I had a Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous moment during my family's Jeopardy and countertop dinner last night. As most of my friends know, we have this really great nook off of our kitchen which provides a nice place to eat dinner but for some reason my family is more apt to sit around the island in our kitchen and eat dinner there amongst the yammering of Sam Waterston on Law and Order, or the obnoxious voice of Alex Trebek. Anyways, this moment made me proud to be a sister. My brother decided to share with me the music he listened to on his way to school (he's a high school junior)... nonetheless this completed me. On a rainy morning on a bus filled with really lame wannabe fitted hat wearing "gangstas" he tuned them out first listening to Blinded by the Lights by the Streets. He was "super into the hook" and Mike Skinner's stream of consciousness writing... little did he know about the ecstasy driven storyline, but awesome still. What was even more fascinating was that he said he didn't even know he had this on his iPod, and so he listened to the first five tracks of the album. We dished about this for a bit. He moved himself into some Black Moth Super Rainbow and (the to be expected) Broken Social Scene... starts droppin' bombs on me about Nas and how he's lyrically misunderstood, talking about subtle nuances and shit. I'm like, when I was 16 I moped, wore lots of black, and listened to the Cure. I would have talked about how Robert Smith was a misunderstood lyricist and how the album Disintegration changed my life. I wasn't nearly as insightful... didn't know who Mike Skinner was.
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