Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

From our 1st wedding anniversary, June 14, finally finishing off the bottle of Don Julio from Mexico. Baby got wasted.

So yeah, things are a little crazy around here, but it has given the staff at The Booze Cabinet an incentive to redesign and reinvent. It’s a real team effort, and casual Friday really gets them fired up. I offer that once a month for my employees (we don’t want them to get too comfortable). Maybe we’ll get some pizza and colas later on.

Anyway, hard to believe but it was just a year ago that we (not the staff but me and mine) were in Cancun, Mexico. It looked like this every day. Oh, how great it was.

I’ve been meaning to post my wedding songlist–not in its entirety, there’s too many–but a sample of what we had going on, just to give you the flavor of it all (or to bring back memories). One of the most enjoyable parts of my wedding was that I had complete control over the music, so there was no “chicken dance” or hokey-pokey bullshit (sorry if you did–really, I’m very sorry for you).

I put together a “quiet set,” a “medium set,” and a “dance-y set” for the various parts of the evening, but today we will focus on the quiet set, which played during most of the post-ceremony/drinking and eating appetizers portion (bride and groom spent a good chunk of this time on the beach taking pictures), and also continued into dinner.

But first, the song that played while my lovely bride walked down the stairs and to the beach with her father was “Love” by John Lennon. I can’t tell you how perfect that song was–except that I just did. And then, after the ceremony ended, the guy who I left in charge of my iPod accidentally played “Untitled” by Blonde Redhead (off of Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons) as we walked down the aisle/sand, and it was totally perfect. I’m pretty sure the guy couldn’t understand a word of what I saying when I gave him directions, but he just smiled and nodded his head, sure, si, si! Anyway, nice job, sound guy from Cancun.

Here’s a sample of the Quiet Set:

A Love Supreme–John Coltrane (the whole thing)
“Playground Love”–Air (from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack)
“Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer”–The Afghan Whigs
“New Orleans Instrumental No. 1″–R.E.M.
“Videotape,” “Kid A” and “Treefingers”–Radiohead
“Fly” and “Road”–Nick Drake
“Waltz #1″–Elliott Smith
“Bombed”–Mark Lanegan
“The Seer’s Tower” and “Concerning the UFO Sighting…”–Sufjan Stevens
“My Man”–Billie Holiday
“Blue Spanish Sky”–Chris Issak
“Postcards from Italy”–Beirut
“Naked As We Came”–Iron & Wine
“Nobody’s Fault But My Own”–Beck
“Black Eye”–Jeff Tweedy (from the Sunken Treasure dvd)
“Good Woman”–Cat Power
“Blue Red and Grey”–The Who
“Tom Traubert’s Blues” and “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)”–Tom Waits
“Measuring Cups”–Andrew Bird

I also threw in a Thom Yorke solo piano version of “Analyse,” some instrumental songs from the “Until the End of the World” soundtrack, and various great jazz songs from Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. Ah, listening to it right now…

Wow. It’s been a crazy month of June, and apparently today is the last day. It feels as if I’ve spent the entire month celebrating (because I have!). A week in Mexico and then the Chicago reception last Saturday night, and now it is all finally over. And then, depression sets in…

One thing is for sure, we left no stone unturned in the quest for a party. My sincere thanks to everyone who was a part of it. My most muchos of gracias.

This was my view for a week, every morning when I woke up, and besides spending the first day and night under rainy clouds it was perfect and blue the rest of the time. Beautiful Cancun, muchos gracias! A married man, I am. What a great week it was.