The King of Organised Living….

April 7, 2006

Up until yesterday I hadn’t really given much thought to the impending week ahead - in the early AM of Sunday I’m flying to Cyprus for my friends wedding - they’re first of those amongst us to get married from the group who have pretty much stayed freinds since we were all 11 or 12 years old - time flies.

Danvers asked advice on his best man speech - would you laugh if someone got up and said ”I first met the bride and groom in the middle of a orgy gang bang in some Soho sex club - there were tits and arseholes everywhere - much like there are before me here today!”

Boom-Boom.

room killing penny dropper?

or surfs the wave of good natured early drunkeness and gets a laugh?

He said it’s too risky even though he himself laughed his ass off.

The last 24 hours I’ve been getting my head around what time I’m flying, what I do about my ticket, who I’m flying with, which airport, how I’m gonna get to the airport, insurance, clothes.... oh yeah and the 10 or so hours of music I was supposed to have selected, organised and burned onto CD’s for the after wedding drinks in the bar general tom foolery.

So I thought this would be easy - get I-tunes, sort in order of ratings and genre etc etc - but I realise that my collection requires a bit of gardening - should do it as you go really - for collections that are ever growing via the borrowing, buying and stealing form like minded musical folk, a spot of weekly gardening is necessary - ratings, song names, deleting chaff and duplicate tracks.....

If you don’t do it your chances of being able to simply select 10 hours worth of tracks and get around to sorting them in suitable genius mix tape fashion are severely hindered somewhat.

Now then - these people aren’t gibbons nor have they given any particular guidance to what they really want to hear - the CD i burned featuring a lot of the list below is up their street - it’s music for the bar, not for dancing around to - I don’t have to choose chessy floor fillers, stomping techno or old time sing a long classics - I just have to choose good music that most modern musically minded monkeys will appreciate - not too fast - not too slow.....

at a glance....

Thievery Corp, Jack Johnson, Bloc Party, Yeah,Yeah,Yeah’s, White Stripes, Surfjan Stevens, Death Cab, Jimi Hendirx, Ice Cube, John Legend, Kanye West, G-Love, Arctice Monkeys, Finlay Quaye, John Butler, The Editors, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, The Constantines, Hard-Fi, The Fugee’s, TCQ, De La Soul, Jurassic Five, Snoop, John Mayer, Chemical Brothers, Sia, Zero 7, The Bee’s, Fiest, Kings of Convieniance, The Coral, Damien Rice, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Idlewild, Elbow, Interpol, The Doves, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, The Dears, Micheal Jackson....

and Billy Ocean

C’mon - you can’t ignore the Ocean.

Anyways - dipping into my music collection I can already see that this is all going to take me some time - early hours type stuff - but good quality time wasting none the less - give me advice or additions to make via the comments section. I can get anything I need off the net as long as I know the title I’m looking for.

I’m gonna get me a huge list of tracks I think are quality - then I’ll pace it out - break it up - burn it all.

Sure not everything is going to suit the mood and occasion - but I’ll get to that later - right now I just need a huge list of kick ass tracks.

I also think Whisky may help my decision making - it usually does.

And once I’ve finished this all I have to do is find my passport.

muchos gracias people - I’ll post when I can over the next week...

Spo | April 7, 2006