Q: A song for a close shave?
I knew it was ominous when the boss of company walked into our department to make an announcement, and sure enough, five minutes and a rather lenghthy preambula later everyone knew their ass was fired. All posteriors warming chairs except one girl's and mine that was. I had been transferred to another project only half a day earlier. It had been a long time coming. The department had been shrinking steadily, and on many a day it seemed as if we were all stuck on ice-floe headed into warmer waters, people falling off right and left. Now the floe is gone, and I find myself skipping to another a few hours before it melted to nothingness. Phwew.
Now, I'm not a pessimist by nature, and not easily unnerved either. So I needed a song with a joyous thump, a heart-skipping, frenzied little tune, something to shoo away the ghosts of glum, positively. And a good repository for the travails of the young urbanite is the catalogue of Mr. Ben Folds (which, on a side-note, includes the ultimate break-up song Song for the Dumped). So here's something to cheer up the survivor of a close shave.
A: Ben Folds - Fired (from Rockin' the Suburbs, 2001) [Buy]
Now, I'm not a pessimist by nature, and not easily unnerved either. So I needed a song with a joyous thump, a heart-skipping, frenzied little tune, something to shoo away the ghosts of glum, positively. And a good repository for the travails of the young urbanite is the catalogue of Mr. Ben Folds (which, on a side-note, includes the ultimate break-up song Song for the Dumped). So here's something to cheer up the survivor of a close shave.
A: Ben Folds - Fired (from Rockin' the Suburbs, 2001) [Buy]


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