Thanks again to everyone who attended the wedding, and made it such a memorable event. We really wanted the wedding to reflect our personalities, and this guided many of our decisions during the planning process. We had a few positive comments about the music we chose for the wedding, so I thought we would share our song lists.
Dinner Music
For background music during the dinner, we wanted to play songs that we would play if we hosted a party in our house.
In The Waiting Line - Zero 7
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Omaha - Tapes 'n Tapes
The Crane Wife 3 - The Decemberists
Swimmers - Broken Social Scene
The Golden Age - Beck
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
Swallowed In The Sea - Coldplay
So Here We Are - Bloc Party
Details Of The War - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
I Feel It All - Feist
Robbers - Cold War Kids
Even Tho - Joseph Arthur
If The Brakeman Turns My Way - Bright Eyes
The Radio's Hot Sun - Handsome Furs
This Love - The Magic Numbers
Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip
Change Your Mind - The Killers
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn And John
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Spoon
This Heart's On Fire - Wolf Parade
Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
The Calendar Girl - Stars
Mr. Tough - Yo La Tengo
Missed The Boat - Modest Mouse
These Are the Fables - The New Pornographers
Leap Year - +/-
Reckoner - Radiohead
Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) - Bright Eyes
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
Vox - Sarah McLachlan
Energy of Death - Apostle Of Hustle
Phantom Limb - The Shins
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
Friendship Update - The Go! Team
One Time Too Many - Phoenix
Introducing Angles - Destroyer
Slideshow
Forever Young - Youth Group
Requiem for o.m.m.2 - Of Montreal
Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
I cut and faded the songs using GarageBand. If anyone is putting together a slideshow, I would be happy to help, but in hindsight, I would not recommend putting together the slideshow for your own wedding. I don't know why I was so stubborn, but I should've accepted help when it was offered.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Monday, October 22, 2007
OFT No.5 - Music To Our Ears
This week we actually did TFTs - three fun things!
First, was the Bright Eyes concert on Friday night, at the Chicago theater. This was a highly anticipated show for me, because I just love Bright Eyes. The frontman, Conor Oberst, is one of the best lyricists around these days, and I was excited to see if he put on a good show, too. The theater was beautiful, an old baroque movie palace. Our seats were awesome, we paid just a little extra and got box seats rather than balcony and it was so worth it. Soloist Andrew Bird opened the show, and reminded us a lot of Final Fantasy, who opened for Bloc Party when we saw them last year. His stuff was very inventive - any given song included several layers of looping, whistling, singing, guitar, glockenspeil, and two very interesting looking, er... instruments:
He had a nice voice and obviously was multi-talented, but after about 3 songs it got a little repetitive.
Bright Eyes on the other hand was really good, though Conor seemed sick, drinking lots of water and telling us about how he was cold all day. Listening to a BE album, you might think it's just him, but there were two other guitars, a drummer and a keyboardist. It was good fun, they sounded good and played no less than 3 of their war-protest songs. It struck me during the concert, as it has a couple of times before while listening to one of their albums, that they sometimes have more of a folky/country sound than I would ever usually go for. But that's only on a few songs, and regardless, the lyrics are too good to pass up. They didn't play my favorite song, unfortunately, but Brian sweetly put it on our mm50 iPod player when we got home.
The second OFT of the weekend was Donald's first orchestra concert at Northwestern on Saturday night. They played 3 pieces - a Brahms overture, a Brahms concerto for violin and cello and a Dvorák symphony. It was a good, free evening of culture (thanks Donald!)
Finally, the third OFT was going out for dinner with Brian's lab (including his boss) to celebrate some good news about a grant application. We went to Opera, a restaurant housed in an old film storage warehouse in the south loop. On Sundays and Tuesdays they have a prix fixe, which is a pretty great deal relative to the prices of each of their dishes. We had a fun night chatting with Weiss labbers and stuffing ourselves silly!
A pretty busy weekend, as you can see. Not sure what's up for next week, but my Chicago Architecture Foundation membership finally showed up, so perhaps we'll try to go on the architecture river cruise...
First, was the Bright Eyes concert on Friday night, at the Chicago theater. This was a highly anticipated show for me, because I just love Bright Eyes. The frontman, Conor Oberst, is one of the best lyricists around these days, and I was excited to see if he put on a good show, too. The theater was beautiful, an old baroque movie palace. Our seats were awesome, we paid just a little extra and got box seats rather than balcony and it was so worth it. Soloist Andrew Bird opened the show, and reminded us a lot of Final Fantasy, who opened for Bloc Party when we saw them last year. His stuff was very inventive - any given song included several layers of looping, whistling, singing, guitar, glockenspeil, and two very interesting looking, er... instruments:
He had a nice voice and obviously was multi-talented, but after about 3 songs it got a little repetitive.
Bright Eyes on the other hand was really good, though Conor seemed sick, drinking lots of water and telling us about how he was cold all day. Listening to a BE album, you might think it's just him, but there were two other guitars, a drummer and a keyboardist. It was good fun, they sounded good and played no less than 3 of their war-protest songs. It struck me during the concert, as it has a couple of times before while listening to one of their albums, that they sometimes have more of a folky/country sound than I would ever usually go for. But that's only on a few songs, and regardless, the lyrics are too good to pass up. They didn't play my favorite song, unfortunately, but Brian sweetly put it on our mm50 iPod player when we got home.
The second OFT of the weekend was Donald's first orchestra concert at Northwestern on Saturday night. They played 3 pieces - a Brahms overture, a Brahms concerto for violin and cello and a Dvorák symphony. It was a good, free evening of culture (thanks Donald!)
Finally, the third OFT was going out for dinner with Brian's lab (including his boss) to celebrate some good news about a grant application. We went to Opera, a restaurant housed in an old film storage warehouse in the south loop. On Sundays and Tuesdays they have a prix fixe, which is a pretty great deal relative to the prices of each of their dishes. We had a fun night chatting with Weiss labbers and stuffing ourselves silly!
A pretty busy weekend, as you can see. Not sure what's up for next week, but my Chicago Architecture Foundation membership finally showed up, so perhaps we'll try to go on the architecture river cruise...
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