dude rhymes "hot as hades" with "lot of ladies." what is not to love:
some sad dude apparently named "D" covering beyonce on acoustic guitar:
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel (!!!) - You Really Got a Hold On Me
jesus! simmer down tiger
Hey I'm an idiot, the whole reason I wrote that thing a while ago about strangers being so unexpectedly forward and weird, was to tell the thing about having Thansgiving at Denny's with my family. I was going to say "long story," but it isn't, we just had Thanksgiving at Denny's. Denny's offers a "traditional" Thanksgiving platter but... no, so we ordered a crazy assortment of completely non-holiday foods, except my brother, who, being my brother, ordered a burger with a side of stuffing.
The stuffing got to the table first - no other food, just a little dish of stuffing dropped off by the very busy very nice waitress, and she said something we didn't quite hear, but after Noah tasted the stuffing he said, Did she say this was homemade, or something? Because truly it was the second-best stuffing I've ever eaten in my life. And we were at THE DENNY'S. She'd made a truckload of it at home and brought it to share with the waitresses who had to work the holiday. We were one of two tables in the whole place, and we'd been chatting with her, and she was a sweetheart and then she shared her own personal Thanksgiving dinner with us. And then the other one brought us banana pudding, same deal. They kept bringing us food we hadn't asked for nor expected, they were so cheerful and kind.
It was at this point that I remembered I had a box of beautifully frosted cupcakes in the car, meant for sharing with my family, but way too many anyway. So I got to do a really good thing. They got shared around and this skinny kid poked his head out of the kitchen to thank me, a little while later, and he was smiling and he had frosting on his face. What's better than that?
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Here are some songs that made me happy at the post office today.
Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People. Ok, it's squorky. I know. Especially at the very beginning and end. And there's this one thin needley sound that might slice up inside your ears a little bit. But I love his voice and I love when he mixes it up crazy-style, and glitch + the Sufjan = my happy blown mind. Also I love the word "delighted" so the repetition of "all delighted people raise their hands" is sweetly teriffic.
Beyonce vs. Arrested Development - People Ring the Alarm Everyday. Tired of mashups? Suck it, this song rules.
Lil Mama and Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend Remix. Uh this one is trash but I can't get off it.
Apathy - It Takes a Seven Nation Army to Hold Us Back.
if you like them, tell me. if you don't like them, tell me.
I don't know anything about The Squid and the Whale except it's about divorce and probably sucked, but I have the trailer to thank for giving me Swimming Song. I hesitate to say favorite song because usually that's a dumb thing to say, but I don't know, I've thought of this as my favorite song for well over a year now. It is the People Get Ready of 2007. If you saw the rest of my music you'd know these two picks are hilariously out of line with most everything I listen to, but I can't help it that these are the best.
historically i have not been so big on busdriver but if dude is going to rhyme "fiscal cap" with "disco nap" i guess i'm down.
it's muddy. sorry man.
all girl summer fun band - grass skirt, because you like it
jacob borshard - grass stains, kinda goofy but sweet
Ghostface Killah - Charlie Brown
Rihanna / DJ Earworm - S.O.S. (mashup w/ Nelly, Ozzy, Janis Joplin) (if you're tired of em, don't listen. personally I can't get off this one, it's quality yard-raking stuff)
Because everybody wants this song sooo much, here is Brandtson's Earthquakes and Sharks, only the download will actually work this time.
Also MC Paul Barman's I'm Frickin Awesome, which, yeah, I know, but I don't care. That's an m4a. and Ray Lamontagne's cover of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, which I understand is a gimmick but damn, it's also a good song.
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In the Thai restaurant, the women next to us talked the waiter to death about the crazy concept of fried ice cream.
-I always thought if you fried it, it would melt!
-Well, the Mexicans do it.
Satisfied, they ordered it.
Hi Ira, on my way out the door but wanted to post this before I forgot: since you liked Bishop Allen's Corazon, you may like the Decemberists' Valencia. It's' not the same thing, but you'll see.
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