Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) This song begins with a guy realizing he's home alone. Do you enjoy being all by yourself?
A. I do like being by myself. I also like being unplugged and away from my phone.
2) He watches the sun throwing shadows on the floor. Which room in your home lets in the most sun?
A. In the morning, the kitchen receives the most sun. In the afternoons, the bedroom receives the most sun.
3) He sings that he may write a letter to his ex. If you were inspired to send someone a handwritten message, do you have stationery or notecards on hand? What about first-class postage stamps?
A. I have notecards and stamps on hand. But I generally type letters because my handwriting is atrocious.
4) This week's band, Better Than Ezra, got their start in Baton Rouge. All the members attended LSU and played their first gig at Murphy's, a bar near campus. When you were in your early 20's, where did you and your friends go to socialize?
A. I was married in my early 20s. We went to friends' houses and occasionally to dance halls, but I think we had stopped that by the time I was 22. When you're focusing on work, going to college, and trying to save up to build a house so you can try to have children, the fun just falls away.
5) While the band refuses to disclose the origin of their name, many assume the "Ezra" they refer to is poet Ezra Pound. Do you often read poetry?
A. I read poetry about once a month. I read the poems in The Atlantic and others that cross my path.
6) In 1995, when this song was popular, Michael Jordan "unretired" and returned to the Chicago Bulls. Tell us about a decision you wish you could undo.
A. In 2000, I was offered the position of editor of The Fincastle Herald, but my mother was dying of pancreatic cancer, so I turned the job down because I didn't think I would have the time to devote to it. I would probably still be editor of the paper if I had taken the job. Maybe.
7) Also in 1995, Phoebe Buffay first performed "Smelly Cat." Do you recall what show she sang on?
A. I have absolutely no idea.
8) Legendary New York Yankee Mickey Mantle died in 1995. How is your team doing so far this young baseball season?
A. I don't have a baseball team that I follow.
9) Random question: What's in your garage, besides your car (lawn tools, holiday decorations, old paint cans, etc.)?
A. We have a nice variety of things. A chest freezer, a dehumidifier, shelves full of bug spray, paint, plant food, oil, cleaning fluid, tools, gloves, clothes for feeding cattle, old newspaper clippings, extra trash bags, bottled water, distilled water, a small heater, a Dyson vacuum, etc.
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You’ve got a lot in your garage. Do you have room for a car?
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, yes. And it's just a one-car garage.
DeleteYour answer to #4 got me thinking about my niece and her husband. They have a wall of bookcases in their family room and I saw two shelves of board games: Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble and others I'd never heard of. When they were establishing their careers and saving for house and baby, they, too, quit the bars and just went to friends' homes. It cost way less and she reminded me, it forced her to be a better housekeeper, knowing that once a month it would be her turn to host the gang. She laughs about this now because with 9-month old Baby Violet, the house looks like a cyclone hit, and she doesn't care.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the Atlantic had poems
ReplyDeleteI bet you would have gotten that job, but I do see that you put family first. I finished college by the time I was almost 22. I wanted to have a baby and that took awhile and our son came just before I turned 26. Infertility and then motherhood changed my outlook for a profession. So family came first. We make the best decision we can at the time. I am sorry you were not able to have kids. Also, that your mom died of pancreatic cancer. My grandfather died from that. Death if hard on the dying and on those of us that grieve their loss.
ReplyDeleteYou've the soul of a bard.
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