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Ryan
i am planning a party for Canadian home owners and was wondering what is some good music they would enjoy. Something easy to listen to.
I am an employee at a home building company throwing a community party for about 350 people
Answer
It's kind of like asking, what do American adults listen to? It really depends.
Myself, I'm from Toronto, almost 50, and there isn't a genre of music I don't like. Most of the time, you will find me listening to rap/hip-hop. But if I had to pick two fav. genres, it'd be classical and dancehall. I also listen to a lot of jazz and blues. The pre-sets in my car are #1 classical 96.3, #2 Flow 93.5, #3 jazz.fm 91.1. I also like Bhangra, bagpipe, J-pop, world music, and reggaton.
Basically everything. Not too much country, folk, rock, or metal, though.
:-)
EDIT: All that said, I've found when having group events, you can't really go wrong with cool jazz over dinner, and/or classic rock songs most people over 40 know. R&B can also be a good choice, assuming it isn't too fast or too slow. ...Nothing too jarring, unless you know that's the taste of the majority of attendees.
When I have mixed parties, I play a fair bit of jazz, with some of my favourite, funkier world music thrown in. Invariably, people compliment the musical selections, and always inquire about "that African-sounding song" or "the one in Portuguese with the groovy beat." these are my personal parties, so I like sharing my music with others. But corporate events are more about making sure everyone is comfortable, and there's nothing too extreme.
It's kind of like asking, what do American adults listen to? It really depends.
Myself, I'm from Toronto, almost 50, and there isn't a genre of music I don't like. Most of the time, you will find me listening to rap/hip-hop. But if I had to pick two fav. genres, it'd be classical and dancehall. I also listen to a lot of jazz and blues. The pre-sets in my car are #1 classical 96.3, #2 Flow 93.5, #3 jazz.fm 91.1. I also like Bhangra, bagpipe, J-pop, world music, and reggaton.
Basically everything. Not too much country, folk, rock, or metal, though.
:-)
EDIT: All that said, I've found when having group events, you can't really go wrong with cool jazz over dinner, and/or classic rock songs most people over 40 know. R&B can also be a good choice, assuming it isn't too fast or too slow. ...Nothing too jarring, unless you know that's the taste of the majority of attendees.
When I have mixed parties, I play a fair bit of jazz, with some of my favourite, funkier world music thrown in. Invariably, people compliment the musical selections, and always inquire about "that African-sounding song" or "the one in Portuguese with the groovy beat." these are my personal parties, so I like sharing my music with others. But corporate events are more about making sure everyone is comfortable, and there's nothing too extreme.
How can I get my sleep back in sync?
Q. For the past 3 weeks, I've some how fallen into falling asleep around 6am and waking up at 4:30pm every day. This is the longest I've ever been in a cycle like this, the cause is my boyfriend is currently 6 hours behind me, and now I'm on his sleep cycle exactly.
If I wake up at a decent time from a night of being restless, I'll pass out later in the day.
If I wake up at a decent time from a night of being restless, I'll pass out later in the day.
Answer
Try treating your "screwey" sleep schedule like Jet-lag.
I'm constantly facing jet-lag in my day to day life. Don't mistake this, I'm not some jet-setting playboy, but losing three hours here and two hours there (sometimes twelve if the boss really "likes" me) really takes its toll on sleeping schedule. The only way I've been able to combat this is through a forced schedule.
Now, in the case of a plane ride you have to take into consideration if you're gaining time or losing time. This dictates whether to sleep during the trip or to stay awake. Considering you don't need to hop on a plane, I'll spare you that detail.
Once on the ground, I take account of the time. If it's 8am and I just ate dinner on the plane. The best solution here: force a breakfast. NOthing hearty, but a muffin or a piece of fruit. This puts me on track for the rest of the day. Likewise, if lunch was at twelve o'clock when I left, but it's now approaching ten o'clock when I land, I'm going to have to skip a meal, and lay down in bed to get ready to force a schedule.
You may be saying: "I don't care about food, I want to fix my sleeping habits." I'm getting to that." Your body works on an internal clock, it understands when you need to be active and when to go into it's more natural state of sleep. forcing your schedule will reset this clock, it'll feel awful for the first day or two, but it will reset quickly and you'll feel no side effects.
Here's an example. I once made a flight into Liverpool from Toronto. as many of you know, england is about five hours ahead. Now, when I left it was about 6 in the evening on a Tuesday. by the time I arrived it was 7 in the morning the next day. I stayed awake the entire flight doing work (I had no choice). When I arrived, I just wanted to collapse, so I did. The next three days were hell.
The next year, I had the same flight, again same scenario and time (roughly). Now even though I was dead tired, I forced myself to stay awake and take in a few sights. I didn't get to bed until about 9:30 in the evening. I know, not incredibly late, but even though the first day was hell, I felt better the rest of the trip.
I have kept to this regiment ever since with similar schedules and with fantastic results.
So, force your schedule. When it's 4:00 in the afternoon, instead going to sleep cause you're tired go out and do some shopping. If it's 8:00 am, and you still feel tired start setting multiple alarms or put your clock across the room so you're forced to get up to turn off the alarm and wake yourself up (I use hotel alarm clocks, set my phone on alarm and have the front desk give me a wake up call).
You may feel like crap for a day or two, but your clock will reset.
Try treating your "screwey" sleep schedule like Jet-lag.
I'm constantly facing jet-lag in my day to day life. Don't mistake this, I'm not some jet-setting playboy, but losing three hours here and two hours there (sometimes twelve if the boss really "likes" me) really takes its toll on sleeping schedule. The only way I've been able to combat this is through a forced schedule.
Now, in the case of a plane ride you have to take into consideration if you're gaining time or losing time. This dictates whether to sleep during the trip or to stay awake. Considering you don't need to hop on a plane, I'll spare you that detail.
Once on the ground, I take account of the time. If it's 8am and I just ate dinner on the plane. The best solution here: force a breakfast. NOthing hearty, but a muffin or a piece of fruit. This puts me on track for the rest of the day. Likewise, if lunch was at twelve o'clock when I left, but it's now approaching ten o'clock when I land, I'm going to have to skip a meal, and lay down in bed to get ready to force a schedule.
You may be saying: "I don't care about food, I want to fix my sleeping habits." I'm getting to that." Your body works on an internal clock, it understands when you need to be active and when to go into it's more natural state of sleep. forcing your schedule will reset this clock, it'll feel awful for the first day or two, but it will reset quickly and you'll feel no side effects.
Here's an example. I once made a flight into Liverpool from Toronto. as many of you know, england is about five hours ahead. Now, when I left it was about 6 in the evening on a Tuesday. by the time I arrived it was 7 in the morning the next day. I stayed awake the entire flight doing work (I had no choice). When I arrived, I just wanted to collapse, so I did. The next three days were hell.
The next year, I had the same flight, again same scenario and time (roughly). Now even though I was dead tired, I forced myself to stay awake and take in a few sights. I didn't get to bed until about 9:30 in the evening. I know, not incredibly late, but even though the first day was hell, I felt better the rest of the trip.
I have kept to this regiment ever since with similar schedules and with fantastic results.
So, force your schedule. When it's 4:00 in the afternoon, instead going to sleep cause you're tired go out and do some shopping. If it's 8:00 am, and you still feel tired start setting multiple alarms or put your clock across the room so you're forced to get up to turn off the alarm and wake yourself up (I use hotel alarm clocks, set my phone on alarm and have the front desk give me a wake up call).
You may feel like crap for a day or two, but your clock will reset.
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