A brief non-sports note this evening – indulge me for a moment.
Barenaked Ladies, my all time favorite band
My favorite band, Barenaked Ladies, sings songs about the following things:
- Kobe beef
- being a vegetarian
- The X-Files
- Quebec separatism
- a bank heist by men dressed up as nuns
- raps about the Binghamton cabbies (who are very rap worthy, let me tell you)
Pretty geeky things, huh? Not like your typical rock/pop bands. All the band members are in their late thirties, early forties. They all have a number of children (one band member was quoted as of late saying that the number of children outnumbers the number of band members 3 to 1) and just released a children’s album. They seem pretty low key, definitely intelligent, probably responsible, and the last people you would see arrested for anything. Continue reading