Week in Review

[kate_nepveu]

A friend got married in Massachusetts yesterday, so we drove out Friday night. Had dinner at a Japanese steakhouse, where we saw the amusing teppanyaki trick of stacking onion rings, pouring oil in the middle, and lighting it on fire: "Mount Fuji!" I'm quite sure that it's a tourist thing, but the kids in the restaurant loved it.

It was a daytime wedding, which allowed us to drive straight back here so that Chad could go to Union's graduation at 9 o'clock this morning. Long day, and neither Chad's knee (which he banged up playing basketball on Friday before we left) or my various health issues thanked us for it, but we're managing well enough now. Especially after I napped this afternoon—had one of those days where everything was unsatisfactory until then. I just wish I could tell in advance when a nap's going to help and when it's going to make things worse . . .

Oh, and a question for you, readers: the wedding provided an example of the inappropriate, non-ironic, wedding reception song, namely Beck's "Lost Cause". (Though that's not as bad as being broken up with by someone handing you that CD, as happened to someone there.) I still think that Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It" is the worst I've heard, though, as there's no way you can avoid realizing how inappropriate it is; at least "Lost Cause" is pretty and requires an effort to focus on the lyrics.

So, what inappropriate and non-ironic songs have you heard at wedding receptions? If there are enough really bad ones, maybe I'll do a runoff poll . . .

Comments

[sloanesomething.livejournal.com]

Wow, classy song!

How about "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"? Just...anthropomorphic...sexual overtones...room full of elderly conservative East Indians...contender?

[kate_nepveu]

Mostly, I'm stuck on "it's a _Disney_ song."

[prince-corwin.livejournal.com]

Had dinner at a Japanese steakhouse, where we saw the amusing teppanyaki trick of stacking onion rings, pouring oil in the middle, and lighting it on fire: "Mount Fuji!" I'm quite sure that it's a tourist thing, but the kids in the restaurant loved it.

Dude, I'd find that highly cool!
But then, I like saganaki at Greek restaurants, too-- hard to wrong with flaming cheese.

[jrolsma.livejournal.com]

The two teppan grills I've been to here in Albuquerque do it and I love it. My daughter covers her face because "It's too hot" but it is very cool. Especially when they add the teriyaki sauce for color. One of the places here also turns on a strobe light when they do it. Nifty.

Also, saganaki is totally cool. Flaming cheese rocks (and tastes yummy too!)

[kate_nepveu]

Okay, strobe light would be too much, thanks.

[kate_nepveu]

Haven't had saganaki, but then I'm not sure I've ever eaten at a Greek restaurant. Flaming cheese is likely to be good, though.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I think the worst song I've heard at a wedding was Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind (http://solosong.net/gordon/readmymind/readmymind.html)

[kate_nepveu]

. . . that's pretty bad, yes.

[dhole.livejournal.com]

I wasn't there, but apparently, at one of my sisters' friend's weddings, the sound system started playing "The Lady is a Tramp" as she walked down the aisle.

[kate_nepveu]

That sounds like malice rather than inattention, though.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

"Every Breath You Take".

[kate_nepveu]

That's a good "stealth" one, and I'm thinking that "every bond you break" gets extra points at a wedding.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Billy Idol's White Wedding is always an amusing thing to hear at a reception, although I think people may have finally twigged to what the song is actually saying since I haven't heard it at a reception in a long time now.

[kate_nepveu]

That's an extra special level of cluelessness, doing it on purpose . . .

[kate_nepveu]

Catchy! And I got, umm, a few of the jokes . . .

[vellumblue.livejournal.com]

Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Love the One You're With." Given that the bride's first fiance died in a motorcycle accident, those lyrics caused a bit of reception awkwardness.

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, _no_. How awful!

[mikeda.livejournal.com]

Not that it would be THAT much better even if the bride never had a previous fiance...

[sally_maria]

I once went to a wedding where the bride and groom specifically asked to dance to Young Hearts Run Free, which I rather thought was asking for trouble.

[kate_nepveu]

If I look at it sideways, I can _almost_ see a message there, about not wanting an unhappy marriage filled with infidelity, but . . .

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

AT a cousin's wedding a couple of us got the DJ to play The Ramones 'I wanna Be Sedated' and he followed it up with 'Kiss Off' by Violent Femmes.

[kate_nepveu]

Yeah, but I think that gets a pass because it was done with ironic intent, it seems?

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

It's sort of become a tradition to play The Ramones amongst a group of us.