dear mr wedding dj

a russian i love is marrying me this december. the anti-wedding wedding should be a blast, and to insure so, i have put three of my favorite people in charge of the evening's music playlists.

d requested a list of do's and don'ts to insure my big day contained no three-to-four-minute disappointments. my response is as follows:

OK- so i thought to myself, the “no” list should be short, cause these kids will know better. Nevertheless, it ended up like this:

NO

How Soon is Now? (sick of it)

Coldplay in any form

Rolling Stones unless it’s Mothers Little Helper

found easily on a 99x playlist

bright eyes

killers

Christmas-related music of any kind

songs associated with other relationships: New Year’s Day by u2, any Oasis, Smashing pumpkins, speed metal

Hey Mickey or Come on Eileen (unless it’s the Badly Drawn Boy cover)

Bon Jovi

cheesy love longs not specifically requested on my YES list/sung by Bjork, Colin Meloy, or Ben Gibbard or a Beatle

heavy metal no matter what ilya says (hair metal is permitted w/ heidi approval)

country music

R&B

Aerosmith

rap (Gorillaz and other good stuff excluded)

showtunes

Gwen Stefani

Britney or Christina or anyone either have had sex with

anyone featured in Teen Beat

Blue Monday (there exist so many better New Order songs)

song ever featured in an iPod commercial or on TRL

songs lasting more than 7 minutes unless they are by nEw Order

u2/whitney houston mash-ups

greenday

to this case reponded: "damn, that's a good list."