daddy, please hear this song that i sing

September 30, 2002, 10:05 am

I wrote this on Friday, but my damn DSL has been flaking out again.



I've been listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea a whole lot lately. And this morning on the way to work, singing along to Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 choked me up. I get choked up when I think about my dad. I'm not sure why, because it's not like we had a shakey relationship while I was growing up. But I like him a lot and I have a deep need to feel like he is proud of me.

rings of flowers round your eyes
and I love you
for the rest of your life

For his 50th birthday, I gave him Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits album. I remember listening to My Hometown alone in my dorm at UK, crying at the thought that one day I'd be like my dad and have a son.

I guess that's as close as we can get to being God; creating someone in our own image...