Song of The Week 5

So this week I had two songs fighting it out for Song of The Week. But the one that won is a song I have liked for a long time and came on the radio last night as I was leaving my parents house.
Feist- Mushaboom
I don't normally try to interpret what the song of the week is about but this song came on at the perfect moment and it struck me that the song is about being in your 20s.
Here are part of the song lyrics:

" Helping the kids out of their coats
Oh wait the babies haven't been born oh
Unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups oh

But in the meantime we've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay"

I guess you could also say it is a song about wanting to live in the country but I think it is about the in between time I feel like I am in. Not grown up but not kid anymore either. This song came on right after I had just said goodbye to my brother who moved to Hawaii today to start his first REAL job and maybe have his dreams match up with his pay. How is that for being grown up.

Watch List

This weekend I was on my way to an ultimate tournament with the high school team I am helping out. The mom who drove asked me all these questions about Puerto Rico and then I remembered that is what this blog is supposed be about not my taste for sad indie rock. So I am still going through the letters and I will post more as soon as I get them in some sort of order. But before I do that I thought I would give you an idea of why I was an exchange student since this mom who was driving me to the ultimate tourney asked me that and most people want to know. I think the best way to explain why is to say that my family is big on exchange students.
Here are the kids who have lived in my parents house:
Michiko- Japan
Noelia- Argentina
Jackie- Italy
Vicky- Argentina
Louise- Canada
Ricky- Mexico
Geovanni- Italy
and
Henrik- Greenland

And those are just the ones I remember and not counting cousins from France who would come to visit. If the FBI knew about this list they might put my parents on some sort of watch list.
Also both my brothers have been exchange students.
You know how alcoholism runs in families in my family it is exchangism so I had no choice I had to go to Puerto Rico.
Oh yeah and my parents rock for letting all these kids come live at our house. I can't wait till I grow up so I can be a host parent.

Song of The Week 4

So I just finished reading Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.
And all I have to say it is a good book and you should read it. It only took me a few days to read it and my median time for Hop On Pop is 45 minutes so you should be able to finish it all quick like. One other thing I do have to say about the book is it includes kleptomaniacs, hari krishnas and the kabbalah.
Anyway this is not book of the week it is song of the week. And song of the week is
Song For Myla Goldberg- The Decemberists

Bryan hates that I like this song because all I can sing from it is "unique new york, unique new york"

Song of The Week 3

So I know I am a little late with this one. It has been a crazy few days: baby Leila was born, Bryan got the flu and I went up to Berkeley to check out their MPH Program. Anyway that does not mean I do not have song of the week. While I was running yesterday trying not to think about everything that was going on and just enjoy how funny looking people generally have funny looking dogs (yes I know what Lola looks like) anyway I was listening to The Gossip so this weeks song is:

The Gossip- Standing In The Way of Control

Because who does not like feminist rock and roll.

Stage Fright

I have a problem peeing in public bathrooms. My friend Amy calls this condition "stage fright", if I know someone is in the bathroom I can't use it. This probably all started when I went to kindergarten and I did not want to go to the bathroom so I learned how to hold it until I got home. When I was in Berkeley I would talk with friends about the best bathrooms in the library for people who suffer from stage fright. Anyway, I thought of this yesterday because where I work has bathrooms with stalls, I generally try to time it so no one will be in there, well while I was washing my hands my co worker came in and she went in the stall and farted. Then I had to see her all day knowing I heard her fart, this is why businesses should never have bathrooms with stalls.

Song of The Week 2

I have only had the CD for 3 hours but I can tell this weeks song is going to be The Arcade Fire's Keep the Car Running.