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Released: 2000 12 tracks
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... there's a green Jetta with my wife and oldest son, hurtling back to Wichita. This was to be the week where Morgan extricated himself from the video games, and learned how to be a camp counselor at the local Boy Scout camp. Alas, his bullheadedness struck again, and now he's headed home. This all started last Saturday, as we headed out to the water park at the local YMCA for some fun in the sun. I was being the ever-cautious father, and brought the best sunblock we ... MORE
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"According to lead singer Gordon Gano, this song is not about masturbation as popularly thought. He wrote this song about a girl he had a crush on in high school. Gordon was sensitive about his small hands, and on the first day of school a girl came up to him, held his hands in the air, and exclaimed, "Look what small hands he has!" So, he wrote the song from the perspective of a girl lusting after a boy with big hands. This explains the "big hands I know you're the one" l... MORE
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The first Random Ten with video links for every track. 1. Randy Newman, "I Love L.A." The essence of Los Angeles, stated in such a way that us LA-haters can smile smugly while the Los Angelenos can claim the song as their own: "Look at that mountain, Look at those trees, Look at that bum over there, man, He's down on his knees." Gotta get Toto as musicians, of course. 2. The Violent Femmes, "Add It Up." Shuffle play is cheating a bit here … some sources claim this was... MORE
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...I was driving down Sunset yesterday on my way back from Malibu, in bumper-to-bumper traffic along the Strip, heading East when just as the traffic on my side of the street started to surge forward this beater from the oncoming lane on the other side of the double line shot over onto my side, I slammed on the brakes just in time and only the bumper of my car got nicked...turns out, this truck behind that car had pushed that lady's car from behind and the sheer force made... MORE
