tunes for jordan

so. a funny thing happened yesterday on our way home from ikea. after we spent more than four hours getting to that fabulous blue and yellow mecca of all things swedish and utilitarian (yet whimsical), we successfully purchased a crib, mattress, and changing table, thanks to the overwhelming generosity of my mom and nan and pop. on the way home, we were flying through the cds that we brought, and i decided it was time for some billy bragg. ted requested a particular song on the second disc of the two-disc set that we brought, so i started us off with that. i then moved to a song that i'm particularly fond of on the disc, called "the space race is over."

this is a song that i've been trying to put on a mix for ted for some time now, and it just never quite fits. i told him that i wanted to hear this song next (just in case he wanted to skip it, i invoked my listening rights), and he said that he loved it, too.

this is one of my favorite things about our relationship. we can have a cd for years, listen to it loads, both together and apart, talk about the band/singer, and still have a song that both of us enjoy, and neither of us knows that the other shares the sentiment.

anyway, it was really meaningful to me to have one of those discoveries in the growing dusk of a north carolina summer. as we sped down the interstate, stomachs rumbling and baby furniture in the back, we let this song soak in. i'm going to try to post it here. if it won't play, never fear--i'll keep working on it:

TheSpaceRaceIsOver.m4a