Birthday Boy - the big 3-0!

Alright everyone, and a 1 and a 2 and a 3...

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear old Douglas, Happy Birthday to you!

 

 This weekend we celebrate Douglas turning the big 3-0!  So be sure to wish him a happy birthday on Sunday!

Digging the Tracks - Part 1ish

Happy Holidays!  Today's post is all about insight.  You were promised insight into the STD track listing and this post will attempt to make good on that promise.

Before we delve into the tunes, I feel I must divulge the reference in the title of the last post - even Douglas missed it! 

Scudworth: [Typing on the computer] I'll title it, What It's Like to Be a Teenage Clone, colon, A Rope of Sand.
Mr. Butlertron: [Mr. Butlertron enters scene] Good title, it draws the reader in without giving too much away.

It's from an episode of Clone High.  I know, I remember the oddest stuff sometimes.

Anyway, let's move on, shall we?

At the end of the last post, we started with the Universal Theme.  So let's pick up from there.

Track 2 is Partyman by Prince.  Did it sound familiar?  It's ok if it didn't because it's probably been a while.  This track is from the Batman soundtrack.  Yes, the 1989 Batman.

Up until the Dark Knight movies, this was, by far, the best Batman movie out there.  Keaton will always be Batman and Nicholson will always be the Joker.  Those will always be my starting points.  Ledger is an awesome Joker, but he's a different Joker.  Nothing will ever replace Nicholson as the Joker.  Douglas and I quote Joker lines from this movie just as much as we quote them from the Dark Knight.  Who doesn't remember "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"  Creepy!  The soundtrack, too, was pretty awesome.  It's mostly Prince tunes, but it worked in this instance.  "Batdance", "Trust", and "Partyman" always get us in a dancing mood.  We decided that "Batdance" would take up too much space on the disc and wouldn't get people moving as much as the other two.  It was a difficult choice between "Trust" and "Partyman".  Luckily, I'm a sucker for "Partyman".  Nothing beats Nicholson's Joker and his thugs "broadening their minds" in a museum.

Track 3 is Jungle Love. 

Oh yeah, Jay and Silent Bob!  Douglas and I both really enjoy Kevin Smith movies.  I actually got introduced to the View Askew universe due to Douglas and Ryan's love of it.  Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was nothing to write home about when you first saw it, but man if it isn't still fun to kick back and laugh at.  I could wax poetic, and get Douglas to join in, on how the adventures of Jay and Bob give you a time line and connect different stories within the View Askew universe, but I'll spare you in this post.  Our choice of including "Jungle Love" on the cd is because we can't help but dance when it comes on the speakers and it allowed us to work one of these movies into the playlist.


Track 4 is the Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS). 

RHPS will always have a special place in our hearts.  Not only do we really enjoy the movie but we bonded over my helping Douglas' organization putting together a screening of RHPS for campus.  Throughout college, we both made a lot of great friends and had a lot of great times around Rocky Horror.  If you're lucky, we might be able to get Douglas to reprise his role as Riff Raff.  I haven't donned the Janet slip in quite some time.  Can you guess which members of our wedding party also participated in RHPS screenings with us?  Can you guess the roles that they played? 

Since I'm being long winded, I'm going to break up the track listing insights.  So three tracks will last us until next time.

Stay tuned for more!

When Your Guest List Can't Reflect How You Feel: A Rope of Sand

Kudos to anyone who gets the reference in the title.

Now that the STDs have gone out, I feel I can breach the topic of the guest list.  Through out the rest of the wedding planning, I hope nothing is as depressing as putting together the guest list.

Why was the guest list so depressing, I hear you asking.  Well, we simply weren't able to invite a good number of folks who we thought we'd be able to.  Douglas' side has a lot of family and I've had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with a good number of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.  My family, on the other hand, hasn't been close over the past few years but seems to be trying to repair rifts and getting back to being family again.  So the numbers for my side also ended up being large.  Douglas and I both knew that there was going to be family that weren't going to make the cut.  There are simply too many of them.  Of course, once we were done with the family we technically had no room for our friends who weren't in the wedding party.

Douglas and I really had our eyes on a wedding of about 80-100 people.  Our guest list quickly rose above 125.  Once we added the few friends we could, we ended up with a list of about 145!  We had to face the fact that friends we'd like to invite, we wouldn't be able to.  The parents, also, had a few folks on their lists that we weren't able to invite.

I know it's funny to say "invite" when we haven't actually sent out formal invitations, yet, but you get the point.

As we continue with our wedding planning, more compromises will have to be made as there is no budge in the budget.

Since the holidays are coming up, I will do my best to put together one more post this week and give you a double dose this week to make up for the possible lack of a real post next week.

Save the Date: Come Dance with Us!

Right before the weekend, Douglas and I took a trip to the local US Postal Service office to ship out 70-something Save the Date CDs!  Luckily, we only ran into a few snags: 1 missing zip code, having to get back in line once, and an address that simply can't be found.  All in all, not a bad trip.

We were surprised and excited to learn that some folks received their mail as early as Saturday!  We were also able to hand deliver a good number of them due to the holiday.

So, without more rambling, I give to you, the Save the Date CD!

Work Station

Liner Notes and Digital Vinyl CD

How cool are our record cds?  They even have grooves!

Box of Unstuffed CD cases

CD Cover

Completed cases with mailer

With the release of our STD CD also came the release of our wedding website - justajumptotheleft.com  We decided that a customized HTML would make it easier for folks to find.  We couldn't resist making it a reference.

Douglas was a trooper and ended up doing about a dozen or more versions of the CD until we were both happy.  Our lives have extensive soundtracks, so we could have burned an anthology!  We were finally able to narrow the selection down and included songs that have some significance to us as a couple or to one of us individually. I promised you guys trivia, so I'll provide some of the backstories to the tracks in the next post.  Here's a teaser:

Soundtrack available at Amazon.com

 

Track 1

The Universal Theme

by Nigel Godrich
from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Significance/Story: The theme music to Universal Movie Studios but done in the style of old school Nintendo video game music.  Movie + 8 bit music = happy geeks.

Single Best Word This Hanukkah - MAILED!

The Save the Dates are done and they...are...outta here!

We cut, we burned, we labeled, we printed, we stuffed, we sealed.  All to turn all of this:

Into all of this...

Look at our pretty mailers.

Don't peek too hard now.  These little babies are well on their way to their destinations.  ETA: 2-5 days.

Of course, all of our work today was overseen by our forewoman.

She's such a hardass.

Happy Hanukkah - Have an STD!

I know, I really am having too much fun with this abbreviation. 

Today we handed out our first round of Save the Dates!!!!  Tomorrow we should be able to get the to-be-mailed ones ready.  With any luck, they will be paying a visit to the post office on Friday!

Here is your first look at the cover - yes, cover.

There will be a lot of tidbits to be told about the Save the Dates.  The first one is the logo.  You may (or may not) remember the ring that Douglas proposed with.  This is the symbol from the ring.  It seemed fitting.

Stay tuned.  Next week I'll unveil the rest of the Save the Date.  Soon after that, I'll be sharing some more trivia about them.