My Friend Joel

I have a friend named Joel. Usually I feel obligated to introduce him as "Paul's best friend in the whole wide world since forever," but I'm not doing it this time. He is my friend free and clear of Paul's involvement. Joel is hilarious and makes me laugh all of the days. So does his sister Sasha, who is also my friend. (See, I didn't forget you, Sasha, so no pouting.)

When Paul and I were first married, we made the horrible decision to live somewhere horrible. (I'd rather not talk about it.) Then Joel and his wife made the horrible decision of copying our horrible decision and moved into our horrible "complex," which is a nicer word for, okay I'll just say it, "trailer park." We were trying to move 5 out of the 7 years we lived there, but apparently normal people that can actually afford a trailer, don't want to live in a trailer. Weird.

The point is, we lived by them for quite some time. During this time I was honing my skills as a cakestress. I took a cake decorating class at BYU and my practice cakes would often be sent to Joel's house, because they strangely coincided with some important, cake-necessary events. When Joel got new crabs for his fish tank, he received a "Happy New Crabs Day" cake. When Paul farted on his wife, they were given an "I'm sorry I farted on you" cake. For his birthdays I tried to do something more special. One year I made a Britney Spears cake (he was in his Britney phase), a "Don't worry this isn't your present" cake, and my proudest achievement, the Homestar Runner masterpiece from the year 2002. Joel loves Homestar Runner more than most things. I think that was his favorite. Then one year he told me he didn't like cake. No more cakes for Joel. I hope he's sad.




But enough about my awesomeness. This post is about Joel. Joel has a very funny blog that contains memories of Paul and Joel's many adventures in their youth. His posts are somewhat few and far between because he works hard on making them very entertaining, quality posts. He was tired of people giving him crap about posting, so he created another blog with Paul called, "Low Quality," in which the posts are much more frequent, yet considerably lower quality. Clear back in April, I (here's me being awesome again - oopsy) wrote some lyrics for the blog and urged Joel to put it to music.

Low Quality
When quantity counts
Low Quality
Just look at the amounts
Of the crappy postings
Yeah, filling up your eyes
It's Paul and Joel
The Low Quality Guys.

He resisted for awhile, but then came up with the most delightful surprise for me - an a capella harmony-filled wonder:

Original

I still love it so much. It always makes me laugh. Especially the high note at the end. Then yesterday, he surprised me again with a brand new rendition, complete with music! Joel is a GENIUS.

New and Improved

I will never stop listening to it. Thank you Joel.

P.S. If you like They Might Be Giants, you should really watch this video Paul and Joel did to "Fingertips." This was made in 1994? Paul and I were still dating. I'm the bear claw.