{"id":663,"date":"2009-05-17T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:20:00","slug":"favorite-song-of-the-day-fangela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Song of the Day: Fangela"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFangela by Here We Go Magic
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There are days when I spend a good chunk of the day driving around the huge expanse of Los Angeles. These trips usually invovle errands: getting my eyebrows threaded in Little India, visiting the Spanish import market in Harbor City, checking out Family Bookstore<\/a> for titles that pique my interest, heading to the deep corners of the East San Gabriel Valley to search warehouse-like thrift stores for cheap treasures<\/a>, and on special days, driving leisurely through canyon roads<\/a> to feel as if I live in the old Los Angeles of my grandparents’ youth.<\/p>\n

Like a lot of other folks these days, I listen to music through my IPOD and it’s this musical accompaniment that makes traversing the thick with traffic streets somewhat bearable. Yesterday though I was out of luck, the IPOD connector (or whatever it’s called) was acting all finicky and making a beeping noise and I was forced to do the unthinkable: listen to the radio! I do listen to NPR in the morning but being as I like to drive to music, I decided to give the music on the radio a chance. I’m glad I did!<\/p>\n

In between the seven times I heard New Boyz “You’re a Jerk<\/a>” (now when I hear someone singing that, I won’t take it personally…it’s just a song!) and BEP’s “Boom Boom Pow<\/a>” (which I have no shame in admitting I like…c’mon, I like Chalga<\/a>!), I heard this song, Fangela by Here We Go Magic<\/a> on (yes, I know) KCRW<\/a>. At first I thought it was some forgotten early track from The Shins<\/a> way before their music got all glossed over but I waited patiently through two other not-so-great songs to find out the name of the band. I was lucky it was announced when it was because the next song (sung by a woman with a sappy voice) started with the line: “I saw you in a cafe, you were reading Kierkegaard.” Ugh, enough! I tried the IPOD again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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