{"id":1811,"date":"2008-08-13T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/i-like-giants-especially-girl-giants\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:33:32","slug":"i-like-giants-especially-girl-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/i-like-giants-especially-girl-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"I like giants, especially girl giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes your iPod set on shuffle gives you exactly the song you need at the time you need it.<br \/>\nIt happened to me today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I like giants<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimya_Dawson\">Kimya Dawson<\/a><br \/>\nThere&rsquo;s a video performance of the song <a href=\"http:\/\/video.aol.com\/video\/interface-i-like-giants\/2058533\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>when i go for a drive i like to pull off to the side<br \/>\nof the road, turn out the lights, get out, and look up at the sky<br \/>\nand i do this to remind me that i&rsquo;m really really tiny<br \/>\nin the grand scheme of things and sometimes this terrifies me<br \/>\nbut it&rsquo;s only really scary &#8217;cause it makes me feel serene<br \/>\nin a way i never thought i&rsquo;d be because i&rsquo;ve never been<br \/>\nso grounded and so humbled and so one with everything<br \/>\ni am grounded, i am humbled, i am one with everything<\/p>\n<p>rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone<br \/>\nsay you are huge look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun<br \/>\nlook at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky<br \/>\nsay i am just a speck of dust inside a giant&rsquo;s eye<br \/>\ni am just a speck of dust inside a giant&rsquo;s eye<\/p>\n<p>when i saw genevi\u00c3\u00a8ve i really liked it when she said<br \/>\nwhat she said about the giant and the lemmings on the cliff<br \/>\nshe said &laquo; i like giants- especially girl giants. &#8217;cause all girls feel<br \/>\ntoo big sometimes, regardless of their size &raquo;<\/p>\n<p>when i go for a drive i like to pull off to the side<br \/>\nof the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes<br \/>\nand i&rsquo;m smaller than a poppyseed inside a great big bowl<br \/>\nand the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole<br \/>\nso i swim for all salvation and i swim to save my soul<br \/>\nbut my soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado<br \/>\nso i flip to my back and i float and i sing<br \/>\ni am grounded, i am humbled, i am one with everything<br \/>\ni am grounded, i am humbled, i am one with everything<\/p>\n<p>so i talked to genevi\u00c3\u00a8ve and almost cried when she said<br \/>\nthat the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead<br \/>\nand the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead<br \/>\nso the giant told the lemmings why they ought to live instead<br \/>\nand when she thought up all those reasons that they ought to live instead<br \/>\nit made her reconsider all the sad thoughts in her head<br \/>\nso thank you genevi\u00c3\u00a8ve, &#8217;cause you take what is in your head<br \/>\nand you make things that are so beautiful and share them with your friends<\/p>\n<p>we all become important when we realize our goal<br \/>\nshould be to figure out our role within the context of the whole<br \/>\nand yeah, rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone<br \/>\nsay you are huge look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun<br \/>\nlook at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky<br \/>\nand say i am just a speck of dust inside a giant&rsquo;s eye<br \/>\ni am just a speck of dust inside a giant&rsquo;s eye<br \/>\ni am just a speck of dust inside a giant&rsquo;s eye<br \/>\nand i don&rsquo;t wanna make her cry<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;cause i like giants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes your iPod set on shuffle gives you exactly the song you need at the time you need it. It happened to me today. I like giants Kimya Dawson There&rsquo;s a video performance of the song here. when i go for a drive i like to pull off to the side of the road, turn&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/i-like-giants-especially-girl-giants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I like giants, especially girl giants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14,12,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}