#someday I’ll stop with the Calvin posting but today is not that day

[plunderingpennies]

I am incapable of drawing Black Butler art without using Calvin and Hobbes as my muse

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[sandiegodjstaci]

Veronica & Nathan's Chilly Swiss Park Wedding

Veronica & Nathan's Chilly Swiss Park Wedding

Of all the San Diego DJs calling America’s finest city home, Veronica & Nathan chose DJ Staci to rock their Swiss Park wedding on Saturday, November 3, 2018. The following write-up is based on San Diego DJ Staci’s crazy organized & detailed outline for this Swiss Park wedding.

  (c) San Diego DJ Staci

SWISS PARK WEDDING CEREMONY

Prelude ➔ “Better Together” – Jack Johnson, “Bubbly” Colbie Callait, “I love the way you love me” John Michael Montgomery, “You make it easy” Jason Aldean, “Tennessee Whiskey” Chris Stapleton, “Banana pancakes” Jack Johnson, “Die a Happy Man” Nelly, “This I promise you” Nsync, “Lets get married” Jagged Edge, “You had me from Hello” Kenny Chesney

Family Processional ➔ “I’m Yours” – Vitamin String Quartet

Groom/Groom’s Mom/Officiant Processional ➔ “Somewhere over the Rainbow” Instrumental

Bridesmaid Processional ➔ “Like I’m Gonna Lose You,” Vitamin String Quartet

Bride Processional ➔ “From this Moment,” Shania Twain (not duet version)

Recessional ➔ “Lucky” Jason Mraz & Colbie Callait

  (c) San Diego DJ Staci

  THE COCKTAIL HOUR & DINNER MUSIC

While San Diego DJ Staci offers couples pre-set cocktail & dinner playlists to choose from, Veronica & Nathan opted to hand-select their background music for their Swiss Park wedding.

Cocktail Music ➔ Carrying your Love with Me – George Strait, Bubbly – Colbie Callait, You Look so good in love – George Strait, It’s your love – Tim McGraw/Faith Hill, How do I live – LeAnn Rimes, It must be love – Alan Jackson, Wrapped up in you – The Country Gentlemen, Just to see you smile – Tim McGraw, She thinks my tractor’s sexy – Kenny Chesney, Angel – Shaggy, Rayvon, In case you didn’t know – Brett Young, Let me hold you – Bow Wow, Neon Moon – Brooks & Dunn, Don’t take the Girl – Tim McGraw, Check Yes or No – George Strait, Forever and Ever, Amen – Randy Travis, My boo – Usher, Strawberry Wine – Deana Carter, Be with you- Enrique Iglesias, I can love you like that – John Michael Montgomery, She’s got it all – Kenny Chesney, Where the green grass grows – Tim McGraw, Must be doin’ somethin’ right – Billy Currington, Your Man – Josh Turner

Dinner Music ➔ It’s a great day to be alive – Travis Tritt, Unconditionally – Katy Perry, She don’t know she’s beautiful – Sammy Kershaw, Lay me down – Sam Smith, Any man of mine – Shania Twain, Watermelon Crawl – Tracy Byrd, If I could make a living – Clay Walker, Everything I do – Bryan Adams, I can’t help falling in love with you – UB40, If you leave me now – Chicago, Can’t fight this feeling – REO speedwagon, Waiting for a girl like you – Foreigner, Babe – Styxx, Good morning beautiful – Steve Holy, I’ll Be – Edwin McCain, I do – Mark Willis, Fallin for you – Colbie Callait, Collide – Howie Day, Someday when I stop loving you – Carrie underwood, HOLY – Florida Georgia Line, Still Fallin – Hunter Hayes, When you say nothing – Allison Krauss, What a girl wants – Christina Aguilera, Truly, Madly, Deeply – Savage Garden

  (c) San Diego DJ Staci

  SWISS PARK WEDDING RECEPTION

MC Welcome ➔ “Good evening! Welcome to Veronica & Nathan’s wedding reception!!! I am the Master of Ceremonies, DJ Staci. Please take your seats so we can officially welcome our guests of honor. Be sure to post your photos today with #H—–PartyOf2. Are you ready to officially introduce our guests of honor?

Grand Entrance ➔ “Feels” Calvin Harris ➔ “Ladies & gentlemen, please get on your feet to welcome FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER…Mr & Mrs. H!!!

