spoon

recently, the baron has been watching - rewatching, really - 'veronica mars', a short-lived, mostly pretty good television show that ran from 2004-2007. it was about a girl, a high school girl, a teenager who was shaggy, velma, fred, and daphne all rolled into one - smart, and funny, and pretty, and kind of cutting, and did the baron mention that there were mysteries involved? murder, stolen dogs, muggings, winter carnivals, homecoming... the stuff of life, people!

the baron has made it to season 2, and just last night watched the episode where logan and weevil ask veronica to record the comings and goings of a catholic church confessional - so sophisticated for high school, right? anyway, that's also the episode where spoon's britt daniels shows up to karaoke, singing costello's 'veronica'. the baron is a great fan of elvis costello, and would name 'veronica' as one of the most sing-able songs out there, and the baron loves britt daniels... so, britt daniels on 'veronica mars' singing elvis costello was pretty much the highlight of her week.

anyway, all that to say this: spoon's tragically named 'ga ga ga ga ga' has been playing in the baron's car on a loop for the last two weeks. reader, it's a good cd. not as good as 'kill the mooonlight', maybe, but a keeper nonetheless. there are two lines of lyric that she can't escape, two lines that pop into her head at random times of the day, and everytime these two lines of lyric come through her car speakers sung by britt daniels, she's startled. what do these two lines of lyric mean? reader, it sings like an epiphany:

it can't all be wedding cake
it can't all be boiled away