The Head And The Heart - Josh McBride

Two years ago, an affable fellow from Seattle made his way to Fauxchella II by the name of Josiah. He then went on to be a part of a band called The Head And The Heart. A few years before that, a somewhat curmudgeonly fellow with incredible hair by the name of Joshua James McBride was born. I imagine he emerged with lustrous locks much like the ones he grew so long in college that he used to joke that all his insults got caught in his hair, so when he cut it he seemed that much meaner. Luckily (for me especially), Josh eventually grew out of the curmudgeonly phase and now tends to cling more to delightfulness. His birthday was today (I say was, because it's now nearly May 9th), and for it, his girlfriend Jessica, herself a wholly delightful individual, asked The Head And The Heart to perform a song she provided the lyrics for entitled "Josh McBride."

So here's to you, Josh, on your birthday. What an immense pleasure it's been to be your friend. I love you, buddy.

**UPDATE** So Adam kindly emailed me with a further explanation for the Josh McBride song: "Just a clarification- the Head and the Heart's "Josh McBride" has a more cryptic explanation then what you wrote on your blog. It goes something like this (in brief): Josh and Jess meet a mutual friend from seattle who's visiting New York, Josh introduces himself as Josh McBride, she freaks out and is like, "THE Josh McBride, like, from the Head and the Heart song?" and proceeds to show them this song. The back story is that Jess wrote the song a while back and Josiah put music to it. None of us knew anything about it until this weekend and then I go online and find videos and covers of the song all of the interwebs. We (josh, jess and I) are kind of all freaking out about it. So bizarre."

So bizarre, indeed. Sort of like the man McBride himself.