métro-boulot-dodo: ma vie dans une coquille de noix, ou ne pas.
je prends mon temps, tandis que le monde passe moi par..........
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Here’s a Chicks Dig Cartoonists strip about smelly pens. Weird, I know. But true!
-Niko
“You always hurt the one you love, the one you should not hurt at all;
You always take the sweetest rose, and crush it till the petals fall;
You always break the kindest heart, with a hasty word you can’t recall;
So if I broke your heart last night, it’s because I love you most of all.”
(Mills Brothers)
“Love of my life, you hurt me, You broken my heart, now you leave me.” (Queen)
Love, which is such a noble attitude, often involves seemingly paradoxical behavior when we hurt the one we love. How can we explain such negative conduct toward someone who we love so much?
You know what they say about eagles? Be an eagle…
Pitchfork is spending the week counting down their top 500 tracks of the mp3 decade, but I’m going to skip the list-making foreplay: “Heartbeats” is the song of the decade (for me). Originally released in late 2002 to little fanfare, the song might have remained a lost gem of Swedish synthpop, but the single was re-released two years later and embraced by the burgeoning world of music blogs. José González’s acoustic cover—which still pops up on primetime televison soundtracks—was inevitable and insipid, but really put the song on the map.
All these years later, the song remains sublime. Karin is inimitable as she struggles to reconcile the morning after and the previous night’s “magic rush”. Olof’s synths saw back and forth throughout, but the song’s 80s touchstones are positively celebratory. The combination is improbably brilliant, and I’m thankful for it. This is, of course, the missing link between Björk and ABBA.
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