I was driving Will to preschool today while listening to Arcade Fire’s album The Suburbs title track The Suburbs when Will asked me “mama, are those guys real?”

Confused, about his question, I looked around trying to figure out who he was talking about. I could only see some average looking people walking their dogs. Surely he could not mean them. “Which guys?” I asked.

“The guys making the music” he replied.

Ahhh.
“Well, they are real, but this is a recording of them.” Will was pretty thoughtful and didn’t say anything so, I continued… “These guys are pretty famous… they have won awards because they have been practicing a lot.” (Being me, and being a mama, I couldn’t help make a plug for the genius nature of the propensity to practice.)

After some more thought Will asked “someday could I go meet them?”