In Case of Funeral (ICF)
Consciously giving rise to a death wish that I've long-suspected him of holding, Simon recently highlighted what music he would like played at his funeral. Clearly not happy with his own mortality, Simon invited other people to consider their own mortality and asked others to draw up their own mort-list.
This is something that I have previously given a lot of thought to. Indeed, I have already mentioned the results of that thought process to my long-term girlfriend, though I suspect she wasn't listening. It puts me at rest, then, to think that the suggestions which follow (which aren't suggestions at all — I expect them to be adhered to) will be considered by whoever it is that organises my funeral.
Just before I reveal my preferences, however, I'd like to state that (1) I don't believe in any life other than the one I have on this earth and (2) funerals aren't for the dead — they are for the living. As such, and in opposition to what I wrote in the previous paragraph, I don't care whether the following list is adhered to or not. In fact, I couldn't care because I'd be dead.
The music is as follows:
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Radiohead — "Exit Music (For A Film)"
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Radiohead — "Let Down"
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Grandaddy — "Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)"
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Rimsky-Korsakov — Flight of the Bumble Bee
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Beethoven — Sonata No.14 (Moonlight Sonata)
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Elton John — "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
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Queen — "In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited"
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Beck — "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes"
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Debussy — Clair de Lune
- Pink Floyd — "Wish You Were Here"
I'd also like to have some films shown and passages from literature I'd like read out, or at least extracted in a well-designed booklet to accompany the funeral. In fact, I'm hoping this funeral will take place over a weekend and incorporate a series of events, not just a couple of hours sitting in a windy building. Perhaps I'll write those ideas down in another post. I'll certainly write down what films and books might be worth considering.
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