Dig out your Preppy Handbook & dance.

I am in love with this CD by Vampire Weekend.

I listen to it every day.






What do I love about it?
1. It's upbeat. Like, seriously upbeat.
2. It has lyrics about fashion (specifically '80's prep.)
3. It makes me want to tie a pink grosgrain ribbon in my hair, buy a pair of Tretorns with the kelly green gull wing and check tickets to Martha's Vinyard on JetBlue.
4. It reminds me of the film The Royal Tenenbaum's--which is always good thing.

I am not a music critic but I am a music lover. And I find that anything that transports me back to a specific time of my youth and the development of my own style at that time makes me extremely nostalgic. Not that I was hyper-preppy but I do tend to lean toward/resist the look of the days when I wore a royal blue Bennetton rugby with pegged Guess jeans, scrunch socks and royal blue Mia flats. God, I looked good.

As old habits are hard to break, just as my father played and replayed the Graceland album by Paul Simon because of it's exotic, feel-good sounds, there by the grace of sound go I.

Here are the lyrics to Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa by Vampire Weekend:

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

As a young girl
Louis Vuitton
With your mother
On a sandy lawn

As a sophomore
With reggaeton
And the linens
You're sitting on

Is your bed made?
Is your sweater on?
Do you want to
Like you know I do?

But this feels so unnatural
Peter Gabriel too

Can you stay up
To see the dawn?
In the colors
Of Bennetton?

Is your bed made?
Is your sweater on?
Do you want to
Like you know I do?

But this feels so unnatural
Peter Gabriel too

Is your bed made
Is your sweater on?
Do you want to
Like you know I do?

Vampire Weekend makes me feel good. And I don't want to make all of the comparisons that are being made about them. I just want to listen to them. All the time.

No matter who you are, you should listen to this album once--it's only 35 minutes long. Or if you are related to me (in any way) or will soon be related to me, just buy it. It's $11.98 at http://www.amazon.com/. Do it for Biff and Muffy.