Love is….shopping sanely and joyfully.

Love is shopping with your boyfriend while not only maintaining sanity, but actually enjoying yourself.  I usually don’t torture Nathan by making him come shopping with me (well…I do if I’m mad at him).  Yet the holiday calls for shopping together.  I want to check out Ambiance, Nathan, Amoeba.  Nathan does not peruse the racks at Ambiance while I shop, whereas I flip through records at Amoeba while Nathan searches for bands I’ve never heard of.  Even though I’m not in the market for records just as Nathan isn’t in the market for bangles, I will still look.  I may not know what the hell I’m looking at, but look I will.  Looking led to this list of amusing band names that start with “s.” (Note: Nathan didn’t buy or even consider buying any of the following.)

1. Spooky Tooth (Do you think it is the tooth of a band member or someone else’s tooth?)
2. Sparklehorse (If you’re going to invest in a horse, why not go all out?)
3. Southern Culture on the Skids (Are they celebrating southern culture or the fact that it is on said skids? )
4. Spaceman 3 (The trouble with a low number like three is that there are a lot of numbers higher than three.  How is this band going to stand out if Spaceman 3,000 drops their debut album next year?)
5. Sound Sector Tribe 9 (I’m sensing a number theme here.  Having the number be the fourth part of the band name is a statement.  Sound Sector Tribe is just silly on it’s own.)
6. Storm and Stress (Really?  That doesn’t sound enticing at all!  Why would I want to listen to a band whose name is neither relaxing or fun?  Why not call the band Rwandan Genocide on Acid?)
7. Sunset Rubdown (If this band didn’t meet on the set of a 1970’s porno, then I don’t know up from down anymore.)
8. Starlite Desperation (Amazing.  What genius came up with this name because I want to shake this person’s hand!)

The following album cover does not come from a band whose name starts with the letter “s” but it still defined my afternoon at Amoeba with its awesomeness.

This cover has it all: the Farrah Fawsett hair, the shirt that isn’t even partially buttoned and the crowning achievement, the album title, “I’m in You.”   Peter Frampton, you are the perfect end to my first post attempting to define love.