It's down to my last 30 hours in the States before I spend a semester in London. As I drive through my childhood neighborhood, of course every melody stirs some sentimentality in me. Going abroad has been an aspiration since my high school years, maybe even before, and it's finally here! Though I've been fantasizing about this day since puberty, I have yet to be prepared. Who knew there could be so many last minute preparations!! I keep reminding myself that stress is optional, but with the combination of excitement and nervousness the little things have seemed to make me sweat. Luckily, as I was running errands like a pro- suburban homemaker, the tune of Menomena's Muscle'n Flo gave me a perfect dose of reality and optimism with its melancholy and vulnerable lyrics balanced with its up-beat melody. Menomena can always help us remember that as we "stumble [our] way towards another day" in this new year we must "face just what [we're] made of" and "pick up [our] hustle!"
Check out a live performance of Muscle'n Flo in a Brooklyn Basement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jvMdFql18U
