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Oh Brooklyn, Brooklyn

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Some place in Maine where we dont live

Some place in Maine where we don't live

Last night, despondent about our seemingly limited choices for property ownership, we pulled up the Craigslist site for Maine and started looking for Maine farms and Portland houses for sale. We spent maybe an hour clicking on anything that looked good and learned a lot. A good rule of thumb: if the realty company has the word “moose” in its name, the house you’re looking at is too far away. It was a good hour of escapist thinking; we traded in the trash on the sidewalk for empty two car garages and laughed a lot about how all our stuff would look great in “that corner” of a 2000 sq. ft. farmhouse. It was therapeutic on some level.

I was back at work this morning and put on my headphones to listen to the new Avett Brothers album. I’d heard it a couple of times in the office and liked what I had heard but I hadn’t been listening closely. The very first song began:

Load the car and write the note
Grab your bag and grab your coat
Tell the ones that need to know
We are headed north.

One foot in and one foot back
But it don’t pay to live like that
So I cut the ties and I jumped the track
For never to return.

Headed north! It don’t pay to live like [this]! With visions of 50 acre farmhouses and easy access to lobster fresh in my head from last night, I concluded immediately that this was a sign! I stopped and listened closely, eager to make even the most tenuous connections between the song’s lyrics and our thoughts of setting up residence in Maine. The music swelled at the chorus:

Oh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in!

*sigh*

Good song though.

I And Love And You – The Avett…

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4 Responses to “Oh Brooklyn, Brooklyn”

  1. Noor
    December 1st, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    don’t people in Maine have weird accents? Or is that Vermont?

  2. mattbot
    December 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    I think I remember some funny talkin’ when we were in Maine a few years ago. Hard to bring the accent to mind exactly, though.

  3. Scott
    January 15th, 2010 at 8:43 am

    i finally eMusic’d this album and find it significantly less grating than their earlier work…i thought of your blog post with this song…i’m glad to see it hasn’t changed. (not)

  4. Maggie
    January 29th, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Um, how did I not see this until now?!?

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