beatles

i'm having a moment with my dad. he says he could happily go several years without hearing a beatles songs again. and THEN he says that hearing people COVER beatles songs is REFRESHING. i disagree wholeheartedly and... don't know what to say. we were talking about this earlier and now there 's a cover of 'across the universe' on the XM by.... oh man, it's fucking fiona apple. ok, i think she's an all right musician, but i honestly have no patience for 90% of beatles covers because all they only ever result in is me wanting to hear the original. hey, but the song is followed by one tree hill- originales. i think ed is just exercising his opinion before venturing off to germany tomorrow, where he'll be thown into serious political/social debate for two weeks. we've been having unofficial practice conversations the past few nights, wherein i actually feel like some of my grad school education has worked, if only as evidenced through my ability to be reasonable about world issues. i guess.... i'm probably just as hypocritical as the next american.

but i DID purchase a 'good' magazine the other day. called... 'good'. it's their first issue and, even though i don't normally buy magazines (cause, i mean, you can read them in the store or get a subscription for lots cheaper) i felt that somehow i was making a historical purchase. not that this didn't deter me from inserting my immaturity when thinking about the cover: it says "______ like you give a damn" and i think you're supposed to insert a progressive verb and feel all hopeful about the world, but the first thing that came to my mind was "fart like you give a damn." not sure i care to think about it any further, but it still makes me laugh. "vote like you give a damn" or "fart like you give a damn"- you decide.

holy shit, now there's a cover of "sweet emotion" on XM. whoa, by leo koetke and mike gordon. still... this song always reminds me of working at clary's and being tormented by classic rock radio all day, to the point that we changed all the "you"s in songs to "jews", "blue" to "food" and "love" to "lunch". "feels like makin' lunch!" "tangled up in food" "i want jews to show me the way" .sweet emotion was changed (by me, no one else seemed to think this was funny) to "sweet emulsion". come to think of it, i used to always get "she is leaving" in my head at that job by changing the lyrics to "sheeeee.... is leaking...." i can't remember why.

headphones are now required to combat XM.

oh, and sufi ben has quit the farm! he was sooo close to getting his ass fired. last friday (major harvest day- usually 12 hours) he got all whiny about work at about 6 o'clock, then started fake-working, where people stand next to someting they're supposed to lift and sort of touch it then move it a couple of inches before going to stand next to something else they're supposed to move. then his girlfriend showed up and he had to leave and we all snarled at him while continuing to wash tomatoes. no more ben, though- he quit. hoorah.

go get your eggplant!