Ok. Be Honest. Do you rock out or sing loudly when you're driving alone?

That's easy. Now go to "Squonk," "Los Endos," "Behind The Lines" or "Firth of Fifth." Let me know how easy that is ...

 

I usually sing on the highways or if there aren't any cars next to me. I equate it to picking your nose while driving: You only look dumb (or gross) when someone's watching.

And anything Green Day gets me, along with whatever I'm into at the time. I've got Say Anything's new album in my car now, and I'm learning the lyrics as I go.

I can't listen to 311's "Hive" or "8:16 a.m." without singing -- passengers or no passengers -- as well as Blink 182's "Dammit (Growing Up)," Say Anything's "Alive With the Glory of Love," Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "Toxic Toast," Brand New's "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad," Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Alanis Morissette's "Ironic." The latter two are only when people are in the car with me.

I'm likely to be drumming much more often than singing, though, and it probably looks just as dumb. But maybe not, because I'm pretty good, and it probably shows.


* For the record, I only clean house when it's completely necessary. No mining to pass the time.

 

I guarantee you Moses was a picker.

 

You wander around the dessert for 40 years, you're telling me you're not going to occasionally clean house?

 

Wow. I can't believe you're single.

 

And I can't believe you're married.

 

There are several nights when I drive home that I pop in my "The Wall" CD just to belt out "Comfortably Numb."

"Lovin' Every Minute of It" by Loverboy, for some reason, gets similar treatment.

 

Why? I sing in key.

 

Yeah, but you won't sing karaoke.

 

I rock the fuck out.

 

Totally. I also like to sit quietly and do absolutely nothing at stoplights with the windows down and something like Pearl Jam's "Leash" or Rage's "Killing in the Name" at a rearview mirror shaking volume. People find that disconcerting.

 

During Rage's chorus, you should slowly turn your head toward the other driver and smile. They'll think it's quite a hoot.