➔ Newlywed Welcome/Thank You Speech

➔ Dinner Blessing ➔ Uncle of the Bride, Dan G

6:10 PM ➔ Buffet Served: Tacos (DOC Suzy will dismiss…announce: don’t eat cupcakes yet)

6:30+/- PM (once last table dismissed) ➔ Toasts ➔ no champagne pour ➔ “Ladies & gentlemen, I hope you are enjoying your meals. May I have your attention please for the toasts. Welcome our first speaker:

1) Father of the Bride, Ramon S

2) Father of the Groom, David E

3) Mother of the Bride, Deidra S

4) Best Man & Brother of the Groom, Jordan H

5) Grandmother of the Bride, Norma B

6) Maid of Honor & Sister of the Bride, Alicia S

7) Aunt of the Bride, Vondria B

8) Bridesmaid Rachel L

7:30 PM ➔ Photo booths open

    8:00 PM ➔ Formal Cake Cutting ➔ “Can you feel the love tonight” Elton John

➔ First Dance ➔ “I Swear” – All for One ➔ fade early: yes (1.5/2 mins) ➔ “Let’s welcome Mr & Mrs. H to the dance floor for their first dance as husband and wife.”

➔ Father-Daughter Dance ➔ “I’ll be there” Josh Turner ➔ fade early: yes (1.5/2 mins) ➔ “Now let’s welcome Veronica & her father, Ramon, to the dance floor.”

➔ Mother-Son Dance ➔ “My Wish,” Rascal Flatts ➔ fade early: yes (1.5/2 mins) ➔ “Please welcome Nathan & his mother, Peggy, to the dance floor to share a special dance.”

➔ Group Photo on Dance Floor

➔ Open Dancing

➔ Shoe Game

➔ Garter Removal ➔ “I wanna sex you up” – Color Me Badd

➔ Garter Toss ➔ “Pony,” Ginuwine

➔ Bouquet Toss ➔ Single Ladies – Beyonce

➔ Money Dance ➔ Announce “switch” every 30 seconds ➔ “Look at me” Carrie Underwood, “Yours” Russel Dickerson, “All of Me” John Legend, “How would you feel,” “Tenerife Sea” – by Ed Sheeran, “Can’t help falling in love” Elvis Presley, “This” Ed Sheeran, “Make you feel my love” Adele, “Back at one” Brian McKnight, “Thinking out loud” Ed Sheeran, “All my life” K-Ci & Jojo

➔ Open Dancing

10:45 PM ➔ Last Dance

10:50 PM ➔ Sparkler Send-Off ➔ “Get Lucky” Daft Punk

VERONICA & NATHAN’S DANCE MUSIC RECIPE

Dance Music Rating ➔ swear words OK later

***NO STROBES***

Play A Lot ➔ Usher, Nelly, 90s Hip Hop/R&B, EDM

Play A Few ➔ Country slow songs, Classic Rock, Oldies

Spanish ➔ 3 or 4 max, requests OK

♥ M U S T – P L A Y S ♥

Devil Went Down to Georgia, Grease Megamix, Pony, Spice Girls, BeeGees, a swiss polka, Selena, Suavemente, Can’t Feel my Face, Baby Got Back

♥ P L A Y – I F – Y O U – C A N ♥

REO Speedwagon, Bellamy Brothers, Styxx, Danza Kuduro

♥ D O – N O T – P L A Y S ♥

jazz, Sherry – Four Seasons, Who Let the Dogs Out

  SWISS PARK WEDDING FLOOR PLAN

  SAN DIEGO WEDDING VENDOR LIST

Here is the amazing team of San Diego wedding vendors I had the pleasure of working with on this Swiss Park wedding:

Venue/Catering ➔  Swiss Park

DJ/MC  ➔  DJ Staci, the Track Star

Photography ➔  Erica Ann Bader Photography

Videography ➔  Sonny Rolon from Ryan Films

Flowers  ➔  Sea of Flowers

Photo Booth  ➔  Pixahoy

Desserts  ➔  DIY

  Again, I was honored to be the one and only San Diego wedding DJ Veronica & Nathan trusted with their Swiss Park wedding. Thank you!

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[theworstbob]

yellin’ at songs, week thirty-nine

Opinions on the songs which debuted on the billboard charts 4 october 1997, 6 october 2007, and 7 october 2017

10.4.1997

24) "The One I Gave My Heart To," by Aaliyah

I agree, '90s R&B. It IS sad when people you love hurt you. I used to think it was good when people you loved made you feel sad, but I've been listening to your arguments for the last few months, and you know what? You're right. People you love should make you feel good! Took a while, but I'm finally coming around to your side.

28) "Criminal," by Fiona Apple

So I'm on vacation from work, and I've been taking this time off to not think about anything and just sorta stare blankly at whatever the screen has to offer, so this is not a song for my current mental state. There's so much to unpack with this song, and I'm just not yet acclimated to thinking about what this song has to offer. I need to get back on that critical thinking horse, but I've been lazy the last couple days, aand like you know how difficult it is to concentrate on anything? Y'all givin' me shit like "I've got to make a play to make my lover stay, so what would an angel say? The devil wants to know," and I gotta try to frame it in some context or another, and meanwhile the Link to the Past rando tournament is right there. I can just turn that back on at any moment. Shit, dude. I'm sorry, Fiona Apple. I'm trying. You caught me at a bad time, but this is still probably the best song I've heard in a hot minute, so you've got that going for ya!

