Oh My God! I Totally Love This Song!


GIRL ON A WING BY THE SHINS


Remember that moment in the aughts when The Shins were poised to blow up, Elyse was gonna win Top Model and Zach Braff was going to be the filmic voice of his generation? I don’t really either, but it seems like anything was possible for a too-short time in those early years of the 21st Century. This song shoulda coulda woulda been the soundtrack to those not-so-great times, but it wasn’t meant to be. For those of us who are fans, we’re probably all glad they didn’t get huge because they get to be ours and ours alone. For them, it probably sorta sucks ‘cause those heady days of making money making music died around then and now it’s a whole different world. 


In our turn-of-the-century dreams, 9/11 never happened and we’ll always have The Shins.


Before we take this ride and let it slide into the cracks where fall and winter collide:









 We take a week off, let the garden grow by itself and let the gluttons fill themselves with all the worst of the gory nineties and though the comedy softens the fall, we still fall short: