Just a Random Friday Night in Jersey City...

...so Stephen and I are both sitting at the kitchen table while Alanis Morisette and T.a.T.u. songs blast from Stephen's iTunes (insert a shudder by Michaela). There's laundry in the dryer downstairs and we're half packed for a weekend trip to Philadelphia to check out the annual Flower Show; Stephen's been reading the paper and writing in what we call his "analog blog" (paper journal) while I've been wasting time surfing and rearranging photos in Picassa. The following conversation has just occured:

Michaela: How about playing music without chicks with guitars?
Stephen: says nothing, but immediately starts playing a Silbermond tune (featuring chicks, but no guitars)
Michaela: How about just no chicks?
Stephen: How about chicks with basses? (He starts playing a song by Melissa Auf der maur (the former bassist of the Smashing Pumpkins)
Michaela: Um, no...
Stephen: Reponds by playing Bruce Springstein

I supposed I deserved that.