oh yeah... thats all they really want...
So I was talking recently with a group of friends as to our preferred choice of song at our respective funerals. In all honesty, I hope I die unexpectedly – i.e. Hit by a tram or something else that I never see coming, so I had best plan my song right now so my eulogy isn’t butchered by some sad song that will make my friends and family cry, so for this reason, I told my friends that I want the Cindy Lauper classic – Girls just want to have fun.
It’s a cool song, and as far as funeral services go, I can’t imagine anything else. I don’t know if I want that song because I like it, or whether it’s because it is relevant to my life (lets face it, I know girls just want to have fun) or whether it’s because I hope to be watching my nearest and dearest from the spirit realm, and watching their faces as classic 80’s rendition belts out around the service.
Other songs to consider would be the Carpenters ‘Leader of the Pack’ and the Archie’s ‘Sugar Sugar.’ I have always been intrigued as to what people would say about me at my funeral, and whilst I would appreciate the reflective demeanours that would no doubt be present, I would like nothing more than the smiles I would no doubt see, and I would love for my family and friends to remember me with a smile on the dial.
Speaking of births, deaths and marriages, I was reading today that a couple in Romania named their kid ‘Yahoo’ in honour of their meeting place – obviously a Yahoo chat program or something. Sooner or later, there are going to be kids named hotmail and lavalife – yet, the probability is that this trend isn’t likely to blast off – maybe it’s my intuition revealing this fact, or perhaps the detail that there are no kids named ‘back of a pickup truck’ or ‘nightclub toilets’ that I know of.
At the end of the day, Girl’s just want to have fun, and I guess they will name their kids whatever they want, and we will all be reminded why at my funeral!