Happy Birthday to Me! Courtesy of Dave Grohl*
There are actually a few stories that relate into one here.
Before Madeleine was born we wouldn’t tell anyone what we were going to name her. We figured we’d have to come up with a code name for the baby – even before we knew if she was a boy or girl. Dan and I are very big Foo Fighters fans and it was just shortly after they released their last album so we were listening to them quite a bit. We’d been through a number of “code names” that we couldn’t really agree on or wouldn’t really stick. On my way to pick him up for one of the early prenatal appointments, a Foo Fighters song was playing and I decided right then I was calling my baby Dave Grohl. Period. End of discussion. Deal with it. Dan got in the car and said (before I had shared my important decision with him) he had been talking to somebody about calling her “Foo Fighter or Foo.” So since we were both on the exact same page, it stuck. She would be known from that point on as Baby Dave Grohl. And it really did stick. See (a gift we were given):
While we are both Foo Fighters fans, I am a pathetic, hopeless X-Files fan(atic, I know. Hush.). What are the odds that the two should meet? Well, they did. Way back when… When the X-Files was actually on the air when. Dave Grohl was in an episode. And, the Foo Fighters did a song for the Soundtrack to the X-Files movie. It was a song they already had and one that I actually already loved. Chris Carter, the creator of the X-Files, said that he thought the song really illustrated the relationship between Mulder and Scully (it’s a sickness, shut up). So even if I didn’t already love it, well I would be obligated now, right? Anyway… “Walking After You” was one of my favorite songs and now also a part of my favorite show. That was obviously quite some time ago – so I have loved that song for many years. I walked down the aisle at my wedding to that song. It was supposed to be on the playlist I was planning to use at the hospital if I’d had the chance to actually make it for when the baby was born. In a nutshell, I’m more obsessed with that song than I was with the X-Files.
We’ve seen them live a few times but they’ve –unsurprisingly – never played the song. It’s a very mellow, slow song – not really suited for a rock concert. I was okay with that because everything they do play is SO good. But wouldn’t it be so cool if someday, just someday they played it? Just maybe? Well how about on my birthday?! That’s “someday,” right? Dan took me to their Acoustic Tour show in DC last night for my birthday and they played MY song on MY birthday. Of course it was just for me. You get that, right? Right?? Well, either way, it was awesome!
*It had to be titled that or "Mmmm.... Dave......"