Adam Baran

So tomorrow the date will be 7-7-7, also known as the luckiest day in the universe.  That is, if you find 7’s to be a lucky number, which I don’t.  When I was a kid, my lucky number was 8.  My mom once gave me a Pick Six lotto and let me fill out the numbers.  I picked 8, 18, 28, 48, 38, and probably 2 (I can’t remember totally).  Anyway the next morning I was so excited when I woke up and my mom told me that we had won!  I was really excited, thrilled for like 5 minutes until she followed up by explaining to me that we had only gotten 4 numbers right, but that we still qualified for some prize money.  I was still really convinced it would be a lot of cash, but it only turned out to be 50 bucks. Bummer.

Still, I trotted into 2nd grade and told everyone how I was going to buy a Nintendo with the money, until this little bitch Alison told me gleefully that the video game system cost $100 dollars.  I was crushed.  Luckily, Santa showed up with the Nintendo that Christmas, and I used the money to buy video games.  All’s well that ends well. 

So in honor of 7-7-7 and all things lucky here are two clips for the same song:

Lene Lovitch’s immortal new wave classic “Lucky Numbers.” 

I post both clips (one a performance, and the other the official video) because I think both are genius and the song is so good you’ll want to listen a second time.

And here’s a great recent interview with Lene for some background. I remember wanting to see her when she played Joe’s Pub a few years ago, but now I know that if she ever comes back, I’m getting a ticket.