Saturday, February 6, 2010

Our House Is a Very Nice House-- The Songs of Being a Hansen

My family is a clan.
It's impossible for us not to be, I guess, with 4 kids within 18 months of age.
We are a ruthless clan.
I have been 'kicked out' of the family for a few minutes countless times because I was unable to name a song's title, or temporarily forgot who it was by, by Luke, my dad, and even my own mother (though when she quizzes me, i've realized the answer is either a Beatle or the Supremes.)
So, I have compiled a playlist of five songs that are intrinsically "Hansen Songs." I really hope this isn't too lame.

1) "Our House" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Or really, ANY song by CSN. But this is the song I have woken up to on many, many Sundays, with my mom making waffles; I have memories dancing around doing dishes, Luke trying to sing along. It's so HAPPY.

2) "Catch my Disease" Ben Lee
This song always cheers up our mornings; it's the best mixtape song. It makes me want to get out of bed. My mom thinks it's eally funny how it's called "Catch my disease"; I think it's really funny that she laughed at that and is an OB/GYN.

3)"From Me to You" The Beatles
One night in middle school anna and I turned on early beatles and grapped a whisk and a laddle and danced all around the kitchen singing. It was around eleven-o'clock- I don't know where anyone else in our house was. But this is our song.

4)"Suzanne" Judy Collins
One night, last year, I was doing dishes, listening to Judy, and my dad came up and wrapped his arms around me and we danced. He has a really beautiful voice. The memory gives me shivers.

5) "The Golden Road" The Grateful Dead
My dad worries that he's a kurmudgeony man. But my clearest memory of him is sitting beside me in a truck driving across Michigan, his beard grown out too long and wild, wearing a flannel shirt, jamming next to me to the Grateful Dead, telling stories. We stopped at a fruit stand and bought blueberries.

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