That Song

Every once in a while my family will become hooked on an artist, an album, a song. It starts innocently enough, a song that may or may not have been popular on the radio (generally speaking, radio stations are terrible here, with none that I have found playing anything interesting or progressive, but I digress) and may have inappropriate lyrics for the younger set. We buy the CD, and the song gets requested over and over and over again by passengers in the back seat of my car until every word is memorized and beyond.

The first such song I recall is "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker (Uncle Kracker was later arrested as a sex offender in Raleigh, ewww). The lyrics had undertones of infidelity but an addictive phrase:
All you know is when I'm with you I make you free
And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea


The most recent artist, album, song combination is Jason Mraz, We Sing We Dance, We Steal Things. The song, "I'm Yours" is number 2 on the CD. "Play number 2" is the first thing requested in my car these days. The favorite phrase in this song is:
Open up your plans and damn, you're free

Personally, I think the interest in that phrase is the desire to say a "bad word" and get away with it. We also really like the way he scats and sings I'm Your-za...

Call it unenlightened, but I really don't understand a culture where a man can divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times as they can in Saudi Arabia. Even worse, check out this story...divorce by text message. Good grief. I'd like to think marriage is more sacred than that in any culture.

WHERE do they come up with this stuff?

As I was working one day in my kitchen, I noticed someone in my house watching a show on Animal Planet called Groomer Has It. Basically, it's a reality TV show about dog groomers, competing against each other. There are catty contestants, strange tasks, and judges that try to create drama that shouldn't exist.

I mean really. Can we please go back to sitcoms?