14 May
What was that round yellow thing in the sky yesterday?
I left the house yesterday morning to go to the van, and the brightness was so unexpected that I threw my arms across my face, howling like a vampire.
"ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!"
So, after work I was walking to the van and was hit by an almost unbearable need to go to Virgin and buy some cds!
So, I did!
I walked in wanting several specific things: Tori Amos' new album, Cheap Trick at Budokan, Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, and the albums of the two songs that I have not been able to get out of my head lately.
One of those songs is "Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground, so I got that album, and the other was...well, I didn't know the name of the song and I had no idea who the artist was, all I had was part of the lyric:
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you give me no reason
Why you make me work so hard?
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
That you give me no
Soul, I hear you calling
O baby, please
Give a little respect to me
Now, I have been singing that song for the past month, and I finally looked it up by that lyric, and it's by Erasure!
Who?
I had a vague memory of the name of the group, but couldn't think of a single song that they may or may not have done, so when I went to Virgin I dug through the bin and found that the album with the song on it was like a decade old, so I have no idea why I have been singing it! Is it on a movie soundtrack? Is it one of those older songs that they play on the Top 40 stations that everybody at work listens to but me? No idea.
But I bought the album (the greatest hits)! And when I got home, that was the first one that I listened to.
To quote Goat Boy "Hey, remember the 80's?!"
It's this boppy 80's synth-pop that I have never particularly been into, except for ABC's Lexicon of Love, but I really liked it! And I remembered the song "O L'amour", that I sang constantly around eight years ago, but I never knew it was them.
O, and of course that wasn't anything like all the albums I got!
Are you kidding? Me, get only what I planned? Heaven forfend!
They didn't have the Liz Phair album, so I felt free to get everything in sight. In addition to Tori, Cheap Trick, Marcy Playground and Erasure, I also got Ani DiFranco's Out of Range, the Lilith Fair album, and, from the Folk ghetto (why is that section always so hard to find?) I got Kate and Anna McGarrigle's first album, Dar Williams' The Honesty Room and The Weavers' The Best of the Decca Years, because it has the song "Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie" that I adore and it's not on my cherished Weavers box set.
So, all in all, a productive hour at the record store, Liz Phair or no!
So yesterday was a one day taxi strike.
What a great day! Clear streets, no honking, no-one almost running me down--of course, had I needed a taxi, I wouldn't have liked it so much!
Our esteemed and somewhat dopey mayor, Rudy, said slightly petulantly that it would be fine with him if they never came back!
I'll bet the fact that there would be 400,000 new unemployed people would catch his notice, though!
Anyway, he sent 70 vans or whatever to the airports to help travelers, since without taxis there is almost no way to get to the city, and he remarked on the fact that every other city in the known universe has airport shuttle services, maybe NY should, too!
Well, duh!
Don't forget, shugs, if you wanna get up to the minute reports on what a big doof I can be, send a blank e-mail to yes-hedgehog@americanfolk.com.
And don't forget that "yes"!
One year ago today:
"Birth certificates only!!"
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