Obvious Child

Many years ago I spent a summer driving around British Columbia in a big white van with a bunch of soon to be high schoolers with names like Robo and Rufus and Mary Apple. I called my mom from a supermarket parking lot after I had stuffed myself with Corn Nuts and Coca Cola and, as I put the phone to my K.D. Lang haircut, she hung up when she didn't recognize the voice that had so embarrassingly dropped the night before.We were on our way to some place with a name I can't remember and a marmot that liked the way we smelled. On the first night, we got scared there was a bear near our tents so we screamed the Fresh Prince theme song at the top of our lungs until we felt safe. The ten of us came back five days later and I burned a piece of twine around my wrist and made a fancy bracelet out of blues and yellows while people barked a funny noise at an RV Camp that would be the last place I ever slept in Canada. For a whole summer my only options were Bob Marley Live and Paul Simon's Rhythm Of The Saints and it just dawned on me how wonderful it is that "Obvious Child" is the name of the song that I remember most from being a fourteen year old going through puberty on a camping trip.MP3: Paul Simon - Obvious Child