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2004-07-23

An entry inspired by High Fidelity and my own macabre and somewhat obsessive imagination:

Top 5 Songs I want to have played at my funeral:

5. Halcyon and on and on – Orbital (A very long song, but it must be played to the finish. Also not totally appropriate since it is very upbeat and kind of techno-ish – but hey, what’s appropriate at a funeral anyway? Besides, I’d rather people leave happy than sad. Maybe they’ll hear this song, realize they’re at a funeral and that they too could die tomorrow, and so they’ll go travel somewhere. Hopefully Iceland. I don’t know why. And: I always really liked this song. (My God! I’m already writing in the past tense, as if I’m already gone! This message from beyond the grave…)

4. Gravity Rides Everything – Modest Mouse (A pleasant goodbye. Makes going quietly into the night ok somehow. It all will fall, fall right into place, As fruit drops, flesh it sags, Everything will fall right into place, When we die, some sink and some lay, but at least I, won’t see you float away.)

3. Sail Away – David Gray (To get everyone crying, just a little.)

2. Everything’s Not Lost – Coldplay (This also could have been number one, but because it’s more doleful it takes the number two place. Although, the first time I heard this song, sometime while in Australia, it reminded me that I wanted to make a top 5 list one day of songs I wanted to ‘hear’ at my funeral, and all I could see in my mind’s eye was that everyone would be content I had passed, knowing I had lived an open-hearted life of reckless abandon without inhibition or regret. If only.)

And finally:

1. Porcelain – Moby (If I could have only one song at my funeral, it would be this one. I love the unabashed happiness it represents, in turn with the melancholy that settles on me once it’s finished. I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to lie, So this is goodbye, This is Goodbye.)

I reserve the right to update this list from time-to-time, so long as I’m living, and especially if I have nothing better to tell you all about (like right now). Maybe the top 5 will become a regular thing. (Not just for songs I want at my funeral, of course – cause that would be crazy, but of other quirky things and even the occasional list of top 5 songs for a given situation, even though that would definitely make me an idea-whore. Whatever.)


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