My new tiny obsession

When you're building a model of what could go between Pike Place Market and the Aquarium if you take away the viaduct (take that, Chopp!), you spend hours bent over foam core, chip board, sheets of acetate and tacky glue (ugh! how tacky!), and you sometimes need just the right music to keep your fingers at it until long after the buses have stopped running in the night.

My secret new weapon is bitter:sweet. I heard The Mating Game on Friday afternoon in Office Depot (um yes, I did), I bought it that night and since then I've been in that junky addiction I get for new music. Now I feel like I have a James Bond-ish soundtrack to my model building endeavors. Wellll, maybe not James Bond exactly. More like funny kitchy sexy parody of James Bond cutting up foam core and dancing arouund the design studio when I don't think any one else is looking (seantoki does look sometimes).

Probably my model would look a lot more exciting after a martini or two.

The:thing:about:bitter:sweet:is:this:
Will they pass the Ace of Base Test? When I was 16 I was totally obsessed with Ace of Base for about a month until someone (DTG, probably) astutely pointed out the obnoxious over-use of that SAME beat in EVERY song...er which I had somehow missed until that moment. And when the honeymoon ended, boy did it end! And then I felt a bit embarassed.

I hope bitter:sweet will not go the way of Ace of Base.

I mean, I don't think it bodes well that I "found" them at Office Depot.

At least it's great how this music (on the tail end of Madonna's Hung Up) lets me at least fantasize about getting outrageously in shape and dancing a hole in the floor.

Rarrgh! Watch out! I'll dance YOU!