before i get to the good stuff, i just have to share this, because i am cruel.

on the way to class today i was skateboarding along hoover st. in the bike path toward campus, minding my own. riding toward me was a fairly “jolly” young lady on a bike, with a white t-shirt stretched over her large biking body. no big deal, right? i don’t normally take notice of people anyway. but as she rode past me, i saw the funniest thing i saw today: her tshirt had a great big “jelly belly” logo on the front. oh my god, i was glad she was riding the opposite direction and i didn’t have to hold back. if she had been riding alongside me and i saw that i’m positive i couldn’t have held it in and spared her feelings. not to mention being next to her for longer would have made it even funnier. i just had to wonder, did she not realize the walking sight-gag she was going to be when she put that shirt on this morning? or did she do it in some strange act of pride? i can’t see either as being very feasible. i guess she just loves those jelly beans.

oh man, i’m awful.

this week’s song of the week is the issue at hand here though. it was rough this week: do i pick a phantom planet song since they played here yesterday and their cd just came out? do i slap up an old death cab or d-plan favorite, since their big show is this friday night and i’m quivering with anticipation? do i share a tasty trio song since i saw them last weekend and they rocked my saturday night admirably? or do i just stick up the saves the day song with the riff that somehow, months after i thought i decided i didn’t like their new cd, changed my mind? (the song is jukebox breakdown, by the way).

hard to say. but to keep things refreshing, it’s none of those — fooled you! it’s a great track from the new lawrence arms cd that i should have bought at the show saturday, but didn’t. someday, someday… anyway, this song, your gravest words, has really hit the spot for me this week, and you’ll be singing it to yourself too before long.