Kiss Me, Son Of Extras: Idlewild

A They Might Be Giants song that I am hearing for the first time and it completely turned my irritated mood around. This is Idlewild from the "Bed, Bed, Bed," children's book.

I’m writing about every song from every full studio album by They Might Be Giants. These posts are for the other songs.

The EP tracks. The rarities. The songs that didn’t make the main record but somehow made permanent homes in my life.

This is Kiss Me, Son of Extras.

It’s 11:05 PM on a Monday night. A box fan is blowing forcefully on me from the window beside my desk as it is still 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside. About thirty minutes ago, I took a brief journey to the basement level of my building to collect what should have been my recently dried clothes. But that is not what I found.

Instead, I opened a metal dryer door to find that none of my clothes had dried at all. The machine malfunction and I would need place them in a neighboring machine and start the hour countdown to bedtime all over again. I was extremely frustrated and prepared to doom scroll on my phone until my timer went off.