2004 called, it wants this post back! The Jerk Store called its running out of you!

I have a story to tell, but its so embarrassing that I'm rallying myself to put it to blog form.
In the meantime I am tossing back Three Floyds Ale (pride and joy) trying to will myself to write this heartbreaking staggering tale of idiocy.

Actually, its a miracle that you are reading this.  I change the password to this blog so often that I keep forgetting the password.  So basically, I have to change the password every time I log in, and GOOGLE remembers all the little passwords I've used before, so none of my "greatest hits" in password-land will work. Drat.

So right now, I'm on my 6th Three Floyds Ale and I'm listening to Anais Mitchell.  She is so cute.  She is doing a concert in Madison, WI next May and I'm making boner-ific plans to go see her.  A creepy solo concert attendance. I don't have any friends.  No partyers who'd like to see my vocal crush Anais Mitchell.

This song is from her 2004 album "Hymns for the exiled". This song is called "1984". My favorite lyric is "excuse me a minute, big brother's at the door and he's ready to party like its 1984."
another lyric.
"you know your my one and only/ you always have been/ sure is gonna be lonely after I turn you in.  So I'll wait 'tll tomorrow to file my report and tonight we can party...like its 1984."
Rememeber 2004?. We had a fresh war.  All the liberals were in a tizzy about the Patriot Act. I was working at Ragstock in the Mall of America.

Isn't she cute? Isn't her voice evocative?  I love it.  She's on Ani Difranco's Righteous Babe Label.  She has another great song on her Hymns for the Exiled album.  Its called "One Good Thing."
It popped up while I was working on one of my Nanowrimo novels.  I usually play my Pandora ani difranco channel as I write and it brought me to "one good thing."
Sure its bitter, but now my crush on her has multiplied tenfold.  I have to go to Madison in May to see her. My life is nothing right now.  I need to go see her in Madison. It's only a six hour drive.

I'm trying to figure out why I like her stuff so much.  Is it because she has a childish voice? I don't think its fake. She's not pulling a Tom Waits.  I don't know.  It hits me in a weird place.  And I can't listen to too much of her, otherwise I go crazy. Too much girly-vocals in my life. But I do appreciate her in small doses. She did a song about a Hurricane Katrina survivor (remember that, almost ten years ago?) called "Out of Pawn".

"Hey uncle louie I wrote you a song, I'm glad you got your heart out of pawn." Its a song about an uncle who can't find his post-hurricane lass. alas. Sprechen Sie Treme?

I'm living one of those moments that you usually file under 1997. Remember The Rembrandts?