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Anyone who has talked to me for more than 15 minute knows how deeply I love the 70s/80s rock duo Hall and Oats. So when I saw the story on the front page of the Portsmouth Herald on Saturday that Daryl Hall recently purchased the Bray House on Kittery Point, I was absolutely elated. According to the Associate Press, Hall likes to restore historic homes and bought the 300+ year old Bray House (considered to the oldest residential home in Maine) in hopes of preserving it. What's even more exciting (to me) is that I once did a story about the previous owners of the Bray House and got to take a quick tour inside. So technically, I can say I've been in Daryl Hall's house. Which one of you suckers can say that?!

Reasonable adults have asked me before why I like the rock/soul combo that dominated the charts in the late 70s and annoyed teens with horrible videos in the 80s. I think my appreciation for Hall and Oates didn't really materialize until college. During my long drives to Miami, "Daryl Hall and John Oats Greatest Hits Rock 'n Soul Part 1" was in heavy rotation on the battery powered boom box that subbed as my car stereo. Then there was the night I met my college boyfriend Scott and we skipped out of the party to dance for an hour in his room to H&O. Or the time my fiance and I were stuck in post Red Sox traffic and we rolled down the windows, blasted the Philly duo as loud as we could stand it and sang every word in perfect unison. And who can forget my long summers on the Stock Pot deck when all we would listen to was the 80s rock station on satellite radio and "Method of Modern Love" would play AT LEAST four times a shift. Around the breaking point of any deck shift, inevitably a waitress would turn her head to the sky and ask "What the hell are they spelling in this God awful song?" M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E, baby.

While that video is absolutely amazing, I thought I'd offer up an old classic that will certainly satisfy all your Hall and Oats needs.

Also, please check out the official Hall and Oates site. You can enter their "I CAN Go for That" video contest, which requires you to film yourself lipsynching one of their songs. Send in a tape to win a) a trip to see the duo at the Hollywood Bowl b) a MP3 player (note i-Pod name note used) with lots of Hall and Oates songs and videos on it or c) Hall and Oates swag. Check it out.