Some things I've been getting a kick out of lately

The song "I Get a Kick Out of You" and this other song "I Can't Get Started." In general, I love songs from this time period; the songs are mostly narratives, and they require a lot of passion to sing. The big band enhances the whole meaning of the deal-- the swingy feel is really emphatic, when the brass swells it just like punches you in the chest. Lately, I've been feeling like I wish it were socially acceptable/possible for me to sing to myself and have a big band pop up behind me and let me have my moment, like in an episode of Glee or like in that one scene from 10 Things I hate about you or in a Hindi movie. The songs are not mindless- they don't just repeat a refrain. They tell a real story about unrequited love, which these days is never really mentioned anymore.

It feels like every day there are more and more Indian people on TV, which I dig. From Jack Donnaghy's annoying gay assistant on 30 Rock to Rebecca Logan, the smart but evil sorority senator's daughter on Greek, to Nigel Barker, the sexy fashion photographer (half-Indian) on Next Top Model, to the hilarious principal on Glee, Indians got it. It's just nice to see people who look like you on your tv set, instead of having to deal with feeling like everyone in the mainstream media is white or black.

I've started listening to a lot of "This American Life." I know that that's not new or anything but neither is anything else. I like the way they weave together true stories that can just really touch your heart or weird you out. Becca and I will be stealing a lot of tricks from here when we do our radio show this summer, which has been lovingly entitled, "Who shot the serif?"

Something else I've endeavored to do is listen to all the songs that start with "I" in my library. It really represents a lot of I related emotions. It takes freaking forever too. Did you know that Cake did a cover of "I will survive"? Actually, that's a pretty well known fact. Whatever, you discover little things along with songs you forgot about in your library. In fact, that's probably when I remembered "I Can't Get Started" and "I Get a Kick Out of You." Full circle!

I had a weird dream that my old drama director and some kid in my french class got into a fight about a paper that my old drama director who was also an English teacher had corrected, and it almost got violent. Also, Spain changed it's name, and this word that was a scientific french word that meant something like conduction but also could be used in a sexy way got banned. However, the word didn't exist in real life so I couldn't remember it when I woke up.

I'm listening to Simon & Garfunkel and decrying mob mentality right now.