In case you're wondering about the title...

I wanted to call my blog "Underdog Victorious" from a song by Jill Sobule. It's about a boy who is teased as a kid but grows up to believe in himself. And many a day I feel like an underdog--albeit an over-privileged, heretofore upper-middle class, over-educated one. And sometimes I'm feeling just a wee bit victorious. Unfortunately, or due to my underdog persona, the blog page was taken by some fool who hasn't used it in four years. Bitch.

So I thought about some other songs that I like. One day I'm driving in my car, when I hear this compelling song that grabs me.  

"And it's clear to me that this life is gonna be/All about the dangling possibilities that keep turning in and turning out."

I made a point to sort of remember the time, but wasn't sure exactly when it started. I went home and searched WXPN's website and looked up their lists of songs by time, but it hadn't been posted yet. A few days later I tried again, but had a little trouble as I didn't know the title and had to remember the words from the song that had grabbed me. I eventually found "Barbeque" by "Animal Liberation Orchestra" (who???)

Well by now you'd think I'm a music junkie and the fact is, I'm not. I often don't listen because music distracts me from all the busyness in my head. But when I do find an album I like, I put it in the car player and listen to it to death. Over and over, with the unfortunate result that I end up connecting it to whatever is going on at the time which is usually bad (see: underdog persona), say like commuting to a job I don't like. Months later I try the CD and get unpleasant flashbacks. But this album, this song, well it has no unpleasant flashbacks--just a driveway moment, sitting in my car listening until to the last strain of the song plays, thinking about the dangling possibilities...