This is the record of the time

No, it is not my birthday. Just a couple of songs tonight that speak to the birthday experience.

Alejandro Escovedo's track is on a CD the kids and I have been listening to, called "The Bottle Let Me Down: Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides." The song, in which a 10-year-old is experiencing something akin to a mid-life crisis, calls to mind the Laurie Anderson song, which endows its characters, presumably adults, with almost unseemly quantities of childlike wonder.

One is catchier than the other, and one is funnier, and I'll leave it to you to guess which is which.

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--> So Happy Birthday, Laurie Anderson
--> Sad and Dreamy (The Big 1-0), Alejandro Escovedo