Five With Flores

Courtesy of our friend Luis Neiman (aka Luis not Vargas aka @l_neiman)… Basically the worst thing that has ever happened to music, Optimus Prime, or… well… music.

I was going to write a follow up post to the already popular You Make the Play - Keep or No? but Luis sent this to me via Twitter and I felt compelled to say something, especially given my choice of tee shirt tomorrow.

“The worst part is that it’s real.”

I really don’t know what to say.

For those of you who don’t want to cut your eyes out at this point, I remind you that there is such a thing as good in the world:

 

Wish me luck tomorrow!

LOVE
MIKE

Currently Reading: The OMAC Project (Countdown to Infinite Crisis) (re-read… Man I love Rucka’s spy stuff)

Following are more-or-less my five favorite songs. One of them isn’t even sung by a chick!

My daughter has a playlist on my YouTube Channel. If you want to watch it, it’s called Bella’s Superheroes. It’s basically Spider-Man fighting Ryu and so on… screen captures of guys playing Street Fighter.

But I have another playlist of awesome songs that I often watch / listen to at work. My daughter really likes music and has eerily superb taste for a four-year-old. She was rocking out to Portions for Foxes by Rilo Kiley and my wife happened by while Bella was strumming air guitar and leaping from this huge wooden stool onto the living room carpet.

“You know, Mommy think’s that’s Mommy’s favorite song,” she said.

Bella just kept bopping air guitar (she says her favorite song is Into the Groove by Madonna, but I think she likes So What by P!nk the best).

You know… Even the best, closest, couples have rough patches once in a while. But overhearing that thing about Portions for Foxes being K’s favorite song… it was just one of the infinite tiny things that occur, unheralded, in a marriage that remind you you’re connected to the right person.

#1 Portions for Foxes by Rilo Kiley

This song has the absolute best opening line of any song, ever:

“There’s blood in my mouth / ’cause I’ve been biting my tounge all week…”

So good.

#2 Special by Garbage

This is a song that reminds me of my first summer in New York City. We only had like three MP3s back then… This was one of them. Shirley Manson is so hot.

#3 The Touch by Stan Bush

If you don’t know how I feel about this song, I suggest you read this. At the very least it’s the only blog post I’ve ever written whereby my readers have stated that I 1) I restored his faith in humanity, or 2) made a grown man cry tears of joy… Plus you should probably shotgun a tee shirt (I got two for Christmas! Go me!).

#4 As Cool As I Am by Dar Williams

I have only ever bought the album they were playing in the record store two times. The first time they were playing this song. I later remembered that I had heard it before, road tripping up and down New Jersey for a week in-between a family vacation and Pro Tour New York 1997. Dar Williams eventually grew into my favorite solo artist. I still feel like she is the finest songwriter to use the English language. I don’t know if this is my absolute favorite Dar song (probably not, actually)… but it is the one that made me fall in love with her.

I opened that PT with wins over Aaron Muranaka (Top 8 at PT Atlanta earlier that year) and Rob Dougherty (Hall of Fame)… and then didn’t make day two. Typical.

#5 He’s Gone by Leona Naess

I dunno if this one will stick forever, but right now I find myself playing this video over and over and over (just ask anyone walking past my office). I take a fair number of musical cues from Josh Ravitz… He was the one who introduced me to Rilo Kiley (my favorite band), for instance. A few weeks ago at the office he asked me if I knew this song, and… Well one thing led to another and I just run Leona at least four times a day.

Well, there you go.

Don’t forget to read the background story behind my big love for The Touch if you haven’t already.

LOVE
MIKE