fille a la maison
"For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!"
The best way, I can think of, to enjoy Missy Elliot�s music is to imagine Kathy Bates singing it instead of Missy, boys, boys, all types of boys � black, white, Puerto Rican, Chinese boys
I am working getting ready to return to my exile in Academia hosted by the State of Nebraska. The Unicameral of Nebraska passed a law while I was in college stating that quality radio programming was out of the question. Western Pennsylvania has similar, less logical laws aimed at boring passing motorists. To that end, I need your help. First, I need good play lists for my iPod (the car I am borrowing this summer is equipped to play an iPod through the speakers � hot). Second, if you are a rich and benevolent reader you can send me an iTunes Gift Certificate to my email address.
I may even name a play list after you. Right now, I am compiling my �Connie Cobb� play list because Colleen (the author) is my fille a la maison (I can feel Margaret cringing at my French, and here her �tut tut� across cyber space). As much as I adore Colleen, my play list needs to be reworked:
Connie Cobb �Whatever I Feel Like� Napoleon Dynamite
�Working My Way Back To You Babe� The Spinners
�Paint it, Black� The Rolling Stones
�Light My Fire� The Doors
�Reflections� Diana Ross & the Supremes
�Strawberry Fields� (performed by) Ben Harper
�You�re A God� Vertical Horizon
�Collide� Howie Day
�Trucker Hat� Bowling for Soup
This does not adequately express the style and spunk that is represented by my fille a la maison by �Working My Way Back To You Babe� used to be her diary title, �Paint it, Black� and �Reflections� are throw backs to when I watched television and my obsession with shows about Viet Nam (we had one channel in English where I grew up), �Light My Fire� is fantastic, �Strawberry Fields� fulfills the law of mix tapes and play lists that states they include at least one Beatles Standard, �You�re a God� because Colleen is worth faking knowledge of French, �Collide� got there on its own and I am too lazy to change it and I wrote �Trucker Hat� about Colleen. This does not reflect her tastes in music, but the retro goodness of this play list is supposed to be a tribute to her timeless style, not an admission of guilt on my part for having terrible taste in music.
It says a lot about Nebraska that it has a unicameral legislature, namely that they are too lazy to have two houses. South Africa has three. Other notable unicameral governments include: your mother�s parole board.
What is on your iPod? What should be on mine?
I had Oreo cookies for breakfast this morning. I need to be disappointed in myself.
