[ Thursday, April 07, 2005 ]Music for the hopefully-not-jilted-at-the-altar generationStarbuck [23:20] Comments: 5 [] The last few hours have been spent compiling the list of music for our wedding DJ to ignore. Its a tricky thing to judge - you know what you want to hear, you know what you want to dance to, but that won't do much for your eighty-something Nan, or for your more musically-challenged friends for that matter. So in the end you end up going for what really moves people at weddings. Joyous stuff. Stuff like Boney M "Daddy Cool". Stuff like the "Hokey Cokey". Music that must be near-perfect, because everyone loves it, even if they don't admit to it. I came up with a few goodies for my inevitable funeral as well. I'll treat this computer session as practice in readiness for the main event this weekend - THE WRITING OF THE SPEECH! Yes, the Missus is having her Hen Night/Weekend this weekend, giving me the perfect chance to put together the most fantastic wedding speech a groom has ever given! (It'll have to be good - after the humiliation I heaped out to DJ Tim when I Best Manned for him I'm worried about getting forcefed my own medicine) So to help with this endeavour, if my reader can propose any suitably witty paragraphs I would be most grateful. No matter if it doesn't directly relate to me - hopefully the guests'll be too drunk to notice by then... I was thinking about asking friends and strangers for "awkward phrases" to crow-bar into the speech as an additional challenge. I'd tried this before with essays at University - I remember the pain of inserting "distant doomer" in a natural, colloquial manner. Usher Thain did the same - he'd managed to label a circuit diagram with the legend "perilous bard", only to get it circled in red by the tutor with the query "what is this?" So if you think you're hard enough, give me some material to get to grips with. Me, I'll probably instead be playing Stick Soldiers 2 (click HERE for the free download) - very much a first person shooter deathmatch-style deathmatch game, but side-on, and done on whitespace with vector stick figures - quite brilliant. And it shows just how crucial audio really is to the FPS genre - with the right sounds, and enough visual gibbs and frags, you realise that the third dimension is just one of the many hooks that these games sink into you. If only there was a wedding speech simulator I could get addicted to... 5 Comment(s):
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"Chutney Spanner"!!! It's my new swear word!
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this might help...
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Tee hee hee, thanks for that Susan - like that. It doesn't sound at all like Prince Charles, of course (apart from if you get him to say "errrrr"), but its always great fun getting the computer to say rude words. Not sure if the vocabulary will be best suited to my own wedding speech, however.
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Gawd! The Chuckle Brothers look like either
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There "all man" (men), dontchaknow. Despite accusations to the contrary littered across the net. [ Click HERE for the VSX front-page... ] |
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