Brandon has hundreds upon hundreds of CDs in his music collection. More, if you count the songs he’s copied from library CDs. I have, well, a lot less than that. In fact, before I met Brandon, my musical repertoire was largely restricted to one man, Bruce Cockburn. In my defense, the man does have 27 albums.

I still love Bruce, but I’ve since expanded my musical lexicon to include Aimee Mann, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kathleen Edwards and Erin McKeown. And of course, I’ve always listened to Tori Amos, Tegan & Sara, John Williams, India Arie and The Cure. Now I have a new musical girl crush: Kimya Dawson.

I’d never heard of her until the film Juno. Both me and Brandon and the couple we saw the movie with were enthralled with the soundtrack. I ordered it last week and have been bopping to it in the gym, at work, and while writing research proposals. The whole soundtrack is folksy fun, but the four songs by Kimya Dawson really stand out. I just ordered her 2006 CD off of Amazon.