Get Me To The Weekend...

Stressful times around these parts (if my increased food consumption today is any indication). Blame it on the job. It's all quite good when I regain any semblance of context, it's just that all those rat-race cliches ring a touch true sometimes. So here's what's pushing me through today...

The Cribs - "Girls Like Mystery". Man, if it weren't for The Wombats & The Cribs, the world would be a far more serious place (ugh). "There's not much to say for me / that's OK you know that girls like mystery". You know those guys that girls would always call "mysterious", but that you actually knew and the truth was that they just didn't talk (apparently silence = mystery)? Maybe I'm just bitter, but those dudes were always lame. They knew how to get the women though. Hats off to that I suppose.

Arctic Monkeys - "Flourescent Adolescent". The catchiest song from their new one and insanely good lyrics to boot. An interesting take on "settling down" ("landed in a very common crisis...").

The Mendoza Line - "Aspect of an Old Maid (Alternate Take)". This is the best Dylan song (not really, but you know) released in the (at least) last 30 years. As duets go, almost up there with the brilliance of The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York". An alt-country classic in the making here. "And I know this means so much more to me than it does to you, but meet me back in room 417, we've still got work to do...".