SONG OF THE DAY

“Airstream Driver” – Gomez (A New Tide, ATO Records, 2009).

INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia)

– Gomez is a British indie-rock band that formed in the mid-90’s, and have since made six studio albums, of which A New Tide is the most recent.

– The band played their first gig together in late 1996 in Leeds without a formal name. The band left a sign out which read ‘Gomez the gig’s in here” for a friend of theirs whose surname was Gomez to indicate that it was the site of their first gig. People saw the sign and assumed that the band’s name was Gomez – the name stuck

MY TAKE

First, I will point out that I always wanted to be an airstream driver, just like the cool girl in this song. I lovelovelove vintage trailers, and though I am not a camper, I am most definitely a road-tripper. Just as long as we stay indoors, to which a trailer most certainly counts. I cannot wait to retire and own one of these bad boys (ummm, I’m 26, am I even allowed to talk about retirement??). Maybe I don’t have to wait until the sun has melted the earth a.k.a. when I’m 70, maybe I can own one when I am a family woman and raise my kids in it during the summer as we travel around seeing the sights of the country and visiting people and meeting people and making art. My kids will make art.

Second, how about I comment on the actual song. I think I have proved my devotion to this song by not allowing it to exit my brain for the past 6 weeks, even for a short respite. This song is so catchy that I’ve literally sang it at least once every other day (and sometimes daily, and sometimes all day) for over a month now. My family, fiancee and possibly a few people at work are going to kill me if I sing “Oh, airstream driver” out loud one more time. Or the synthesized guitar part in the bridge

VIDEOS OF THE DAY

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