For All Occasions

Due to a couple of funerals I went to over Christmas (two uncles died within two days of each other), I started thinking about my funeral. Easily, the most important aspect of the funeral is the music. I'll be dead, and I won't really give a crap what kind of lining is in the casket, but it is certainly the duty of any responsible person to provide some decent tunes for the prostrate mourners. Nothing sappy, i.e. no Sarah MacLachlan or James Taylor, though under most circumstances I do love me some James Taylor. Anyway, here, in no particular order, is the list I briefly compiled from my iTunes.

1. So Long, Astoria - The Ataris
2. If the Brakeman Turns My Way - Bright Eyes
3. The Swiss Army Romance - Dashboard Confessional
4. Thanks for the Memories - Fall Out Boy
5. Learn to Fly - The Foo Fighters
6. Bruised - Jack's Mannequin (when the hell is that new album coming out, by the way?)
7. Seven Years - Norah Jones
8. Miles Apart - Yellowcard
9. Several Ways to Die Trying - Dashboard Confessional

Now, hopefully, I will have many, many years until there is a need for this list, and I will most likely add and detract from it as those years pass. However, as it stands, these are the choices.