You better play this at my funeral...

• Ma Baker : Boney M
• She Belongs to Me : Bob Dylan
• Dream a Little Dream of Me : The Mamas & the Papas
• Sweet Bird : West Virginia Night Owls
• Dust In the Wind : Kansas
• Carry On My Wayward Son : Kansas
• All Along the Watchtower : Jimi Hendrix
• Love Cats : The Cure
• Bela Lugosi's Dead : Bauhaus (if you love me, you'll do this)
• Seasons in the Sun...Terry Jacks version, unless there's a better one between then and now
• Elegy for the Brave : William Shatner
• Disorder : Joy Division
• Shadowplay : Joy Division
• Everybody's Talkin' : Harry Nilson
• Wanderlust : Flogging Molly
• Big Rock Candy Mountain : Harry McClintock
• Voila : Francoise Hardy
• The Good, The Bad & the Ugly : Hugo Montenegro
• Return of the Vampire : Coffinshakers
• True Faith : New Order

...then please everyone: put up a tiny little cast bronze statue for me somewhere, but don't fuck around with wasteful embalming - just incinerate my remains or throw me on a bonfire. Read Nabokov aloud in public places for a week. Budget wisely. Buy used. Get married in black. Get married for tax perks. Get divorced for tax perks. Always love each other and help out the olds. Make time for the dying. Give your children weird names. Break the idols or make up funnier ones. On that day, replay Mitch Hedberg again, together, in somber silence. Don't let me down, guys. You're all I've got.

(arch 5.10.19 | Corvidius PC}