84) "Last Night's Letter," by K-Ci & JoJo

THANK YOU, 1997. This is how the list should've been ordered. Groove these '90s R&B slo jamz up the middle so I can make jokewords and get some practice thinking, THEN throw something with lyrical depth and whatnot at me. This song says "I'll love you always" before we even hit the first chorus. Follow Aaliyah up with this, then give me the country song that's gonna follow, THEN I'll be ready to say something substantive about Fiona Apple. Fiona Apple was a thing, right? Like, she would've pretty much been '97 Lena Dunham? Or would she have been a Woke Twitter Hero? I don't know, and it's too late to ever find out because the list has moved on to a song where two men with nice voices sing about passion and devotion. "I wrote this letter last night." Do you think they wrote "I wrote this letter" in the actual letter? Do you think they repeated the chorus in the actual letter? I hope so!

87) "Valentine," by Martina McBride & Jim Brickman

Imagine going to a hoedown, turning on the local country radio station, and hearing this. I mean, maybe this was a solid play for adult contemporary radio, I dunno who Jim Brickman is but I dobut he goes hard too often, but Tay Tay's "Red" was a #2 country single. It would follow that country would listen to anything Martina McBride, but like just... Every single bro country dude was weaned on songs like this. This was what country music sounded like before "i respect the flag AND the party" bullshit. I've made this point before, but it's worth noting, pop/country? That's a genre with a bizarre evolutionary line!

91) "Please," by The Kinleys

you could tell me these white girls are either sisters or two girls named kinley that happened to meet one day, and i would believe it. this is a song that would've been good enough to make the top 20 back when i only had like ten weeks of '97 to sift through, i would've said "yeah this is basic but it's not 'my baby daddy,'" but it's october and we've listened to so many other things and i've already forgotten what this was. country? sure. country. good job, country girls who probably named their kids Carson and Mackenzie.

95) "Go Away," by Lorrie Morgan

If you are using tumblr, your opinion of Marilyn Monroe has gone through three stages: 1) Marilyn Monroe is the epitome of glamour 2) Marilyn Monroe was basically Paris Hilton, like what did she do even? 3) HELL YEAH, MARILYN MONROE WAS PARIS HILTON. SHE WAS HOT AS HELL AND FUCKED ALL THE TIME. GOALS. This is the hottest country girl jam 1997 has provided, but it opens with some Marilyn Monroe cosplay, and this song is a hot jam in a way where it's like "hell yeah, I'd listen to this again!" and not "let's start a music discussion club to delve into the deeper meanings of this song. When she asks, 'Go away and wait a minute,' what does she mean?" so let's just goof on the video!

10.6.2007

53) "Do it Well," Jennifer Lopez

I heard the annoying Timbalandy intro and thought for sure 2007 was hitting us with more of that Kara DioGuardi. Nope! Ryan Tedder! Still a shitty Timbaland ripoff, that Latin pop jam J. Lo released a few months (and ten years) ago was way more in her wheelhouse than this, but I misidentified the bad songwriter who'd been tasked with wasting these three minutes of my life. Ryan Tedder's been doing things for ten years. I am so glad I'm an unexceptional white man, because it means life will never stop presenting me with opportunities regardless of whether or not I deserve them.

73) "1973," James Blunt

The fact that this song actually debuted at #73 makes me so happy. You have no idea. Like, this song is what you would expect the follow-up to "You're Beautiful" to be, James Blunt is trying desperately to show he has some edge and is also a Deep Thinker who doesn't look at girls and think about whether or not he thinks they're hot, he now tries to figure out a year in which she could have been beautiful. "Girl, you're so hot, you remind me of the year before I was born." Swoon. Such a serious artist, this one. Also: did you guys know three people are credited songwriters on "You're Beautiful?" Also also: there's a song called "2005" which is pretty much about "You're Beautiful?" Oh, James Blunt. I am prepared to fall down this YouTube hole someday, but not today. I have to figure out who Playaz Circle is.

91) "Duffle Bag Boy," Playaz Circle ft./Lil Wayne

Oh, 2 Chainz! That's who this is! Well, here I am, forgetting 2 Chainz existed as an entity before he was 2 Chainz and omitting him from the Decade Dance Club! Anyway, this is a song that presages Lil Wayne's extremely good decision to rebrand as a rock god, and it's, y'know, it's fine. It's an acceptable 2007 rap song, much like "Good Drank" was an acceptable 2017 rap song about half a year ago. I accept that this was ever in my life, and I will move on once I feel this paragraph appears large enough that someone could conceivably mistake this for in-depth analysis. What a large paragraph I wrote with no actual content! We have done good work.

