
September 20, 2013 — Mark Griffin
“Park and Vine” (based on Ben Folds Five’s “Sports & Wine”)
Everything reminds me of a song. (If it’s not song lyrics, it’s Simpsons quotes.) In the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, where I lived for a while, was a nice little green-lifestyle general store/cafĂ© called Park + Vine (named for its original location on Vine St, but later relocated to Main St). My brain couldn’t shake the name’s similarity to “Sports & Wine” (by Ben Folds Five), so I reimagined the latter as an unofficial theme song for the former. (Music and melody by Ben Folds; lyrics, vocals and instruments by me. Recorded in GarageBand.)