anyway, thank you for that. I’m going to cry now.
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The Diary of The Deranged Writer 