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Day Eighty Two (Year Three)

Well, the big day is FINALLY here!  SL and I are getting married today!  The six months of crazy planning have finally been put in the rearview mirror, and we're finally able to relax (?) and just enjoy the day with our close friends and family.

One of the things I've been working on this past week has been the playlists for the time before the wedding and the lunch/reception after the wedding.  Picking music for something like that is a lot like picking songs to put on a mixtape.  There's an entire post in that sentence that's begging to be written, but that's not what I'm after today, so... watch for that one sometime soon.

Other than the obligatory inclusions of "Iron Man" and "Ice Ice Baby," most of what we have on this list could (at least in some way) be construed as love songs.  For the record, we've even got one called "Love Songs" (by Brandi Carlile, from her XOBC EP), and "I Love You" by Barenaked Ladies.  Clever ones, we are. 

At any rate, it's gotten me thinking about love songs, and about one song on our list in particular.  If we have a "song," it is, without a doubt, "Accidentally In Love" by Counting Crows.  While it was used in (and maybe written specifically for) Shrek 2, I feel like it's an interesting case study.  The main reason I feel this way is that, it's the most unabashedly happy song by a songwriter (Adam Duritz) who has made his living by (some, would say) over-analyzing the darker parts of life.  It's such a breezy, cheery song that, at times it feels out of place for them, and yet, it can also serve as the perfect remedy for an overcast, downer of a day.  It's one of those songs that puts a smile on your face and a bounce in your step whether you want it to or not.

And that's why it'll play twice today.  Once when we walk out of the chapel as a couple, and once as the last song of the reception playlist.  

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