The Rebel Black Dot Party Song of the Day
Blink-182, "The Party Song" from Enema of the State (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: At Friday night's party at the Chevy House, from which I am newly returned, I heard some vile tales of fornication & debauchery, many disclosures that began, "I wouldn't be saying this if I wasn't drunk…." I did not experience the exact scenario described in "The Party Song's" lyrics, but a nineteen-year-old did lift up her dress—unbidden, I must stress—& expose her panties to my friend (code name: the Ginger, a sojourner in sacred Michigan) & me. Like most nineteen-year-olds, she possessed virtually no self-awareness but vast, baseless reserves of self-assurance.

"And then I saw her standing there
With green eyes and long blond hair,
She wasn't wearing underwear,
At least I prayed that she might be the one,
Maybe we'd have some fun,
Maybe we'd watch the sunrise,
But that night I learned some girls try too hard.

"Some girls try too hard,
And some girls try too hard to impress
With the way that the dress,
With those things on their chest,
And the things they suggest…"

"So when you see her standing there
With green eyes and long blond hair,
She won't be wearing underwear,
And you'll discover this girl's not the one
And she'll never be fun,
You should just turn and run,
Because you'll find out that some girls try too hard…"