Preparations...

Okay before I start today's blog I quickly want to say that I am not depressed or unhappy or anything like that even though this topic may be considered slightly morbid.

Not too long ago, I was having a conversation with someone about music and the conversation somehow went off on a tangent about what piece of music should be played at our funeral. At the time it seemed quite funny because one piece of music mentioned was the Imperial March theme from Star Wars. Talking about this made me think however, that if for some reason, something happened to me tomorrow, no one would really know what I'd like to happen.

If you think about it it's not really an odd subject, its just one of those that you don't tend to talk about. With that in mind I'm going to but the weirdness aside for this blog and try to talk normally. So if for any reason this information is needed, then its all here written down.

To be honest I only really wanted to write this blog because I wanted decent music to be played at my funeral, but as i'm doing it I may as well include some other details as well.

Firstly, buried or cremated? Buried please, don't really like it when it gets too warm in the summer so don't thing being put in n oven would be a great way to end things. Plus if theres anything suspicious about the way that I'm taken out, you can always dig me back up.

I don't really know how much choice you get about location, but perhaps somewhere down south, preferably around where I was born and grew up, Milton Keynes. Maybe under a nice tree, somewhere not too crowded.

Again I don't really know what the protocol is with head stones but please no artsy complicated ones, just a plain one with usual name, date, etc, then perhaps a witty quote on it something I'd have said just to lighten the mood. Or maybe if we're pushing the boat out, one of those new high tech ones where you can record a message and it plays when someones walks by, again with a video that's quite funny.

Now on to the most important thing, music...I have a few requests, in the order or most want to be played (top to bottom):

• Alexi Murdoch's - All My Days
• Enterprising Young Men - From the Star Trek soundtrack (preferably played as I'm being lowered down, would suit the track, have to get the timing right tho)
• The Violin track from Band of Brothers (Check either my MP3 player)
• You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
• Vanilla Twilight - Owl City
• A Window To The Past - Harry Potter Soundtrack (Check my MP3)
• Violin Concerto No. 3 Straussburg K.215 3rd Movement - Master and Commander Soundtrack (Check MP3)
• After You've Gone - Hugh Laurie
• Blue Skies - Ella Fitzgerald
• To Build A Home - Cinematic Orchestra
•  I Will Go Sailing No More - Randy Newman (From Toy Story)

Hopefully this didn't seem to weird to read about, its something that people have to talk about eventually though, and it doesn't have to be that serious. If it did seem weird tho its over now, and I can't see me returning to this topic in the near future. This info's out there now tho, and I've been able to have my say, just in case its ever needed. (I say 'ever', it will eventually but I mean soon, or unexpectedly).