The 30 Day Song Challenge, Part 10: Days 24, 25 and 26

Time for another dose of the 30 Day Song Challenge. The Challenge is coming to an end… although it has taken way more that 30 days to complete so far, and has been trickier than I expected! I will finish though. This is the penultimate post, so we’re nearly there.

Day 24: A song that you want to play at your funeral – Vital Signs, Frank Turner

So, that’s a pretty morbid question from the 30 Day Song Challenge creator… Up until this point I don’t think I’ve ever considered my funeral in as much detail as to choose the music for it. With the lyrics of this song, Frank Turner reminds us that we need to keep on living and that we should try to make the most of our time even after a loved one has gone. I think that’s a pretty positive thing to say at your own funeral.

Day 25: A song that makes you laugh – Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros, Flight of the Conchords

Because this is funny – and what kind of rapping name is Steve?

Day 26: A song that you can play on an instrument – Colourblind, Counting Crows

I love this song! And to prove it here I am playing it at Malmesbury Acoustic Sessions at The Three Cups on the 5th November.

Robots!

It’s 2000Trees festival this weekend, and I am very much looking forward to it.  In fact, I am quite over-excited (I have the urge to do a little booty-dance-style jig every time I think about it).

I’ll probably be blogging about the experience once I have returned and scrubbed off the worst of the festival grunge, but this year I’d also like to share with you a little video about robots.

“And how is this in any way related to being excited about 2000Trees?”, I hear you cry!

Well, every year at Trees there is a fancy dress theme and this year it is Ninjas! vs Robots! vs Cowboys!* So, naturally, we’ve gone for robots.

What? Robots are cool.**

Well, ok – ninjas are cool too, so the clincher was that hubby and I really like The Flight of The Conchords, and they made this really awesome video which is the inspiration for our costumes.

 

We’ll actually be building our robots tomorrow as we’ve both booked time off work – so I’ll post pics of the results (and maybe even the building of them, if anyone’s interested) either tomorrow or after the festival. I just wish I’d had time to learn the song on guitar, because that would be great… maybe I’ll have a crack at it tonight, but most likely won’t have time.

Oh, and yes, if you were wondering – I will be wearing a stick on beard so I can be Bret.

*Extra exclamation marks are definitely required in that sentence, I don’t care what you finickety-grammar types say…

**If you didn’t read that sentence in a Matt Smith style Dr Who voice then shame on you.