Tonight in my house we were playing the lovely game of Phase 10 and listening to one of my favorite set lists – “jkids hit the road.” Along came a song called “Leaving on a Jet Plane” as done by Bjork and Jewel. So I announce to my roomies who were singing along, “Hey, this is Jewel and Bjork!” My roomie, K, says, “really?! That name is kind of dorky.” Oh the shock to my system – Bjork – dorky?!?! So I ask, “Do you know who Bjork is?” and K replies, “No, I don’t know who he is.” Again, shocked! We had many a laugh over that. And for all of you who love Bjork too, I did play some good songs for them to introduce. She has since informed me that sounds like a Swedish “man name” and her opinion hasn’t changed,. Oh well, I tried! Bigger fish to fry I suppose. Okay, now she wants you all to know she didn’t dislike the music, just the name. What’s in a name? Well, when it’s Bjork, apparently a lot because this has now turned into a long conversation about roses, smelling sweet, ESL (maybe they know ‘over there’ her name sounds like dork too), and name recognition. Hope your evening was stimulating as mine. I told roomie A the power has been out for a long time and she said, well that all depends on what time it went out. Hmmm…think about that for a little while if the above wasn’t enough to keep you going for a long time. Now A is clamoring for an addendum (but just b/c she likes the word) so you know the above was very out context and she was in the middle of writing an email so wanted to give me a short and sweet statement to remind me that actually none of us can remember what time it went out. Now A says she must shut up while I’m blog updating or anything silly will make it on here.
I love my flat.
Roomie P says, “Khalos, enough” and breathed a sigh of relief at avoiding the above type paragraph devoted to her.
6 comments:
a Sweedish man!?!?! those uncultured roomies of yours! should throw out some Sigur Ros over there...wonder how that would be recieved. we had a great time on campus time sharing the News, Dad is still planting seeds over here! Love ya sis!
you are insane, and the Jkids hit the road set is the best ever... glad you gilrs are having some fun!
Ah, Bjork. And Bjork is quite different from the Swedish man's name (Bjorn). For one thing, Bjorn means "bear" (at least the root does), and Bjork probably doesn't. Also, Bjork is really more of a unique way of bonding people together than she is anything else. You have to be a special kind of person to enjoy her, and Bjork fans share a link that no one else can really understand.
Well, the article was fun to read; but who is the chick in the swan get up??? Love ya
*Gasp*
Noooooooo!!!!
Sounds like a great complilation - do you know what disk it's on?
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