'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Mmm, brownies.
Since I do not intend to attend my theoretical memorial perhaps the attendees could each suggest their favorites to the music coordinator and a mix can be created. It might be a good idea to start making these plans. At the moment the only plan is lots of booze, this being an essential element of a memorial in my experience. Brownies are a good idea too.
"I'll Fly Away" is a good one.
I'd like Basement Jaxx's "Do Your Thing."
Nice!
Y'all mofos better second-line for me. I want a jazz funeral, dammit. And now I'm listening to the Treme Brass Band play "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." For my sister and maybe for myself, I like Ginny Owens' "If You Want Me To" [link] (which, yes, I orginally heard on Dawson's Creek). I love "Be Thou My Vision" but more for the music than then sentiment. Hmm.
Ooo. "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" from The Muppet Movie. "Ain't That Good News" by Katryna and Nerissa Nields, that would work for a second line. "The Water is Wide."
And now I can't stop.
The Nields "I'll Meet You In The Sky"
Nields' funeral music xpost!
My mother chose "The Rose" for her funeral. Ryan now likes that song, and he calls it "Nai Nai Song", Nai Nai being Chinese for Grandma.
Bette Midler "The Rose"??
I've been to two second line funerals so far, one that had a drumming and singing session afterwards. I don't believe I could sustain that, but maybe I should make a list like Jesse, and see what I can work out. My friend in San Francisco doing music therapy (giving, not receiving, to be clear) might be able to hook me up. Let me ask him.
Bette Midler "The Rose"??
That's the one.
Man, that song makes me cry regardless.
Oh, smonster, I love "In The Gloaming," although I like the harmonies between her and Jennifer Kimball as The Story even better. And, oh, their version of e.e. cummings's "love is more thicker than forget."