Rilo Kiley – “Portions for Foxes”

I don’t think of Rilo Kiley as my favorite band, but given that songs by RK, [lead singer] Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins and Jenny Lewis by herself keep showing up in my 100-most-listened-to tracks on the iPod/iPhone every year, I guess they must be.

Here’s the first single of theirs that made me love the band, from the all-you-can-eat buffet that is MTV Music:

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This week in the Hesperia Star

Transfers cost district $919,974, Alleged scratch-off bandit gets busted and other stories.

So the 10-day vacation is over. I had several days at home with James, which was great, (mostly) cleared out the TiVo, did some laundry, played World of Warcraft, had Thanksgiving at the in-laws’ and we ended the week taking James to Disneyland for the first time. A good time was had by all.