Mow the lawn, mow the lawn just to make it grow
Posted by Peter Armstrong Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:56:00 GMT
This blog post is the first in a while, and it is just a collection of stuff I've been intending to blog about, whenever I caught up to my copy editor in Flexible Rails. This is done now (2/3 done Author Review, woo hoo!), so I have time to blog again...
"Mow the lawn, mow the lawn, just to make it grow"
I thought this was actually the lyrics to the song Move Along from The All-American Rejects (since I'm in my 30s and a bit out of touch, I actually had to google for the band name, since I've never known).
I thought this was a brilliant song describing a truth about the Sisyphean chores of "responsible" adulthood. I was especially impressed since it sounded like they were 20-somethings; the only popular young band that had that depth of lyrics I'd heard lately was The Arctic Monkeys. (Another sign of age: I actually "discovered" Arctic Monkeys by reading A VC: yes, I'm learning about good bands from someone I'd consider pitching a company to one day--how Web 2.0 is that?
Anyway, I eventually learned it was "move along" not "mow the lawn" (I think my friend Len in London told me). I don't remember what the real words for "just to make it grow" are.
It really doesn't matter, I suppose: I bet my words are better. Even though they're not "the" words, I enjoyed them when they were...
Anyway, it snowed here yesterday and today, so at least I don't have to mow the lawn...
