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Watch the video with your kids - it's a hoot!
(you'll need to click on link and follow it to You Tube)
This article about Owl City ran in Saturday's paper.
The above video is great fun to watch with your kids - lots of vintage toys - you can take a walk down memory lane. "Look, honey - that Speak n' Spell used to be considered high tech."
I often get stuck in a rut listening to my old 80's new wave favorites. And then this guy from Owatonna (who was born in the 80's) comes along with a synth paired with quirky lyrics that I'm completely drawn to.
Perhaps because it reminds me a bit of 80's.
Perhaps it's because he suffers from insomnia. That's something I also could relate to. As new parents can't we all relate to being slight insomniacs? The atmosphere is different when you are padding around the house at 3 a.m. with a newborn. It's a little surreal, a certain shade of blue, the air is kind of still but electric. That thin veil of being stuck between sleep and reality. That dreamtime essence seemed to be captured in his music.