94) "Freaky Gurl," Gucci Mane

Gucci Mane is another of the 35-member Decade Dance Club, and with songs like this, there's no shortage of reasons we've kept him around for so long! The way he only uses one flow so you don't get confused and think you're listening to multiple rappers. Intricate rhymes like in the third verse, where he ends six consecutive lines with "girl." And the way each verse only has eight bars so he can go back to the chorus is so polite, it knows why we came to the song and doesn't wanna screw around or seem indulgent with all those fancy A A A A A A rhyme schemes! Gucci Mane: ten years of greatness. Truly, something whose endurance I understand.

95) "Famous in a Small Town," Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert is one of my favorite country artists. I also get squicked out when millionaires sing lines like "Who needs their faces in a magazine?" You are incredibly famous! You don't get to sing this song! You are famous in several big cities! Don't sing songs revelling in mediocrity when you, yourself, are special! Like, Gucci Mane is awful, but at least he doesn't fuck around about the fact he owns a Hummer. He's not like "Don't worry if you can't afford a Hummer, life's not all about glamour!" he's saying, "Hell yeah, I got a Hummer. I fuck inside this big ol' car. You should get a Hummer. They're rad." Gucci Mane is a truth-teller, and we should respect that.

99) "Can't Help but Wait," Trey Songz

so like did they record one person clapping their hands and use that for every single '07 r&b song, or did they record hand claps every time they banged one of these out. i hope they made new hand clap noises for every song, it would make each song feel a little more personal, but i think all the studios just like shared the same hand clapping noise. i wonder whose hands they were that made this noise. this song is boring. why did anyone listen to this. they made this song a thousand times in 1997. seems like a waste of the handclaps.

7 October 2017

2) "rockstar," by Post Malone ft./21 Savage

"i cannot contain lyrical abilities of going so hard." what. why. why. who is this... i'm listening to this and wishing i was listening to a nickelback song. this is how fucking dire this song is. like legitimately. this song bites from nickelback, then has the audacity, the muthafuckin AUDACITY to say, "i can tell you're a lazy-ass aritst." preacher, heal thyself.

66) "Too Much to Ask," by Niall Horan

Niall Horan is a nice boy making nice songs and this is going to be another week where 2017 gives me absolutely nothing to work with, isn't it. I mean, I guess it's fine that Niall Horan is a person making John Mayer songs in a world where garbage like Post Malone rules the day, but why does he have to be John Mayer? Can't we do better than John Mayer? Is this really all we have to look forward to on the weeks that divas are not accompanied by an army of brass instruments, is maybe we're cool with Lorde but mostly the hope someone will sound like John Mayer instead of Calvin Harris? 2017, what ya doin'.

67) "Curve," by Gucci Mane ft./The Weeknd

No, sir, Gucci Mane has not lost a step in the last ten years! He's actually improved: this song is two and a half minutes long. Like, we're minimizing time loss, here. I know nothing good will happen. On some level, Gucci Mane knows he's not creating great, lasting art. Just talk about your dick for two and a half minutes and let me go back about my day.

85) "DNA," by BTS

My favorite was the one with the silver hair with the haunted voice because I think The Goth One is unexplored territory for boy bands and I'm glad that BTS has decided to be pioneers. I'm into this! It's dumb, loud pop music, but after so many months of dumb quiet pop music, I think it's high time we just let some young men dance their hearts out and sing about whatever grand emotion they're singing about, probably love, I don't know, I'm actually not ready to let go of this being a Kendrick cover. This is fun! Pop music should sound like Coke tastes, not how Coke makes you feel. This is a sugary little treat, and I'm glad that I was able to listen to it.

92) "Homemade Dynamite," by Lorde ft./Khalid, Post Malone & SZA

I like the original. I liked Melodrama because it sounded like its own thing, and this just sounds like something I could've gotten from any of the EDM bros. Khalid and Post Malone add their usual nothing, and with SZA, it's the same thing, I'd much rather listen to her on her own thing than her on someone else's thing. I dunno. I think y'all should've listened to this song before they felt like they had to ruin it with Post Malone. Lorde's great! I wish I could figure out why the general public rejected her but embraced Khalid!

Who won the week?

1997 because it had the only song I liked.

Current standings: 1997: 14 2007: 12 2017: 13 Next week: Elton John remakes “Candle in the Wind” for some reason, we insist on summoning old Tay Tay to the phone, and oh goddamnit 2017′s gonna give us Macklemore come on 2017 get it together