My friends have just bought their first impulse-buy car: a bright yellow Corvette. You have to know these people in order to see how amazingly
insane this all is - they are both hard working, quiet, middle class folks (not without humour), with, apparently, a wild side hungering for speed... So now I can't get that Dodge Hemi commercial tagline out of my head (and it has become our standard joke that when I exclaim that their car has a hemi - which, in all truth, I don't think it has - they yell back
"Sweeeeet!"). I think it is because we are down South, and we're surrounded by lots of other muscular cars and trucks (which is a really big deal down here). Besides being ridiculously fast, I suspect this car can also become a Transformer
(although my friends haven't initiated that option yet). Paradoxically, I was never a car person - although I do have a soft spot for
Maru-chan - so I can't get too jazzed by this bumble bee rocket car in the drive way (don't worry
Maru-chan, just ignore it - you'll always be special to me!). However, I am happy for my friends, as they do seem to derive much enjoyment doing doughnuts in the street and making smoke shows at traffic lights for the benefit of the locals...
And speaking of
Sweeeeet, does anyone out there like
Matthew Sweet? Not a day goes by when I'm not humming some song off of
Girlfriend or
100% Fun (and isn't that album just the perfect music to make you feel a little better when your day is running you down?).
I'm beginin' to think, baby you don't know!
My friends have just bought their first impulse-buy car: a bright yellow Corvette. You have to know these people in order to see how amazingly insane this all is - they are both hard working, quiet, middle class folks (not without humour), with, apparently, a wild side hungering for speed... So now I can't get that Dodge Hemi commercial tagline out of my head (and it has become our standard joke that when I exclaim that their car has a hemi - which, in all truth, I don't think it has - they yell back "Sweeeeet!"). I think it is because we are down South, and we're surrounded by lots of other muscular cars and trucks (which is a really big deal down here). Besides being ridiculously fast, I suspect this car can also become a Transformer 
(although my friends haven't initiated that option yet). Paradoxically, I was never a car person - although I do have a soft spot for Maru-chan - so I can't get too jazzed by this bumble bee rocket car in the drive way (don't worry Maru-chan, just ignore it - you'll always be special to me!). However, I am happy for my friends, as they do seem to derive much enjoyment doing doughnuts in the street and making smoke shows at traffic lights for the benefit of the locals...
And speaking of Sweeeeet, does anyone out there like Matthew Sweet? Not a day goes by when I'm not humming some song off of Girlfriend or 100% Fun (and isn't that album just the perfect music to make you feel a little better when your day is running you down?). I'm beginin' to think, baby you don't know!
2 comments:
Like you, I can't really get turned on by all things automotive. And like you, I agree that Matthew Sweet is superb. We discovered his first album on release day amongst a slew of cheesy others when I was working at Virgin. He soon became a staple of our everyday music diet.
On a sadder note, his first two albums became a point of contention between myself and my girlfriend of that period. We wasted a great deal of time and worsened our already painful breakup arguing over just who it was who found out about him first and purchased the CDs. I lost, and it would be many years before I could recover the mood his music used to put me in.
Where exactly is he from anyway? To my British/Japanese ears he has a great melodious American twang to his voice.
Alex and rc-1172!!
I just knew you guys would step up to the plate and bat for Matthew Sweet!
Whenever I'm driving Maru-chan for any distance (which, around here, is anytime I head into town), I love to sing stuff from 100% Fun -and since my car only has an ancient tape deck (tapes?! Eee gad, I haven't had those for a very long time...) it means I have to make all my own music.
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