The color of Tang®

If you are looking for a color to paint your kitchen -- or even, say, the kitchen in the apartment over your garage -- don't pick the color of Tang®. It's really ugly, plus unappetizing. And you can see it through two coats of primer and one coat of paint. And now there's a song stuck in my head, even though I was painting a kitchen, not a living room. I can't find a link to the song or a video of it, so here are the lyrics. It's a peppy little waltz, with guitar & accordion:

WHY AM I PAINTING THE LIVING ROOM?

Holes in the ozone the size of Brazil
Barges of trash in the chewable breeze
Pools of industrial wasteland pate'
Sulfur dioxide dissolving the trees
Pretty soon it will all end with a boom
Why am I painting the living room?

I have the whole day off
Cause it's a Saturday
There is a bluegrass band
Somewhere along the bay
Look at the lilacs bloom
Why am I painting the living room?

A pinhead evangelist pays for his sin
With a five dollar fine for a black collar crime
Kingpins of industry knowingly nod
Just like lake Erie they're 12% slime
They wink at the president too I assume
And here I am painting the living room

I hear the bluebird sing
Don't let the day go by
Look at the blossoms blow
Over the blue blue sky
All with a wild perfume
And here I am painting the living room

Why am I painting the living room? (repeat)

(Lou:)
Ah yes I can see how my tombstone will read
Here lies someone of exceptional worth
Though she did not do a lot for her kind
Or help hold together this crumbling earth
Here lies a woman they're saying of whom
Sure had a goodlooking living room...

©1988 L&P Berryman. Words by Peter, Music by Lou.

Julie was a lot more helpful yesterday than Ruby was today. In fact, the whole thing was Julie's idea. She even found some primer and paint in her basement and got the whole project rolling. Thanks, Julie!

I think that the next coat (coats?) of paint will have to wait until next weekend.