My IQ

I just found out Ani DiFranco has a new album coming out in 26 days.
Not that I am now counting or anything.
I love Ani.
I do.
Sorry if that bothers you, but chances are, if that bothers you, you probably can't name me two Ani original songs. Try it. Don't look it up, just try it. Can you? The woman has like 17 albums out. In 15 years. 17 albums. 15 years. Talk about efficiency.
Sorry again, when I listen to lot of Ani I get confrontational. She's like "Jock Jams" for the quasi-hippie types, we just get ready for some football, or making hummus or protests or whatever we are planning to do. I just love that she gets me so motivated, to stand up for whatever, in whatever. Whether it's "Face Up and Sing", "My IQ", "Shy", "Shameless", or even "Self-Evident"--wow. Riles me up, makes me want to curse loudly. I love music with a purpose. It's the same reason I love Dar Williams' "I Had No Right", John Prine's "Sam Stone", Indigo Girls' "Philosophy of Love", Sublime's "April 26, 1992"--most about deep issues (and one about looting, but eh). I didn't know about the plight of the Berrigan Brothers until I heard Dar's song and I love to be educated on social issues and activists like that...I mean if two priests top the FBI most wanted list for protesting Vietnam, that is noteworthy.
But Ani? Oh man. God love her. She has such power in her words, can make blood boil and voices shout. And she lives it, that's what I really love. Man. So pumped. Ok I'll shut up now. I'll leave with an Ani quote, it is, after all, my blog.
" 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
And yer done
Yer done for
Yer done for good
But tell me did you?
Did you do all?
Did you do all you could?" -Tamburita Lingua