Hi Neil!

Boy are you a genius. I’ll bet you’re nominated for a Grammy even though you never made it into the recording studio - it will be the award for the “Most Creative and Brilliant Song That Was Never Recorded Due To Separated Spouse’s Early Arrival at LAX.” (A new category.)

By Viscountess of Funk on 10.29.06 8:23 am

How funny. Did you take all of your special magazines over to Charlie Sheen’s house? I’m sure he’d appreciate them and it’s always good to recycle things…

By Churlita on 10.29.06 8:58 am

Such talent:)

Now I’ll have that tune in my head all day.

By Leesa on 10.29.06 9:03 am

Oh, Viscountess, don’t worry. I will torture you soon with a recording. I consider myself a bit of a singer/songwriter ala James Taylor or Kenny Loggins.

http://www.citizenofthemonth.com/2006/05/04/sophia-the-song/

By Neil on 10.29.06 9:28 am

I have to think that Sophia will appreciate the cleaning even more, since it’s accompanied by such a nifty (yes, nifty) little tune.

By sandra on 10.29.06 9:37 am

Awesome song.

And I’m your blog crush of the day when your wife comes home. Scandal!

By Charming, but single on 10.29.06 10:26 am

Oh, and yeah, you sure as hell better have some nice flowers for her. Like really nice. Let a gay man pick them out for you to make sure they are nice enough.

By Charming, but single on 10.29.06 11:21 am

Yay, Neil’s editor is almost back!

Download Chicago’s “Wishing You Were Here” and tell Sophia you played it for the past few months…

By Pearl on 10.29.06 11:25 am

dont get roses…get wild flowers with pussywillow branches..pun not intended..well maybe just a wee bit…

By wendy on 10.29.06 11:28 am

i actually had to read that LAX thing twice, cuz at first it didn’t dawn on me that it was L.A.X., it thought it rhymed with slacks, i had no idea what you were talking about.
welcome back sophia!!!

By better safe than sorry on 10.29.06 1:05 pm

As much as New York shall miss Sophia, I am SO glad she is heading back to L.A. to see her hubby. I expect a post on the flowers you got and the champagne you drank. I like the Charlie Sheen analogy…I mean, he has been an on-again-off-again “junkie.”

By Amy K on 10.29.06 2:31 pm

I love it. Will you come sing for my students? I’ll dance the mash for you if you will!!

By femme d'espoir on 10.29.06 2:46 pm

Wasn’t there some really bad Happy Days episode where Ralph the Mouth did a rendition of Monster Mash? I can’t recall.

By Eileen on 10.29.06 3:06 pm

At that concert we went to last Friday at the Greek, the Oingo Boingo-ish band sang the original version of Monster Mash and then another favorite blogger used the original lyrics for the title to her post…..your lyrics are quite clever and maybe when you’re done ummmm, you can post the MP3 version of you singing this song.

By kristen on 10.29.06 4:05 pm

Thanks to you, neilochka, I can get that stupid Michael Jackson song OUT of my head, you know the one. . .The make you make me feel. you knock me off my feet.

good luck!

By Linda Freedman (TherapyDoc) on 10.29.06 5:42 pm

oh! oh! i hope the reunion is fabulous!

but don’t sing, ok neil?

By ms. sizzle on 10.29.06 7:01 pm

Just think, if the writing thing falls apart you have a career in songwriting to look forward too!

Good luck with Sophia!

By jleeody on 10.29.06 9:07 pm

When it’s time to clean, I get a little happy with tossing things in the trash. So I really appreciate your song. I’m glad to see you’ll be NaBloPoMoing; a familiar face in the sea of strange bloggers!

By Sam on 10.29.06 9:43 pm

Oh Neil. Sigh. What to say.

I’m glad you didn’t sing Simon and Garfunkel’s hit “Cecelia,” subbing in Sophia’s name.

By V-Grrrl on 10.30.06 3:52 am

I see a duets CD, with you and various household cleaning instruments.

By MARGARET on 10.30.06 7:32 am

and of course, it’s already monday evening here. Hope it’s good news?

Happy Monday Neil!

By treespotter on 10.30.06 7:56 am

classic. wish i could have heard it straight from the horses mouth. not that you’re a horse or anything. except maybe hung like one. or at least that is what your penis would like us believe.

By danielle on 10.30.06 8:20 am

Well, isn’t that just an evil way to have me singing all day long.

By Blonde Vigilante on 10.30.06 9:11 am

I’m going to have “Monster Mash” in my head for the next 27 hours now.

By K.Leigh on 10.30.06 10:33 am

I have yet to take out the trash here at night. I am scared something is going to come out at me like the trash monster…woooooohooooo……….

By mrsmogul on 10.30.06 11:13 am

Neil,

I am very proud of you for cleaning your apartment and getting ready for Sophia’s return.I think that you should also make some Challah bread.

MA

By M.A. on 10.30.06 11:25 am

That was brilliant! And I join the others who curse you for installing this song on repeat in my brain.

By Monkey on 10.30.06 11:25 am

so very clever!! That song is popular in my house. My son has started singing his own tune called the mama mash. Cheers Neil!

By paintergirl on 10.30.06 11:59 am

I do this all the time! Make up songs that while i am doing tasks… sighs. fun times.

good luck with all!

By melanie on 10.30.06 1:27 pm

I find music helps me clean faster. Hopefully you stayed out of trouble.

By mmariem3 on 10.30.06 2:31 pm

You need to hear the Weird Al song, Trash Day. It’s on the Poodle Hat album, of course. You can hear a niblet of it, here:

http://www.mp3.com/weird-al-yankovic/artists/116510/songs.html

By introspectre on 10.30.06 2:49 pm

Neil–If you don’t get it cleaned up in time, maybe this will help:

Conciliatory Video

OMG!! I’M THE BLOG CRUSH OF THE DAY!!!!!
Gee whiz, Neil. I didn’t know you remembered I even had a blog. Kiss kiss. Someday I’ll come to LA and…

By Nance on 10.30.06 3:25 pm

That song is so underused. I like your version.

By Scarlet on 10.30.06 6:44 pm

I keep trying to do the song in with the right tune but the title led me elsewhere. Instead, I now have Scandal’s “Goodbye to You” stuck in my head. Thanks.

By the way, I thought of you as I was reading Stix on the Beach. She has posted some videos from YouTube featuring Canter’s.

By Dagny on 10.30.06 7:59 pm

Well? We’re all holding our breaths here…

By Doctor Bean on 10.30.06 9:53 pm

Where do you find your inspiration? You are a genious! When I have writer’s block, I need to learn to look to my trash for ideas! Here’s hoping you and Sophia had a nice reunion!

By Bama Girl on 10.30.06 11:42 pm

[...] The lyrics are here.  Feel free to sing along in your office or kitchen. [...]

By Citizen of the Month » Goodbye to Trash (The Song) on 10.31.06 3:15 am

Don’t quit your day job, Neil. However, perhaps you could make extra money writing cheesy lyrics for television commercials. Hope the reunion with Sophia was wonderful!

By Paris Parfait on 11.01.06 2:02 am

..not having read the previous 38 comments, i just have to say (which may not be original)…

i was singing the AAAwwww OOOOOooooos to your monster trash song.

By mckay on 11.02.06 8:25 am

Ha. Many days (weeks maybe) late; as I’ve been away. but definitely an enjoyable song, and I loved the cell phone fiasco! You need Sophia to be home!

By sarah on 11.03.06 8:39 am