How does your garden grow?

Art: Thaw Malin

With the daughters on our arms, into the gardens, we'll run...

- The Rosebuds

My inner Martha Stewart wanted to take up gardening. I imagined myself with a woven basket and trimming shears in hand, tending to a shrub of fragrant and beautiful peonies. Did you know these little suckers take 3 years to bloom?!? Patience, sadly, is not one of my virtues.

Green-thumb, I have not, but I can plant my own playlist.

I heard this song "Get Up, Get Out" from The Rosebuds' Night of the Furies album. It opens with an impossibly catchy rhythm, reminiscent of some 80s new years party. I should get a mirror ball, and we can all put flowers in our hair and bust a move, BYOPS style (Bring your own polyester shirt)! I think there's a good variety here. If you haven't heard Reese Witherspoon sing before, her rendition of June Carter's Wildwood Flower is sweet and demure. Liz Phair's Flower on the the other hand, is everything but--- let's just say, "Boys, if Liz takes a liking to you, it's hard not to get the hint."

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1) The Rosebuds- Get Up, Get Out

(Buy Night of the Furies)

2) Sea Wolf- Black Dirt

(Buy Leaves in the River)

3) Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees

(Buy The Bends)

4) Air- Cherry Blossom Girl

(Buy Talkie Walkie)

5) Ben Lee- Daisy

(Buy Something to Remember Me By)

6) Reese Witherspoon- Wildwood Flower

(Buy Walk the Line OST)

7) Liz Phair- Flower

(Buy Exile in Guyville)