Its a well known fact that girls start planning their weddings when they are like five years old. As soon as they crush on that first cute boy thats not yucky like the others, it starts. And the ideas and concepts become clearer and more refined as they get older. Barbie / My Little Pony / Care Bear designs and Chuck E Cheese venues make way and evolve into lilys, carnations, roses, white silk / beachfront ideas. See I know this as a true undisputed fact, and having said that, I dont even get girls at all. But this I know (along with all of them being crazy and evil).
Guys wont admit it, but we kinda do it too. Well not so much the wedding in general, but only the specifics that interest us. My buddy Wayne, for example, has selected his starting lineup of Best Man and Groomsmen way back in Grade 12, and has stuck to it like peanut butter and jelly. It aint changing. And there is no respectable hetero dude that doesnt start formulating ideas about the ultimate stag nite. Ideas of golf at pebble beach, karting around the Indy 500, and partying in Las Vegas, Mexico, Ibiza and Amsterdam are the ultimate goals of any true best man. And here in Ireland, the stage nite is taken as a true fine art... with the model being that there must be a International site stag nite (eg Hamburg, Madrid, Edinburgh), a National within Ireland Stag nite (eg. Dublin, Cork, Galway), and a local home town stag nite. Three Stag nites! Another fine example of why the Irish are brilliant.
So I wont apologize then when yesterday I spent about 4 hours trying to think of the ULTIMATE "Intro" music for the entrance into my wedding reception. This was a very hard pick. I whittled it down to a list of 5 possibilities, and this is what I came up with, all being introduced by my Emcee, Michael Buffer, of course. Download the songs so that you know what Im talkin about.
• Pixies "Here comes your man" ->good catchy guitar riff, happy music; this is a good strutting and nodding with a shit eating grin type song... and an easy chorus for everyone to sing along with.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey Orchestra theme -> Id have to come out walking really slow with arms pointed to the roof.. this would require a Ric Flair robe as well.
• U2 "Where the streets have no name" -> Reasons are threefold: 1) It has one of the most recognizable electrical guitar riffs, intro band beats of all time 2) The Canucks intro to it 3) Im practically Irish now.
• The Cure "Close to Me" -> Well this is my favorite song of all time. So I have to put it in. Original version, with the trumpets and flute, no stupid remixes.
• Intro Chicago Bulls Theme -> Like... as if this doesnt make your spine tingle? "Starting at guard, in his 12th year, from Nebraska University... number 52 Eric Piatkowski!!!"
Its cant miss thunderous applause.
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