The first of the month! I am so filled with hope this first of March that SPRINGTIME is on it’s way! If not, at least a warm weather vacay is nigh. 


Lisa sent me this awesome bumper sticker/ window cling alllll the way from the north. North Minneapolis, that is. It fits me quite well, I think. I don’t text while driving, I don’t space out. I don’t often talk on the phone behind the wheel or try to eat impossible things (do I sound like All-state guy yet?) 


But I DO sing like a madwoman when driving. While it’s much louder and more spirited when I’m alone, I don’t really hold back when I have passengers either.


Thus, it’s only appropriate that this arrived in the mail yesterday. It gave me an omen that March was destined to be:




MUSIC MONTH!


I am so excited about this- I’ve wanted to do a music month for awhile now. This month’s topic will include:


-“top 10” style lists (up for rebuttal from my readers, of course!)
-songs that bring me back to a particular time
-new songs I hear that I want to share
-favorite lyrics or song lines
-playlists that others create for me! Share the wealth if you want to make a theme list for a post!
-me making fun of certain artists for sport


and more, of course.


Tonight, however, I’ll devote to “songs I love to sing in the car.” How appropriate, right?


-“Tears for the Sheep”- Atmosphere. Actually, any Atmosphere song. Slug’s lyrics are instantly memorizable to me, and I guess maybe it’s just the Minneapolitan in me but I sure can rock out when I hear this song

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-“Eff” you- Cee Lo Green- Yes, still. This song may never get old to me. Ever. I sing it at bad drivers as I go


-“Funkytown” -Lipps Inc. – Again, maybe the Minnesota thing. But the breakdown in the middle inspires not only singing but flailing and dancing. Awesome.


-“Holiday in Cambodia” by the Dead Kennedy’s, “Allison,” by the Pixies, or anything by the Libertines. Takes me back to high school, I think that’s why.


-Regina Spektor. Awesome car singing. Again, I think it’s the lyrics? Plus she plays with her voice a lot which is fun and makes me laugh. Favorite might be “That time.”


-“Paper Planes” by MIA and “I got you dancing” by Lady Sovereign. File these both under “I delude myself that I’m cool like these two chicks.” Great car singing music.

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So there you have it! May the image of me singing and ruining all of this lovely music haunt you only a very brief time. 


What kind of music do you guys play when you’re driving in the car? Do you get embarrassed singing, or do you rock out when people see you? I tend to rock harder with an audience. Guess I’m just a typical attention wanting youngest child…




“Musical” Meri