welcome to the inaugural edition of "the musical fruit." i love music almost as much as i love snacking, so to feed that love, i've created "the musical fruit," a column offering insight into fruits & songs, doled out (put not intended) in single fruit-song pairs. as a bonus, each song featured will include a link to hear/buy the song & if need be, figure out what the hell the writer's talking about...fruit tasting/buying links not provided.
the musical fruit: movement #1.
song: "gold soundz," pavement
fruit: golden raspberries
back in freshman year of college, there was a guy on our floor from chicago, a guy who listened to pavement & played guitar & had acne & slightly-weird hair. at the time, i had no idea who pavement was, but halfway through the year, they released crooked rain, crooked rain, an album that many consider their finest. this guy on our floor listened to it over & over again to the point where his roommate, a friend of mine, used to mockingly sing "stop breathin" on occasion, particularly the lyrics "stop breathin'. stop breathin'. breathing for me now."
now that i'm older & wiser & aware of who pavement is, for me, the money song on crooked rain is "gold soundz." it's perfect for this month, since the third verse begins with the words, "so drunk in the august sun and you're the kind of girl i like because you're empty and i'm empty and you can never quarantine the past." any girl that can appreciate that is the kind of girl i like...sweet short solo in the song too.
so...golden raspberries. hmm. they're basically the same thing as regular raspberries without all the usual tartness. as you can sort of tell from the picture, they have the typical raspberry hairs on them, but because the berries are so damn yellow, the hairs stand out like stubble on the surface of the berry...& they're made with REAL GOLD! the only drawback is the extremely short shelf life, which is around two days tops.
these particular ones come from driscoll's, a berry grower based out of cali. they have growers in various areas of the u.s., mexico & south america and according to their website, these berries were grown in either southern cali or mexico, meaning that they've probably had quite the adventurous cross-country journey on the way to my stomach! carbon footprint = oops.