ScienceFictionTwin Soul

So, Mom was driving Gert to the sitter this morning and they were listing to the iPod. Since I was the last one to have the iPod, it happened to be playing all my Wilco tracks on random.

As fate wood have it, the Guthrie tune "Birds and Ships" from Mermaid Avenue popped up. In the space of the two minutes that it takes the song to play out, Gertrude said:

"Hey! I have this song on my good night CD, only it's a boy singing it."

Mom, thinking that there's no way a three-year-old can pick up on the subtle differences between versions of an obscure song, figured that she was probably thinking of something else. So she called Dad.

"Hey, we were listening to this song and Gert swears that she has it on her CD, but in a different version. I've never even heard it, but she's adamant that she knows a male version. Do you know what song she's talking about?"

"Why yes, yes I do. She's talking about the Billy Bragg demo version that's not commercially available. Didn't she mention that?"

"Ah," Mom said. "So she's going to be a freak like you, I guess."