Yesterday as Andreas was giving me a ride to work, a song came on to KEXP. It was your average “electronica with woman singing” sort of song, but all of a sudden my head whipped over to Andreas and I said, “Was that squeaking sound part of the song?”

We stopped talking and started listening. SQUEAK SQUEAK, said the beautiful lushly produced electronica song. And I started laughing. SQUEAK SQUEAK, the song said. And I laughed some more. The song went on, and every time I heard the squeaking (which was every 4 bars or so), I would laugh harder. Within a minute or so, tears were streaming down my face from laughing so hard.

I have this penchant for hysteria, you see. I start laughing sometimes and there is no end in sight. The laughter encompasses my whole universe and there is only me and my open mouth and sheer amusement. The short version of this is what’s known as the Open Mouthed HA, but once I get going it’s hard to stop and I start crying from laughing so hard and my stomach starts to ache from all the laughing.

The song was Rear Moth by Psapp, and you can listen to it here. But I highly recommend the whole damn album. It’s quite good — it samples squeaky toys, puppies, and lots of other really good happy noises.