F2F 3: Who's Bringing the Guacamole?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: San Francisco, May 19-21, 2006! Everything else, go here! Swag!
Just a bunch of good dance songs that I skimmed real quick off of my iTunes list:
"Close To Me" The Cure, "Lips Like Sugar" Echo And The Bunnymen, "Dancing With Myself" Billy Idol, seconding Matt's "Train In Vain" The Clash, "Pop Life" Prince, "Pop" NSync (in SA's honor), "Skylines and Turnstiles" My Chemical Romance, "Just Can't Get Enough" Depeche Mode, "Mirror In The Bathroom" The English Beat, "Midnight Show" The Killers, "Interjections!" Schoolhouse Rock (kidding), "Kiss Them For Me" or "Peek-a-Boo" Siouxsie and The Banshees, "C'mon C'mon" The Von Bondies...
To name a few. And, really, I have no horse in this race since I like just about every damn kind of music there is. Just offering some suggestions. If even one of them is on the F2F playlist, I'm happy as can be.
Classic ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!
Oh, and any song Deb requests, 'cause she rocks.
See, my list is tiny. I adore a lot of stuff out there, visceral reaction stuff. I'm not suggesting 99.9% of it, because it's purely visceral to me. Not everyone out there is going to want to hear Patti Smith singing "Horses" or "Radio Ethiopia", or the BoDeans "Good Things" or the Ozark Mountain Daredevils doing "If You Want To Get To Heaven". "Anarchy in the UK" isn't to everyone's taste; while everyone's mentioning "Train in Vain", I'm all about "Shed This Skin".
But the ones I'm digging my heels in on? Nice classic rock, and nice classic rock was completely or virtually completely missing from the first two F2Fs I went to.
So with all due respect to songs from Bollywood musicals, I want the Stones. And the Who. And Bob Seger.
Keep in mind that in LA, DC, and NO, I put together a playlist, it got about 20 minutes in and then folks started picking and choosing what they wanted out of the close to 20,000 tracks that are on my portable drive. There was quite a bit of stuff played that even I didn't know.
The way this is going I'm thinking we'll set up a CD player, everyone can bring their stack of CDs and then we can let people duke it out in front of the speakers.
The way this is going I'm thinking we'll set up a CD player, everyone can bring their stack of CDs and then we can let people duke it out in front of the speakers.
BWAH! Celebrity deathmatch: Van Halen versus Hoobastank?
I'll bring popcorn.
I could care less what gets played, I've got my music collection whenever I want it.
All of the yay directed at us for coming is directed back at y'all a hundredfold! Can't. Wait.
As for the food, all of it sounds delicious, but particularly the pot stickers and spring rolls. Mmmm. Pot stickers.
I don't drink much, but when I do drink, it's bourbon. Maker's Mark would be nice, Jack Daniels is fine.
Music: I am very much in favor of deb getting her classic rock, and I want to dance to at least one Timberlake song for SA, and I like funk, Motown, and 80's new wave, and classic Bollywood. Drew, if you still want suggestuions, and posts to mark, may I add Mundian Te Bach Ke by Labh Janjua & Panjabi MC, The Intergalactic Friends mashup of Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys and We Used to Be Friends by The Dandy Warhols, Wig in a Box from Hedwig, Touched by VAST, Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie, and...House Rules by Kane?
I also will have my laptop handy, with lots of songs, if that helps or makes things more complicated. Since we're trying to narrow it down to about 50 songs, probably the latter.
You know, I
started
making a list of the yummy food from the list that I liked, and then realised that I was...writing the list. So - yeah. I'm good.
Musicwise, my taste is pretty damned catholic, and everything that's been suggested sounds good. If there's any space for a few jazz standards, I'd be happy like a happy thing. Ella, Nina, Billie, Louis Armstrong (or Jordan)...all that jazz. (I'm good with Norah Jones and
I'd love to hear some classic Bollywood, if it turned out to be feasible.
And if anyone else were interested in a couple of Arabic tunes - some Nancy Agram, Amr Diab or Ruby, perhaps...? Well, I could sling over a couple of tracks, if anyone were interested. I know that there are several bellydancing types among the Buffistas who could possibly enjoy it. Or, you know, not. I'm good. But a few Jazz standards would make me happy.
Um. Actually, Nora Jones/Eddi Reader/Michelle Shocked/Indigo Girls/KT Tunstall...these would be lovely too.
'kay. Shutting up now. Jazz standards. Yes.
Not everyone out there is going to want to hear Patti Smith singing "Horses"
Say it ain't so.
I'll put in a bid for some Clapton, both early and late, John Mayall, Johnny Lang and a little Lynard Skynard. Also, Fay is me in regards to jazz. When it all comes down to it, it's all good stuff.
"The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count", The Divine Comedy
Yesyesyes. And "Gin-Soaked Boy."
"Peek-a-Boo" Siouxsie and The Banshees
whimpers
Please?
"Jaan Pehchaan Ho"
Oooh! And maybe "Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa (Today My Heart Desires)" from
Monsoon Wedding?
And the music most likely to get everyone up and dancing like crazy dancey things IME is the Jackson 5's "A-B-C" or "Stop!...".