If you do...do you do so with a dictionary? Because I've found it necessary.
Here's a list of vocab words that Colin Meloy thinks you ought to know:
curlew - any of several shorebirds of the genus Numenius, having a long, slender, downcurved bill, as the common N. arquata, of Europe.
arabesque - a sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif.
cormorant - any of several voracious, totipalmate seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, as Phalacrocorax carbo, of America, Europe, and Asia, having a long neck and a distensible pouch under the bill for holding captured fish, used in China for catching fish.
Sycorax - witch who is the mother of Caliban in The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
Patagon - The Patagones or Patagonian giants are a mythical race of people, who first began to appear in early European accounts of the then little-known region and coastline of Patagonia. They were supposed to have exceeded at least double normal human height, some accounts giving heights of 12 to 15 feet or more. Tales of these improbable people would take a hold over European concepts of the region for some 250 years, until they were substantially debunked at the end of the 18th century. However, South American legends speak of several giant tribal races, such as the Chancas or Chanak of Peru, which are said to be 7 feet tall on average, and have red hair.
parallax - the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
And those are all just from one song.
Apparently Justin Timberlake cheated on Jessica Biel by kissing Kate Hudson.
Dude...can you blame him? I'd kiss Kate Hudson, and I'm straight.
Anderson Cooper? Dreamboat.
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