i want to be the queen no i want to be 19 wait no i wanna be that horrible thing i saw last night in my dream..

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When I worked full-time, at a JOB, I used to listen to an mp3 CD all the way to work. While sitting at my desk I’d have a playlist to sing along to, quietly, as I poured over sales quotas and model number movements. And then, at the end of the day, I’d get back in the car and crank up the mp3 CD all over again.

I have a terrible singing voice. It’s off-key and I tend to get dramatic and shouty during particularly “moving” choruses and, well, sometimes my own singing voice makes me laugh. It’s just.. not good.

But I sing. A lot. In the car, in the house, in the shower, in bed.. I sing. And I dance. And I shake my bum like a bum-shakin’ bum-shaker. Music has IMPACT on this body!

(In theory, all the singing I do should make my singing voice better – or at least stronger – but there hasn’t been much change over the years. I still suck at the singing! And the dancing.. and the.. yeah..)

As soon as Coffee leaves for work, I crank up the playlist on the computer (which broadcasts through the stereo in the living room entertainment unit) and I sing. We have thousands of songs to choose from, but I let the software (on random) decide what we’re in the mood for on any particular day.

Today it started with “Turn It On” by the Flaming Lips. This song reminds me of my third year of university, living with Otis, when I first heard the song. It has a great bass thunk through the floorboards. It’s a cheerful, loud, danceable song – and, of course, I know all the words. It reminds me of getting high and eating Lipton Sidekick Noodles. (*shudder* Ewww!)

This album – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart – is the only Flaming Lips CD I own. It’s the only one I like; I’ve tried to listen to the newer and older stuff and.. nada. No zap of energy. But if you put this one on the stereo I’ll bounce myself alive. The entire CD rocks.

Immediately after Turn It On, the playlist flipped over to Princess Superstar, and “My Machine“. Oh, how I love me some Princess Superstar.

Today is very clearly going to be a good, bouncy day. Shall we run around the block a few times and torment the dogs? Yes, yes, I think we shall. I’ll be that purple flash zipping by your window…