Last week we went to Fullerton to watch our friends, A Faulty Chromosome, play at the Santa Fe Express. At the end of the night, when it was just a few us left, and they were closing up the cafe', Eric started to play Belle & Sebastian's 'Get me away from here I'm dying'.


Which has a story behind it, over a year ago - wait, before I go on, I have to say that I have iTunes open and on shuffle, when I started to write this post it happen to be playing 'I fought in war', which is also by Belle & Sebastian, and right after that, it started to play 'I can't stop laughing', which is by A Faulty Chromosome. Coincidence? Perhaps.

Where was I? Right, the story behind the song: over a year ago, Amanda and I went to a party with mostly people from Ikea, Eric was there and had brought his guitar, none of us had heard his music at this point and I don't think Amanda had any idea that Eric was musically-talented at all. There were about 12 of us crammed onto a tiny balcony at 1 in the morning singing along to random songs while Eric played guitar - and one of those songs was 'Get me away from here I'm dying'. Amanda always brought up that night and how perfect it was...

For her birthday I managed to sweet-talk Eric into recording the song for Amanda as a surprise, which was a good thing because the rest of my gift ideas completely bombed, and even though he had to drive all the way to Long Beach from Burbank to see his girlfriend... for her birthday, if I remember right, he spent several hours recording the song until it was just right, well, I doubt he would call it "just right" (he's very self-critical, although I suppose everyone is), but Amanda loved it.

That's it - that's the story.